Forgive me for coming over all NTK.net, but, bloody hell, Amazon got a shitty exchange rate when they converted their profit into Euros:
That’s $1.1M to the Euro…
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Day: October 22, 2003
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Passengers are advised to use alternative routes just bloody well walk to work, ok?
It occurred to me this morning, on my inadvertently circuitous route to work resulting from the Victoria and Northern lines both being broken, that this standard piece of London Underground advice is utterly pointless. It essentially equates to saying:
“The such and such a line is not working, so passengers are advised not to use it (which they, er, won’t be able to do anyway)”.
Even worse, though, is that if like today the alternative route that you might otherwise have taken is also broken, then why bother saying it at all? It’s rather like those patronising apologies from a computer on the South West Trains network. In fact, why don’t we replace this announcement with something more realistic, like: “Passengers are advised to give up on getting to work today at all; why don’t you just go home and go back to bed…”.
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Yesterday there was an elderly woman in front of me at the checkout in Waitrose buying 40 large beef-flavoured packets of Cesar dog food. It was most odd. She had two people helping her pack her bags (she also had a lot of other shopping, but it was the large quantity of dog food that I noticed most). She appeared to have wiped out the supermarket’s entire stock of this particular brand, as the third and fourth slabs of 10 packets were both still fully wrapped in cardboard. Presumably having already picked up everything on the shelves, she had had to get the staff to get her whatever else they had in the stockroom. Maybe she would have bought more if they had had it.
When the cashier had finished ringing up her purchases, she asked the lady: “is that all he eats?” Presumably, like me, the cashier thought that buying such a large quantity of dog food was not entirely normal, but the lady seemed rather surprised that anyone would ask such a question of her, and took ages to reply that yes, that is, in fact, all he eats.
I’m sure this is not normal, but not being a dog owner, I wouldn’t know. Anyone?
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“Yay! One thing the world needs more of is young conservative women.”
Oh look: Susan’s back. It must be so terrible for her to live in a country overrun with “rabid liberals” that so upset her with their opinions that don’t entirely match her own. You can find out more about some of the rabid liberals running her country: here.