Night Owl Chatterboxes - Part XVI
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i personally find these controlled environment excercises a watse of time.Originally posted by Rhonda:Actually, since Nov last year, we were told to be on alert... but the lowest alert. There was also a memo stating that Bird Flu was 'expected' to reach our shores around Feb this year.
do they honestly think anyone irregardless of public or the emergency crew will b so calm n collected when a real crisis hits?
eg. bomb goes off in mrt train. survivors calmly move to the back of the train n walk out? i dont tink so....
n the idiot who gave the idea of throwing nicely butchered raw meat on the ground to simulate flesh of victims is really n idiot... -
Erm... is a ''Big Girl's Blouse'' literally a big girl's blouse?Originally posted by the Bear:from 10 meals to the normal 3 meals
in other news, it's been a long time since i've heard the term "Big Girl's Blouse".. thank you Brainiac
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I see...Originally posted by Rhonda:Huh?? Why would I miss CNY??
I said last day of work... not day that I depart!
K... Gotta go..
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Originally posted by skeujin:i personally find these controlled environment excercises a watse of time.
do they honestly think anyone irregardless of public or the emergency crew will b so calm n collected when a real crisis hits?
eg. bomb goes off in mrt train. survivors calmly move to the back of the train n walk out? i dont tink so....
n the idiot who gave the idea of throwing nicely butchered raw meat on the ground to simulate flesh of victims is really n idiot...
Yeah! I mean, a simulation is soooo different from a real life situation. Maybe, it's not entirely necessary to have all the fanciful props but it's useful to go through the procedures and processes per se.
It's kinda like saying that a simulated CPR session is nothing like the real thing BUT you HAVE to go through such simulations until you're proficient at it. It's just a process of familiarising yourself with the steps and protocol, and hopefully, practice makes perfect and helps one to recall the protocol with ease should the eventuality of an incident necessitate it. -
it's a very typically British slang...
Big Girl's Blouse = wuss, sissy, Walter in Beano's Dennis the MenaceOriginally posted by Rhonda:Erm... is a ''Big Girl's Blouse'' literally a big girl's blouse? -
John Tickle is a champion!
he's going through a lot of nonsense to see if he loses weight in a Spa...
doing silly things like shaving his head, waxing his body and sitting in a sauna...
he's lost 1.2kg!
he's celebrating it by going to the pub and putting it back on -
Originally posted by the Bear:it's a very typically British slang...
Big Girl's Blouse = wuss, sissy, Walter in Beano's Dennis the Menace
AAaaaaahhh... Walter! 
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seems more like propaganda to me.Originally posted by Rhonda:
Yeah! I mean, a simulation is soooo different from a real life situation. Maybe, it's not entirely necessary to have all the fanciful props but it's useful to go through the procedures and processes per se.
It's kinda like saying that a simulated CPR session is nothing like the real thing BUT you HAVE to go through such simulations until you're proficient at it. It's just a process of familiarising yourself with the steps and protocol, and hopefully, practice makes perfect and helps one to recall the protocol with ease should the eventuality of an incident necessitate it. -
Actually, no.Originally posted by skeujin:seems more like propaganda to me.
For stuff like CPR and Fire Drills, it is essential to kinda rehearse the whole process so that you'll know what to do when you need to do it. -
hey.. remember this from last night?
Maniac Japanese with PET Bottle jetpack?
the fellas on Brainiac did something like that, only with a water cooler giant bottle and wheels -
hehe
one of my fave historical figure is the Queen Mother
Adolf Hitler once called her the most dangerous woman in Europe for her ability to boost the British's morale
here are some of her best one liners
Though after being severely chastised by George V for giving an interview to the press early in her marriage she declined to do so again, the media regularly quoted some of her 'one-liners' revealing a dry and often sardonic wit. Coming across a group of teenagers throwing stones at cars, she wound down the window of her passing Daimler and asked them to stop, with the riposte: "Whatever would American tourists think?" On one occasion, when in her nineties, she asked a group of pensioners "is it just me or are pensioners getting younger these days?" On another occasion, she was rumoured to have urged her daughter the Queen not to have a second glass of wine at lunch, with the admonition, "Is that wise, darling? Remember you have to reign all afternoon."
On another occasion, accompanied by the writer and wit Sir Noel Coward, who was homosexual, to a gala function, the two mounted a staircase lined with guardsmen. Noticing Coward's eyes flicker momentarily across the soldiers, she murmured to him without missing a beat: "I wouldn't if I were you, Noel; they count them before they put them out."
She also employed a largely homosexual personal staff and once said, after her gin and tonic was continuously delayed by backstairs bickering, "When one of you young queens has finished, can you bring this old Queen a drink?" According to an article in The Observer (November 10, 2002), after being advised by a Tory Minister in the 1970s not to employ homosexuals, the Queen Mother observed that without them, "we'd have to go self-service.' -
Think there is a story about her and the Queen too when the queen was a young girl, the coachmen helped her up and said "here you go young lady" and she replied "i am not a young lady! I am a princess!"
and the Queen mother said something about... its more important to be a lady first, and a princess second. -
next up on Brainiac.. they're going to blow up a safe, using a Challenger Tank's 120mm cannon
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those r essential but they can do it w/o incurring inconvenience to the public wat.Originally posted by Rhonda:Actually, no.
For stuff like CPR and Fire Drills, it is essential to kinda rehearse the whole process so that you'll know what to do when you need to do it. -
actually, the public must be part of this..
keep at it.. until it becomes expected of people to do what is correct even when they have not done it.. conditioning.. or "propaganda"
instead of panicking, they will just follow the people in charge.. and sometimes, being "lemmings" will save your life..Originally posted by skeujin:those r essential but they can do it w/o incurring inconvenience to the public wat. -
heheh you really want them to have sooo many "care lair fare" until it simulates real peak hour conditions ah??
As a member of the public (who wasn't inconvenienced incidentally).. i find it reassuring they are keeping themselves busy with stuff like this...
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in n emergency. whr will the 'tour guides' magically appear from n bring the people to safety?
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the staff of the place..Originally posted by skeujin:in n emergency. whr will the 'tour guides' magically appear from n bring the people to safety?
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i hope so...Originally posted by the Bear:the staff of the place.. -
well, we are at where we work
i'm the Assistant Fire Warden.. and i have a pile of responsibilities to do.. -
Time for bed..
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HoHo.. fire wardens...
anything like those hunky firemen I see in Australia?
-cackles-
U know.. i never knew firemen were like THAT until I went.. I mean in Singapore, you hardly hear about them. -
no lah!
for me, you'll see this 6' dude in a faux police uniform with a red armband yelling at people to walk orderly out of the buildingOriginally posted by ShrodingersCat:HoHo.. fire wardens...
anything like those hunky firemen I see in Australia?
-cackles-
U know.. i never knew firemen were like THAT until I went.. I mean in Singapore, you hardly hear about them. -
goodnight mutantdude.. see you at Maya's doOriginally posted by X-men:Time for bed..
Night guys -
dang, now i have class gathering on the fourth
hmm
*me throw coin*