DJE
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A friend of mine use to tell people that he was studying at "a college in the Midlands" when he didn't want to admit he was at Oxford.
Did he go there from "Slough Grammar"?
A friend of mine use to tell people that he was studying at "a college in the Midlands" when he didn't want to admit he was at Oxford.
Oxford graduates don't think anything of them.
Au contraire...There used to be a salesman who I understand had something to do with a major manufacturer on here. He used to post stuff like this!
Self serving protectionism is my view!
He used to say we shouldn't buy radios from the States because they werent certified, that the heavens would open and we would suffer hell fire and damnation, or something like that!
Load of cobblers of course, my argument always was that if an American boat came over here, that hell fire and damnation didnt happen as soon as it entered eu waters!
Stu
Anglia Ruskin University has a campus in Cambridge, which used to be the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology when I was a lad.
CCAT had a vital position in the life of Cambridge University when I was a student - this was in the days when Cambridge University was heavily male-dominated, so anywhere that had a population of young women was of interest!
Oxford graduates think they own the world. Cambridge graduates don't give a damn who owns the world.
I've just found this:
http://www.icomuk.co.uk/News_Article/3794/17103/
Normally I wouldn't take any notice but as this is Icom I think I'll start looking more closely!
Allan
I suppose I could say that I went to a college in East Anglia, but Cambridge graduates don't much care what people think of them
I at one time had "M.A. (Cantab)" on my c.v. I changed it after one interviewer said 'So you went to Canterbury'.
The forum reaches a new level tedium. Up next, watching paint dry, will my boot top dry faster than my antifouling.
Still better than "A weekend on the Solent #627" in the mag ...
YO YO YO, don't be Dissin' da Solent, blood. Innit
It's not the Solent as much as the four hundred and nineteenth article telling us about the unspoiled charm of Yarmouth as long as you get there before 4pm because otherwise all two hundred visitor berths are full.
It's not the Solent as much as the four hundred and nineteenth article telling us about the unspoiled charm of Yarmouth as long as you get there before 4pm because otherwise all two hundred visitor berths are full.
Without self certification a lot of small businesses in the UK wouldn't be able to operate. The "policeman" in the supply chain is often the retailer who will make an effort to ensure the products they buy are to spec.
Apologies for de-drifting the thread...temporarily I'm sure. EDIT: I suppose that should be "salvaging"—I felt that might be unduly harsh!
Thanks for “de-drifting” at last. I used to own and run a notified body (not R&TTE though). This is, in my opinion, a “non story”. I am not aware of a competing / alternative CE mark meaning “Chinese Export”. The use of this (slightly wrong) mark on Chinese products is probably simply because someone, somewhere has told a Chinese exporter that products supplied in the EU need to bear the mark. He has used the wrong format without understanding the rules behind the “new approach” EU Directives. Nothing more. I’m willing to be corrected of course but I don’t see this as “scandalous”.
My MA (Oxon) makes me sound like a vet. Who can't spell.