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francoislr
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Wow! "Here are Meccano construction sets worth R20000 for you son."....Son thinks to himself..."Wow, that is subtle! Engineering it is! But let me first get the basics down, like walking, speech, and clay..."
I must say, I would have loved Meccano construction sets worth R20000 back in the day...would have been able to build the brooklyn bridge, or if i was bored the day, a working model of the place they refer to as "Earth".
So now it is time to share a story about my experience with Joburg kids back when I did camp. So far, if it is a non-private school from there, expect one or 2 kids in the school with enough money to buy every single kid on camp (usually 60-120) a can of soda at R5 a can, and that is daily for 3 days...Not that they will.
Then my experience with Private Joburg Schools....Only did a Girls Catholic School...talk about hot campers....lol! Did the same school twice: got 2 grades in at a time. The second time they came the Gr.8 girls were so full of $h!t you could see it coming out of their ears. The older girls, gr. 10 were quite easier to deal with, (except for when we did mud activities at the dam with them: no guy can deal with that! 3 or 4 would refuse to touch mud, the rest would be smearing it on each other's soaking bodies in slow motion....enough to make any guy....never mind=)
So you have your good apples and your bad apples in such school. The teachers from that school tells horror stories about gr.8 girls arriving at the school and demanding the teacher bring them tea promptly, don't you know who my parents are? and crap like that....What I would answer in case of that; your parents only pay R30000-R50000 for your school fees, go make your own Paris Hilton Damned tea...
And I must say, 3 of the sweetest girls I have met were from that school.
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Rhino8
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On 2006-09-12 16:39:17, francoislr wrote:
So what exactly do you do Rhino?
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Well i do php coding for a local web design co. I am still a jr coder, but i work fast and efficient.
On another subject, we are back to mxit... What is the "RUSH" ppl get from it all about? I mean like, i am pretty much an addict when it comes to internet, chat etc, but hell...
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Siosal
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A load of codswallop but an interesting thought nonetheless:
I've heard an idea proposed, I've no idea how seriously, to account for the sensation of vertigo. It's an idea that I instictively like and it goes like this. The dizzy sensation we experience when standing in high places is not simply a fear of falling. It's often the case that the only thing likely to make us fall is the actual dizziness itself, so it is, at best, an extremely irrational, even self-fulfilling fear. However, in the distant past of our evolutionary journey toward our current state, we lived in trees. We leapt from tree to tree. There are even those who speculate that we may have something birdlike in our ancestral line. In which case, there may be some part of our mind that, when confronted with a void, expects to be able to leap out into it and even urges us to do so. So what you end up with is a conflict between a primitive, atavistic part of your mind which is saying "Jump!" and the more modern, rational part of your mind which is saying, "For Christ's sake, don't!" In fact, vertigo is explained by some not as the fear of falling, but as the temptation to jump!
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brix25
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jmash
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@ Brix,does this Bush's pic explain how you feeling right now?
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brix25
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@jmash: That Bush pic comes close to explaining how I felt after reading Siosal's last post and many of the posts here this past week...I'm overwhelmed.
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Siosal
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Sorry... I do this.
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francoislr
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@ siosal, big 42 fan myself, so it went down smooth...but I must say Douglas Adams sometimes has pretty abstract humor(if you have a imagination like mine) but he is(was) funny....
Moving to new offices this Friday...really cool...went there just now with all the big bosses: at least put me in a position where I could fight for a nice quiet room for me and the programmers and the graphic guys...just what we need: seperation from the marketers, that noisy bunch of....
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brix25
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Dunno what Vodacom did last night during it's GPRS blackout but this evening when I got home and hooked up the phone to my PC it felt like I'd moved from a Golf GTi to a Murcielago.
Just did the Telkom ADSL speed test and it shows that I'm 130.2 Kilobits/second.
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Kryptik
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Good to hear that Vodacom's back online. Mrs.K's been battling to get online as well, although it's improved remarkably in the past few hours.
@Brix, so whither will the wind be blowing you once you finish off at your current job?
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brix25
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@da krypsta: I'm currently working at a newspaper in the Media24 stable, got a better offer from Independent Newspapers and will be moving back there next... I guess my ambitions of being a smaller scale Collin Chauke will have to put on hold.
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francoislr
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Yeah, so guess what i did again tonight? Yep, you got it: a fire again:) this time the excuse was a braai. Just finished packing up, not too dirty. Thank goodness for thursdays though: the day everything gets cleaned by itself:)
Time for bed. Tomorrow is another day, another party(if you can call hanging around a fire or chilling with friends having great conversations a party:) |
amawanqa
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We braai on most Saturdays here; would you believe that Mrs Balls' Chutney (only the original one) is available off the shelf at most Tesco (Pommie Pick n' Pay) stores?! Must take a pic of them on the shelves here,priced in Pounds.
A month to go before this year's Smartphone Show...hope they give out loadsa freebies again; can't wait...I must be a true geek. 
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francoislr
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@ wanqa, you have to invite my friend Jim to a braai sometime...he is addicted to braaing...that is why we are doing it every evening just about. Think he is braaing with someone this afternoon. Hear there is a lot of SA products available there, but it is not that fresh.
So my friend Jim got robbed at knife point Tuesday. They took his SonyEricsson v630i, locked on Vodacom UK. He is a little freaked out about moving around town now, but he is generally chill about it: He knows it is South Africa, and that you get robbed at knife point all the time, so it was cool. Funny enough, he had about R2000 cash on him...they just took the phone. That is the advantage of the UK...And the problem of not being SA street smart anymore.
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Rhino8
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Well that suxx bigtime... Jim aint been in the country long and he already been "MUGGED"
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