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You mean this?

Yeah... it finally happened... Got fired yesterday... I knew it was coming... well... it doesn't help your career when you tell your boss that he's wrong and unless there's definitely a change of pace he won't get through The specific reasons? Uh... not a real will to talk about that.... but bulls*it after all.... probably the fact I had much more experience than the boss... (he has less than a years' experience in this field... I worked there for 15 years!) but if he can't understand who has the knowledge and the will to help him and who's instead only taking the mickey out of him... well...

Yes I know... but his version is the most famous and the guy was clearly playing it "the Hendrix way"

Yeah, definitely. By the way, a couple of days before I had been in another town and there was a band doing the sound check... These guys were much older.... late 50s, early 60s... long grey hair... they looked like they had left home during 1968 and never came back.... Anyway... they start the sound check and.... from the first notes I understand what they are going to play... "Hey Joe"... so at first I think... uh... "This guy wants to play Jimi Hendrix? He might have a bit too much self esteem...." And instead... whoa! The best version of Hey Joe I had heard in years! I bet the ghost of

The site notalwaysright reminded me of something that happened some years ago... I was working for a consumer's protection association and this guy calls... telling he got a problem... a couple of nights before he had arrived at the train station, called a cab to go to work and.... Well.... it took him maybe 15 minutes to arrive to the point... beacause he wanted to know if the cab driver had some kind of insurance (?), no, not driving insurance... but against damages... uhm... Because he wanted a refund from the cab company.... "Ok, ok, but, what happened exactly?" "Well..... while I was

A couple of days ago I went to see a concert in my town... A free concert in the town center... you know that kind of "cheap" concerts they usually do with local bands during summer evenings and so on... I go there and... uhm... I think the public is a tad too old for the genre they are going to play... at least for what I can understand from the leaflet... the band name is "The Creeps", seems they are all teenagers and.... I don't really think they are going to play music that people in their late 70s can appreciate... They start playing as a power trio and... uhm... it's something familia

I loved this one.... http://notalwaysright.com/youve-got-the-wrongest-number/2538

Uhm.... cold war... Having just turned 36 I saw some of it, as a kid and as a teenager... Can't say I'm really nostalgic about the cold war, but yes from a certain point of view things were much more clear back then. I mean there were limits to what could happen because, even if at least a couple of times (well... more than a couple) we risked to have the war turn really hot, everyone, on both sides of the iron curtain knew that no one could really win a war between the 2 superpowers, it would have been the last war for everyone... This balance of terror gave a sort of stability to the whol

You lucky b*stards.... I was so busy lately with work that I completely forgot about Farnborough... could have been a great time for a break!

Too much... I'll be 36 in a couple of days....

It's a "silurus" (we call it "pesce siluro", meaning "torpedo fish"). Quite common in eastern (and also western, where it was introduced in the 50s) europe rivers. I won't eat it for any reason (apart from the fact they say it's tasteless), those things can get huge (2+ meters) because they live 20+ years.... and as they are usually at the top of rivers' food chain... unless the river is VERY clean... this means 20+ years of heavy metals and other pollutants.... Not so safe to eat (in italy it's forbidden, for the high levels of pollutants) Here they are considered a pest, because not having

Ok, so it's not a CG shift... unless there's a huge difference in weight distribution between the 2 engines (such as a much lighter/shorter afterburner)

Apart from being lightweight. Didn't the ML have a different engine? There could also be CG differences.

Yeah... that's amazing.... the germans were in fact a bit worried because "Paul" had predicted a spanish victory... I thought the octopus had made a blunder this time... Germany seemed a much stronger team compared to Spain..... then... well, in fact I only saw the first ten or so minutes of the match... then went to do something else.... I finished my work, turned on the tv to see the last 4 or 5 minutes... took a look at the score and... Damn! Paul guessed it right again........

Well.... only if you remember the number

As Vesper said.... it happens... Sometimes because you just worked too much on a project and get really fed up with it, so you start something else.... sometimes because you get to a dead end and your skills aren't enough to do it as you wanted to..... Anyway... sometimes for some reason a project just finishes in the boneyard while you work on something else... then maybe after years, you see it and wonder "why not?"... With my Fulcrum it happened 4 or 5 times... it was a sort of "instructional airframe" because it was the first on which I tested new techniques... first time with photoetch

I started this Italeri Fulcrum just a couple of months after the kit first came out (1990 I think, I only remember there was still the Soviet Union). Finished it.... uhm.... I don't remember, maybe 2001 or 2002... maybe later

Ok, there's this friend of mine I hadn't seen for quite some time... I talk to her often but it was months I hadn't seen her... Last week we have a meeting (we work for the same organisation) and.... surprise... she's 4 months pregnant! Well, there's another guy we both know that works for the same organization and.... we often play jokes to him.. He's that kind of guy that.... we you know... he thinks he's a great playboy... you know the kind... always talking about gals... not able to keep hands in place and so on... we say he's a champion in talked se*x, meaning he only mostly talks abou

I was talking about the fictional Causton.... you know... from "Midsomer Murders" (according to the internet movie database the location is Wallingford, Oxfordshire)

Glad you're ok.... Btw, talking about England and policemen... how far is Mirfield from Causton?

Ok, I have this couple of trainees giving me some headaches.... Or well.... one good, one so so... but the good one sometimes gets involved by the other in wasting time... So the other day I took the good one in a corner and told her I didn't like her wasting time chatting while others were working.... she told something like "well, but the other asked me things and so on... did you make the same lecture to her?" So I told... "Has you mother ever told to you something like "and if she jumped into the well would you jump there too?"" Gosh, I'm talking like my mother.... You start getting o

Uh, no... there's no joy if there isn't the widow of a Nigerian dictator involved and the thing is legal...

Does "Thunderchicken" work? Well, it was the nose art of a F-106

Well.... it was with some "deep thinking" at the area that we selected the trees..... In november we put 5 small maples (they were maybe more or less 1m high) just to block the path, then all around the perimeter we put.... it'll be hard to translate them for our friends not knowing italian... but it's 70-80 small (hardly visible at the beginning) prugnoli and spincervini. They are both bushes.... bushes with a lot of spines.... Yeah... we decided to put spined bushes just to avoid having people dealing with them too much... some years ago in fact the garden was full of nice laurus plants..

Some days ago I was doing a "guerrilla gardening" action... you know... when you put trees and flowers in a public area without any authorisation... Anyway, you know how it works... whenever you are doing some kind of work there's always someone (usually grumpy old men) coming to offer advice, tell you that you are doing it completely wrong and so on... This time it was a place we are trying to recover... an almost abandoned garden, there's almost no grass at all, because everyone keeps stepping on it making the soil hard as rock... Last november we had put there some trees and bushes just