Posts by David Haywood
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I've often thought that they should have a brothel where the sex workers dress up as 'windows' from the television programme Play School. The round window, the square window, the arch window, the triangle window, and so on.
I wouldn't visit it myself, but it would be cool just to know that it was out there.
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Ian Dalziel wrote:
Dr Haywood is very telegenic...
Geoff Lealand wrote:
What about Dr Haywood's shirt? That was pretty spiffy.
There are times that we must thank God for the gift of failing vision.
Graeme Edgeler wrote:
Slowing it down by 100% would mean it was stopped, right? So slowing it down by 800% must mean its backwards at 7x speed, right?
I think they meant stretched by 800 per cent, i.e. slowed down until it was 800 per cent longer and then pitch-shifted back to the original key.
Or, to be more precise, 800 per cent AGL.
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I was once at an air-show where an F18 did a 1000 km/h flyby at 30 metres altitude.
That's the only thing I've ever seen move as quickly as Russell did when leaving that organised expressive roleplay exercise.
It was phenomenal.
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More than once, when we've gathered for a few drinks, events turn to everyone doing a "turn". Everyone else just sings a song or something.
I'd commit suicide if I ever found myself in that situation.
In other news, Bob-the-boy insists on sending you the following message (he's not shouting, he just doesn't do lower case yet).
HELLO RUSSELL FROM BOB
(with spelling assistance from me on that difficult word 'Russell')
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Russell Brown wrote:
I was a 10.
I am so surprised.
Geoff Lealand wrote:
Thus the need for name badges/labels at all Great Blends, with an addendum next time along the lines of "Hi, I am able to converse on the following topics..."?
I think this is a great idea and that (seriously) we should actually do it.
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the dreaded Extrovert Babbling Spiral!
I have so suffered that (although without the extrovert bit, which seems rather unfair.)
Thank you for putting a name to one of my medical conditions -- henceforth known as: "Danielle's Babbling Spiral Syndrome".
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As the volume of jabbering leapt,
Scarlet-faced from the party he crept,
For most of the patrons
Were bosomy matrons
Whose pressings had outed his ept.Genius! If there was any justice in the world, the Queen would have created the position of Limericker Laureate. With a stonking great salary. And then we could all bail you up for loans.
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Ross Mason wrote:
So where are you on this scale?
Twenty-one -- *way* under the threshold. I suspect that shyness is a different thing. I'm actually quite good at guessing what people are thinking... to give an example of a recent conversation (of which I'm rather proud):
Me: Is anyone meeting you at the airport?
My friend: Yes.
Me: I hope you'll forgive me saying this, but the way you said "yes" suggests that you have romantic aspirations for this person.
My friend: [After seven minutes of silence -- I timed it] You are very perceptive.
She wontoned you David
Ha! I don't think so. Not unless she was one of those strange 19-year-olds who are into 16-year-olds who look 14.
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andin wrote:
How many people peer under the bonnet of their car with foreboding and total incomprehension... But David can, of course, rattle off technical terms...
Yes, I have no problem talking to mechanics! Although I often find they're wrong about things they pick up during WOF inspections (another essay there).
Judi Lapsley Miller wrote:
I'm not a big hugger but there is something particularly huggable about David so he usually has to suffer one from me.
No worries, I'm quite acclimatized to hugging you now. A Emma says, as long as I'm eased into it gradually then I'm fine.
Also, thinking about it, I realize that I've probably inflicted boring engineering conversations on you, too. And Emma Hart as well. And, I suspect, even poor Russell.
Sorry about that, dudes.
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BenWilson wrote:
It's very strange how contextual our social abilities are...
[RE: Russell's youngest]
I think he gets the rules of Q&A. The rules of milling about the pizza wondering who to chat to are much harder to teach.I think you've hit the nail on the head there, Ben.
For myself, I think I'm (generally) quite good at faking social ability, when I can prepare something to say in advance.
My biggest problem is that I'm aware of how socially awkward I am -- unlike the vast majority of engineers who go through life blissfully unaware of their lack of social skills, and even (in many tragic cases) actually thinking that they are wonderful conversationalists.
It's brutal to watch one of these engineers when they've trapped an audience upon which they are inflicting a conversation.
P.S. I think I've done this myself to Jolisa Gracewood on more than one occasion. Sorry about that, dude.