OT: Danger! Time warp!

[James Wilkinson Sword]

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Oh come on, that was 140 years ago. Nobody's old enough to remember tha= t.

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Tip: Don't substitute salt for sugar in recipes. It tastes like shit.

[rbowman]

Yes you can, no Viagra required. Do not underestimate what senior citizens can get up to, even in nursing homes.

[rbowman]

I think that's being conflated with the famous Barry Goldwater oppo ad.

[rbowman]

99.999% uptime. That's an unicorn; the only way a Windows server could even theoretically reach that is if you never applied updates.

There are quite expensive high availability setups that are supposed to come close but there's usually a glitch someplace like the IT guy who took Amazon cloud services down for a few hours.

[rbowman]

Markings around it? Gods, you are backward. I will admit to having one Timex wristwatch with an analog display and it does have small numerals for 13 to 23.

[rbowman]

My Omron wristwatch does pulse rate, no fuss, no bother, just touch the two pads with your finger tips.

[rbowman]

They fit nicely and are unobtrusive if you don't use them.

[rbowman]

Nor the 18 hours of sun in the winter.

[rbowman]

I bet it's passed down in Zulu tribal lore how they kicked the British asses. Everybody has stories and songs on that topic.

"Oh, come out you black and tans Come out and fight me like a man Show your wives how you won medals down in Flanders Tell them how the IRA made you run like hell away From the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra"

[damduck-egg]

When people started to all anal a decade or so back about their flashy watches that would work in water at depths that most would only reach if they fell of a ferry or something that was supposed to fool people that you were associated with aviation I got one of these and stuck it on a strap.

Its about an inch and a half in diameter. If there isn't enough power to work it then it is time to be down the pub or indoors having a nice meal in front of the fire.

G.Harman

[Max Demian]

I missed it on my RC clock as the battery was low and it doesn't show seconds then (presumably as a warning).

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

What's wrong with a flashing battery symbol?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

If you don't have markings, what do you have?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

You only get three types of watch.

1) Not waterproof at all, go out in the rain and they die. 2) "Water resistant" - most rain's ok, but not persistent heavy rain, and you have to take it off to wash the dishes or go swimming. 3) Water proof to 50 or 100m. So what if you don't go that deep, the point is you can take it underwater. They're not going to delieberately make ones that only go 3 metres deep are they?

I always buy 3).

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Is anyone else as old as you?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Er what?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

But you can't tell if it's pointing to 2 or 14.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

My watch clearly isn't fancy enough. It only has a barometer, an altime= ter, a thermometer, and 10 timers.

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An Israeli doctor said, "In Israel, medicine is so advanced that we cut = off a man's testicles, put them on another man, and in 6 weeks, he is lo= oking for work=E2=80=9D. The German doctor said, "That's nothing, in Germany we take part of a br= ain, put it in another man and in 4 weeks he is looking for work." The Russian doctor said, "Gentlemen, we take half a heart from a man, pu= t it in another man's chest and in 2 weeks he is looking for work." The Scottish doctor just laughed and commented, "You are all way behind = us. Thirteen months ago, we took a woman with no brains, no heart, and = no balls and made her first minister of Scotland. Now, the whole of Sco= tland is looking for work!!"

[James Wilkinson Sword]

e:

Clusters anyone?

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In the first few days of the Olympics the Rumanians took gold, silver, b= ronze, copper, lead and anything else they could get their bloody hands = on.