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"Maverick's Funny Stories"

So I was in hostipal today - getting my brace sorted out - and who should I see having a talk, but the caretaker (male, late thirties, somerset-ish) and the cleaner (female, late twenties, welsh)! I only caught a bit of their conversation, but it went like this:

Cleaner: So my boyfriend got me an X-Box for Christmas.
Caretaker: Oh yeah.
Cleaner: You see, the thing is, I got it primarily to play DVDs.
Caretaker: Sounds good.
Cleaner: But you've got to buy this add-on.
Caretaker: Bit of a rip.
Cleaner: Tell me about it. But now I find out that it's extra features include playing games!
Caretaker: Oh. That's odd.
Cleaner: Yeah. Why pay extra for that, ay? Stupid Microsoft.

And then I got called in. That's a funny story.

On a less positive note, to make this topic more worthwhile, Microsoft's Home and Entertainment division reported a loss of £122,000,000 over Christmas, despite the console selling nicely.

So, er, discuss.

So I was in hostipal today - getting my brace sorted out - and who should I see having a talk, but the caretaker (male, late thirties, somerset-ish) and the cleaner (female, late twenties, welsh)! I only caught a bit of their conversation, but it went like this:

Cleaner: So my boyfriend got me an X-Box for Christmas.
Caretaker: Oh yeah.
Cleaner: You see, the thing is, I got it primarily to play DVDs.
Caretaker: Sounds good.
Cleaner: But you've got to buy this add-on.
Caretaker: Bit of a rip.
Cleaner: Tell me about it. But now I find out that it's extra features include playing games!
Caretaker: Oh. That's odd.
Cleaner: Yeah. Why pay extra for that, ay? Stupid Microsoft.

And then I got called in. That's a funny story.

On a less positive note, to make this topic more worthwhile, Microsoft's Home and Entertainment division reported a loss of £122,000,000 over Christmas, despite the console selling nicely.

So, er, discuss.

Was this woman blonde by any chance?

Nope, brunette. Kinda strange looking though. There were sawdust fumes all over the place. She was leaning on a vacuum cleaner.

Did she have large breasts?

On the $122 million debt: the whole world's in debt - it's what forces every Tom, Dick & Harry to crawl out of bed every morn and go to work like a slave. It's what keeps the status quo in place thus preserving the power base of the global elite....

Ignore me, I've had a long day and I'm tired.....

Yeah, everyone's in debt.

Makes you wonder how anything gets done

Well Nintendo's admitted it's own sales of the GC we're pretty crap over Christmas;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ technology/2687837.stm

So I guess we're all happy, or at least those of us who can take any pleasure from new of sales of plastic boxes filled with electronics... ho hum.

~~Belldandy~~

Nomad $oul wrote:
> On the $122 million debt

That's £112 million. It's actually $177 million, if you want to put it in US currency. Anyway, it won't be anything to Microsoft - their pockets could give home to a small family of badgers.

Belldandy wrote:
> Well Nintendo's admitted it's own sales of the GC we're pretty crap
> over Christmas;

In Europe, sales were disappointing, but the GameCube sold quite nicely worldwide.

> So I guess we're all happy, or at least those of us who can take any
> pleasure from new of sales of plastic boxes filled with electronics...
> ho hum.

[Grins]

Well considering America at the moment is just climbing out of a recession, its not surprising that MS are losing profits in some areas! A lot of companies have gone bust! £122 million isnt going to bother them that much at all!

Console_kid wrote:
> Well considering America at the moment is just climbing out of a
> recession,

That's climbing *into* a recession, along with the rest of the world....

~~Belldandy~~