People behind me calling themselves ‘The A Team’

[threaded]

Come on people, what we do is the wimpiest, softest, safest and most comfortable job on earth. We sit behind a computer telling it to do stuff we can’t be bothered to do for ourselves. It involves no physical effort, pain, risk or courage whatsoever.

[Mich the Tester]

Oooh, fascinating, I’ve just been to a 'scrum' with a bunch of little fat people and heard all about the next ‘sprint’ from someone who can’t even walk fast.

FFS, a ‘sprint’ involves an almost superhuman effort. Usain Bolt puts about 1500 watts to the ground when he runs the 100m. Yes, he makes it look as easy as walking from his desk to the bog, but no, it isn’t that easy.

[MarillionFan]

Actually I'd like to take umbrage at your pain point. I for one regularly get a stiff neck from using the computer.

[Mich the Tester]

Actually I'd like to take umbrage at your pain point. I for one regularly get a stiff neck from using the computer.

Neck?

[threaded]

Oooh, fascinating, I’ve just been to a 'scrum' with a bunch of little fat people and heard all about the next ‘sprint’ from someone who can’t even walk fast.

FFS, a ‘sprint’ involves an almost superhuman effort. Usain Bolt puts about 1500 watts to the ground when he runs the 100m. Yes, he makes it look as easy as walking from his desk to the bog, but no, it isn’t that easy.

I averaged 360.5 W for my 1 hour commute home, and peaked at 546.6 W (average over a 30 s burst)

IMHO not bad for an old guy.

[Mich the Tester]

I averaged 360.5 W for my 1 hour commute home, and peaked at 546.6 W (average over a 30 s burst)

IMHO not bad for an old guy.

Not bad at all. But remember, the knackeredness increases exponentially with the wattage produced. To put this in scientific terms, a fairly fit person who averages 360 watts for one hour, peaking at 550 watts will experience a mild form of post exercise ‘could-do-with-a-pint’ syndrome. A good sportsman who produces 550 watts for half an hour will experience moderate ‘I have earned the right to eat a meat pie’. An athlete who produces 1000 watts for more than about 30 seconds will feel his legs burning up, his heart smashing against the inside of his chest like machine gun bullets and his lungs about to explode; in short ‘effing hell, why do I put myself through this’.

[Moscow Mule]

I averaged 360.5 W for my 1 hour commute home, and peaked at 546.6 W (average over a 30 s burst)

IMHO not bad for an old guy.

You should get the bus old man. Less chance of an aneurysm.

[darmstadt]

Nobody ever names their software "Bag of old toss". Funny old thing, gives plenty of scope for morons (oxy or otherwise)

I quite often call bits of software BOS when handing them over. People then think that they're getting something good but it really means 'Bag Of tulip.' It does take some time thinking up a suitable range of words to fit the TLA but the best one was when I did a huge COBOL project and was getting pissed off with it and due to many components being reusable I called it POO - 'Psuedo Object Orientated.'

[SizeZero]

You're not working near the Rijksmuseum are you? Team scrum-midget can't have replicated and moved elsewhere in the Amsterdam area....

[d000hg]

Oooh, fascinating, I’ve just been to a 'scrum' with a bunch of little fat people and heard all about the next ‘sprint’ from someone who can’t even walk fast.

FFS, a ‘sprint’ involves an almost superhuman effort. Usain Bolt puts about 1500 watts to the ground when he runs the 100m. Yes, he makes it look as easy as walking from his desk to the bog, but no, it isn’t that easy.

Not our fault you don't understand the terminology or choose not to. I think it's stupid that Rugby teams have a Hooker (not to mention grown men playing a game that consists of running into each other and then people lie on top of you), but that just means we're equally ignorant about the others' field.