The Off Topic Topic

[grumbler]

I ran this through my gibberish-to-English translator and it still came out as gibberish.

Then either you do not posses a gibberish to English translator or what I posted was not gibberish.

I note that you snipped out the part of my post that showed yours to be gibberish. 

[Admiral Yi]

I note that you snipped out the part of my post that showed yours to be gibberish. 

I snipped out the part where you requested an explanation because I had no interest in providing you an explanation.  I left in the part where you asserted it was gibberish and claimed to prove that it was gibberish.

[Tonitrus]

Some folk horror happenings going on in Hampshire:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/20/deers-head-and-upside-down-cross-found-on-centenary-stone-in-new-forest

I, for one, welcome the return of Herne the Hunter.

[grumbler]

I snipped out the part where you requested an explanation because I had no interest in providing you an explanation.  I left in the part where you asserted it was gibberish and claimed to prove that it was gibberish.

Translation: your gibberish-to English translator worked no better than mine, so you decided to pretend that it was your choice to leave it gibberish. 

[Admiral Yi]

Translation: your gibberish-to English translator worked no better than mine, so you decided to pretend that it was your choice to leave it gibberish. 

Your theory, not being susceptible to proof or disproof, does not interest me.

[Habbaku]

I understood Yi's post and meaning just fine, unsurprisingly. Do I speak: authentic frontier gibberish?

[grumbler]

I understood Yi's post and meaning just fine, unsurprisingly. Do I speak: authentic frontier gibberish?

Excellent.  You can be my gibberish-to-English translator then.  What is the "waste of resources?"  What is the "very rich country?"  In what way were the Mercury astronauts "PR eye candy?"

The post immediately before his was talking about the Soviet Union and the Soviet space program, but Yi's post makes no sense in that context.

[DGuller]

Wasn't it 50-50?  The first sentence was neutral, the second sentence was about USSR, the third sentence was about USA.

[PDH]

I like the cut of that man's gibberish.

[Syt]

The Austrian Industrialists Association has lamented (again) that people in Austria are unwilling to work overtime/long hours.

Pierer, the CEO of KTM said that employees in China cost him 40k in adminstrativon and 28k in salaries. In Austria, he says the same guys cost him 90k and 58k respectively. Meanwhile the Chinese workers record 3146 working hours, their Austrian colleagues only 1580 hours.

3146 hours/year would be 8.6 hours per day. If you work 365 days without vacation, weekends, etc. Google fu says e.g. in 2022 China had 249 working days. If we use that as a basis, his Chinese guys work 12.6 hours per day.

I guess if the price/value proposition is so lopsided he should completely relocate to China instead of whining.

[Tamas]

I am debating with myself if I should go to the Bruce Springsteen concert in Wembley in July. At one hand it's likely my last chance to see him live (I haven't). On the other hand, on recent concert footage on Youtube, he and the band look so old.

[Sheilbh]

I have never heard of anyone who likes Springsteen regretting going to one of his concerts for what that's worth.

[Josquius]

Get the cheap tickets then it's not like you'll see him anyway?