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> That's 'cause we have lousy dictators... I think its cultural - and I think its a trend we are seeing all over the world. The saddest manifestation of that I saw was with GW Bush's inaugaration speech when he talked about improving schools, improving this, doing that and lowering taxes. Guess which of the above got the only set of applause :/
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 09:17:26AM +, Redvers Davies wrote: > > Dammit, we are *not* third world! > > Highest rate of child poverty in the developed world. An estimated 40% > of the population have no healthcare. That's 'cause we have lousy dictators... dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Your Aunt Linda should maybe stay away from the Manischewitz. Or stop using it to wash down prescription tranquilizers, whichever. - Mary Roth
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* Redvers Davies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Dammit, we are *not* third world! > > Highest rate of child poverty in the developed world. An estimated 40% > of the population have no healthcare. where are you talking about Red, Indonesia? Ethyopia? China? ;-) -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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> Dammit, we are *not* third world! Highest rate of child poverty in the developed world. An estimated 40% of the population have no healthcare.
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:22:26AM +, David Cantrell wrote: > > Working on various defence projects for dodgy third world dictatorships > (including Indonesia and the US) Dammit, we are *not* third world! dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes." - President Richard Nixon
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- Original Message - From: "Chris Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 01 February 2001 19:17 Subject: Re: previous jobs > > At Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:44:28 +, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > so who else has had cool non-IT jobs in the past? > > Depending on the meaning of cool ... > > * I spent 3 years in Iceland working in fish-factories & fishing boats. > I used to work in an offal processing yard. The guts, heads, hooves, horns, bowels, bladders and other bits of animal not fit for display in a butchers windows are discarded by the abatoirs and sent for rendering to fertiliser/cosmetic products or dried for use in pet food (that was before someone spotted the market for using offal for livestock feed). It was a lovely warm summer, high summer. The offal and heads turned green very quickly. The bowls and bladders swelled and burst. Come to think of it, dealing with the after effects of some-one elses activity in a shambles was probably a good grounding for IT. -- Mark T
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> At Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:44:28 +, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > so who else has had cool non-IT jobs in the past? Depending on the meaning of cool ... * I spent 3 years in Iceland working in fish-factories & fishing boats. The Artic Ocean is way cool! The frystihus (freezer room) which I ended up in was usually kept at -40C. ... but I suppose you meant the other meaning of cool :-) * Electric Hyster forklift trucks were pretty cool: you could do wonderful 4-wheel skids and sneak up on people without them hearing you! -- Chris Benson
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Matthew Jones wrote: > > >so who else has had cool non-IT jobs in the past? > > I walways had crappy non-IT jobs. The absolute worst was when I went to work > in a plastics factory. As new boy, it fell to me to make sure that all the > waste plastic was disposed of as efficiently as possible. I worked as a handy man and barman for a sort of restaurant/bar/shop complex in germany (like the Lassiters complex in Neighbours but without the class). I got in at 8am and swept for an hour and a half and then had to do things like clean the windows with washing up liquid and kitchen towel. Then I had to clean the vans with tea towels and washing up liquid. And no hose. In the time it took me it would ahve been far more efficent to just drive it to the car wash. But by far the worst job was cleaning out the grease traps in the kitchen which were big, heavy and full and had to be carried down a long corridor (usually spilling a fair whack over myself and the floor) and then taken outside and poured into canisters (with no funnel, I improvised using newspaper) again spilling copious quantities over myself and the floor. Then I had to clean up all the oil that was lying around. I got home at 2pm and then at 6:30 I went out again and worked as the barman until midnight/1am. The clientele was mostly pissed squaddies. For this work I got the princley sum of 8 Marks an hour. Or 2 pounds 30. However pints were 1 mar (about 3o p) each so I worked out that since I could buy 8 pints an hour that was the equivalent of 16 quid which kept me (sort of) sane. Mostly.
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> >so who else has had cool non-IT jobs in the past? Being a bus conductor during the summer holidays when I was in the sixth form was fun. Working on various defence projects for dodgy third world dictatorships (including Indonesia and the US) was not, but we had wonderful toys. You wouldn't believe how much pleasure can be gained from drop-testing expensive hardware. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature
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>so who else has had cool non-IT jobs in the past? > Operations Manager, Wizards of the Coast Limited next best thing to being a crack dealer :-) Neil. -- Neil C. Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.binky.ourshack.org
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> so who else has had cool non-IT jobs in the past? Security guard at a site which was under constant threat from animal rights bombers. > >with the name and we need to ``leverage'' it (sorry) now in > >all aspects of the company, from sales/marketting to programming Hmmm, skills... A healthy paranoia of un-expected parcels and letters.
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At Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:44:28 +, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > so who else has had cool non-IT jobs in the past? I was the social secretary at City University for a year - 1981/2. Does that count? Interesting stories that I can be persuaded to tell after a few beers: 1/ Turning down Culture Club because they'd never get anywhere. 2/ Also turning down China Crisis for the same reason (tho' I was probably right there). 3/ Being threatened by Buster Bloodvessel of Bad Manners. 4/ Booking Toto Coelo and being accused of sexism by the London Student newspaper. 5/ Booking Marillion just before they became really famous. Probably some more that I'll remember later. Dave...
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>so who else has had cool non-IT jobs in the past? I walways had crappy non-IT jobs. The absolute worst was when I went to work in a plastics factory. As new boy, it fell to me to make sure that all the waste plastic was disposed of as efficiently as possible. Translated, that meant dragging sack after sack of off-cuts to a large skip, chucking them in, and then packing them down. i.e. fifty percent of my job involved getting in the skip and jumping up and down on the rubbish. Great at parties: "So, what do you do, then?" "I jump up and down in a skip." "Oh, hello Mr Icke!" -- matt you said it wasn't art, so now we're gonna rip you apart
