RE: Risk Assessment
Thursday 11th September 2003
Risk Assessment
When did you last have any adrenaline flowing?
Discussion
Nice rant, Ted! The context reminded me a bit on H. G. Wells' Time Machine.
I think everyone could do his part by taking more responsability for himself at first, and then for society.
ps. the last risk I took was owing up to my boss' boss that stolen coffe from his coffee can just tastes better than the other one
I think everyone could do his part by taking more responsability for himself at first, and then for society.
ps. the last risk I took was owing up to my boss' boss that stolen coffe from his coffee can just tastes better than the other one
I used my mobile phone in the car today, drank over the 'recommended' daily intake of booze tonight (again), broke the speed limit (several times) ate a bun, put some garden rubbish in the non green bag for tomorrows bin day.
Quite the rebel. I think I'll keep the same underpants on tomorrow and start smoking again, wonder if I'll get arrested?
>> Edited by Apache on Friday 12th September 01:14
Quite the rebel. I think I'll keep the same underpants on tomorrow and start smoking again, wonder if I'll get arrested?
>> Edited by Apache on Friday 12th September 01:14
Had a day off work today to relax and unwind from the Stress of Work and family watched abit of mourning telly.
THey had a phone in vote thing.
Q. Which decade was better 50's or 90's/00's
80% of thje people who voted chose the 50's because of the lack of respect in the society nowerdays.
THey had a phone in vote thing.
Q. Which decade was better 50's or 90's/00's
80% of thje people who voted chose the 50's because of the lack of respect in the society nowerdays.
I speed and drive recklessly, by todays definitions, to work every morning.
Its a luverly sprint through industrial estate type areas, no schools, no pedestrians blah blah etc etc and lots of roundabouts and dual carriageways to gets me backside out on and to undertake numpties.
Luverly.
What about the risk of accident, caught by plod blah blah etc etc.
I'll risk it
Its a luverly sprint through industrial estate type areas, no schools, no pedestrians blah blah etc etc and lots of roundabouts and dual carriageways to gets me backside out on and to undertake numpties.
Luverly.
What about the risk of accident, caught by plod blah blah etc etc.
I'll risk it
stc_bennett said:
THey had a phone in vote thing.
Q. Which decade was better 50's or 90's/00's
80% of the people who voted chose the 50's
Doesn't that say something about their usual target audience?
stc_bennett said:
because of the lack of respect in the society nowerdays.
no, because they remember when it was all green fields back then
Heard on the news the other night that a school somewhere have stopped letting the kids play on the playing field. The lack of rain has made the ground too hard and someone was worried that the little darlings would fall and break something and they would then be met with a law suit from the parents.
WTF???????????
WTF???????????
the biggest risk is to respectable, hard working, tax paying idiots like ourselves. We pay taxes to support everyone else, and pay speeding fines because some numpty lowered the limits inappropiately. We're the only ones that cannot refuse to pay fines, the only ones that can be hit like this.
I want out.
I want out.
That's my point. At the end of the day if you cocked up at work, you'd lose your job. To be doing a job like that you're obviously a bright spark - you'd get another. It's not actually a big risk to you.
Uninsured track day? A moderate risk, but again in the scheme of things it's something you'd cope with if it happened.
Is there any real risk left?
Uninsured track day? A moderate risk, but again in the scheme of things it's something you'd cope with if it happened.
Is there any real risk left?
hopefully one day common sense will prevail(sp?) 
The amount of risks that were taken on the moon shoots by NASA would not even get past the drawing board now, outcome, man would still not have gone to the moon. If columbus had not took the risk of falling off the end of the world when he headed west, the americas would not have been discovered, outcome, a happier world 
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It is an un-scientific fact maximum benefit comes from taking large risks and getting away with them IMHO. Those with big cahoonas I salute you 
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Harry
. It is an un-scientific fact
maximum benefit comes from taking large risks and getting away with them IMHO. Those with big cahoonas I salute you . Harry
yes, life is to short not to. in my line, u can be pedantic (anal) or commerical (reckless). i used to train with the former, and find it very refressing now to work with a person who is from the latter school of thought...
lawyers have insurance and if the deal works, surely that is the ultimate objective...
sorry edited to sort out typos due to too much grolsh!
>> Edited by tamago on Saturday 13th September 02:15
>> Edited by tamago on Saturday 13th September 02:16
lawyers have insurance and if the deal works, surely that is the ultimate objective...
sorry edited to sort out typos due to too much grolsh!
>> Edited by tamago on Saturday 13th September 02:15
>> Edited by tamago on Saturday 13th September 02:16
I've taken to jumping off things from a great height for the purposes of adrenaline and boredom alleviation.
Someone was killed bungy jumping in Dortmund in July when a cord failed (ie snapped). Nobody knows why, as the cord was well within tolerance for usage. Maybe a manufacturing error, who knows. It's a one in many thousands event. Has it put me off? No. What's the point of being alive if you don't risk it all once in a while? It makes you feel REALLY alive to do something like jump off a bridge from 600ft.
Someone was killed bungy jumping in Dortmund in July when a cord failed (ie snapped). Nobody knows why, as the cord was well within tolerance for usage. Maybe a manufacturing error, who knows. It's a one in many thousands event. Has it put me off? No. What's the point of being alive if you don't risk it all once in a while? It makes you feel REALLY alive to do something like jump off a bridge from 600ft.
So there Wally was, driving along in his super safe Swedish exec when BAM he gets struck by a cow that fell out the cargo hold of a BritAir Fokker...risk taker? Nope
Harry threw himself out of a perfectly good airplane and thundered down to earth at a zillion Ks per sec. As his eyeballs threatened to pop he yanked a piece of string and his parachute popped out and he landed OK...risk taker? Nope
Ya just have to go out there and do whatever you think is fun, so long as no one else is hurt, damaged or badly affected by your actions...have no fear...just as long as you can get to taste that special taste in the back of your throat, and feel your heart threaten to launch itself out of your ribcage, and grin so hard that your lips meet at the back of your head!
YAHOOOOO!
Harry threw himself out of a perfectly good airplane and thundered down to earth at a zillion Ks per sec. As his eyeballs threatened to pop he yanked a piece of string and his parachute popped out and he landed OK...risk taker? Nope
Ya just have to go out there and do whatever you think is fun, so long as no one else is hurt, damaged or badly affected by your actions...have no fear...just as long as you can get to taste that special taste in the back of your throat, and feel your heart threaten to launch itself out of your ribcage, and grin so hard that your lips meet at the back of your head!
YAHOOOOO!
Funny, isn't it: when I mention driving without a seatbelt, I get my head verbally ripped off. Now Ted wants us to take risks... of some (other?) sort.
Consider this: at the top of some corporation is A. FatCat. He's on humungous money. For what, exactly? OK, so his 'guidance' determines the company's direction, but let's suppose for a second that his company builds...oh, oil rigs, for the sake of illustration. Now, when their Model Alpha rig burns to sh!t in the middle of the ocean and people die, does Mr. FatCat get put against the wall and shot? NO, he does not. If the company goes tits-up and people end up unemployed, does he have to pay their unemployment benefits? No. So if there's no REAL responsibility (i.e RISK) with the job, why does he get the money?
Consider this: at the top of some corporation is A. FatCat. He's on humungous money. For what, exactly? OK, so his 'guidance' determines the company's direction, but let's suppose for a second that his company builds...oh, oil rigs, for the sake of illustration. Now, when their Model Alpha rig burns to sh!t in the middle of the ocean and people die, does Mr. FatCat get put against the wall and shot? NO, he does not. If the company goes tits-up and people end up unemployed, does he have to pay their unemployment benefits? No. So if there's no REAL responsibility (i.e RISK) with the job, why does he get the money?
Absolutely first class observations from the quill di Teddici.
And how true. This whole safety obsession is truly another mass opiate for the plebian drones.
So how refreshing last week, experiencing the communal oneness of humanity in the face of slightly doped 'big cat-dom' c/o some fuss free French zoo keeping.
No Jurassic Park spec titanium enclaves here, no Siree; just some chicken wire and an uncommonly solid baguette.
Continual behavioural compromise in the face of unimpeachable legalistic pronouncement seems to be what this great rant is driving at; so once more, the call for a few more expired parasites of the bar must be made.
And how true. This whole safety obsession is truly another mass opiate for the plebian drones.
So how refreshing last week, experiencing the communal oneness of humanity in the face of slightly doped 'big cat-dom' c/o some fuss free French zoo keeping.
No Jurassic Park spec titanium enclaves here, no Siree; just some chicken wire and an uncommonly solid baguette.
Continual behavioural compromise in the face of unimpeachable legalistic pronouncement seems to be what this great rant is driving at; so once more, the call for a few more expired parasites of the bar must be made.
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