Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight Eisenhower

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The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of a low price is forgotten.

Seymour Jaron

[gatso]

think you may enjoy this:

http://graphjam.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/0bde2ad5-9e78-48f4-819e-ae0632ef999b1.png

i took the img tags off because it's not big enough..

I got as far as line 2 before finding out that from the 10k women I've met I'll have kids with one in 2k

so either the whole thing is complete bollocks and I should stop reading or I'm supposed to be having kids with 5 women in which case I really don't have time to waste reading stuff like that

[kinboshi]

think you may enjoy this:

http://graphjam.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/0bde2ad5-9e78-48f4-819e-ae0632ef999b1.png

i took the img tags off because it's not big enough..

I got as far as line 2 before finding out that from the 10k women I've met I'll have kids with one in 2k

so either the whole thing is complete bollocks and I should stop reading or I'm supposed to be having kids with 5 women in which case I really don't have time to waste reading stuff like that

Sure says that.

[gatso]

Sure says that.

ffs, I don't have time for this, got kids to father

it says he meets 10k women, talks to 1in10, 2nd date with 1/10 (no idea what happened to 1st date), keeps dating 1/10, has kids with 1/2 so thats 5 I've got to go out with and have kids. and that's not allowing for one night stands

[TheChipPrince]

This sign really pisses me off....

I read somewhere its not so much to warn drivers, but if the car is in a bad accident to alert them straight away there is a child there.

Probs not true though.

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This sign really pisses me off....

I read somewhere its not so much to warn drivers, but if the car is in a bad accident to alert them straight away there is a child there.

Probs not true though.

Yeah, that's all well and good, if they actually bothered to remove the sign when the baby is not in the car.

I wonder how much time the emergency services have spent looking for non-existent  babies?

[kinboshi]

Sure says that.

ffs, I don't have time for this, got kids to father

it says he meets 10k women, talks to 1in10, 2nd date with 1/10 (no idea what happened to 1st date), keeps dating 1/10, has kids with 1/2 so thats 5 I've got to go out with and have kids. and that's not allowing for one night stands

It does remove one-night stands, or the chance that you could be conceived outside a long-term relationship - but he's obviously saying your mum's not like that.

The odds aren't that you'll have kids with one in 2k, but that your dad and your mum being in a group that come into contact with each other have approximately a 1 in 2,000 chance that they'll form a relationship and decide to have a child.

Anyway, if you read on, these odds are an infinitesimal part of the total odds to the degree that they're insignificant.  They're just to get you interested, or in your case, disinterested.

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Sure says that.

ffs, I don't have time for this, got kids to father

it says he meets 10k women, talks to 1in10, 2nd date with 1/10 (no idea what happened to 1st date), keeps dating 1/10, has kids with 1/2 so thats 5 I've got to go out with and have kids. and that's not allowing for one night stands

It does remove one-night stands, or the chance that you could be conceived outside a long-term relationship - but he's obviously saying your mum's not like that.

The odds aren't that you'll have kids with one in 2k, but that your dad and your mum being in a group that come into contact with each other have approximately a 1 in 2,000 chance that they'll form a relationship and decide to have a child.

Anyway, if you read on, these odds are an infinitesimal part of the total odds to the degree that they're insignificant.  They're just to get you interested, or in your mum's case, disinterested.

fyp

[gatso]

I read somewhere its not so much to warn drivers, but if the car is in a bad accident to alert them straight away there is a child there.

Probs not true though.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/babysign.asp

[gatso]

I want to throw this quote from teddy roosevelt at people (myself included) when they're slating sportsmen for screwing up and generally being useless. it's a bit long though so I don't

'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat'

[kinboshi]

I want to throw this quote from teddy roosevelt at people (myself included) when they're slating sportsmen for screwing up and generally being useless. it's a bit long though so I don't

'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat'

Doesn't apply to Tevez then?

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I've come to realise that Gatso is a very useful resource if you use him properly.  For instance, I just heard on Top Gear that to pass your driving test in Finland, you have to be able to power-slide a car.

I have no idea if this is true or false, so I just post it on here and wait to see if Gatters pops up and declares it to be bollocks.

If it remains unbollocked for 24 hours, it's almost certainty kosher. 

[gatso]

it's true. I saw it on top gear

[tikay]

I want to throw this quote from teddy roosevelt at people (myself included) when they're slating sportsmen for screwing up and generally being useless. it's a bit long though so I don't

'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat'

Wow, that I like. Stick that on one of the threads full of wannabe football Managers decrying the efforts of players & Managers alike.

"there is no effort without error & shortcoming...."

Applies to so much in life.

In yer eye, serial dissers.

Fine find, Gatters.