The Miserable Bastard Scale, or MBS, was originally formulated on sci.military.naval for Usenet use. In view of its naval origins, it is based on the marine version of the Beaufort Scale of wind s

  Although the perils of software and online translators are well known to those who need to make use of them, even though they have become generally very good, there are the odd occasions where even

  We have reception and a training room downstairs at work and offices are upstairs. My admin bod NH came back upstairs tonight to tell me the receptionist had hootered off and left both the outside d

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