netclectic wrote:

Self-sustaining killer robot

Hmm, wonder where is it going to get power once it ate all the flies.

I better not tell my wife about this - Why an orgasm really is all in the mind

I might find myself retrenched.

hehe good ones

IF I'm bored, I always go to: http://www.despair.com/indem.html and check out the various posters. Truly top entertainment

ha ha ha!!!

This despair stuff is excellent!!

I hope this site is a joke and not a real company! - How do you like the copyright of the Frowny

So i guess i am not allowed to do this... :-(

hehe no it's a real company! You can buy all these posters from them (or from www.thinkgeek.com for example). Excellent gifts for co-workers

Btw, this is also great fun, I ran into the site half an hour ago: http://digilander.libero.it/chiediloapippo/Engineering/iarchitect/shame.htm

Hmmm...message #180 and counting...

Jeff...

As i said before, this is an immortal thread as every week contains a Friday.

Just think about the complexity of working for Despair, Inc.

Do they hold demotivational meetings for their employees? What disincentive packages do they offer? Can you be fired for having a positive attitude?

Imagine interviewing for a job. Do you strike a positive tone, or bring it down in order to fit in? Do you answer the question, "What was your greatest failure at your last job" with a note of pride? Shame when describing your successes? Do you leave your M.B.A. off your resume to enhance your chances of a placement?

My brain hurts!

hahaha

Yeh, be misserable if you get paid to much and be happy about working over weekends.

Im going to look at cars today, my 1996 Opel Astra is starting to give problems. And i want to get rid of it while i can still get some money for it. I enjoy looking at cars, but cars are so expensive here - Double the price of cars in the UK.

wayne wrote:

Im going to look at cars today, my 1996 Opel Astra is starting to give problems. And i want to get rid of it while i can still get some money for it. I enjoy looking at cars, but cars are so expensive here - Double the price of cars in the UK.

Opel Astra... I had one for 4 weeks once when I was a consultant at CMG. At 120 KM/h the oil pump broke in half, losing all the oil on the highway... (it was a brand new car ). The mechanic picking me up: "Oh, that happens in every 100,000 cars".... but I'll never drive an Opel again (although the car wasn't that bad).

You'd expect that major car manufacturers would have factories on the african continent as well, to safe shipping costs. Also, aren't korean and japanese cars less expensive there, as the shipping costs for these is 1/2 the costs of shipping them to europe

You'd expect that major car manufacturers would have factories on the african continent as well, to safe shipping costs. Also, aren't korean and japanese cars less expensive there, as the shipping costs for these is 1/2 the costs of shipping them to europe Regular Smiley

Thats the shocker, they do have factories in SA. Opel, Volkswagen, Mercedes, Ford and Isuzu are manuafactured in Port Elizabeth. Ford has the minority of the market and only have their bottom range cars here. Toyota does not have a factory here as far as i know.

Toyota is japense they have majority of the market followed by Opel, but the toyota corrola is in the same price range as the opel astra, the rest of the japense and korean cars Dawoo and Hyuandia (mind spelling) do not have any resel value and is also not very reliable. Hyuandia went under about 2 years ago in SA and was bought by another car manufacturer. There was no local parts for them until beginning of this year.

A Opel astra 1.6 and Toyota Carolla is roughly R 170 000 here that is 21 250 Euros devide by 8 i think.

wayne wrote:

You'd expect that major car manufacturers would have factories on the african continent as well, to safe shipping costs. Also, aren't korean and japanese cars less expensive there, as the shipping costs for these is 1/2 the costs of shipping them to europe Regular Smiley

Thats the shocker, they do have factories in SA. Opel, Volkswagen, Mercedes, Ford and Isuzu are manuafactured in Port Elizabeth. Ford has the minority of the market and only have their bottom range cars here. Toyota does not have a factory here as far as i know.

whoa... indeed weird. Well, perhaps the SA government does what the Dutch government does: add a large percentage to the price of the car for environment taxes. (I'm ok with that, but it makes hte car much more expensive, think 20+ %)

A Opel astra 1.6 and Toyota Carolla is roughly R 170 000 here that is 21 250 Euros devide by 8 i think.

That's about the price here (slightly lower here)

So what type of automobile do you have?

I might wait till Jan 2005 before buying a car, seeing that my work enviroment is very unstable at the momment.

But i did find 3 secondhand cars that i like: 1. 2001 Renault Cliio 1.6 Sport - R 103 000 2. 2001 Opel Astra 1.6 CDE - R 89 000 3. 2001 Opel Astra 1.6 CDE - R 79 000

As i said "I might wait" but also dont want to "wait"...if you know what i mean.

wayne wrote:

So what type of automobile do you have?

A mercedes A140 and a Ford Ka

I might wait till Jan 2005 before buying a car, seeing that my work enviroment is very unstable at the momment.

But i did find 3 secondhand cars that i like: 1. 2001 Renault Cliio 1.6 Sport - R 103 000 2. 2001 Opel Astra 1.6 CDE - R 89 000 3. 2001 Opel Astra 1.6 CDE - R 79 000

As i said "I might wait" but also dont want to "wait"...if you know what i mean.

heh . Well the value of a car (except when it's a ferrari) is degrading by the minute, so if you are unsure about your income situation, don't buy a car

Well done everybody, we made it to another Friday

Yeah!!

What I wonder is... where's Jeff? He must be sleeping 24/7 now I think...

Its Friday! ...... .....Ok its almost like a friday today.

Tomorrow is a public holiday in SA that means that the weekend starts early this week.

Just 2 more hours, then it will be looong weekend

Lucky bstrd! .

so it sFriday here in sunny Hawaii. I just woke up and its 7:30 in the morning. Figured I would find a computer and share it with you guys. I have another week in Hawaii and then its back to work.

ok time to go get my eat on and check out the pool

Bert

bertcord wrote:

so it sFriday here in sunny Hawaii. I just woke up and its 7:30 in the morning. Figured I would find a computer and share it with you guys. I have another week in Hawaii and then its back to work.

ok time to go get my eat on and check out the pool

Bert

hehe cool! Enjoy the fun and sun! (btw, 7:30 am, and you are awake on a vacation? Or are you a morning-person? (I'm not even awake at 8am during workweeks )

(I'm not even awake at 8am during workweeks)

We've noticed

I wakeup at 07:50 and only get out of bed at 08:10. At 08:25 I jump in my car and race through the 35km traffic to be at work at 09:00 - But i only officially wakeup at 09:30 after having my 2nd cup of coffee .

No Coffee.. No Workee.

bertcord wrote:

so it sFriday here in sunny Hawaii. I just woke up and its 7:30 in the morning. Figured I would find a computer and share it with you guys. I have another week in Hawaii and then its back to work.

ok time to go get my eat on and check out the pool

Bert

OK, that's just plain mean.