What's mildly amusing you today?

[skysidhe]

[Shawnee123]

I'm laughing that it's just now hitting the nightly news about the student loan provisions in the health bill.

Well, it's funny to me because we (those of us employed in FA) have seen this coming for a few years now, but I don't think anyone noticed it was happening "out there" however some people are now really pissed!

I've worked with private lenders and I currently work with direct lending. Direct lending isn't new, it was just up to the schools before. I see good things and bad things about both ways, really.

And with the increased loan volume and now even more public scrutiny, you're going to be hearing a lot about default rates (something we address as part of strategy and procedure in our normal work dealings.) I love this job: things are always changing and it's never, ever, boring.

[skysidhe]

It always amuses me when I see maintenance people using the blower in the rain and as it was yesterday, rain and wind!

I would be one of those annoying employees who would ask if there was some better use for my time considering there isn't any debris that is going to be blown away today.

oh and the other thing is to leave bits of paper. I would pick the paper up and maybe use a rake if the blower wasn't effective.

geez and these people have a job!

This could slide into annoyance if I thought about it too much.

[Cloud]

Google is "Topeka" today:

http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/01/tech...dex.htm?hpt=T2

[Shawnee123]

Oh that is funny!

[jinx]

I think the funniest thing is the search timer results, ie.

Results 1 - 10 of about 125,000,000 for april fool [definition]. (1.02 times the velocity of an unladen swallow)

[jinx]

Still amused by these...

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(23.00 skidoo)

[Carruthers]

Actually, this happened last weekend but it has been amusing me today.

Last Sunday, the nation finally advanced its clocks by an hour at 2am.
Having sauntered down the road for a newspaper and some milk I was on my way back when I heard the town clock strike six at 9.32am precisely. As far as I am aware, it remained silent for the rest of the day.
It was the sort of thing you might have seen or heard in the background of an early Peter Sellers film.

The offending time piece.

Carruthers

ETA

I hate having to go through the wretched caper of putting the clock forward as it always knackers my body clock. I can get jet-lag without leaving the parish. Due to the differing dates the US and UK change their clocks, for about three weeks we're only four hours ahead of Eastern Time. No real problem but I listen to NPR on the web and it throws my schedule out of the window.
Look, these things matter to a chap.OK?

[Nirvana]

Pie and CM being pissed off in the "What's making you happy?",thread

[jinx]

The Onion

Increasing Number Of Parents Opting To Have Children School-Homed


WASHINGTON—According to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Education, an increasing number of American parents are choosing to have their children raised at school rather than at home.
Deputy Education Secretary Anthony W. Miller said that many parents who school-home find U.S. households to be frightening, overwhelming environments for their children, and feel that they are just not conducive to producing well-rounded members of society.
Thousands of mothers and fathers polled in the study also believe that those running American homes cannot be trusted to keep their kids safe.
"Every year more parents are finding that their homes are not equipped to instill the right values in their children," Miller said. "When it comes to important life skills such as proper nutrition, safe sex, and even basic socialization, a growing number of mothers and fathers think it's better to rely on educators to guide and nurture their kids."

[classicman]

HA HA HA HA HA THAT IS AWESOME!

and kinda true

[Clodfobble]

Check out the photo caption:

Parents of school-homed children say they relish the extra time they are able to spend away from their kids.

[monster]

that's fucking hysterical.

[SteveDallas]

Originally Posted by monster

that's fucking hysterical.

It's funny because it's true.

[monster]

yup. The further you get into the article the truer it gets.

"It's really a matter of who has more experience in dealing with my child," Cincinnati- resident Kevin Dufrense said of his decision to have his 10-year-old son Jake, who suffers from ADHD and dyslexia, school-homed. "These teachers are dealing with upwards of 40 students in their classrooms at a time, so obviously they know a lot more about children than someone like me, who only has one son and doesn't know where he is half the time anyway."