Archive for the ‘World’ Category
You can be arrested for photography because it is suspicious and antisocial: Man held in police station for eight hours after taking pictures of Christmas celebrations in Accrington. More>
@u235 gets it right: "And now America sinks back to the middle ages". Religious leaflet claims `ungodly' dressed women provoke rape. More>
And it gets worse: The [...]
Biggest dick? The story that the "Pakistani ambassador was rejected because his name is NSFW in Arabic" appears to be false. More>
All Subversive Organizations Now Must Register in South Carolina. There's even a $5 filing fee.
Kunden aus der Hoelle: Multifunktionale Putze Reinigungskraft gesucht:
Reinigung der Büro- und Geschäftsräume incl. sanitäre Anlagen – Begleitung und Dolmetschen/bei [...]
"An employer is told not to post advert for 'reliable' workers because it discriminates against 'unreliable' applicants". That just about makes me speechless.
"Try uttering a curse word into the Nexus One, and the well-mannered device will automatically replace the offensive expression with a string of # symbols". Americans are so ########## prude sometimes.
Get [...]
America's TSA, the "Transport Security Administration", has done it again: they've come up with another ridiculous regulation:
Among other steps being imposed, passengers on international flights coming to the United States will apparently have to remain in their seats for the last hour of a flight without any personal items on their laps.
So, if you're planning [...]
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have [...]
These must be the top three canned questions asked by people who work in zeroth-level support:
Q: Are you on Windows? A: No, are you?
Q: If you're not using Internet Explorer, then … A: then what?
And the #1 question (I got it again today) is: Q: Do you use a firewall? A: of course I do. [...]
Ich komme rein, sage brav "Guten Tag", und lege ein Paeckchen auf dem Tresen.
Er: "Soll das als Buechersendung gehen?"
Ich: "Es ist tatsaechlich ein Buch 'drin. Wo ist der Unterschied?" [zu was?]
Er: "Ellie, wo ist der Unterschied zwischen Buechersendung und Paeckchen?"
Sie eilt herbei, schaut sich meine Sendung an, fuehlt und sagt: "Das Buch ist zu schwer [...]