byegad
Legendary Member
- Location
- NE England
It isn't what it wasn't but is what it is!
I suspect the answer is dumplings!
I suspect the answer is dumplings!
Listen very carefully - I shall say this only once
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Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Racing roadkill
Guru
Scarily, the vast majority of the optical fibres, that I am responsible for, in my job, find their way into missile guidance systems, ergo, I am a missile guidance system expert, and the video actually made sense to me
Andy_R
Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
- Location
- County Durham
But now you aren't where you were back then so you are where you are now, but not then. Possibly. Or not.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I once went to a tech jobs show. A group of very secretive recruitment people asked if I would be interested in applying for a job with them. They wouldn't tell me what the job was, and they wouldn't tell me what the job wasn't either, no doubt for fear that I might eventually work out what the job was if they gave me a long enough list of what it wasn't!
They told me I would have to be prepared to undergo a security check and sign the Official Secrets act before they would say any more ...
I had a suspicion that I knew what the job was. This was based on the kind of jobs that I was qualified to do, and the jobs that I was not qualified to do, and the kind of jobs that people would be so secretive about, plus a snippet of tech gossip that I had picked up a few weeks prior to that.
I took a wild punt and jokily said something along the lines of "So you want me to work on cruise missile control systems then?"
Their stunned reaction said it all ...
(They wanted to know where I got my information from. I told them that I had read an article describing the kind of technology probably deployed in those control systems, and no thanks, I was not interested in working on systems designed to wipe out large numbers of people from a distance.)
They told me I would have to be prepared to undergo a security check and sign the Official Secrets act before they would say any more ...
I had a suspicion that I knew what the job was. This was based on the kind of jobs that I was qualified to do, and the jobs that I was not qualified to do, and the kind of jobs that people would be so secretive about, plus a snippet of tech gossip that I had picked up a few weeks prior to that.
I took a wild punt and jokily said something along the lines of "So you want me to work on cruise missile control systems then?"
Their stunned reaction said it all ...
(They wanted to know where I got my information from. I told them that I had read an article describing the kind of technology probably deployed in those control systems, and no thanks, I was not interested in working on systems designed to wipe out large numbers of people from a distance.)
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I'm sorry - I've said enough already ... I can't say any more about it!
(Perhaps this would have been better in 'Things you'd like to say, but can't'!
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