|
Herself has just been sent an unsolicited Faecal Occult Blood Test kit, as part of the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. Fine...but...well, you have to send three days worth of "samples" to the lab in a packet. Now, it's not a complete sample, you understand - just a smear each day I think - but...when you sit there in your warm / air conditioned office, on your comfy chair, with your mug of Coffee, in front of your computer and complain that your job is cr@p: Think about the postman who has to deliver these things by the van full... 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
|
|
|
|
|
If I ever pulled of the great train robbery MKII, it would be just my luck that the 30 mail bags I stole all contained those. 
|
|
|
|
|
That postman's job is joy, unadulterated joy, compared to the poor sap who has to open the mail.
speramus in juniperus
|
|
|
|
|
He's probably given special clothing because of Elf and Softy rules. 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
|
|
|
|
|
But... that would be contrary to the 1953 Postal Act: "Sending of a Deleterious Substance" ...
|
|
|
|
|
No it wouldn't, the 1953 act was repealed[^].
speramus in juniperus
|
|
|
|
|
Well what was it replaced with? Anyway, it was in force at the time.... ahem...
|
|
|
|
|
I sent in my FOBT last year. Thankfully the results were negative. Never hurts to be proactive when it comes to one's health. 
/ravi
|
|
|
|
|
What's with the Occult bit?
Is there some sort of ritual involved
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
|
|
|
|
|
Do I want to know? No.
But...http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/occult[^]It's the second meaning:
"Medicine (of a disease or process) not accompanied by readily discernible signs or symptoms:
careful palpation sometimes discloses occult spina bifida
(of blood) abnormally present, e.g. in faeces, but detectable only chemically or microscopically."
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
|
|
|
|
|
Was wondering if anyone has heard of it?
|
|
|
|
|
It's all a House of Cards[^] isn't it?
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
|
|
|
|
|
I saw that series and was absolutely sure our project management team attended the same schools.
|
|
|
|
|
Google is your friend, search "The Francis J. Underwood School of Project Management" and this is the top result[^]
Can't believe the yanks re-made "The House of Cards", remaking "The Office" was bad enough.
|
|
|
|
|
Naw, that was some American NBC series about a paper company, if there is a UK version of "the office" you pinched it from us.
|
|
|
|
|
Proof that you are wrong: here[^]
|
|
|
|
|
Having never watched either office I am not sure what a cat on a unicorn has to do with an Unisys Office in Slough
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
|
|
|
|
|
Don't forget that the cat has a ray gun!
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
|
|
|
|
|
Is that what that was I didn't like to ask
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
|
|
|
|
|
And! And! There is a rainbow! 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
|
|
|
|
|
It is a firebreathing unicorn.
|
|
|
|
|
now your being silly, all mammals breath air everyone knows that
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
|
|
|
|
|
What is amazing is the crash shown in the opening of The Six Million Dollar Man was a real crash and the pilot walked away from it. (Well, was carried away from it).
Bruce Peterson was his name.
He hated the programme as it kept reminding him of the worst day of his life.
(Although I suspect that 1st of May 2006 wasn't a good one for him either).
---------------------------------
Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
|
|
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
