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pDm · Senior Member

Another conversation

Rhianrach · Expert

Personally I'm full of a cold and stupidly decided to attack costs and revenues, not a good mix, although i have to admit it does appear to be sinking in, I shall be a management accountant by the end of the day at this rate.

For the record Tesco with two kids and kids parties are both on the same level of hell in my book. I'd probably sit on the fence as to which one i'd prefer. smile

-- Edited by Rhianrach on Saturday 25th of February 2012 12:04:50 PM

-- Edited by Rhianrach on Saturday 25th of February 2012 12:06:33 PM

Spamkebab · Expert

Apparently the smashing orangey bits are made from condensed and pressurised sun rays, this makes the Jaffa cakes mined from below the deep valleys of Wales more highly sought after and are worth a whole lot more than their Outer Hebredian cousins as these smashing orangey bits are reported to be the choice of the gods.

Taken from JaffaWiki and we all know anything reported on there is true.

-- Edited by Spamkebab on Saturday 25th of February 2012 02:22:49 PM

Rhianrach · Expert

Shamus wrote:
Hi Steve,

this is actually for my boys Birthday present so will hold off the DLC to score additional brownie points later.

I only got him Kasumi's stolen memory a month or so back for a particularly good school report so at least he should have Kasumi available for the Normandy when ME3 is released (Personal favorite character is still Tali Zorah though.... her voice and attitude are so like a Russian girl that I used to date).

After work/school his desk is right next to mine so I spend half the time that I should be playing with spreadsheets watching shepard saving the universe on his machine!

If you've not seen it check out this clip for ME2 which ties in the Kasumi storyline. It's fan made but one of the best that I've seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1hvXbOdki8

Anyone whose never seen this being played would think that those were cut scenes rather than actual gameplay footage.

Music is Heart of Courage by Two steps from Hell from the Invincible album. Check out the track protectors of earth from the same album.

Also, have you downloaded the ME3 Demo yet? We downloaded it last night and he's played it four times so far today before he started playing the multiplayer option.

I'll take a look at the link.

I haven't downloaded the demo no, it's not something I do really, I prefer to buy the game and it all be new to me. Need to get through costs and revenues before then though or I'll never do it smile

-- Edited by Rhianrach on Saturday 25th of February 2012 05:39:47 PM

-- Edited by Rhianrach on Saturday 25th of February 2012 05:40:22 PM

Sammy76 · Senior Member

Would love a cuppa :D

I had a really busy week. Had to finish off some VAT returns for the Accountants I do work for and hand those back. Coupled with my youngest getting a sickness bug and passing it all around - I'm still recovering but the kids seem fine. I have to take my middle boy to a party at a soft play centre - I'm just going to sit and drink tea for two hours. My husband is going to take the other two to Tesco to get a few bits so I think I've definitely got the better deal lol.

pDm · Senior Member

Foisting the weekly shop onto hubby?! Marvellous idea!

A two hour tea-break in a room with sugar-filled, bouncing off the walls (literally) children (how do they manage to scream at such a high pitch??) - I'll take your word for it! :D

(I used to work at somewhere similar MANY years ago, and I never quite got over it! lol)

Hope you have a fantastic day (and well done for avoiding Tesco).

Spamkebab · Expert

Costs and Revenues gives you a taster of what to expect at level 4 Steve. I quite enjoyed it as it seems like you are doing some proper accountancy work.

How many fences can one man sit on? lol

Today i will mostly be practicing Statement of Cashflows and Consolidated Accounts as well as drinking copious amounts of caffeine and eating enough chocolate to fill a country the size of England.

After this i will mostly be re-writing 673 accounting standards, in laymans terms, drinking copious amounts of caffeine and eating enough chocolate to fill a country the size of England.

Neil.

pDm · Senior Member

I'm sensing a chocolate theme... but it's very feint.

Rhianrach · Expert

Spamkebab wrote:
Costs and Revenues gives you a taster of what to expect at level 4 Steve. I quite enjoyed it as it seems like you are doing some proper accountancy work.

How many fences can one man sit on? lol

It is the sort of thing I prefer to be honest.

Two fences as I have two buttocks, as long as they aren't too far apart.

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

Spamkebab wrote:
After this i will mostly be re-writing 673 accounting standards, in laymans terms,

673! lol. Does seem that way sometimes though espechially when you throw the Audit and ethics one's into the melting pot.

Deloitte do some nice short reviews of each standard in www.iasplus.com

HTH,

Shaun.

Spamkebab · Expert

Thanks Shaun,

I have the Deloitte link saved in favourites from a previous post of yours. Far better for study purpose than anything i have in any of my books but i do have a tendency to float off course somewhat when reading a certain standard. The interpretations seem to be my downfall, i can be reading study related standards and then find myself enjoying the accounting policies for surface mining for Jaffa Cakes in the Outer Hebrides and the use of Ninja related labour and costings.

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

I think that Jaffa Cake mining of the outer hebrides is proving to be a real ecological disaster that greenpeace is just doing nothing about.

Also deep mined Jaffa cakes from the Jaffa fields of South Wales are much better quality than those more easily extracted from the surface elsewhere but of course are more expensive to extract so unscruplious companies are invariably taking the cheaper option espechially in these difficult times.

Think that we need someone like Bob Geldoff on board to really drive home the issues related to opencast Jaffa cake mining

Anyway, just do your bit. Next time your in Tesco's just spend that bit extra on deep mined Welsh Jaffa's and you'll feel all the better for it.

... You can always tell when I really should be doing something else can't you!

pDm · Senior Member

So, Ninja throwing stars. Capital or Revenue? I mean they must last quite a while. But realistically, how many would be returned?

Dangermouse · Veteran Member

Any Jaffa Cakes recently mined need to be issued to my kitchen, stat.

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

Dangermouse wrote:
Any Jaffa Cakes recently mined need to be issued to my kitchen, stat.

For quality control purposes of course.

(thinks, half moon, crescent moon, full eclipse.... or in my case just stright to full eclipse!).

Rhianrach · Expert

Nooooo, the chocolate needs to be taken from the edge of the sponge, then lick the chocolate of the jaffa bit, peel off the jaffa bit and munch nom nom, eat sponge. You're all amateurs who have obviously never studied the finer art of jaffa scranning.

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

In my house it's either eat then quickly or they're gone.

Rather than savouring every crumb I think that I need to be working on a faster delivery system... And it's no good trying to hide them as there is a definite link between children with jaffa cakes and pigs with truffles.

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

Spamkebab wrote:

Taken from JaffaWiki and we all know anything reported on there is true.

lol.

like the black death being spread by beavers... Don't know if it's been corrected yet but it really did have that in Wikipedia.

Spamkebab · Expert

i actually had a reply, something along the lines of there being a definite link between children and pigs but maybe it's just my bunch.

(maybe i'm being a wee bit harsh, as this statement only rings true as they reached teenagerism)

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

Spamkebab wrote:
this statement only rings true as they reached teenagerism

OMG, my boys 13 week after next.... You mean it gets worse!

Spamkebab · Expert

There is a group i joined to help get me through it Shaun.

(Me) Hi, my name is Neil and i have 3 teenagers.

(Group:Sharp intake of breath) Hi Neil.

(Group leader) Would you care to tell us more about your problem Neil?

(Me) Well as i said, i have 3 teenagers. It first started in 2003, then again in 2006 and again in 2008. I am taking it one day at a time and hopefully with your help and support i will start to see some kind of future without teenagers.

(Group: round of applause)

Of course it helped knowing that some of the group were worse off than me, reporting upto 5 teenagers at any given time.

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

Thankfully Mass Effect three comes out four days after my boys 13th so I may get another months repreave whilst he's lost in deep space saving the universe from a reaper invasion.

He's at that age at the moment where girls have discovered him but he still doesn't seem to have a clue what to do with them... Long may it remain that way.

Spamkebab · Expert

There was once a girl, used to smile at me and whisper to her friends. Her friends used to utter non-understandable girl things in my direction as i passed. I used to go bright red whenever i passed this girl for some reason, it was highly annoying, and she would sit on a wall that i had to pass to get to my best friends house.

She wore me down in the end and i married her.

Rhianrach · Expert

Shamus wrote:
Thankfully Mass Effect three comes out four days after my boys 13th so I may get another months repreave whilst he's lost in deep space saving the universe from a reaper invasion.

He's at that age at the moment where girls have discovered him but he still doesn't seem to have a clue what to do with them... Long may it remain that way.

Can't wait, are you going to buy the DLC that comes out at release to?

Dangermouse · Veteran Member

Rhianrach speaks Jaffa Cake Wisdom. You're all Philistines.

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

Hi Steve,

this is actually for my boys Birthday present so will hold off the DLC to score additional brownie points later.

I only got him Kasumi's stolen memory a month or so back for a particularly good school report so at least he should have Kasumi available for the Normandy when ME3 is released (Personal favorite character is still Tali Zorah though.... her voice and attitude are so like a Russian girl that I used to date).

After work/school his desk is right next to mine so I spend half the time that I should be playing with spreadsheets watching shepard saving the universe on his machine!

If you've not seen it check out this clip for ME2 which ties in the Kasumi storyline. It's fan made but one of the best that I've seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1hvXbOdki8

Anyone whose never seen this being played would think that those were cut scenes rather than actual gameplay footage.

Music is Heart of Courage by Two steps from Hell from the Invincible album. Check out the track protectors of earth from the same album.

Also, have you downloaded the ME3 Demo yet? We downloaded it last night and he's played it four times so far today before he started playing the multiplayer option.

Spamkebab · Expert

Oh, by the way, while we are back on to gaming i meant to ask you both the other day, do either of you read CTRL+ALT+DEL? (CAD Comic) If not, check it out it's pretty cool and often very funny whilst keeping up with the latest games and either pulling the weaker points or bigging them up.

(The archives for the comic are easy enough to find off the website)

Neil

Been looking at ALAN WAKE all week for pc, £22 on Steam at the moment. This was reported to have been a bench test for high end machines, then they pulled it from PC release. £22 just to see if the grahics are pretty can not be justified at the moment, ahhhh i miss the good old days lol.

-- Edited by Spamkebab on Sunday 26th of February 2012 05:56:22 AM

Rhianrach · Expert

Spamkebab wrote:

Been looking at ALAN WAKE all week for pc, £22 on Steam at the moment. This was reported to have been a bench test for high end machines, then they pulled it from PC release. £22 just to see if the grahics are pretty can not be justified at the moment, ahhhh i miss the good old days lol.

-- Edited by Spamkebab on Sunday 26th of February 2012 05:56:22 AM

Yeah that will explain people complaining about capacitor noise (whatever that may be) and their GPU fans cranking up to full power when playing it. It doesn't sound like something I could run on my aging setup. cry

Spamkebab · Expert

It has probably suffered now it's just a console port

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

Hi Neil,

the cartoons are quite hit and miss but I do notice that they seem to have posters for most of my DVD collection on their walls! lol

And continueing last weeks Mac discussion :

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20021126

Coincidentally on Big Bang last night Sheldon was trying to find the most mind numbingly dumb job where he didn't have to use any of his old grey matter in his work. The options that he came down to were :

A toll booth attendant

An Apple Store Genious

What Penny does

What Penny does only won out because Sheldon refused to contribute towards the devaluation of the word genious. lol