Expensive Mistakescoopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"
No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".
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chthonic, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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Clive..Actually, his concepts were pretty good. His problem was the marketing.
You see the C5 should've been the R&D engine for a small single person commuter vehicle which would've been made from something a little sturdier than polystyrene, but Clive being a geek decided to release it as was, and lost a potload of money.
Of course now we know he was doomed to failure from the start as no derivation of the C5 would serve as a penis extension to twats who work in the City, or Paperclip fucking salesmen, but 10/10 to him for trying.
And lets not forget ol' beardy's triumphs, too.
The pocket calculator, the digital watch (his firm developed the LED, I think), the ZX81 and spectrum personal computers, and of course defining a generation of IT geeks as 'beards'.
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