People spend 48 weeks of the year saving up to spend 2 weeks somewhere nice.
That's 96% of your time, to have a nice 4%, that makes the other 96% look awful.

In a rational world, you'd spend your two weeks off somewhere really crappy in order to make the rest look good


***EDIT*** Note that as someone with an engineering degree, I approximate a year to 50 weeks in order to make the maths easier. That's just how we roll.
( prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 14:30, 17 replies)

you should for the tourist board here in wales

( The Doveston haunted by the memory of his own amnesia, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 14:32, closed)

Newport would be...
...a top destination.
( prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 14:33, closed)

Well this is proof if proof were needed that the Welsh have no word for 'work.'

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 14:37, closed)

off

( The Doveston haunted by the memory of his own amnesia, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 14:57, closed)

I think he omitted 'dance'

( rofl harris, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 15:12, closed)

dance spread
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 19:22, closed)

As someone with an engineering degree
you would have limited understanding of human motives.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 15:13, closed)

Very David Gower.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 16:04, closed)

and a very limited understanding of engineering

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 22:15, closed)

I expect it's okay to fudge numbers in engineering
I mean what's a couple of mm between friends when building a formula one car

;)
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 16:24, closed)

Pft - they aren't engineers
it's all far too precise...
( prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 11:10, closed)

And you thought those who went to Magaluf were the idiots?

(Woodlouse say it with flowers. Send her a Triffid, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 18:16, closed)

You work seven day weeks and only get 14 days holiday a year?
No wonder you're a miserable prick.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 19:13, closed)

No I'm a miserable prick
because I hang out on B3ta
( prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 11:11, closed)

"Note that as someone with an engineering degree, I approximate a year to 50 weeks in order to make the maths easier."
Just out of curiosity, how long do your bridges normally stay up? Don't worry about a precise figure: you can round to the nearest minute if it makes things easier...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 20:22, closed)

Tsk, Civil engineering goes like this.
1)Calculate what's needed (roughly)
2)Add a good 50% to everything, because the builders/contractors won't actually follow your instructions. Especially with regards to cement mixes, as plasticiser is expensive, and chucking more water in isn't.
( prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 11:13, closed)

It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong
(Deligrams, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 15:00, closed)

I know of at least one engineer
who tried to fake the results of his concrete cube tests by adding his own reinforcement when making them in the shape of nails. Didn't work though
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Wed 16 Oct 2013, 10:29, closed)