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Until you got an arrow into your knee? I want some sticking plasters with "Your adventuring days are over" written on them.

He wants to abolish... ...the food and drug administration? Does he not have any idea the kind of crap that used to get put in foods before governments instituted tough regulatory controls? Let alone medicines? Copper in the butter, lead in the spices, thalidomide babies. Not that I'm saying the FDA are doing a perfect job.

Ah that old classic from management: "I'm too bad at my job to understand what people do for the business but I do know how much they cost the business. Fire away!"

Courtesy of Liberty Meadows.

Raithe has a point. ANY number we choose to measure things by is no more or less sensible than a monarch's appendage. The only hilarious thing in this discussion is your touching and childlike faith in the men in white coats.

Congrats on the new place!

Well, maybe so. Let us salute, and move on.

I had no idea they could print titanium. That's awesome.

The moon condos thing is the only reason I'd have to vote for Gingrich. For. F***'s. Sake. People. Let's. Get. Into. Space.

The point is that I know roughly how big it is, Pid. Not that I know precisely how big it is. And working in tens is all very well, but working in threes is how people actually function easily.

Then with respect I would suggest that you need to become a different person. It's actually a lot easier than it sounds.

A foot is actually the size of a foot, from memory. So yes, as Hurlshot points out it's a blinding straightforward unit to use. EDIT: Maybe not your feet, as such. But it's a simple thing to imagine. If you were measuring, say vehicle interiors, having everything in forearm lengths would be much easier to work with.

Shame you're not up for advice. I'd suggest being less self-obsessed. Go out and help someone, anyone. You'd be amazed how much fun it is.

I presume therefore that this was successful and that her chest wasn't even more amazing?

Imperial measurements make a lot of sense for anything designed around people. I still buy food by the pound rather than kilo because you can tell easily how much you need. And as Malc says, feet and inches tells you people's heights a lot better. I only use metric for mm because it's so much more convenient than saying teenths of an inch or whatever if you're measuring plate metal (for example).

Yeah, I meant The Brute Man. It'd been years since I saw it, but I still remember that insanely long creeping segment.

Too small to see, Raithe.

I'm typing up briefing notes for my successor since I couldn't manage earlier. I'm actually surprisingly emotional about it. It's a bit like writing a "Please look after my baby. I can't be bothered." note. EDIT: some of my colleagues know I post on here, so .

Speaking to someone who is talking chinese is like standing trying to have a conversation with a William Shatner, as he flits past on a very fast spinning funfair ride, when he doesn't want to be on one, and has tourettes.

Found a metalworker to help me with a Valentine's day project, and wound up treating him to free beers by way of a thank you. Utterly unable to work today. Am off now to go get a huge luncheon wrap from a place I know, then go to the bank where I intend to terrify my account manager by staring vacantly at him until he wets himself.

Bend/break, schmiel.

Farage didn't die. He was badly injured. You have a strange sense of lulz. Unless I am confusing lulz with honest laughter. Which may be inappropriate.

Then japan went and ruined it by blowing up pearl. Damn good thing, too. We'd have missed those Grants in the desert, and I think everyone would hvae been upset if the Germans had got our mideast oil.

Up betimes as I thought zombies were attacking. Turns out it was just a roof hatch falling open.

Yeah. I'm sure that the crowds of nutflaps are out boogying around a burning stars and stripes because of the Kyoto agreement. Funny how few anti-Chinese get-downs you see, given they must surely qualify for a bit of misery-iciousness.