• Dhericean (unregistered) in reply to hprotagonist
    hprotagonist:
    Thief^:
    American Football is quite similar to our rugby, but with a lot more protective clothing. Either you play a rougher game than rugby, or you're paranoid about being hurt.

    Hurley! There's a sport for real men.

    Or there's Shinty - which my father always used to refer to as clan battle practice.

  • (cs) in reply to Mr Moo
    Mr Moo:
    Or What? You'll release the cobras or the bees or the cobras with bees in their mouths so when they hiss they shoot bees at you?

    If a cobra shot bees at me, I would punch every bee in the face!

    CAPTCHA: DANE COOK?!?!

  • (cs) in reply to Sgt. Preston
    Sgt. Preston:
    Thief^:
    American Football is quite similar to our rugby, but with a lot more protective clothing. Either you play a rougher game than rugby, or you're paranoid about being hurt.
    I'll grant that calling the American game "football" is a long-standing WTF. As for the rougher game, I assure you that if these nearly-naked rubgy players hit each other as hard as 'football' players do, there would be no player left conscious after the first thirty seconds.

    Have you ever seen a handball game (either the modern indoor version or - way back in Europe in the sixties and before - the now obsolete outdoor version) ? That is pretty tough shit, too. And without any protective gear.

  • (cs) in reply to Ancient_Hacker
    Ancient_Hacker:
    >The sticker that always got me was "spontaneously combustible". The first time I had drums I had to move with that label, I was a little hesitant! =)

    That sign often means the contents can combust if air gets to it. Stuff like finely ground metals.

    There's even stuff like plain old COAL that can heat up and combust if it gets wet.

    If you have a mixture of finely ground flour (dust) and air then there is a huge explosive potential - it is like a fuel-air-explosive. One case when that happened I remember was about 25 years in Bremen, Germany: a flour mill in the harbour area exploded and burned down subsequently. It was huge cavernous multi-storey high stone structure and it just desintegrated completely into rubble with the blast. There were several casualties (around 9 people killed and several injured) and the fire department was unable to find even some of the bodies because they were either just gone or burned down so much that they were unregcognizable from the burn debris (at least that was assumed at the time).

    On a small scale it can happen in your kitchen, too.

  • Edward Royce (unregistered)

    Hmmmm.

    Funny enough I used to work on a similar system to produce labels and documentation (shipper's declarations forms) for shipping hazardous materials on airplanes.

    And equally funny enough the application was written in version 1.0 Microsoft Cobol (!!!!) and on a IBM System 36.

    Even more funny was that I replaced a guy who quit and was replaced in time by some Chinese guy when I quit. And so forth and so on.

    Best of all the guy who replaced me called me up about 1 month after I had left asking if I had any copies of the source code lying around (I didn't) and if I could forward them to him. Evidently this guy thought there was a virus on every single diskette, tape or harddisk that contained any trace of the source code for these core applications and then proceeded to erase them all to get rid of the virus.

    Much hilarity ensued.

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