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  1. 16th April 2020, 08:52 AM #621
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    Quote Originally Posted by NavyDiver View Post
    Paper pushers and myself have had a bad relationship. My garage was full of paper required to be stored for 10 years by our Medicare bureaucracy untill a few years ago. it was box after box of a sheet of paper signed by people seeing there doctor when it was Bulk Billed. Happily I and thousand of other practice managers and Doctors have our garages back. Your still legally required to sign yet we can shred it immediately. A oxymoron still yet I am almost happy


    Japan trip a few years back was amazing. I loved it. I did find the almost backward tech in some areas amazing. High tech and low tech even on the same line. High speed trains rocketed along yet a paper ticket and paper punch by conductor was a example I loved and was amazed by

    Cut and past this similar trivial yet astounding issue "TOKYO — Officially, Shuhei Aoyama has been teleworking for a month. But that doesn’t mean he can avoid going to the office.
    Several times a week, Mr. Aoyama makes a half-hour commute across Tokyo for a task seemingly more suited to the age of the samurai than of the supercomputer: stamping his official corporate seal on business contracts and government paperwork." Link may be pay-walled- Other trivia tight assed me just subscribed


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    Quote Originally Posted by 4bee View Post
    Seems I often make people aware of these disasters.



    On another forum (UK) in another life, l posted about a Detachment of Royal Navy Cadets/Marines marching down a foggy road in Kent, post WW2 when out of the fog came a bus & ran over them, many died & the bus driver was reported as saying "I wondered what all that bumpety bump was" or words to that effect. It was the bus rolling over the bodies.

    They did have a red lamp at the rear of the column & from memory it was on a curve in the road. {Incorrect. No lamp] 4bee.


    A plaque was placed on the wall adjacent to the accident & I was told by one of the Forum Members that he drove that road each day & wondered what the plaque was for.

    The young blokes were all buried in the same cemetery in one large plot except one who was a Jewish lad.


    Gillingham bus disaster - Wikipedia
    No one killed only hospitalised however similar occurred at Amberley in the late seventies. Land cruiser drove into a squad of about 20 cadets marching up the road in the base
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    Oh-POO Crowd Control

    This is a ripper I think. The Swedish city of Lund is to spread chicken manure in its central park in an effort to deter crowds gathering for a festival.

    I was paid to clean out some a BIG chook shed as a kid. The memory brings tears to my eyes just remembering. Driving the Ferguson beside the road was fun. I wonder if the police/worksafe and more would crucify a 12 year old for this now? Assume so. Gosh I was lucky.

    Swedish city to use chicken manure to deter crowds - BBC News
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    Sounds like you have the experience & will to do it overseas, so go for it Divs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NavyDiver View Post
    This is a ripper I think. The Swedish city of Lund is to spread chicken manure in its central park in an effort to deter crowds gathering for a festival.

    I was paid to clean out some a BIG chook shed as a kid. The memory brings tears to my eyes just remembering. Driving the Ferguson beside the road was fun. I wonder if the police/worksafe and more would crucify a 12 year old for this now? Assume so. Gosh I was lucky.

    Swedish city to use chicken manure to deter crowds - BBC News

    The tears in your eyes was probably the Ammonia still on your shoes & not happy reminiscing
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    Quote Originally Posted by 4bee View Post
    The tears in your eyes was probably the Ammonia still on your shoes & not happy reminiscing
    Enjoyed the Drive to and from a lot more than the Ammonia
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    It's not everyone who has had the chance to enjoy the drive on a Grey Fergie.
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    Unicorns- they are real and I have seen one

    Trivia is I would have added a dive with a Unicorn to my bucket list Except I have seen one before just did know I what it was. . I know I was lucky just found out I was even luckier than I knew.

    Posting to my 'wet work' mates to find out how many of us have. I know several other divers were roped to me underwater when I saw one in 1986.

    "Two endangered ornate eagle rays have been sighted off Lady Elliot Island in the southern Great Barrier Reef, a breakthrough for researchers studying the species dubbed "the unicorn of the sea".

    Recorded less than 60 times worldwide, much remains a mystery about the ray which boasts leopard-like signature spots and thick black vein-like lines."



    Endangered ornate eagle rays make a splash off Queensland'''s Lady Elliot Island - ABC News
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    Fake works. I wonder if fake crutches???

    Placebo effect is very cool and works. I did not expect this one and will try it next time i get to run stupid distance again
    I love scientist for the insane but cool things they do

    "As you might expect, giving someone an oxygen tank to breathe from will reverse these changes. They’ll quickly feel less tired and their head will stop pounding as their heart rate and breathing return to normal. What you wouldn’t expect is that you can achieve exactly the same thing if the oxygen tank is a fake – it’s empty."

    The performance-enhancing trick to being a better athlete
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    Quote Originally Posted by NavyDiver View Post
    Placebo effect is very cool and works. I did not expect this one and will try it next time i get to run stupid distance again
    I love scientist for the insane but cool things they do

    "As you might expect, giving someone an oxygen tank to breathe from will reverse these changes. They’ll quickly feel less tired and their head will stop pounding as their heart rate and breathing return to normal. What you wouldn’t expect is that you can achieve exactly the same thing if the oxygen tank is a fake – it’s empty."

    The performance-enhancing trick to being a better athlete

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