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monster 11-04-2007 09:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 403371)
Ahhh. I thought you were saying it was an English expression :P

Well, it was a well known phrase around our parts, but being the snotty shit that I was, I wanted to know more. The general asuumption was falling leaves, but I pointed out that that wasn't the Autumn equivalent of "Spring Forward" and hey presto...... once I recovered from the well-deserved beating, all was explained.

JuancoRocks 11-05-2007 12:08 AM

Halloween
 
Arizona and Hawaii remain the only states that completely ignore the daylight saving scam. In addition Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have chosen not to observe Daylight Saving Time.:rolleyes:

BTTT......We had 48 trick or treaters this year more than usual as we live on a long cul-de-sac

wolf 11-05-2007 12:10 AM

I thought Indiana didn't partake of daylight savings as well.

Aliantha 11-05-2007 12:21 AM

we don't have daylight savings in the state I live in. I think it's stupid that we don't. We're out of sinc with the southern states and it fucks up my foxtel viewing...aside from making business with southern states a pain in the arse at times.

Sundae 11-05-2007 09:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 403325)
Ahhh. I see. We don't have a catchy phrase for ours. Ours is referred to as "clocks go back".

Nope, I use Spring forward, Fall back too.
And the term fall for Autumn went to America with the Brits according to Bill Bryson. I think it was even a Yorkshire word :)

DanaC 11-05-2007 12:21 PM

Ahh. Well, I ain't a Yorkshire lass by birth. Certainly it wasn't in use in Bolton when I was growing up :P

yangzhaolun 11-06-2007 03:00 AM

ICBC we love what you
 
On October 31, 2007, the Hebei Provincial Industrial and Commercial Bank teller many contract workers (both members of the former agent) is a black Wednesday, in a tense afternoon of work, exhausted from work for the

In line when suddenly received calls from the card handed over to the chapter and signed a "decision on the termination of labor contracts," This is really too cruel to us because we had no ideological preparations for a minute before are still working hard for ICBC

After one minute to work on your money to tell you to go home! I think any one person can accept this outcome.
We terminating labor contracts of these contract workers are mostly teller 18, 9, 20 and make access to the ICBC, all in the first line of ICBC assigned them it is so hard we have been working diligently and conscientiously to heat cold

For more than 10 years to his most precious prime of life and to the ICBC can we get? We entered a pain in the middle-aged, the young and old under small for them, they have no legitimate reason, just want to drive in the new "Labor Law" promulgated before we got kicked out of the ICBC. Also minimal living subsidy to kill us, is ask who gave them the right to do whatever they like this, this is the rule of law society, in the central strongly advocated "people-oriented" to build a harmonious society today, they are still ignoring the rights of workers, ignoring the "Labor Law" existence. We truly want to ask the ICBC to sacrifice their lives for more than 10 years of your staff even so无情无义, you can all honesty, treat your customers?
Sigh so ICBC, we love what you?

Seek the international law Media Aid

Ibby 11-06-2007 03:40 AM

Uh...

what the fuck was that?

BigV 11-06-2007 03:57 AM

tha's what happens when you let computers translate for you... not pretty.

DanaC 11-06-2007 04:29 AM

Sounds like a difficult situation. I won't pretend to understand exactly what has happened. But I getthe impression a lot of people have been summarily let go and are now facing extreme hardship after years of loyal service. Bad news.

But very difficult to read. Brave to try making the post though.

Cloud 11-06-2007 08:20 AM

Daylight Savings Time to the rescue?

ZenGum 11-06-2007 08:36 AM

Welcome Yangzhoalun, welcome to the cellar and welcome to capitalism.
Welcome also to the vagaries of machine translations.
Good luck.

Cloud 11-06-2007 08:42 AM

I think it's spam.

monster 11-06-2007 09:00 AM

Link in first post? :headshake Anyone brave enough to follow it? :lol:

It's a halloween post -spam in costume!

seriously, could be genuine, sounds unpleasant, but what response they want is not clear other than maybe to click on the link...

Cloud 11-06-2007 09:00 AM

I'm not clicking it. You click it.


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