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aboxofchocolates
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Location: on your mind
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| I can recite jaberwocky. |
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DaeguKid
Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Location: Daegu
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I learned that the KKK originated from the Scots. Started out relatively innocent, but we all know the rest of the story.
I know who the song "She's Got Spies" by the Super Furry Animals is written about. She is not happy about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7fcLG1PSOU
Besides that, I am clueless...please educate me!  |
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chumpchange
Joined: 24 Mar 2009
Location: Bucheon
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| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| air canada provides free booze for overseas flights |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| The guy who invented Graham crackers encouraged people to eat them, believing they would discourage impure thoughts and masturbation (and the blindness that these things lead to). Think about that the next time you're having a s'more. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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If you know where we can buy Graham crackers and marshmallows,
then you know something ELSE that I don't know. |
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Sleepy in Seoul
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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I know what it's like to smell my own decomposing flesh.
It's not very nice. |
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Kikomom
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: them thar hills--Penna, USA--Zippy is my kid, the teacher in ROK. You can call me Kiko
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| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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In Italy, if a car is passing another car, it has the right of way. The driver in the opposite lane heading towards them has to move over and make a lane--even if it's on the shoulder. Drivers don't stop for red lights if the car ahead of them is still moving, they just follow right along. So drive DEFENSIVELY!
If you're going out to a bar for a few, always tip your bartender the cost of your drink on your first round, "buy yourself one", and they'll look after you for the rest of the night.
Likewise, when you're staying a few days or a week at a hotel or resort, tip the housekeeping staff the first time you see them and they'll get your room done right during your stay. (Tip them again when you leave.) |
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rusty1983
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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| the ireland wrote: |
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| Sergio Stefanuto wrote: |
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- bookmakers (which a legal in u.k and Ireland) keep a detailed file on the regular high spending customers |
They do?
Never noticed. |
and also with some irregular customers too |
I used to work in a bookies when I was at uni. This is correct, anytime someone with a bit of wellly comes in you have to type their name into the computer and the bet is recorded. Likewise anytime someone bets over �200, you have enter a name and phone head office to authorise it. Often you dont know their name though so you type in something like 'the tall drunk' and 'big black guy'. Also, behind every counter are pictures of suspicious betters from around the area, people who try to rip you off and such.
Once I was working in what is basically Moss Side, next to a tower block grim as. A black guy came in in trackies and started putting on bets of like �300 a time and he stayed for a few hours. He was so obviously trying to wash money that if we had called the police he probably wouldve got sent down there and then.
The worst thing about it though, and I actually feel wrong about saying this is - quite a few of the managers I worked with used to keep hold of discarded tickets and when there was a quiet moment theyd check them. Occasionally you had a mistakenly discarded winner and theyd pocket it. Especially in a shop where there were a lot of drunks this was quite common. Sometimes as well, there'd be a bet put on late which was lost and thus discarded by the punter. If the bet goes on late then they get a refund, that is, if they realise it is late. |
Most of the above was true for our shop too.
We had one guy who used to come into our bookies who gambled �97,000 in one day, he ended up being up about �500 but there was one time in the day he was down about �10k. If we ever told him we didn't have the cash to pay him but we could pay him in cheque he used to say he would wait till later in the day to collect it in cash. He didn't seem to understand that gambling winnings are tax free for him and he could have laundered all his money by getting paid by cheque but because he only used cash he was no evidence the money was 'clean'.
We gave our customers 30 seconds grace to put their bets on for a race, (not if it was a short 2furlong race though) our system would tell us if it was too far over the time and if it was we would void it before the race finished and inform the customer in case their horse won and they got angry. We also gave them refunds on losers if they left before we could inform them it was too late. we never (to my knowledge) cashed late bets for ourselves.
We also used alphameric as our computer system, their paper (for the till)is a crazy amount more expensive than other paper but if you use other paper your warranty and maintenance is void so our shop (and the rest of the chain) would keep some alphameric paper in stock and should a problem occur with the computer they would swap over the cheap paper with the proper paper and then call for help.
Some points customers need to know:
when there are only regulars or the shop is empty the staff don't watch horse racing on the tvs facing them, instead we watch normal tv programmes 
we have heard all the stories about what horse you were gonna back but changed your mind at the last second.....we don't care
You have a great tip for the 3:40 at kempton??? we don't care cos we know how much you lose
You tell your mates you won �200 today, but you don't tell them about the �2000 you've lost in the past month
When your wife calls you walk out of the shop so she can't hear the tv
yes, you do need a shower
No, you can not use the staff toilets
the girls behind the counter find you repulsive
your hand writing is shit
don't write your bets at home with red pen, the computer system can't read it
we enter the bets manually, that picture you get back does not mean it's entered so stop writing like a 3 year old
lucky 15's and 21's are a pin in the arse to enter
as is the lotto
there are about 20 bins in the shop, stop throwing your dockets on the floor
adding up your bett on the ott before all the races does not bring bad luck.......horse racing is corrupt, that's most likely the reason your 1/12 on horse fell at the last fence, not because you calculated your possible winnings
we take great enjoyment of idiots putting their entire dole money on one horse only to see it lose
One of the staff members behind th counter always has to go to the toilet, sink, back till etc when you put on your bet?? you either smell, are annoying, they generally hate you or they don't like the fact that you make sexual comments about them
I'm sure there are more things I could talk about but that's enough for now |
Absolutely. You do get some of the world's worst scum in bookies. For me in Manchester, the majority were Asian taxi drivers with nothing to do in the day, spoending their wife's housekeeping money without her knowledge. They thought they were great too. |
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Miles Long
Joined: 27 Oct 2009
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I used to work in a porn store and I was a carnie for a summer as well.
I know the evil that lurks in the hearts of men (and women). |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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I was an expert Vic-20 Basic programmer. Highly useful skill now.
When I lived in Mexico, Mexican churches must pay property tax, but only when they are completed. As a result, no Mexican church is finished.
I can make Fish 'n' Brewis.
If you dip Super 8 movie film in bleach, the black color is removed, leaving you with a grainy green and white image that can look cool and can rescue film shot way too dark.
Springsteen doesn't like the name "The Boss." Jackson's own PR people started calling him the "King of Pop."
You can take pictures at the British Museum, but not at the British Library. |
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Jeju Rocks
Joined: 23 Aug 2004
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| I know how to beat anybody at air-hockey. |
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earthbound14
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
Location: seoul
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I know that Coke is extremely good at cleaning corrosion off of car battery leads.
I know that pow is a stupid word for soft fluffy snow.
I know how to dis-assemble and re-assemble an M-16 in the dark in 30 seconds...yes, I'm Gomer Pyle.
I know this site makes 100,000 a year on adds alone. |
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Kikomom
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: them thar hills--Penna, USA--Zippy is my kid, the teacher in ROK. You can call me Kiko
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| I know that pow is a stupid word for soft fluffy snow. |
Short for powder. It does sound stupid though.
| Moldy Rutabaga wrote: |
When I lived in Mexico, Mexican churches must pay property tax, but only when they are completed. As a result, no Mexican church is finished.
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In Greece, ANY building is tax exempt until completed. This is why the Greeks are famous for scaffolding... every home has something still underway (not finished). With a piece of scaffolding set up to prove it.
In the US, a city or town official sees scaffolding, and they're coming around to sell you a permit. |
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asams
Joined: 17 Nov 2008
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| I know how to dis-assemble and re-assemble an M-16 in the dark in 30 seconds...yes, I'm Gomer Pyle. |
Used to be able to do this, well, not in 30 seconds but pretty fast. Haven't touched a rifle in 5 years though so probably can't now. |
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jhuntingtonus
Joined: 09 Dec 2008
Location: Jeonju
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I could tell with 75-80% accuracy whether American middle-aged women were married or not, after 15 seconds of distant observation and not seeing their left hands.
I can tell with over 95% accuracy whether an American man is gay after he says a few words.
I know the ZIP code ranges for all 50 states
I know that in bridge, player-dealt hands have significantly flatter distribution than computer-dealt ones, which are truly random.
I know that neither conservatives nor liberals in America have much more than half the answers right now.
I know the meaning of life - per Tom Lehrer, it's like a sewer; what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. |
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