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Do you remember Klaus stealing a pen?fresh_42 said:Well, the bar is already set high. It won't be easy to beat Orbán and Szydło.
Do you remember Klaus stealing a pen?fresh_42 said:Well, the bar is already set high. It won't be easy to beat Orbán and Szydło.
Sophia said:Do you remember Klaus stealing a pen?
Unfortunately, this really happened :-DPepper Mint said:Serious ? Or is it just like some sort of prank videos on politicians ?
Ha ha!Sophia said:Unfortunately, this really happened :-D
If you have a good pen, I would really like to see it one day, as soon as possible, I will probably borrow yours to sign or write on my shirt as a good memory.OmCheeto said:Ha ha!
We had a visiting research scientist where I used to work, who really liked a certain style of pen we had.
So one day, I gave him one.
Over the next year or so, I always made sure I had one in my pocket, as he always accepted them, with great joy.
Perhaps Klaus is a pen collector.
Sorry, but I retired two years ago, and most all of my fancy pens are now dried up.Pepper Mint said:If you have a good pen, I would really like to see it one day, as soon as possible, I will probably borrow yours to sign or write on my shirt as a good memory.
No problem provided that it is still working fine. 9B type is strong and very thick to long-last the writings. I love it.OmCheeto said:Sorry, but I retired two years ago, and most all of my fancy pens are now dried up.
Can I interest you in a pencil?
That was nice of you :-)OmCheeto said:Ha ha!
We had a visiting research scientist where I used to work, who really liked a certain style of pen we had.
So one day, I gave him one.
Over the next year or so, I always made sure I had one in my pocket, as he always accepted them, with great joy.
Perhaps Klaus is a pen collector.
What do you mean?fresh_42 said:Why do I always end up in the 18th century?
They were much better, in the olden days.fresh_42 said:I always lose their heads when I try to sharpen pencils. Sometimes I think they are not made of a single piece of graphite but of a dozen small pieces instead. Every time I'm satisfied by the sharpening process, I can easily just pull off the tip or it falls out by itself. I hate pencils for that.
Sometimes pencil leads break inside the wood when they're dropped, and you don't find out till later. In other cases, they break as you sharpen, due to a dull cutter. So. you could have bought a whole package that was dropped at some point, or, you might need a new sharpener.fresh_42 said:I always lose their heads when I try to sharpen pencils. Sometimes I think they are not made of a single piece of graphite but of a dozen small pieces instead. Every time I'm satisfied by the sharpening process, I can easily just pull off the tip or it falls out by itself. I hate pencils for that.
zoobyshoe said:the employees start sweeping, mopping, putting things away, an hour or hour and a half before their actual closing time, and all the customers are made to feel like they have overstayed their welcome.
Don't worry, most Westerners have no idea what's happening in Asia or Africa :-)Psinter said:The net is suddenly swirling with pictures along the subject EU and UK which I think are supposed to be jokes, but I don't get them .
Usually, when lots of pictures of a specific subject appear like that (and keep getting posted so close to each other), it's because something happened, something is happening, or something is about to happen for sure. But I have no clue of what is going on and if it is something political, I don't want to know. My educational interests don't lie in politics.
Yes, this happened to me several times. While I know they do this, it always strikes me when it happens.fresh_42 said:Unbelievable. To know something and to experience it right away is so different.
There is a chess game on the internet I use sometimes. You can either pay a fee or accept some restrictions on possible levels plus ads. Ok, I can accept the ads because I like them to make some money. Why not. Usually it's a short video ad about a videogame at the beginning. Now, a couple of minutes ago, I answered in a thread where someone asked for word fonts of roman numerals. I quickly made a google search and posted one of these thousands of sites with free fonts. No five minutes later the video ad at the start of my chess game has all of a sudden not been the video game ad anymore but a never seen before ad of a site where they sell fonts instead. Unbelievable. And fascinating to watch how data mining actually works.
There are actually a lot of places that do this, and it is the worst policy ever. In general, though, most stick to their closing time, and aren't confused as to why they have no customers the last hour of business: they realize they're driving them away and don't expect there to be much business. This coffee shop I'm talking about seems bewildered about why they have to keep cutting their hours back.DiracPool said:Yeah, this is infuriating. They do this at the YMCA I go to. The gym closes at 10:00 and pool area closes at 9:30. At 9:30, they blow the whistle and everyone has to get out of the pool, hot tub, and sauna. So now you have about a dozen guys in the shower while in the meantime the staff is turning up all the stools in the locker room on top of the lockers. So now everyone that was taking a shower when this was going on has to pull the stools back off the top of the lockers. Not only that, people from the main gym come back into the locker even later than that. Pay the employees an extra half-hour wage and wait until the customers leave before you start the close-down procedure, please.
There was this one time when I got out of the shower and had to pull down a stool from the top of the lockers. One of the Y staff guys was nearby and said, "Hey, can you put that stool back on the top of the locker when you're done?" I smiled at him, but what I was thinking was, F-U, I'm not going to do your job for you, especially when you inconvenienced me to have to take this stupid thing off the top of the locker. Needless to say, I left it on the ground.
Pepper Mint said:Today I am bored. I feel envious as It seems that everyone is always having some projects to work on.
Thanks, I truly love all videos by old and well experienced professors (> 55).DiracPool said:Go to Patrick JMT's channel and practice doing some integrals, that will keep you entertained
I dunno, but you know something's up when your British friend calls you, laughing all bubbly about it.fresh_42 said:Who cares about Brexit?
I see. I'm somewhat late replying. I've been doing some really heavy programming and design. *tired*Sophia said:Don't worry, most Westerners have no idea what's happening in Asia or Africa :-)
The reason for jokes is that British citizens decided to leave the EU in the referendum.
That means that the UK must agree with new relationships to the EU in next 2 years.
The rest is politics, which you don't want to know
Hopefully it wasn't while shaving.zoobyshoe said:Then Alice says, "Zooby, meet my sister, Suzie Chin. We are: 'The Double Chins!' Ahahahahahahahahah!"
Something reminded me of that today.
Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently's holistic principle - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the SoulPsinter said:Everything goes well for me, even when it goes wrong.
That would be scaryPsinter said:I don't think a robot or artificial intelligence software can do what I'm doing right now. At least not at this point in time. It will be cool to see if in the future an artificial intelligence software can design and write itself full blown software projects.