Oh Well

Rant Of The Day

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These are all from a quick scan of today’s news:

  • Angloplat to inject up to $10 mln into new project
  • Trust plans to axe up to 450 jobs
  • SIA raises fuel surcharge by up to US$60 from May 15
  • Best practice procurement may save GLCs up to RM9b, says PM
  • Father accused of lying to protect son faced up to 16 years
  • 3 men facing up to life in prison in illegal immigrant smuggling …
  • EHealth plans IPO for up to $85 million

More muddled-minded gibbering from the media. Completely meaningless nonsense. You could rewrite each of these, replacing ‘up to’ with ‘not more than’ and they would mean exactly the same. What the hell does ‘up to life in prison’ mean? You can’t serve more than life in prison. :rant:

In case you are interested. I presently have debts of up to £100,000,000, have had sex with up to 10,000 women, fathering up to 200,000 children. I intend eating up to 15 kilograms of chocolate this evening, while bingeing on up to 27 pints of beer and up to 5 bottles of wine. What are you all getting up to?

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  2. Well, I’m going up to my bath in a minute as I’ve been up to the allotment today, up to my elbows in soil and couch grass, and I’m fed up to the back teeth of being nagged by my children.
    Whether you believe that or not is entirely up to you.

  4. Could be read as “facing up” instead of facing “up to”, though I don’t suppose that was what was meant.