This is too funny! Can you imagine?

[jilola]

It gets better. The guy behind him was studying floor plans for what looked like a 2 room flat or maybe a kitchen renovation plan.

L&L
jouni

[PeacefulWarrior]

No way!  That's too funny!  I guess we shouldn't really be that suprised...it's human nature, but you know it's very disillusioning nonetheless.

[jilola]

Been  disillusioned since hearing the following from the Sec't of Treasury some years back. This was the comnclusion of a committee on findung ways to reduce the national debt:

"The national debt cannot be reduced by taking out a new loan"

Duh!

2cents & L&L
jouni

[PeacefulWarrior]

With all the talk of war and politics I needed something funny...and I think this is funny...can you imagine how embarassing this would be?  
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MP says sorry for war game goof
By Nick Farrell [31-01-2003]
Norwegian Conservative caught playing on Pocket PC in parliament

 
A Norwegian member of parliament created a storm when he was caught playing a game on his Pocket PC during a debate on his country's military involvement in Iraq.
According to the BBC, Trond Helleland was captured on national television playing the space-set war game.

Helleland said he had been tempted to try out the game, Metalion (in which players shoot laser cannons at drones), as he checked his diary for appointments.

He played the game for about seven minutes in full view of TV cameras, which had zoomed in on him from behind.

In his defence, Helleland said that he had at least turned off the computer's sound.

"I realise it was very stupid of me ... I will not do it again," he was quoted as saying.

The chamber had been debating defence issues, including Norwegian participation in coalition forces in Afghanistan and whether to join in any US-led military action against Iraq.
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Norway MP plays PDA game during war debate
Caught in the act
Friday, January 31, 2003 Posted: 9:36 AM EST (1436 GMT)


 This is, of course, very embarrassing and should never have happened.  
-- Trond Helleland  
 

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- While parliament hotly debated the actions of Norwegians fighting in Afghanistan, one lawmaker passed the time by playing a war-game of his own on his handheld computer.

What Conservative lawmaker Trond Helleland, chairman of the justice committee, didn't know was that national television was taping Wednesday's heated debate and zoomed in on him from behind as he played.

Helleland and the game made national television news Wednesday and major papers on Thursday, drawing furious responses.

"A member of parliament sitting and playing war-games in the meeting hall when such serious questions as war and peace are being discussed puts us all in a bad light," Marit Nybakk of the Labor Party told Norway's largest newspaper, Verdens Gang.

Among the topics debated was the use of a Norwegian fighter plane supporting coalition forces in Afghanistan. The plane dropped bombs during fighting Monday, the first time since World War II that Norway, a country of 4.5 million people, has been involved in combat. Lawmakers also debated what stand the NATO-member nation should take on a possible U.S.-led war against Iraq.

Helleland said he had intended to check his schedule on his Palm personal digital assistant but couldn't resist a round of Metalion, a war-game set in space that lets players shoot laser cannon at targets. He played it for about seven minutes in full view of cameras.

"This is, of course, very embarrassing and should never have happened," said Helleland, who claimed he followed most of the debate while he played the game.