Uninteresting Trivial Facts

[Farmduck]

FIFA wannabe Prince Ali bin al-Hussein is fluent in Circassian.

 

 

Sorry Tim but Miles Davis on a mobile phone!!?!?!?! That's just wrong.

 

[Tiny Tim]

This week I will mostly be staying in a hotel in Farnborough. Bored already.

[C H Calthrop]

Placing three spacers along the length of the base of a fencing panel between wood n concrete is a good way to prevent water soaking into the bottom of the frame and adds years to its life.

[Farmduck]

Eating a baby's placenta after birth does not stop depression

[Farmduck]

Many elements are radioactive but none are televisionactive. Makes you think.......

[timtum]

Veterans of the forum may (or may not indeed) recall my entertainingly named cat here in France.

 

Sadly today he was squished on the road through the village.

 

For one last time on TRL, goodbye my lovely Tampon.

[Farmduck]

I have a 6th sense about the car chase from Bullitt. 3 times I've accidentally flicked onto a channel where Bullitt is playing and the car chase starts within 2-3 minutes. I've never watched the entire movie but, apart from the car chase, it seems pretty ordinary.

 

Side note: how many times do they pass the same green VW?

[Futtocks]

I have a 6th sense about the car chase from Bullitt. 3 times I've accidentally flicked onto a channel where Bullitt is playing and the car chase starts within 2-3 minutes. I've never watched the entire movie but, apart from the car chase, it seems pretty ordinary.

 

Side note: how many times do they pass the same green VW?

I've only watched it all the way through once and, apart from the famous chase, the pacing of the film is pretty slow.

[amm]

T'other half is on his push iron to @UnderbankRL v @LionsFev #tvremote #couch

[Old Frightful]

I have a fancy mouse with lots of buttons.  This morning, only the left and right click buttons work

Perhaps you've simply not got what it takes to push their buttons.

[Farmduck]

I've only watched it all the way through once and, apart from the famous chase, the pacing of the film is pretty slow.

It's one of those movies which is interesting rather than good. I can easily imagine Film School students writing theses on it. Hollywood attempting to make a more "Euro-cool" type movie. The completely gratuitous jazz club scene. The scene where McQueen meets his snitch in a cafe and they have to cross the street to have a 1-minute conversation is a pointless attempt to throw in more San Francisco streetscape. The inclusion of Jacqueline Bisset rather than a more established Hollywood star. The various editing blunders in the car chase.

 

There's a lot of stuff in there but 113 minutes watching time is a high price to pay for a 10-minute car chase.

[C H Calthrop]

If you are looking for a quality car chase film "Taxi", the original French version. Not the American version.

[ckn]

Perhaps you've simply not got what it takes to push their buttons.

I ditched the previous model that no longer responded to my advances and replaced it with a younger model that does everything I want with the added benefits of it being younger and more glamorous.

[Futtocks]

Just finished editing metadata and comparing duplicate files for quality, correct filenames etc. of the venerable proto-Goodies radio show I'm sorry, I'll read that again.

 

That's 99 episodes in all. My eyes and typing fingers are knackered.

[Tiny Tim]

I have another new phone. Work just sent me an iPhone 5s.....really not sure what all the hype is around Apple products, I prefer my LG G3 to this which cost about half as much.

[Futtocks]

Just the weather today for defrosting the freezer. I can now see the back of it for the first time in about 2 years.

 

There's something satisfying about removing a giant chunk of ice when it comes loose.

[Futtocks]

I just identified a TV series I remember watching as a nipper. The theme tune was what clinched it.

 

 

Watching an episode on YouTube, the acting is truly wooden and irritatingly stilted, but I had more than a bit of a crush on Georgia Slowe (centre of picture) at the time.

[Tiny Tim]

Very demotivating when your employer start playing silly b*ggers with expenses when you are working on a project for a client worth well over £10 million. Bit soon to be thinking about moving on but the seed is planted if they carry on like this.

[ckn]

Very demotivating when your employer start playing silly b*ggers with expenses when you are working on a project for a client worth well over £10 million. Bit soon to be thinking about moving on but the seed is planted if they carry on like this.

I worked at one company many years ago that gave us corporate AMEX cards for all of our travel expenses, including international business class flights.  We then had to reclaim expenses via the normal scheme, they'd pay us the money and we then had to pay AMEX.  All fine and dandy until they instituted a 3 week minimum processing time and changed the payment date until after the typical AMEX payment date, this often meant that we were paid our expenses after they became due for payment to AMEX resulting in unpaid bill fees and interest.  The company then made it clear that late payment was our problem, not theirs.  It was interesting watching them backtrack on that when we all refused to fly abroad after the processing date each month

[Tiny Tim]

I worked at one company many years ago that gave us corporate AMEX cards for all of our travel expenses, including international business class flights.  We then had to reclaim expenses via the normal scheme, they'd pay us the money and we then had to pay AMEX.  All fine and dandy until they instituted a 3 week minimum processing time and changed the payment date until after the typical AMEX payment date, this often meant that we were paid our expenses after they became due for payment to AMEX resulting in unpaid bill fees and interest.  The company then made it clear that late payment was our problem, not theirs.  It was interesting watching them backtrack on that when we all refused to fly abroad after the processing date each month

My employer is looking at bringing in a corporate AMEX card, but I'm really not interested, I get 1.25% cashback on my personal credit card so prefer to use that. 

[Griff9of13]

We are supposed to use the corporate Amex card, many don't but I do just so that it separates my company spending from my personal. We have a deal with them were we get 60 days to settle rather than the usual 30 if you pay by DD. Our expenses processing isn't too bad, usually clearing into your account in less than 10 days. We've finally got round to going paperless and is much quicker, my last claim being in my account in 5 days.

[ckn]

My employer is looking at bringing in a corporate AMEX card, but I'm really not interested, I get 1.25% cashback on my personal credit card so prefer to use that. 

They're very useful for last-minute high-value purchases.  I saw one example of that with AMEX paying for a £100,000 server because the company's finance system broke and it needed to be bought that day.  Quite scary if that expense claim didn't clear on time!

[Tiny Tim]

They're very useful for last-minute high-value purchases.  I saw one example of that with AMEX paying for a £100,000 server because the company's finance system broke and it needed to be bought that day.  Quite scary if that expense claim didn't clear on time!

Pretty sure they aren't going to give all 5000+ employees an AMEX with a credit limit in excess of £100k ....which to be honest I am not too upset about as that's not an expense claim I would want to be waiting on.

[ckn]

Pretty sure they aren't going to give all 5000+ employees an AMEX with a credit limit in excess of £100k ....which to be honest I am not too upset about as that's not an expense claim I would want to be waiting on.

AMEX are issued with variable credit limits based on a strange risk factor calculation.  If your AMEX is guaranteed by a top-end blue-chip company then you'd be surprised how unlimited their credit really is, that said, if you work for a start-up with no history then you might get enough credit to buy a month's train tickets before you start hitting their flags.

[Tiny Tim]

AMEX are issued with variable credit limits based on a strange risk factor calculation.  If your AMEX is guaranteed by a top-end blue-chip company then you'd be surprised how unlimited their credit really is, that said, if you work for a start-up with no history then you might get enough credit to buy a month's train tickets before you start hitting their flags.

 

With our wonderfully restrictive travel policy a £500 limit should cover us for most eventualities.....the IT folk can buy their own expensive toys and stick it on a card.