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From: DervMan on 11 Apr 2010 07:07 "Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message news:1jgqvhm.7f8ua51o2p6m0N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk... > There's a location not far from where I work where every single car in a > very large company car park is some variant of BMW. That's reasonably common. An office I've recently visited had two clear parts of the car park. Two thirds consisted of black, white or silver, four cylinder BMWs of the 1, 3 or 5 series. The other part had all the "riff raff" cars. > Surely that has to be the company with the biggest proportion of tossers > working for it in the whole of the UK? No, I think I know where that is... -- The DervMan www.dervman.com
From: Elder on 13 Apr 2010 17:46 In article <1jgqvhm.7f8ua51o2p6m0N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>, %steve% @malloc.co.uk says... > There's a location not far from where I work where every single car in a > very large company car park is some variant of BMW. > > Surely that has to be the company with the biggest proportion of tossers > working for it in the whole of the UK? > Not all BMWs, but apart from I think 2, our company car park is almost exclusively shades of silver. One of the non silver ones if a dark pearlescent grey. Wonder what that says. -- Carl Robson Get cashback on your purchases Topcashback http://www.TopCashBack.co.uk/skraggy_uk/ref/index.htm Greasypalm http://www.greasypalm.co.uk/r/?l=1006553
From: Tim S Kemp on 21 Apr 2010 15:52
"DervMan" <thedervman(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:PJWdnUdeE5_uMFzWnZ2dnUVZ8hSdnZ2d(a)bt.com... > "Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message > news:1jgqvhm.7f8ua51o2p6m0N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk... >> There's a location not far from where I work where every single car in a >> very large company car park is some variant of BMW. > > That's reasonably common. An office I've recently visited had two clear > parts of the car park. Two thirds consisted of black, white or silver, > four cylinder BMWs of the 1, 3 or 5 series. The other part had all the > "riff raff" cars. > >> Surely that has to be the company with the biggest proportion of tossers >> working for it in the whole of the UK? > > No, I think I know where that is... I do so love sticking my filthy old merc in between the BMW, the other BMW, behind the BMW and opposite the BMW in your works car park. To be honest though, I quite like BMWs, but the best ones have Alpina on the badge... -- And remember kids, RAID is safe and the UPS never fails, and Cisco routers never develop intermittent faults, and external hard drives never fail with only a month's use, and the DNS is reliable and resilient, and the mailserver is protected from all forms of attack, and the replacement UPS will be reliable as the first one was an unusual failure. No one will ever guess /that/ password, the aircon can't fail 285V is close enough to 230, and the QoS on the PWan won't obstruct the tagged traffic. |