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I need to raise the seawall to 11.95mAOD so that the ballast from the railway is retained and that there is sufficient 'freeboard'.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 4:51 pm
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Out of a wing population of 176, 58 are on Methodone.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 4:52 pm
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I have found the joy of pivot tables and charts, and now can't help but use them for the most trivial tasks.

Four years of uni and a career in technical software testing and IT security comes to this...


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 4:54 pm
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I've submitted 82 checkins to our version control system so far this calendar year, if you include branch integrations.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 4:58 pm
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I was sent out to buy a new electric kettle for the British Rail booking office in 1969


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 5:13 pm
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Even more boringly, I have sent three more e-mails today than my normal daily average of 34. Interestingly, my current total of mails sent is at the same level as last week, even though it's a thursday today and I was out two days last week.

I hate Excel.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 5:13 pm
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The beam angle of a lamp or luminaire is defined as half the peak intensity


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 5:22 pm
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Icefresh Cod was £146 per 27Kg unit in April 2007 🙂


 
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Non-human animals adopt the first moving thing they see when they're born as their primary carer, whether it's their mother or not.. whatever they chose influences sexual attraction later in life....


 
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Balance Kiteboards 2009 line up uses a core structure comprised of a mixture of end grain CNC wood laminate, Airex foam and Nomex Honeycomb.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 6:36 pm
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The Micc cable I've just run a lighting circuit in will operate up to a temperature of 1083°C but that will reduce the life of the cable, not that it'll matter as the fitting would have burnt out by then, so in fact will the house.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 6:39 pm
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There seems to be more chiefs than indians where I work..


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 6:42 pm
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a 1.5 meter satellite dish costs £125 + vat.
it will pull in nilesat........ 😉


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 6:42 pm
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I just finished being taught any information for 1 year, 4 months and 23 days.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 6:54 pm
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Three hours of medication administraion training beginning in the middle of the day does not a happy dan make.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 6:56 pm
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Thursday has become the new Friday !!!


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 7:00 pm
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Tomorrow's business travel will include 4 trains, 2 ferries, 2 cars and 1 van


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 7:05 pm
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Our Lockheed Martin Gradiometers are accurate to one part in 10^11.

-j


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 7:13 pm
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Is it just me or are some of these facts interesting?


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 7:16 pm
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Shreddies consist of four laminations, this was very difficult to achieve due, obviously, to low temperature delamination. The standard used to be three laminations.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 7:17 pm
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Shreddies consist of four laminations, this was very difficult to achieve due, obviously, to low temperature delamination. The standard used to be three laminations.

I think you'll find that they are knitted by grannies in Scotland!


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 7:26 pm
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while entertaining always stand when you serve a lady wine. and always address a countess as 'lady...'.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 7:28 pm
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According to FMVSS104:
A minimum of 94% of zone B needs to be cleared by the wipers on every vehicle sold.
The top extents of Zone B are derived by projecting the planes described in SAE J942 onto the vehicle windscreen. The side extents are 25.4mm (1") from the Apost blackout.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 7:35 pm
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If I park in a traffic sensitive street and display a blue arrow or leave my amber beacon on, I put myself and my company at risk of being fined several thousand pounds under the Traffic Management Act.

If however, I just lock the van up with no roadworks guarding but still causing the same obstruction, I merely become liable for a parking ticket as my vehicle is no longer part of my work site 🙂

Incidentally, I can also be fined £500 for neglecting to wear a hi-vis jacket whilst working in the vicinity of the carriageway.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 7:44 pm
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we only have one application server guy and he probably has the work of about 4 people to do over the next couple of months.

anyone know Oracle AS 10.1.3 or 10.3?


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 7:45 pm
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Office 2007 is incomprehensible in a human lifetime.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 7:48 pm
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They only requested the depth volumes so I have to wait and do nothing till the time volumes arrive.

Which is fine by me, in fact.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 8:36 pm
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Balance Kiteboards 2009 line up uses a core structure comprised of a mixture of end grain CNC wood laminate, Airex foam and Nomex Honeycomb.

*Hijack*
any good deals for a fellow STWer?
*/Hijack*

😉


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 8:42 pm
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18% of my pupils will unwittingly traipse off to the technicians lab for "a long stand".

The cleaners are stealing our sugar and John left his soup "defrosting" in the microwave for a fortnight over the Easter holidays. The staff base is beginning to smell better now.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:00 pm
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Today I went on a course in that London. At Marble Arch tube exit, I walked up to someone I thought I recognised from work, slapped him on the back, said "hiya mate, didn't know you were on this course too?". He turned round, and it wasn't anyone I knew at all, but by a freak of coincidence he WAS on the same course as me anyway and we both spent all day pretending we knew each other - which was nice but kinda weird too.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:07 pm
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the new canoe trailer, designed by an 'expert' has struts that are about 2 inches too short, so a canoe cannot slide on from the back, without falling off at it's widest point.

which requires a whole new way of getting cold, wet 11 year olds to load the bloody things 🙁


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:08 pm
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the Yamaha LS9 desk will not run successfully for more than a couple of seconds if the Word Clock is set to SPDIF in.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:09 pm
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By fitting 3/8" chains to our 357XP's, we have exceeded the 20m/s protection of our trousers, but like you ever catch your leg at full power, not that you'd want to, you will never see so much fluff wedged in a machine

also, we just broke the splitter tooth off the technorton bench, with the Ford 3000, thought it was too under pressured, unlike the unimog which used to eat them, even with reduced flow valve


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:18 pm
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The deadline for REACH registration could be 2010, 2013 or 2018, depending of course on the the volume you are registering.

But i guess you all knew that anyway.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:19 pm
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ooh i like unimogs

[FUNCTIONAL]


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:20 pm
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as part of my work i am party to thousands of not very interesting facts about hundreds of different companies. unfortunately i can't remember a single one


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:21 pm
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also: negotiating allocation of costs for the data requirements for the abovementioned registrations with Italian colleagues is a pain in the arse because they will never commit to anything.

But the lunch, as always, was excellent.

Just back from a day trip to Milan, left home 5am, back 9pm now off to bed. And you think teachers with their 4 hours of marking a night have it hard. Boohoo.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:23 pm
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timber - can I have your job?


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:23 pm
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russian blokes who get cut in a knife fight stitch their own wounds up.


 
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Timber - I know someone that worked for technorton for a while. Small world 🙂


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 10:47 pm
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You need to be really careful when unrolling a 100m coils of 63mm HDPE pipe. So far we have broken a chaps ankle, smacked one bloke in the chops removing his front teeth with incredible efficiency and broken the knee cap of another chap.

Pipe can be dangerous - fact.


 
Posted : 01/05/2009 5:44 am
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molgrips - certainly not anymore, tried to get a replacement part just to find they went bust a couple of weeks ago - one custom bodge on the way...


 
Posted : 01/05/2009 5:22 pm
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The ROI of the campaign over the last FY was 3.1 We were pleased with that.


 
Posted : 01/05/2009 8:34 pm
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the colour temperature in the sonnet room at the John Rylands Library in Manchester was 3000k today.

The outdoor colour temperature of 5600k was taken from a measurement done in Washington DC, Midsummer, at midday.


 
Posted : 01/05/2009 10:09 pm
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MartynS do you work at Rylands?

Mrs Spider also works at Rylands.


 
Posted : 02/05/2009 6:36 am
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KPI 4.6 is currently at 98.4%


 
Posted : 02/05/2009 7:27 am
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Dichloromethane does not evaporate when poured on concrete, it soaks through it and out the other side.


 
Posted : 02/05/2009 9:12 am
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CAPTAINFLASHHEART:

email me, new stuff from Balance goes global on Monday.
simon @ bestkiteboarding dot com


 
Posted : 02/05/2009 6:53 pm
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Genital warts may develop in a person's mouth if infected through fellation. And my supervisor is a liar.


 
Posted : 02/05/2009 8:06 pm
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the people who work in the office are obviously not feeling the effects of recession. In the past few months they have thrown away:
half a tescos cooked chicken,
an unopened M&S pasta salad
apples, plums, melon salads, blueberries
countless half-loaves of bread
countless 6 packs of rolls (some unopened)
a full 2ltr bottle of Tesco value water
various beers and alcopops
and many many half drunk starbucks/costa coffees

The worst thing is, sometimes these things (fruit mainly) haven't even gone off!


 
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There are over 32 genetic blood groups so throw the old ABO system in the bin.


 
Posted : 02/05/2009 10:35 pm
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Most NHS MR scanners use a magnetic field of 3 tesla. standing in the wrong place at the wrong time that's enough to remove a pacemaker in a "non-surgical manner"
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Posted : 02/05/2009 11:51 pm
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MartynS do you work at Rylands?

Mrs Spider also works at Rylands.

No.. we were covering the announcment of the new poet lauret.. Mrs Spider may have witnesed the chaos!


 
Posted : 03/05/2009 8:25 am
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There is a difference between 'WHERE x IS NULL' and 'WHERE x = null' in Oracle.


 
Posted : 03/05/2009 12:39 pm
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.2 of a degree C ruins the tempering for chocolate, rendering a batch of chocolates wasted.


 
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Genital warts may develop in a person's mouth if infected through fellation. And my supervisor is a liar.

Looking for a payrise 😯


 
Posted : 03/05/2009 12:57 pm
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My company has stopped all pay rises for management this year 🙁

Banana's are grown on plants not trees

There is over 8500 types of apples in the world

If bacteria multiplies every 15 minutes, and you have a contaminated product unrefridgerated, then 1strand of bacteria will become 16, 777, 216 strands after 6 hours. About 1 million will cause food poisoning. Think about that next time your having a take-away and the food is left uncovered and unrefridgerated 😥


 
Posted : 03/05/2009 3:46 pm
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On average each grain of British wheat will produce 77 to 80% of its weight in white flour. 0.3% of its weight will be wheatgerm.


 
Posted : 03/05/2009 4:04 pm
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9 out of 10 sex-workers who get on our bus are addicted to crack or heroin.

BB


 
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