Was I the only one...

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Beelzebub belched forth and ejected the
following:

I've had all of those symptoms and still have some from time to time.

The quote about:
"The doctors said it was the largest reported ecstasy lifetime
consumption by one person, the previous being around 2,000 tablets."
is cobblers because for about 5 years I was taking between 5 and 15 a
week.

I've also used all the others to some degree, the worst being
amphetamines; I got booked into a loony bin for six months after several
years on 3 or 4 grams a day.

Still, I don't regret it for a moment. Had I not jumped out of the track
of my life's record, I might've ended up like darsy.

 

..... that read this and thought of WC?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4874938.stm

Only kidding, hun.

;-)

 

Mr A? Memory's so bad he's forgotten the rest of his name and it's the
wrong letter anyway.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a
I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me.

Folding@Home Team UKRM
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47957

 

Yeah, but did you report it?

"Hello? Guinness Book of Pill Hounds...?"

 

****. Drugs turn your skin *orange*?

I'll settle for the dodgy hair.

 

Not sure why that would be such a bad thing TBH... ?

 

I'd have expected you of all people to be a bit more original.

what hair?

 

I've no idea what he's on about, myself.

 

he's in my killfile already, so I'm not exactly bothered.

 

on my part, boredom - after a frantic few months[1] I'm finally on top
of most stuff at work.

[1] including getting caught up in interdepartmental politics, which
as you may recall isn't something I normally do. It's actually very
easy when you realise that most people doing it are stupid.

 

<nods>

I had a *great* conference call this evening.

 

I had someone demoted.

 

I'm working towards that.

 

I've had a great series of calls this week, going 3 layers of management
above my boss. It's been fun, and things are actually happening for a
change.

I'm not quite sure the moment when I delegated work to my manager was
quite the right thing to do, but WTF.

 

serf. I don't have 3 layers of management above my boss.

upwards delegation is a perfectly valid management pattern - I do it
all the time.

 

it was necessary - I didn't derive much pleasure from it.

 

I do, but the third is the President.

 

of course I know this - I just felt like belittling Ginge.

 

yeah, sure sure - I know. I only have to go up 2 levels to hit someone
on the EXCOM, but I know your org is several magnitudes larger than
mine.

 

I didn't say I didn't derive /any/ pleasure from it.

Getting people demoted isn't actually entirely productive, as you
still have to work with them, and obviously there's a whole lot of
resentment going on.

I got much more satisfaction from having someone's contract terminated
in Paris and having the headcount transferred to a permanent FTE in my
team in London.