The Off Topic Topic

[The Brain]

a mouse ball?

Is that you CdM?

[Eddie Teach]

Poor mouse.

[The Larch]

has anyone ever shipped large items across the world?
I'm very tempted by putting lots in a small box to save money but it does increase the chances of something going wrong and my stuff being lost....

Regular international airmail* is astonishingly reliable amongst First world and most other counties. You gain nothing from the private couriers with the fancy logos and branding.

Can't comment on shipping for large items.

*and for that matter surface, though these services between national 'carriers' are I think limited by treaty regarding the weight of items carried?


edit:
damn this place is comatose, this is the first post in nearly 3 hours on the forum.

Surface is what I'll be using. What worries me is
1: Surface travel from Japan to the UK involves Russia/Central Asia/Other such crappy places.
2: Illegal immigrants dancing and pissing on top of my box.


I don't think I will use the big box. It seems too unstable. I'm getting a fair bit in a smaller one though.

What are you shipping? Unless it's something unique or extremely expensive I doubt it's worth it.

[mongers]

has anyone ever shipped large items across the world?
I'm very tempted by putting lots in a small box to save money but it does increase the chances of something going wrong and my stuff being lost....

Regular international airmail* is astonishingly reliable amongst First world and most other counties. You gain nothing from the private couriers with the fancy logos and branding.

Can't comment on shipping for large items.

*and for that matter surface, though these services between national 'carriers' are I think limited by treaty regarding the weight of items carried?


edit:
damn this place is comatose, this is the first post in nearly 3 hours on the forum.

Surface is what I'll be using. What worries me is
1: Surface travel from Japan to the UK involves Russia/Central Asia/Other such crappy places.
2: Illegal immigrants dancing and pissing on top of my box.


I don't think I will use the big box. It seems too unstable. I'm getting a fair bit in a smaller one though.

Much surface international mail goes by aircraft anyway, it's probably rather complicated to load up a shipping container with lots/hundreds of little parcels and send in to and from dock etc.

[Maximus]

Is there a special word for the smoodge that builds up on your mouse coasters?  Or for the smoodge that builds up on a mouse ball?

Mouse cheese

[Capetan Mihali]

I just remembered this for no apparent reason:

At Auschwitz, they had a big cache of confiscated stuff that the kapos and some of the favored prisoners could access at times.  The inmates called it "Kanada," since that was what they associated with unlimited resources for the taking. 

Kind of the inverse of "Musselmen," for prisoners who had given up on life and assumed the attitude/posture of prostration associated with Muslim prayer.

And there's your downer Holocaust factoid for the day.

[alfred russel]

I just remembered this for no apparent reason:

At Auschwitz, they had a big cache of confiscated stuff that the kapos and some of the favored prisoners could access at times.  The inmates called it "Kanada," since that was what they associated with unlimited resources for the taking. 

Kind of the inverse of "Musselmen," for prisoners who had given up on life and assumed the attitude/posture of prostration associated with Muslim prayer.

And there's your downer Holocaust factoid for the day.

A guide I had there said the Germans called it Canada, for that reason.

Silly story of the day: I visited Auschwitz with a chinese co-worker. The guide was taking us through all the confiscated stuff there, and when coming to the section with all the stuff to shine shoes, he opined:

"These people; very very stupid."

Everyone was like, "Huh?"

He continued, "These people, very very stupid. No need to shine shoes in Auschwitz. If I sent to Auschwitz, I not bring shoe shine. I pack very light."

[Josquius]

What are you shipping? Unless it's something unique or extremely expensive I doubt it's worth it.

My winter clothes, books and SNES games.

[Ideologue]

What are you shipping? Unless it's something unique or extremely expensive I doubt it's worth it.

My winter clothes, books and SNES games.

God, for a second I thought you were listing what you would bring to Auschwitz.

[Ed Anger]

listing what you would bring to Auschwitz.

Fleshlight, Viagra and horse tranquillizers.

[The Larch]

What are you shipping? Unless it's something unique or extremely expensive I doubt it's worth it.

My winter clothes, books and SNES games.

Personally I'd sell most of that to a 2nd hand store and only keep what has any personal meaning. That shipping must be awfully expensive.

[Josquius]

I just had a job interview over the phone in Japanese. :fail:

Personally I'd sell most of that to a 2nd hand store and only keep what has any personal meaning. That shipping must be awfully expensive.

Not too much actually. £50 or so for a 20kg box. Considering 50 games even at £1 each its fine.

[Savonarola]

Yesterday we passed the city auditorium.  The sign out front read "Brevard County Republican Picnic."

CB:  The Republican Picnic is today.

Savonarola:  If you go out in the woods today you're in for a big surprise
If you go out in the woods today be sure to wear a disguise
For today's the day they're going to say
That tax and spend is going to end, my friend
As the Republicans have their pi-i-ic-nic!

CB: 

[Valmy]

Our poet laureate strikes again!

[CountDeMoney]

Hey hey hey Boo Boo: no pick-a-nick baskets for black people!
OK, Yogi!