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Scouser said to his mate, "Look at the great stuff I got, new gas grill, bikes for the kids, all off the internet!"
"Which website?", asked his friend.
"Google Earth."

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😱🤣

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You may have an entry for post of the year there, my friend. :thumbup:

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Smart those folks are not.

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Anyone know what the cheapest way to send a parcel from Vancouver to the UK is? My parcel weighs 6lbs and I want to ship it privately without having to go through work.

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Next time we have relatives coming remind me not to book anything without seeing some up front casheroonies - it's bloody expensive when it's only your own wallet opening!

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Is it a salmon that is going to get a bit pongey? Better not do CanadaPost then- Is it a fisherman's tale- six pounds , actually a pound and a half? :cool:

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No, it's paper. So it could go Canada Post.

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Sounds like 150 sheets. Your life story? ;)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...r_Airplane.png x 150

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As you don't want to do much work, Fedex, UPS or Purolator all come to you to pick up, they are not generally cheap though.

Canada Post is likely your cheapest option from Canada, there is also the going to the US to send it, but that will require work.

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It was the UK doing the Vancouver fireworks display tonight. I'd like to say it was just a couple of blokes waving some sparklers about and a fat tart with a Catherine Wheel pinned to her arse, but the UK lit it up, they done a really good job.

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Gas (petrol) price rise!

Yesterday. 84.9c per litre. Today 104.9........wtf! Why such a big jump?

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Here it's because there's a long weekend, maybe that's true in AB too.

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I've just read that it could be because of a certain South American country beginning with V.

If it is because of the bank holiday, that is simply greed. You should boycott these stations.

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Good luck with that. I think you will find they all do it

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Still steady at 1.23 or so in Vancouver. Hopefully we dont get a 20 cent increase.

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I checked gasbuddy and it went up .07 at Regina Cabs from 83.9 to 90.9 (cheapest in town). I filled up in Oliver yesterday at 1.06 and that's unchanged. Dirt cheap.

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And they weren't even drinking.

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That's an old pic, pub umbrellas I believe

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Hope the smoke goes away soon.

I think a person needs about 3 jobs to survive in Vancouver. :rofl:

Upside is when someone is in need of mental health, it's more accessible vs Fraser Valley where it's pretty substandard and not available 24/7.

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A butcher, a baker and a candlestick maker all rolled into one.

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At work some guys and gals are ramp agents, wheelchair runners, and fueler depending on time of day.

The younger ones I work with tend to work 4am to midnight.

Why Microsurfacing?
 

We have loads of 'microsurfacing' going on around the city right now. They've been at it for weeks with repeated advisories about delays and all the rest of it.

But why not just 'resurfacing' or repairing whenever it's announced.

I looked it up and saw something about two types both of which involved slurry and were really not that different sounding.

But we don't need to know the technicalities of production methods, just that there will be delays due to new surface being laid. Resurfacing.

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The airlines we handle don't use ULD's for loading bags as the aircraft are narrow body, so we load them free style which is harder and more labor intensive.

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Nice work if you can get it - part37

David Davis linked to City trader fined for insider dealing
David Davis, MP and Brexit Secretary of State receives £34,000 for 6 days work per year from a company soon after it was bought by 'a friend' who was found guilty of "market abuse" and received one of the biggest fines ever such was the scale of his offending.
The friend was also a financial backer of Davis' Tory leadership election campaign so, of course, Davis is backing him in his appeal.

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I did a 23.5 hour day yesterday, thankfully it wasn't all at work, only 17 hours of it was at work, the rest was commuting time, and some time off between the 2 shifts.

Not sure I'll do that again anytime soon...:lol:

Some of the 20 year olds worked straight through from 4am Saturday to 1am Sunday.

It was not forced, we are just short staffed due to some people quitting without much notice, even if they give 2 weeks notice, it takes 3 1/2 weeks to train someone before they can work out with us on the ramp.



Not overtime though, we are covered by an averaging agreement and scheduled in a way where the company makes sure we don't end up having to be paid at over-time rates.

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I couldn't handle that.

8 until 8, with an hour for lunch and 30 minutes before the final 3 hours was my longest.

I did do it for 6 weeks running including 8hr days Sat/Sun (but not Friday nights) raising money to pay off the bank loan that funded my Canada visit in 1975. :lol:

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My longest working period was from noon on Saturday until 7am Monday. At 9am I sorted an 8 hour shift at a different hospital. I was young then so it wasn't a problem.

Up until I retired I was working 8 hours shifts then on call for the next 8. It's not unusual.

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Luckily this isn't a regular occurrence for me.

My 10.5 hour days are long enough (only 9.5 paid.)

Now the fact we take our "lunch" break at 6am or 7am is not the most fun though, its too early in the shift, but flight schedules dictate our schedules.

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:ohmy: I've done back to back shifts in my time . Killer.

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I've done back to back days off...does that count? :lol:

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It's certainly not the most fun. Any other day would have been easier, but on Saturday's due to cruise ships, we have massive influx of passengers, bags and flights.

And cruise ship passengers pack extremely heavy bags.

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Once there was a computing "disaster" and we had to recover from it. I was awake at my desk for 12 hours short of a week. Filling in the timesheet was wonderful, 24, 24, 24, etc. Alas, I was an employee so I couldn't bill for 24 hours in each day.

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That sounds dreadful - the most I did was about 40 hours, then I went straight from work to a Hawkwind concert. Even the loudness of that concert couldn't keep me awake, I fell asleep near one of the speakers - I am so sure that is why my ears don't work properly!!

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I had a phase of working the regular week and then system testing from the early hours of Sunday morning until late in the afternoon. We'd then go to pub for a cheap drunk and then drive home. Inevitably, one of the team put his silver machine into the ditch.

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Lucky to have recovered from this. I remember reading that a fair proportion of small businesses fail after a significant computer failure. The issue is that money that the business owes never gets forgotten but the business loses track of money owed to it and it simply runs out of money.

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If 18 hour days were sustainable long term, I would do more of them just for the money. $240 to be made in an 18 hour day. But it's not sustainable, damn need for sleep.

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It wasn't a small business and there was a contingency plan, even a hot recovery site in another city, but the problem, malicious damage to data, was one that hadn't been foreseen. It's something that one thinks of in the context of some foreign based "hacker" but I've dealt with several cases of disgruntled employees messing with databases. I don't have a lot of faith in numbers found in computers.

<Looks right to an advert for SAP Crystal Reports and chuckles>

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Hummingbird wars. I am being dive-bombed. Why can't they take turns, or share?