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» Insults
not so much an insult
The missus is a PE teacher, and has this year got a new autistic kid in the class who doesn't know where the boundaries are yet;
My missus; can you come over with the rest of the group please?
Autistic girl: I'd rather give head to a goldfish
My missus; would you like to play netball?
Autistic girl: I'd rather piss in the streets of london.
Bless her.
(Thu 4th Oct 2007, 21:01, More)
not so much an insult
The missus is a PE teacher, and has this year got a new autistic kid in the class who doesn't know where the boundaries are yet;
My missus; can you come over with the rest of the group please?
Autistic girl: I'd rather give head to a goldfish
My missus; would you like to play netball?
Autistic girl: I'd rather piss in the streets of london.
Bless her.
(Thu 4th Oct 2007, 21:01, More)
» Expensive Mistakes
Not as exciting as the server story earlier
but a guy in my team managed to bring one of the major clearing banks to it's knees one sunny Thursday afternoon.
After ignoring consultation with the rest of us on the team, this chap decides to run a particularly dodgy command as the server is running abit low on free space.
This totally spazzes the interactive system, and prevents anybody new from signing in to the application. Unfortunately, 2 weeks previously the application had been "upgraded" and was now incredibly flakey - signing people out on a regular basis.
Cue much gnashing of teeth and the bank being in limbo to the BoE to the tune of £1.4 billion as it missed the cutoff times for £ payments at 4pm. Not sure what the overnight rate was on £1.4 billion, but I'm pretty sure it was a fair whack.
(Fri 26th Oct 2007, 3:28, More)
Not as exciting as the server story earlier
but a guy in my team managed to bring one of the major clearing banks to it's knees one sunny Thursday afternoon.
After ignoring consultation with the rest of us on the team, this chap decides to run a particularly dodgy command as the server is running abit low on free space.
This totally spazzes the interactive system, and prevents anybody new from signing in to the application. Unfortunately, 2 weeks previously the application had been "upgraded" and was now incredibly flakey - signing people out on a regular basis.
Cue much gnashing of teeth and the bank being in limbo to the BoE to the tune of £1.4 billion as it missed the cutoff times for £ payments at 4pm. Not sure what the overnight rate was on £1.4 billion, but I'm pretty sure it was a fair whack.
(Fri 26th Oct 2007, 3:28, More)