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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,352 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home




  • Registered Users Posts: 55,451 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Well... this is new. :D
    Subject: Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home
    Dr. Bakare Tunde
    Astronautics Project Manager
    National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA)
    Plot 555
    Misau Street
    PMB 437
    Garki, Abuja, FCT NIGERIA

    Dear Mr. Sir,

    REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

    I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979. He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved. His other Soviet crew members returned to earth on the Soyuz T-16Z, but his place was taken up by return cargo. There have been occasional Progrez supply flights to keep him going since that time. He is in good humor, but wants to come home.

    In the 14-years since he has been on the station, he has accumulated flight pay and interest amounting to almost $ 15,000,000 American Dollars. This is held in a trust at the Lagos National Savings and Trust Association. If we can obtain access to this money, we can place a down payment with the Russian Space Authorities for a Soyuz return flight to bring him back to Earth. I am told this will cost $ 3,000,000 American Dollars. In order to access the his trust fund we need your assistance.

    Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount to your account or subsequent disbursement, since we as civil servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening and/ or operating foreign accounts in our names.

    Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous. In return, we have agreed to offer you 20 percent of the transferred sum, while 10 percent shall be set aside for incidental expenses (internal and external) between the parties in the course of the transaction. You will be mandated to remit the balance 70 percent to other accounts in due course.

    Kindly expedite action as we are behind schedule to enable us include downpayment in this financial quarter.

    Please acknowledge the receipt of this message via my direct number 234 (0) 9-234-XXXX only.

    Yours Sincerely, Dr. Bakare Tunde
    Astronautics Project Manager
    XXXX@nasrda.gov.ng

    http://www.nasrda.gov.ng/


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Mr E wrote: »
    Well... this is new. :D

    Not the first but prices have gone down :pac:
    Mr. Nkoloso continued: “To really get going we need about seven hundred million pounds. It sounds a lot of money...

    https://www.zambianobserver.com/zambias-forgotten-space-program/



  • Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭lan


    Mr E wrote: »
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    If your hemorrhoids are so bad that you need to go to the vets, GDPR is the least of your problems.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,823 ✭✭✭tea and coffee


    The management complaint one on So Vegan??


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,352 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Haircut - it's a stereotype that any woman with that kind of haircut would be a nightmare of a customer and would always ask to speak with management to complain loudly and obnoxiously about something.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,700 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,823 ✭✭✭tea and coffee


    The Hiroshima and Nagasaki meme. The bombs were 3 days apart and who has a 400km commute?! And would the trains have been running after a nuclear attack?


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,123 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    The Hiroshima and Nagasaki meme. The bombs were 3 days apart and who has a 400km commute?! And would the trains have been running after a nuclear attack?
    It was a business trip, not a commute.
    Yamaguchi, a resident of Nagasaki, was in Hiroshima on business for his employer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the city was bombed at 8:15 am, on August 6, 1945. He returned to Nagasaki the following day, and despite his wounds, he returned to work on August 9, the day of the second atomic bombing. That morning, whilst being berated by his supervisor as "crazy" after describing how one bomb had destroyed the city, the Nagasaki bomb detonated.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,823 ✭✭✭tea and coffee


    Oh wow ok. I thought it was one of those stories that grew legs over the years or just "fake news".
    Kudos to him - made of stern stuff.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭locum-motion



    I think if one of the Irish politicians in that photo was gonna build a big wall, it'd be Leo, not Arlene.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,476 ✭✭✭blackwhite


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    Sad, but ultimately heart-warming story behind the pic used for that meme.

    Whilst it looks like one dog laughing at the other, the dog on the left is actually blind.

    Lost both eyes after illness/infections a few years ago.

    Ignore the amount of selling/commercialisation, and it's great to see what a good life he's had since.

    https://www.instagram.com/thegoldensrule/?hl=en


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,637 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Your left or their left?


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,476 ✭✭✭blackwhite


    josip wrote: »
    Your left or their left?

    Their left :cool: :D


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    Oh wow ok. I thought it was one of those stories that grew legs over the years or just "fake news".
    Kudos to him - made of stern stuff.

    It also says a lot about Japanese stubbornness to not let anything stop the trains from running on time.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,294 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Haha. This happened me once.

    https://i.imgur.com/GDbPpVL.jpg


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,352 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Were you the kissed or the kissee?


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    New Home wrote: »
    Were you the kissed or the kissee?

    Was it years ago when you were a kid and Jimmy Saville was on the same flight? :D


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,294 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    New Home wrote: »
    Were you the kissed or the kissee?

    More that a guy beside me fell asleep. While sleeping he must have forgotten that his wife was sitting elsewhere on the plane and the next thing I know his arms are around me and he is nuzzling my neck. He was mortified the poor fellah.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    More that a guy beside me fell asleep. While sleeping he must have forgotten that his wife was sitting elsewhere on the plane and the next thing I know his arms are around me and he is nuzzling my neck. He was mortified the poor fellah.
    I bet that the remainder of that flight was the longest he has ever had in his life. :D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 17,248 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    More that a guy beside me fell asleep. While sleeping he must have forgotten that his wife was sitting elsewhere on the plane and the next thing I know his arms are around me and he is nuzzling my neck. He was mortified the poor fellah.

    Two questions - are you male and did you say anything or froze in abject horror (which is the kinda thing I would do)


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,294 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Two questions - are you male and did you say anything or froze in abject horror (which is the kinda thing I would do)

    My username indicates my gender pretty well ;)
    Nah he was all apologies. I just told him not to worry about it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,637 ✭✭✭✭josip


    What kind of bloke moves towards the heat source when they're asleep?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,352 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Maybe PR and the bloke's wife wore the same scent. :pac:


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,700 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Bootup wrote: »
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    I have to know Did he bang his head on the door frame ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,581 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    More that a guy beside me fell asleep. While sleeping he must have forgotten that his wife was sitting elsewhere on the plane and the next thing I know his arms are around me and he is nuzzling my neck. He was mortified the poor fellah.

    What I wanna know is, whether he was a good neck nuzzler.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,352 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Also, I really wanted to ask: was one of these you?

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,294 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Neither of us were as handsome as these lads


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,544 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Neither of us were as handsome as these lads

    A case of, when uglies do the ugly?


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,352 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Article from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT that shows that tinfoil hats are very effective.

    At amplifying the signals that is :eek:


    https://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/


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