A gross exaggeration : there have been several moments when it's merely drizzled. The wind, however, has been howling like a deranged and ravening beast from the 7th depth of somewhere very deep indeed. And yet it's still been aggravatingly warm & humid.
Exaggeration!? Me? Well, I never… ;)Out here in the country with relatively flat landscape, we really get to feel the wind, and that very special horisontal rain. As a former postman you must have experienced that. When the line of rain is a complete flat line.Temperature is okay, though. Agreed.
Yeah π you soon get used to having a 'just do it' frame of mind in the post office. Actually getting cold & wet isn't *that* much of a hardship – the worst thing is when the newspapers & reklame turn to mush in the wet and you can't separate them into individual deliveries – that's a true pain in the arse.
Yeah, I know. That's what I keep telling my wife when she goes into Alien Killer Queen Mode because tilbudsavisen is wet. I partially understand her, because tilbudsavisen is just about all the post we get these days since everything has turned digital, even parking fines.
The Post Office are paid to deliver *whatever*, and vie for such work – they don't however think in terms of the practicalities of actual deliveries and how someone on a bike with one pair of hands is supposed to hold : a newspaper or two, a (often huge) bundle of reklame** and mail and parcels for each address (with anywhere between say, 700 and a thousand addresses to be serviced every day), on a bike, in what might be bloody atrocious weather – gale force winds, pissing with rain etc.** for non danskers, Reklame are the supermarket and other freebie advertising sheetsbooklets etc. which are issued on a twice-weekly basis. You can opt out of these deliveries, but in fact they, and the local newspapers, are more important than actual post in terms of what *must* be delivered 'today'. A postman can be sacked if he fails to deliver the advertising sheetsnewspapers….but if he runs out of time and a bundle of mail is taken back for the following day, he gets understanding and sympathy. Well – perhaps not sympathy…
for non danskers, Reklame are the supermarket and other freebie advertising sheetsbooklets etc.
Afrikaans uses the same word, although usually as a reference to television ads! :up:Originally posted by FlaRin:
A postman can be sacked if he fails to deliver the advertising sheetsnewspapers….but if he runs out of time and a bundle of mail is taken back for the following day, he gets understanding and sympathy. Well – perhaps not sympathy…
Typical, what we want gets neglected while the crap we would never miss is non-negotiable! :p
Keeping the wheels of commerce running, I suppose.About the free local newspapers: in the country you can get them everywhere. Almost every supermarket and grocery store has a stand at the exit where you can take one. And next to this stand, there's another stand where you can get their weekly advertice leaflet. I've worked in the publishing business, and know how expensive publishing is. Every time I see one of those adverticing leaflets I think: No wonder why the stuff they sell is so pricy.Television adverts in Denmark are also called 'reklamer'.
Yeah – the distributors of course pay to have it all delivered, and they (and the newspapers) run household surveys to check how regular the deliveries are (100% is the stated requirement by the distributors), and you'd be surprised at how many households will complain in strong terms if their reklamer andor free local newspapers are missed. It goes right up to the postmaster, and there are regular employee meetings stressing how important it is to deliver these at 100%, under threat of the post office losing the delivery contract. Graphs, spreadsheets, whiteboards, the supervisors going on and on… :)They rarely have meetings like that about actual post.
Every time I see one of those adverticing leaflets I think: No wonder why the stuff they sell is so pricy.
That's what I think when I see an infomercial on TV. :left:A 20 second radio ad at 2am costs a few thousand rand just to air. (let's not even get into production costs here) And TV advertising is upscaled about tenfold. Now consider that the average infomercial runs for 1 to 2 hours, and you're talking millions! :insane:Exactly how many kitchen widgets or insurance policies do you need to sell just to break even on those things?! :faint:
That's what I think when I see an infomercial on TV. :left:A 20 second radio ad at 2am costs a few thousand rand just to air. (let's not even get into production costs here) And TV advertising is upscaled about tenfold. Now consider that the average infomercial runs for 1 to 2 hours, and you're talking millions! :insane:Exactly how many kitchen widgets or insurance policies do you need to sell just to break even on those things?! :faint:
Have non-ads hit South Africa yet? They're the latest thing here.
A celebrity walks on camera in a large and empty warehouse and boasts about how they're not going to do a massive advert and instead will be passing the savings onto the consumer. They don't mention how much the celebrity or warehouse cost compared to some workers in the shop saying things are cheaper while shopping goes on around them.
I remember something similar from the CEO of a company once! Can't recall the product though. :pOf course, the only time I actually watch tv is when I visit my Brother.I don't even own a tv anymore, haven't owned one for years! π
may i interfer on your conversation , are you seriouse ΨΉΨ§Ψ―Ω don't you watch the news , the first thing I do every morning is watching the news, in Ramadan i watch TV series ,by the way Ramadan Mubarak .
I *never* watch TV, get all my news from on-line news sources, the online editions of newspapers (I read 3 every morning – 2 NZ and 1 Danish)) and of course the good ol' BBC π Plus of course on-line radio stations – NZ has some good radio channels, news, talkback and music – very good :up: And all better & probably less slanted, more informed than a lot of TV news channels π
I have to pay to watch broadcast television so the news is out for me too. I only watch catch up or on demand services.More up to date news can be found online, with less of the vitriolic opinions added in to drag viewers their way.
FlaRin and Mik have already said it all! :up:Let's face facts, knowing the news in the Eighties didn't help me to change the World in any way and I don't really see how that's going to be any different now! :left:Like one of my teachers at school once told us, "It's already History by the time it's on TV!" :p
Let's face facts, knowing the news in the Eighties didn't help me to change the World in any way and I don't really see how that's going to be any different now!
Reporting the news in the Nineties didn't help me to change the World in any way…;)
Let's face facts, knowing the news in the Eighties didn't help me to change the World in any way and I don't really see how that's going to be any different now!
Reporting the news in the Nineties didn't help me to change the World in any way…;)
Reading the news while on the bog in the "noughties" didn't help me change the bloody stupid name they gave that decade…
Meanwhile 'somewhere' in South Korea a clever engineer files his new blue prints for a smartphone with a genious feature that will quote force the people at Apple to just die unquote.
BBC is my favorite , i consider it a credible and less slanted channel , beside watching it helps me to improve my English language , any way let's agree about one point the degree of our interest in news Depends on the place where we live , i live An area where there are regional and sectarian conflicts , every morning i watch the news to know how many people died in my country π¦ , i can't ignore that and just say i can't change anything as ΨΉΨ§Ψ―Ω said .
i live An area where there are regional and sectarian conflicts , every morning i watch the news to know how many people died in my country , i can't ignore that and just say i can't change anything as ΨΉΨ§Ψ―Ω said
I understand that. Having grown up in a conflict country, one where such details were conveniently ommitted from our news, I know that this will stay with you for life. :awww:
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:yes: :hat: :cheers:
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And there is, of course, no way you could have achieved this without checking out and reading every last post on the list. Right?:whistle:
Originally posted by Aqualion:
Of course! :left:I looked at every one of them! :happy:
No wonder you've been so quiet. Stunned into submission, I bet! π
Originally posted by FlaRin:
:lol:I wonder if My Opera hasn't lost a few notifications along the way! :p
:hat: Congrats. π
all the member are on vacation, it is Summmer time π
It's winter here! :p
I'd love it to be winter here, to darn hot and muggy.Only the second day of summer here. π
Originally posted by Dacotah:
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:yikes: no new subs ? love to see it :happy: :p
Whoa, that's seriously impressive! :yes:
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Here's one subscription for you folks :p
Originally posted by serola:
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:up:
Originally posted by qlue:
,I almost die from the heat here :insane: .
Seven days of constant rain here. Typical Scandinavian midsummer.
Originally posted by Lion:
A gross exaggeration : there have been several moments when it's merely drizzled. The wind, however, has been howling like a deranged and ravening beast from the 7th depth of somewhere very deep indeed. And yet it's still been aggravatingly warm & humid.
Originally posted by FlaRin:
Exaggeration!? Me? Well, I never… ;)Out here in the country with relatively flat landscape, we really get to feel the wind, and that very special horisontal rain. As a former postman you must have experienced that. When the line of rain is a complete flat line.Temperature is okay, though. Agreed.
Yeah π you soon get used to having a 'just do it' frame of mind in the post office. Actually getting cold & wet isn't *that* much of a hardship – the worst thing is when the newspapers & reklame turn to mush in the wet and you can't separate them into individual deliveries – that's a true pain in the arse.
Yeah, I know. That's what I keep telling my wife when she goes into Alien Killer Queen Mode because tilbudsavisen is wet. I partially understand her, because tilbudsavisen is just about all the post we get these days since everything has turned digital, even parking fines.
The Post Office are paid to deliver *whatever*, and vie for such work – they don't however think in terms of the practicalities of actual deliveries and how someone on a bike with one pair of hands is supposed to hold : a newspaper or two, a (often huge) bundle of reklame** and mail and parcels for each address (with anywhere between say, 700 and a thousand addresses to be serviced every day), on a bike, in what might be bloody atrocious weather – gale force winds, pissing with rain etc.** for non danskers, Reklame are the supermarket and other freebie advertising sheetsbooklets etc. which are issued on a twice-weekly basis. You can opt out of these deliveries, but in fact they, and the local newspapers, are more important than actual post in terms of what *must* be delivered 'today'. A postman can be sacked if he fails to deliver the advertising sheetsnewspapers….but if he runs out of time and a bundle of mail is taken back for the following day, he gets understanding and sympathy. Well – perhaps not sympathy…
Originally posted by FlaRin:
Afrikaans uses the same word, although usually as a reference to television ads! :up:Originally posted by FlaRin:
Typical, what we want gets neglected while the crap we would never miss is non-negotiable! :p
Keeping the wheels of commerce running, I suppose.About the free local newspapers: in the country you can get them everywhere. Almost every supermarket and grocery store has a stand at the exit where you can take one. And next to this stand, there's another stand where you can get their weekly advertice leaflet. I've worked in the publishing business, and know how expensive publishing is. Every time I see one of those adverticing leaflets I think: No wonder why the stuff they sell is so pricy.Television adverts in Denmark are also called 'reklamer'.
Yeah – the distributors of course pay to have it all delivered, and they (and the newspapers) run household surveys to check how regular the deliveries are (100% is the stated requirement by the distributors), and you'd be surprised at how many households will complain in strong terms if their reklamer andor free local newspapers are missed. It goes right up to the postmaster, and there are regular employee meetings stressing how important it is to deliver these at 100%, under threat of the post office losing the delivery contract. Graphs, spreadsheets, whiteboards, the supervisors going on and on… :)They rarely have meetings like that about actual post.
Just going through mine. The changeover since Google Reader is shutting down has lead to me losing track of some new posts.
Originally posted by Aqualion:
That's what I think when I see an infomercial on TV. :left:A 20 second radio ad at 2am costs a few thousand rand just to air. (let's not even get into production costs here) And TV advertising is upscaled about tenfold. Now consider that the average infomercial runs for 1 to 2 hours, and you're talking millions! :insane:Exactly how many kitchen widgets or insurance policies do you need to sell just to break even on those things?! :faint:
Just doing mine too. I only had a couple of dozen though.
Originally posted by Spaggyj:
There are a few blogs I'm subscribed to that I really should unsubscribe from! :pOf course, I can often just mark that stuff as read! π
Have non-ads hit South Africa yet? They're the latest thing here.
A celebrity walks on camera in a large and empty warehouse and boasts about how they're not going to do a massive advert and instead will be passing the savings onto the consumer. They don't mention how much the celebrity or warehouse cost compared to some workers in the shop saying things are cheaper while shopping goes on around them.
Originally posted by Furie:
I remember something similar from the CEO of a company once! Can't recall the product though. :pOf course, the only time I actually watch tv is when I visit my Brother.I don't even own a tv anymore, haven't owned one for years! π
may i interfer on your conversation , are you seriouse ΨΉΨ§Ψ―Ω don't you watch the news , the first thing I do every morning is watching the news, in Ramadan i watch TV series ,by the way Ramadan Mubarak .
I *never* watch TV, get all my news from on-line news sources, the online editions of newspapers (I read 3 every morning – 2 NZ and 1 Danish)) and of course the good ol' BBC π Plus of course on-line radio stations – NZ has some good radio channels, news, talkback and music – very good :up: And all better & probably less slanted, more informed than a lot of TV news channels π
Well, a little less anyway…
I have to pay to watch broadcast television so the news is out for me too. I only watch catch up or on demand services.More up to date news can be found online, with less of the vitriolic opinions added in to drag viewers their way.
FlaRin and Mik have already said it all! :up:Let's face facts, knowing the news in the Eighties didn't help me to change the World in any way and I don't really see how that's going to be any different now! :left:Like one of my teachers at school once told us, "It's already History by the time it's on TV!" :p
Originally posted by qlue:
Reporting the news in the Nineties didn't help me to change the World in any way…;)
Originally posted by Aqualion:
Reading the news while on the bog in the "noughties" didn't help me change the bloody stupid name they gave that decade…
Must be a joke about having a crap phone in there somewhere… π
I should say something about "what a waste of time reading BBC News on my Android 'phone while sitting on the toilet" is… :whistle:
Originally posted by FlaRin:
At least you can wipe your arse with newspaper… :whistle::p
Originally posted by qlue:
Meanwhile 'somewhere' in South Korea a clever engineer files his new blue prints for a smartphone with a genious feature that will quote force the people at Apple to just die unquote.
Originally posted by FlaRin:
BBC is my favorite , i consider it a credible and less slanted channel , beside watching it helps me to improve my English language , any way let's agree about one point the degree of our interest in news Depends on the place where we live , i live An area where there are regional and sectarian conflicts , every morning i watch the news to know how many people died in my country π¦ , i can't ignore that and just say i can't change anything as ΨΉΨ§Ψ―Ω said .
Originally posted by raniakasim:
I understand that. Having grown up in a conflict country, one where such details were conveniently ommitted from our news, I know that this will stay with you for life. :awww:
Originally posted by qlue:
you are right π¦