God only knows why, they're disgusting :blarg
God only knows why, they're disgusting :blarg
Agreed. I once had to eat as many cold baked beans as I could with a toothpick in a minute as part of some stupid party game. It was like torture. Just realised it's related to the uni thing a bit. Family would always crack those lame stereotypical jokes with me about always cooking beans on toast for dinner, but I naturally had to disappoint them.
Did anyone watch the last Inbetweeners? I've not really watched it properly before, mainly because I don't like any of the characters. It was pretty hilarious for the first half though. The uni that 'featured' in it is where I went, and now makes me wonder if it has some kind of reputation.
I had the longest day ever mainly due to Rush Hour traffic in London. I was in Kensington today and said to myself "right, I'll leave at 3pm when I've done everything I need to do so I'll avoid the rush." Well, 3pm became 4pm and I hit the traffic on the way home. It took 3 and a half hours to travel 80 odd miles home. :eek
that sounds bad DP... :(
luckily i live in a small city so i dont have traffic issues...
but i can totally understand you, whenever i've been to Athens(and some other big cities) the traffic was unbearable, it made me go mad! lol
baked beans... almost as bad as brussel sprouts.
Jacket potato - cheese - not too many beans - cheese
gorgeous ;):+
Gotta love how Britain eat over 90% of the worlds baked beans!
Baked Beans are alright as long as they are not alone :)
For example, Chili con Carne without Baked Beans? No way ;P
When I was a kid I used to eat cold Baked Beans straight from the Heinz can :g
Sooo anyway, today I found out my cousin is getting married. I also found out that she was gay and marrying a girl!
:eek
Almost embarrassed to say it, but this just goes to show how well I know some members of my extended family... not much at all! :lol
Is she hot? ;)
The cousin? haha :g
Either... I'm not fussy... but I would like photographic evidence! :D
I don't understand the fascination with lesbians (not real ones anyway). They're just two more women that definitely aren't interested in any of us.:|
Haha, couldn't agree more Saturn. Couldn't care less if they're never gonna be interested. :p
Yeah, okay - mostly they're not all they're cracked up to be. ;)
There's this crazy loud lesbian woman who gets on my train sometimes, who's definitely the dungaree wearer of the relationship, if you get my drift. And I kid you not, she talks to anyone she vaguely knows about how gorram great it is being a lesbian and how much her and her partner "connect", which I didn't think was possible for them without accessories, but there you go - her loud words, not mine.
This is on the early train. The 8:01 express. I don't even want to hear about straight sex between really hot people at that time in the morning, never mind her butchness telling tall tales of rug munching goodness.
I've actually switched carriages on the train to avoid her a few times - even my noise isolating earphones (Shure SE115's, audiophiles!) can't block her lesbosity out entirely. Do not want.
Anyhoo, I just wondered if amplificated's cousin or his new in-law were of the fantasy lesbian variety. :D
That sounds more like an issue with loud people. I'm not a fan of loud people who seek attention either, especially on the train.
On a slightly related note, did I ever tell everyone about what I heard on the train one day? This guy was with his little kid (3 years old or something), who was asking all those little kids questions - what's that? why's the sky blue? why this? why that? - then all of a sudden, he comes out with, "Daddy, is that woman a pwostitrute?" :eek I couldn't believe it, and assumed at first that I must have misheard, but I turned my head in the toward the part of the platform where the kid was pointing and there was a woman with a shortish skirt and boots on. OMG! Then the Dad confirmed it by making a disapproving remark about her attire and comparing her to someone else they know who he obviously didn't approve of.:o
I was so shocked, especially as I have a memory of being about 10 before I first heard the word. Two girls in my class were having an argument, with one calling the other a prostitute and me thinking, "My Dad's a prostitute, what's wrong with that?". Turns out my Dad was a Protestant. Then there's me telling my parents at the dinner table I studied e-lesbian history in class that day. Stupid Elizabethans!:redface: Happy days!
Quality! :D
I took my daughter for a walk by the reservoirs at the top of town a week or so back and there were so many people walking dogs it was like crufts. She's at the asking questions all the time stage, so she was going "Daddy, why are those people waking their dogs?"
"Because it's a nice place to walk dogs." I replied.
Some time later we see more people and she asks again "Daddy, why are those people walking their dogs, too?"
"Like I said, because it's a nice place to walk dogs." I replied.
Back at the car park and an estate (station wagon for our trans-Atlantic cousins) pulls up beside us and the folk unload three dogs from the back.
"Wow, daddy! More dogs. Why are so many people walking their dogs here?" she asks again.
"Well, like I said - this is a great dogging spot." I replied. Straight face, too.
I couldn't help myself. Internally I was pissing my pants, but no doubt this will come back to haunt me when she tells her grandma to take her cocker spaniel up to the reservoir because it's a great dogging spot!
I can already feel the evil glares that you got coming your way.:twisted
Doesn't surprise me.Quote:
Originally Posted by amplificated
Seems lesbianism is the "New Black" around Australia atm, they are appearing everywhere, IMHO I think in a lot of cases it's just girls imitating these fake lesbian romances certain Hollywood wannabes are saying are happening just for publicity.
Might be the main reason The Ellen DeGeneres show seems very popular ATM, god knows why, it's so plastic.:D
Don't knock it for f*ck's sake!Quote:
Originally Posted by blackwiggle
Well, let's just say that nobody on that side of my family is unattractive :PQuote:
Originally Posted by infoxicated
Haven't met her fiancee yet though.
I'm with SatReturn as well, I don't see the big deal about lesbianism....
I don't know much more than what I've already mentioned, so I can't really comment on that. It's a possibility, and she's in her early 20's... but I guess we'll see what happens. Like I said, I obviously don't know her very well :PQuote:
Originally Posted by blackwiggle
Well, here's my impression of her, with the "Connecting Accessory" ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by infoxicated
Crikey! you've been watching the wrong genre of films? :P :lol
LOL, I just had to link to that when infox mentioned butch. :g
@gaddafi: You're from Preston? Coolio. :D
Today I made Cardboy :)
He's about 6cm tall when printed on letter paper.
Hahaha that was a great story, kudos to you for keeping a straight face! :+Quote:
Originally Posted by infoxicated
Hopefully she won't remember that, or you'll have a whole load of other explaining to do which I'm sure she's not ready to hear yet!
Walking my dog yesterday (I actually walked a real dog! I swear!), I pondered the story. Particularly the estate / stationwagon part.
In Danish, such a vehicle is a 'stationcar' - including the 'car' bit, which is kinda weird. But... as an exception to the rule, a Volvo used to be referred to as what translates into Estate Car.
Why this honour of a British title is bestowed only on Volvo I really don't know. Every other car gets the common and base American title.
I guess this constitutes Useless fact of the Day :D
I think I will find out about redundancies at work tomorrow. There was an ominous email to the whole group today, just telling everyone to be in the office on Thursday morning. It's a bit weird though, as they've never told us that before. At the same time my group never suffered much before, so that could be a bad sign.
I hope I don't get selected, but in some ways am just as concerned about workmates, both for them and for me (selfishly). There are relatively few people who I really get on with very well, so if a single one of them went it would totally suck, and some of them have recently gained obligations like mortgages and families/dependents, which I'm thankful I don't, just in case it all goes horribly wrong.
I really want to put off going to bed, as if it would somehow put off tomorrow coming. Unfortunately, it's actually after 1am already, so tomorrow is already here. Stupid tomorrow! Oh well, fingers crossed.
urgh... I went through exactly that last month. Everybody be at their desk tomorrow 8 am :|
It's not exactly a funfilled few hours, especially when one is located right next to the office used for the actual firing. Seeing the condemned walk past is pretty tough.
Did you get to keep your job?
We got another email telling us to let them know if we'd be out of the office Friday as well, so presumably it's tomorrow now. I wish it were a bit clearer. We all know what it's about but unless someone actually says the word 'redundancies' then it feels a bit weird. It's almost worse that they treat the word as taboo. I kind of feel for the guy giving people the news too. That must suck!
I also realised today that tomorrow will be exactly three years since I started working there. Somehow, I'm not sure that's a good omen. Neither is the fact that my boss tried to strike up a conversation with me today, as that hasn't really happened before.
Hopefully I'm just paranoid. I'm definitely a little bit paranoid.:nod
Well, just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you :nod
It's never a good sign when people who may be in the know starts changing habits, but it's quite likely he doesn't know anything yet and either tries to calm everybody else down or tries to hide his own insecurity.
At least my company has gotten redundancies down to an art. It is announced a day in advance, is over the next day after a few hours and the casualtylist is published at midday. It can seem a bit brutal, but it is over in a hurry.
It is still not exactly good for morale and motivation though :| I hope you make it through!
A day in advance? Is that the only thing you hear at all? We've had to have a long process this time. I think for over 100 people there has to be a 3 month consultation period or something like that. It never is that long though, as they seem to include whatever notice staff are to be given in that period. It's all very weird. But people do hate the way it's dragged out.
Well if the rumour mill fails, then one day is all we get. Of course, depending on how long you've been with the company, you still get paid 3-6 months after you're sent home so you're not just put on the street with an empty pocket and sore bum :)
They tried one time announcing it a few months in advance. I bet it cut productivity by 75%, everybody just sat around and waited, no new projects were started and nobody had any inclination to anything other than the absolute minimum. I say it works much better just getting it done in a hurry.
In Singapore,I think the notification of resignation is required at least 2 months in advance.I know that this is about retrenching/firing(Retrenching is better than being fired?).How does the process work over there?
I'm not sure what happens here once people know. I can't imagine anyone wanting to hang around for long. But once people know their last day is supposed to be near the start of December, so I think people have to stay on. Some have holidays carried over which they can use to get out earlier.
Anyway, I didn't hear anything today at all - not even any rumours. But I checked my emails earlier this evening and there was a message saying that the process is ongoing and we can't be given the 'all clear' yet. I will try to just get on with stuff now and not think about it. I do wish they'd just make things more certain for everyone though.:(
Thats sucks saturn. do you think no news is good news? i mean perhaps if they'd already made a decision to cut the staff they might have been more forthcoming with a date?
*heres a random musing i though id throw out there. been thinking about this all day :lol
do animals get hiccups?
They're making cuts. The last day of work for anyone who will go is already stated. It's a matter of who and how many. Then once they identify people for redundancy, they look at options for relocating people outside the UK if possible. Then there are some who will want to argue their case etc. So the process is ongoing. But because I haven't heard anything at all about anyone, I'm wondering if they haven't even told everyone yet. They've said they can't give the all clear so I have no idea what's really happening.
But still, I think that you might be right. Obviously, as long as I haven't heard then I'm safe, and the same goes for workmates etc.
I imagine animals do get hiccups. It's completely involuntary and some weird natural occurrence that I think could easily happen in animals.
My dog get hiccups regularly. My guess is, if you have lungs, you can hiccup. Fish on the other hand...
id take the moving of dates to have 'meetings' as a good thing. gotta keep the faith :D even if it is a massive downer :-
interesting. ive never seen it happen. or perhaps im just not looking for the signs of animal hiccups. im sure there are youtube videos. there seems to be one for everything
Yes they do.
Seeing as how I barely made any posts (most likely because of college work), but I can't wait to finish my current semester in college so I can take digital art class. I'm not just a gamer, but an artist-under-training :).