Re: Ping Aidan

In article <epo86p$kh8$02$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alan Johnson wrote:
Oh, so warrabout me then? While he was sitting snug as a bug in a rug
somewhere, my village was getting battered by them there 180 km winds in
Germany! :-) We lost part of our balcony facing, which smashed off one
of our satellite dishes on its way to the road below, and about a dozen
trees were felled scattered around the village.

Were you at risk of sinking into several hundred feet of water?
Course you weren't, you're a geologist.

Which reminds me - it's household insurance time again, which means
explaining to lots of telephone sales staff that I'm a geologist and the OF
COURSE THE HOUSE ISN'T AT RISK OF FLOODING OR SUBSIDENCE DO YOU THINK I@M
AN IDIOT OR SOMETHING I JUST TOLD YOU I'M A BLOODY GEOLOGIST AND I WARN
PEOPLE ABOUT THESE RISKS DO YOU THINK I'M TOO STUPID TO TAKE MY OWN ADVICE
sheesh I don't know the quality of call centre staff these days ...

(Sorry, just getting warmed up for the annual rant.)

--
Aidan Karley, FGS,
Aberdeen, Scotland
A light wave is more like a crime wave than a water wave.

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