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Post by onlyMark on Nov 19, 2022 4:51:32 GMT
Exact same as my IQ test.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 18, 2022 19:55:24 GMT
I got a 66 which falls in the moderate morning category. But, I noticed with some of the questions my answers would have been different forty years ago. Generally years ago I would have been more up and at 'em than I am now. It takes me longer to get going first thing. I've always needed an alarm clock, mainly for the security of knowing I wouldn't oversleep, but when the alarm went of I'd roll over to switch it off and continue on to my feet and start putting my clothes, then straight out the door (this is when I used to work for a living).
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 17, 2022 19:09:27 GMT
The regular Carrefour I go to in Spain has a system whereby there are two entrances to the tills. There must be thirty or more tills though. So two banks of fifteen, maybe. There is a monitor at each entrance that beeps up the number of the next till to be free. The till people have to press a button when they are just about finished with the person they're sorting out. The psychological thing though is not only do you not concern yourself you've gone to the wrong/slowest queue, you see the single queue going down fairly fast and feel you'll be served sooner. One of my first jobs as a teenager was bag filling at the till in a frozen food shop. Don't see that much now.
A lot of my life has been spent queueing in supermarkets and it is of interest to see how they do it in the different countries I've lived in or visit. E.g. because I know you are interested, in Zambia the till person is not allowed to 'blip' one item if you buy a multiple and put the total figure of them in. They have to do each one individually, no matter how many you've bought.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 17, 2022 16:49:11 GMT
I was in a big Asda in the UK a few years ago. Grilled a manager about the lack of till staff. It always seemed to be like that whenever I went in. He admitted they work from a computer programme (handed down from HQ) that predicts how many tills they need open at certain times of the day/week/month/year. And how is that working out for you, I asked, nodding towards the long queues. I said you probably have trained staff now on a break or filling shelves or whatever, why don't you be a bit of a rebel to HQ and call a few over instead of blindly following a computer readout? Bless 'im, as I got halfway down one of the queues and was thinking about going to a self-checkout that had just become free, a loud bell rang and after some muffled announcement three more staff turned up. Still only half the tills open though.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 17, 2022 16:38:06 GMT
Be careful, the suicide drones can't find you too well when it's murky.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 17, 2022 16:33:32 GMT
I've just left there. Never saw them. Although I've just crossed from Villeneuve Loubet Plage in France to near Ljubljana in Slovenia through Italy and it was all nose to tail trucks. Plus constant road works (not in France or Slovenia by the way, just Italy).
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 16, 2022 19:05:16 GMT
I have often wondered that since the computers in those days were not even as good as our modern pocket calculators. "........pioneering computer scientist Margaret Hamilton stands next to the computer code that she and her team wrote to guide the Apollo spacecraft to the moon"
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 16, 2022 19:01:10 GMT
How did they ever manage to get to the moon all those years ago? Ahh... but did they really? I played truant from school to watch the moon landings. I think because I didn't get into trouble for it led me to continue over the years.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 15, 2022 17:08:05 GMT
World population reaches 8 billion.
It took 124 years to go from 1 to 2 billion. 2 - 3 took 31 years. 3 - 4 = 14 years. 4 - 5 = 13 years. 5 - 6 = 12 years. 6 - 7 = 12 years. 7 - 8 = 12 years.
The increase seems to have settled down. Never thought that. I was under the impression the increase would accelerate, so years get shorter. It seems not.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 14, 2022 20:22:11 GMT
I always used to try and not fill up in France because it was the most expensive driving between Spain and Germany. Luxembourg was always the cheapest. But I noticed this summer it was the cheapest out the lot. Good to know then. I've got about 530km Spain to Italy but I doubt it'll be any or much cheaper there.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 14, 2022 19:10:55 GMT
Last day at the house in Spain so slipped out for a meal. A menu del dia. Long story as to why I'm here by myself but in short, I drove from Bosnia to Croatia to take my mother in law back to southern Germany. She stays the summer in one place and the winter in the other. I then went north to Bonn to pick up a passport for a daughter. That was 2000km. Whilst there I was informed a couple of the outhouses at the house in Spain had been broken into. Nothing much stolen, bits and bobs like laundry baskets, but plenty of damage done to the corrugated steel doors. So I drove there. That was 2200km. I've been a few days doing repairs and tomorrow I'll drive via France, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia back to Bosnia. That adds on another 3000km. So today I had a bit of time off and ran out of food anyway, so had to go out. This is the menu. You get three courses, a drink and bread. Costs ten Euros. Unless you are familiar with the names of food it may not mean a lot especially as some are more regional preparations where I only know what the main ingredient may be - I started with the fourth one down, left side, lentils. It came with potatoes and a few slices of sausage inside - Main course was fourth one up from the bottom on the right side, Merluza (hake fish) - Dessert was a choice which the waitress told you as it depended on what they'd got that day. Usually a peice of fruit, or ice cream or a choice of cake/tart. I had tarte de manzana, which is a version of apple pie. Very nice it was too -
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Autumn
Nov 13, 2022 10:53:52 GMT
Post by onlyMark on Nov 13, 2022 10:53:52 GMT
That's lovely. And idyllic.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 11, 2022 7:35:17 GMT
Good luck. Did you work there long?
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 10, 2022 18:44:45 GMT
Abba.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 9, 2022 7:29:54 GMT
Can't you bring raw chicken on a plane?
By the way, the BBC report called it a fowl plan.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 8, 2022 18:11:40 GMT
Well done for all those things.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 7, 2022 16:21:39 GMT
1 Why do US citizens believe that their country is the best in the world when it patently is not. 2 Why do some UK citizens think they are still in the Empire and expect deferential attention. 3 Why do Aussies make a joke about everything, and shorten names and other words. Naivety and propaganda - tradition and arrogance - sunstroke. Though I've not come across number 2, maybe years ago in the 60's.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 6, 2022 20:47:34 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 6, 2022 20:34:28 GMT
I watched the Victorian, Edwardian and Wartime Farm parts.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 2, 2022 17:19:03 GMT
Valencia - 25 degrees and sunny.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 1, 2022 16:16:51 GMT
Wasn’t he Andy’s brother? Yes. Ran off to Gretna Green with Looby Loo.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 1, 2022 16:10:18 GMT
Thursday, Sarajevo, Bosnia, 24 degrees, sunny and warm. Friday, Porec, Croatia, 23 degrees, sunny and warm. Saturday, Konstanz, Germany, 24 degrees, sunny and warm. Sunday, Bonn, Germany, 23 degrees, sunny and warm. Tuesday - Just south of Valence (France) and going in the wrong direction. About 22 degrees and has been sunny all the way down from Bonn. The plan was to start the drive to Bosnia today but some shitbags have decided to break into two of the outhouses at the house in Spain. It looks currently as if little is missing (cross fingers), mainly because of they want to steal things like a mop and bucket, they're welcome. I'll be two more days getting there because Mrs M has banned me from driving straight through, the 2200km, and tells me I have to stick to truck driver's hours. Hence I now have to have a minimum of two nights in hotels. Don't know how long I'll be there for but then I'll need to drive about 3000km to get back to Bosnia.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 31, 2022 19:43:10 GMT
Tonypandy - Wales. Always loved that name.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 30, 2022 16:00:00 GMT
The skimmer you've got on the front wall, was that fitted to the old pool? I wondered what they were doing regarding emptying the pool in the first few photos until nearer the end when I realised you don't have a drain at the bottom. I see the drain is/was in the water catchment bit at the front. The next question is, I can see your pump and filter, but where now is the outlet from the pool to it and the inlet back into the pool - apart maybe from the skimmer as the only other hole I can see is for the light?
Looks really good now anyway.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 30, 2022 11:27:59 GMT
Thursday, Sarajevo, Bosnia, 24 degrees, sunny and warm. Friday, Porec, Croatia, 23 degrees, sunny and warm. Saturday, Konstanz, Germany, 24 degrees, sunny and warm. Sunday, Bonn, Germany, 23 degrees, sunny and warm.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 28, 2022 12:43:05 GMT
Quite common they are. It's a wild place.
On the other hand, he was born in Nairobi and lived there until he joined the RAF at twenty. When my parents married in 1947 they went back to live there for a few years.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 28, 2022 5:56:40 GMT
To the day he died my father would turn his shoes over and shake them before putting then on. Came from having two older brothers who took delight in putting tarantulas in them.
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Autumn
Oct 23, 2022 17:12:19 GMT
Post by onlyMark on Oct 23, 2022 17:12:19 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 22, 2022 20:13:41 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 22, 2022 19:12:22 GMT
By the way, my mistake with using en masse. It doesn't fit with the circumstances.
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