The Royal Mail Post Office is being renamed Charles III Post office, or C3PO for short.
I had to attend a FUNERAL today!
Not my favourite pastime, but one must do one's DUTY on certain occasions! Obviously you can spot me.
Having wept during most of the service at Westminster Abbey, I asked the local Portsmouth Cops if any Public Houses were open.
Happily "The Fleet" next to the "Isambard Kingdom Brunel" Wetherspoons was open.
Impeccably observed 2 minutes silence.
I thought Her Maj was then off to a minor Chapel for internment ....
Imagine my surprise when St. Georges Chapel at Windsor turned out to be a whopper of a Church!
Good show, IMO. 🙂
Not my favourite pastime, but one must do one's DUTY on certain occasions! Obviously you can spot me.
Having wept during most of the service at Westminster Abbey, I asked the local Portsmouth Cops if any Public Houses were open.
Happily "The Fleet" next to the "Isambard Kingdom Brunel" Wetherspoons was open.
Impeccably observed 2 minutes silence.
I thought Her Maj was then off to a minor Chapel for internment ....
Imagine my surprise when St. Georges Chapel at Windsor turned out to be a whopper of a Church!
Good show, IMO. 🙂
Could you translate it for those poor souls not speaking Brasilian, er... Portugese... or Spanish... well ... South American?
A very good magazine,lots of very practical projects, including DIY test instruments, also encouraging and publishing reader´s ones.
In my view, quite in the tradition of British and Australian magazines (ETI, Hobby Electronics, Practical Electronics, etc.)
Here:
A typical project: water pump automation
In my view, quite in the tradition of British and Australian magazines (ETI, Hobby Electronics, Practical Electronics, etc.)
Here:
- RF signal generator
- "Two Voice" Electronic organ
- Add low mV scale to your multimeter
A typical project: water pump automation
I get really annoyed the lot of nonsense and pure cr*p on Facebook, but this one I had to share:
THIS IS A KEEPER!
It happened at a New York Airport. This is hilarious. I wish I had the guts of this girl. An award should go to the United Airlines gate agent in New York for being smart and funny, while making her point, when confronted with a passenger who probably deserved to fly as cargo. For all of you out there who have had to deal with an irate customer, this one is for you.
A crowded United Airlines flight was canceled. A single agent was re-booking a long line of inconvenienced travelers.
Suddenly, an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk. He slapped his ticket on the counter and said, "I HAVE to be on this flight and it has to be FIRST CLASS."
The agent replied, "I'm sorry, sir. I'll be happy to try to help you, but I've got to help these folks first; and then I'm sure we'll be able to work something out."
The passenger was unimpressed. He asked loudly, so that the passengers behind him could hear, "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO I AM?"
Without hesitating, the agent smiled and grabbed her public address microphone. "May I have your attention, please?", she began, her voice heard clearly throughout the terminal. "We have a passenger here at Gate 14 WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him with his identity, please come to Gate 14".
With the folks behind him in line laughing hysterically, the man glared at the United Airlines agent, gritted his teeth, and said, "F*** You!"
Without flinching, she smiled and said, "I'm sorry sir, you'll have to get in line for that, too."
Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.
THIS IS A KEEPER!
It happened at a New York Airport. This is hilarious. I wish I had the guts of this girl. An award should go to the United Airlines gate agent in New York for being smart and funny, while making her point, when confronted with a passenger who probably deserved to fly as cargo. For all of you out there who have had to deal with an irate customer, this one is for you.
A crowded United Airlines flight was canceled. A single agent was re-booking a long line of inconvenienced travelers.
Suddenly, an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk. He slapped his ticket on the counter and said, "I HAVE to be on this flight and it has to be FIRST CLASS."
The agent replied, "I'm sorry, sir. I'll be happy to try to help you, but I've got to help these folks first; and then I'm sure we'll be able to work something out."
The passenger was unimpressed. He asked loudly, so that the passengers behind him could hear, "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO I AM?"
Without hesitating, the agent smiled and grabbed her public address microphone. "May I have your attention, please?", she began, her voice heard clearly throughout the terminal. "We have a passenger here at Gate 14 WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him with his identity, please come to Gate 14".
With the folks behind him in line laughing hysterically, the man glared at the United Airlines agent, gritted his teeth, and said, "F*** You!"
Without flinching, she smiled and said, "I'm sorry sir, you'll have to get in line for that, too."
Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.
Goes back at least to the 20th century, email instead of bookface, Denver instead of Chicago.
Snoopes' collection of similars: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obnoxious-passengers/
I guess it is an urban myth or whatever those stories are called, but still it is a good anecdote/story.
We say ”vandringsmyter” or ”vandringshistorier” or ’walking myths/stories’.
There even came a book ”The rat in the pizza” by the sociologis Bengt af Klintberh with such stories and a background story.
One story not in the book and is said (even published in our local paper) that is rather funny took place at the shoping mall next to us.
A couple leaving their Summer house in the countryside, emptied their sh*thouse. The **** collected in a plastic bag was stuffed in a cardboard box, that was a fastened on the railings on top of the car.
When stopping at the mall to buy products home, someone stole the box …
It is not difficult to imagine the thief unboxing the smelly bag ….
There even came a book ”The rat in the pizza” by the sociologis Bengt af Klintberh with such stories and a background story.
One story not in the book and is said (even published in our local paper) that is rather funny took place at the shoping mall next to us.
A couple leaving their Summer house in the countryside, emptied their sh*thouse. The **** collected in a plastic bag was stuffed in a cardboard box, that was a fastened on the railings on top of the car.
When stopping at the mall to buy products home, someone stole the box …
It is not difficult to imagine the thief unboxing the smelly bag ….
Smelly box was in the Kannada / silent film 'Pushpaka Vimana".
A person gets kidnapped, and his waste is put in a gift wrapped box, which is 'forgotten' at a bus stop.
The next day, the person who did it has another box, and the thief gives a glare, and goes to the other side of the bus shelter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushpaka_Vimana_(1987_film)
It has no dialog, only background music, and is considered a landmark in Indian cinema.
The film has some sophisticated humor, above is really an aberration. It is really worth watching.
A person gets kidnapped, and his waste is put in a gift wrapped box, which is 'forgotten' at a bus stop.
The next day, the person who did it has another box, and the thief gives a glare, and goes to the other side of the bus shelter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushpaka_Vimana_(1987_film)
It has no dialog, only background music, and is considered a landmark in Indian cinema.
The film has some sophisticated humor, above is really an aberration. It is really worth watching.
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There was a woman who cleaned up after her dog, but she felt embarrassed to carry a full bag around, so she used an old handbag to carry the full bags, until one day she was mugged and it was stollen, I guess the thief got their just deserts. The thing is, one wonders what the dog thought to all this, his owner picking it up, then someone mugging her to take it, he must think he's sat on a gold mine.
Bengt af Klintberg writes about the urban myths/folklore in his book that some, like the dog poo thieves and the airline agent is about good people winning over the bad ones.
I don’t know if you have stories about immigrants, like immigrant pizza makers bringing habits of using rats as toppings or Yugoslavian people growing potatoes in the living room.
These myths are from xenophobia and lack of knowledge about other people.
Back in the 60’s and 70’s Sweden was segregated where the various immigrants, working in our factories lived separated from the Swedes, had their Greek, Turkish, Yugoslav clubs. The textile factories in the city of Boras had departments with only Finnish speaking workers.
I don’t know if you have stories about immigrants, like immigrant pizza makers bringing habits of using rats as toppings or Yugoslavian people growing potatoes in the living room.
These myths are from xenophobia and lack of knowledge about other people.
Back in the 60’s and 70’s Sweden was segregated where the various immigrants, working in our factories lived separated from the Swedes, had their Greek, Turkish, Yugoslav clubs. The textile factories in the city of Boras had departments with only Finnish speaking workers.
