It is. I gives it a raw edge. I particularly liked the episodes on terrorists invading imaginationland. Great satire. Then again I liked Mr Hankey.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
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It is. I gives it a raw edge. I particularly liked the episodes on terrorists invading imaginationland. Great satire. Then again I liked Mr Hankey.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
It's funny, I would know nothing about local fads without watching south park. I had no idea people thought John Travolta was gay, or the world was going to end in 2012, what scientology was or the new dance crazes until I watched the episodes:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
I was never on the nail with fads or fashion or music or anything. I distinctly remember never really knowing what to wear. My mates did and so I copied them. I cope now by wearing a series of "kits" as I did when I played sports. I have my, being in the house kit, my cycling kit, my allotment kit, my dog walking kit, my working kit and my smarter going up the town kit.
I like to keep my kits seperate - not from any autistic fuelled mania, but just because it's a lot less hassle.
My wardrobe is so much easier. Whatever I'm wearing, it will be with a t-shirt. Black to go with the suits and pastel colours for everything else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
That's good. The weather here, as you know, dictates the kit to an extent. October to the end of April - potentially cold wet weather. Nov to Feb - potentially freezing! Frost this morning - brrrrrQuote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
Most of the rest of the time - shorts.
I tend to have a rummage round my side of the bed to see what I threw there last week and put that on. There is no point wearing anything nice when dealing with nervous livestock.
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Mrs P came home with a letter today, (she has part time job with the co-op.) Apparently she's been "mapped" into the role of "Customer Team Member." I wouldn't mind a glimpse of this map myself.
Jesus. Few things piss me off more than corporate gobbledegook. I'm sure some inmate in a lunatic asylum thinks them up while wearing a tie-at-the-back shirt.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Changing paradigms, my backside.
I wonder what the corresponding terminology is for losing a job? Excavated from the working environment perhaps, or deleted from the office interface or expunged from the system?
Mapped into a negative employment role.
In the 80's it was being a dolie, or a dole-queue-Johnny.
I recall while working at my prior company, you knew you would be getting the axe if the Principal of the firm asked you to go to lunch at Chili's restaurant on a Friday, but only that combination.
You were safe if it was on any other day or other restaurant.
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Looks like the Coronal mass ejections are going to be a bit of a damp squib after all. Not that it matters here in Yorkshire, where if its not raining, its going to rain, and if its not going to rain its foggy. My nieghbour saw the Northern Lights in 1943 in Bradford (no doubt helped by the blackout) but nothing since.
:idea: That's an neat idea; for a while I had shoes and purses that were color coordinated with each outfit...the last few years though, it's tee shirts, flannel slacks and nikes:nonod:Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
It must be great not to have a bossom; my tees advertise pizza night, chocolate ice cream night and trips to the laundry where the bleach splashed:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
What sort of shoes do you wear?Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Wow, they took you to dinner? I've only been fired once; it was horribly traumatic. I had told the boss that some schematics seemed to have been "lifted" from my office. Next day, I walked in, no one said good morning, I was called to HR and they talked about those extra 3 minutes I took for lunch and the time I left for an emergency, called 2 security guards who walked me to my car....:alien:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
The twin horror of lifts and modern technology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFRoYhTJQQ
I've never been fired, but I've had some terrible interviews. You know the ones - where you're convinced that the boss doesn't like you - and you don't like him back. Probably just as well I bombed. He was a flash ******* anyway in a ten years out of date kind of way. It wouldn't have worked well.
The other boss I didn't like was a head. Some jobs you just don't want.
Another job I went for, i couldn't work out what the job was about. It was all too woolly. Half way through the interview for this job wth the LSC - funding body for grant funded educational organisations - which I wasn't fantastically keen on getting - I'd just come along to see - I realised I didn't want the job. I should have come clean, held up my hands and said - lets not waste any more of our time now shall we, and gone. It would have been a great story, but sadly I stuck it out knowing I wouldn't bother with it. I didn't get the job, and the LSC has now gone down the pan with the cuts. Lucky old me.
That was great.Quote:
Originally Posted by jocky
I used to work with a guy from Glasgae in the slaughterhouse. He was a bit further down the line and had anger management issues which the labourers used to take advantage of. I always thought that was a bit off because he, as a slaughterman, had the very sharp knife.
Anyway, it was very noisy in there with the saw for cutting cattle in half. I spent 2 and a half years nodding, smiling and sticking my thumb up at him without ever really catching a word he said. I have the ear for it now, and can watch Rab C Nesbit with nae problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABrDV...351E669DE054C9
They do great drunks.
Just a pity more teachers don't have experience of the real world. You certainly have grasped the idea of the Scottish stereotype and I am so glad I am living up to your expectations. Any man who had a hoop and a stick as a kid was wealthy beyond dreams. Now when I were a lad.......Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Hoop and stick. Those were the days.Quote:
Originally Posted by jocky
We all have our stereotypes to live up to. Mick and I can easily regress into the rock ape personas that really characterise the Yorkshire tyke type. The knuckles drag a bit more, the accent thickens, and a proud sneer at the rest of the un-Yorkshire world develops upon our top lips. :lol:
The last time me and Mrs J visited Yorkshire to see our daughter and two grandchildren we spent a couple of days in York. My other half suggested ( somewhat slyly ) " Jocky why don't you go and visit Yorkminster, you know you have always wanted to see it ." I thought, how unusually generous a gesture. Just in time I remembered it is still legal to murder a Scotsman in the grounds of the Cathederal. Instead I went to the racetrack and lost all our holiday money. It was well worth the row. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
This just keeps being the best thread in the entire universe.
I am :smilielol5:
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Originally Posted by Paulclem
Regress?
Well - let me present my credentials.
[IMG]http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/a...11_2305_01.jpg[/IMG]
My flat cap on my flat screen.
Yet when I left Yorkshire and discovered lands far and wide - Sunderland to be precise - I found they were ok.
I also had an inner conflict going on - I remember reading Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, (beacause I had to for my uni course), in the cabin on a building site in Rubery - Birmingham - surrounded by copies of The Sun and builder blokes for whom admitting an interest in things other than beer, women and gambling was tantamout to an attack on the manhood of the male species.
I did feel like this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ghIoPLyJ-k
:lol::lol::lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Right enough, Thomas Hobbes is far more interesting than women and gambling. Did I ever tell you about the time I caught the biggest pike known to mankind, unfortunately the camera broke, I named it Leviathan but no one believed me. Philosophy and fish what a combination.
Nice looking flat cap and funny video Paul!Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
"...Kant"
"What you say?!!"
From big pigeons to big fish, when does it end Jocky?Quote:
Originally Posted by jocky
Gentlemen, I'm having the blokiest of blokey evenings; Just finished two pints of ale at Carlyle Brewing company in Rockford and now I'm setlled in my hotel with a Jack Daniels and ginger ale watching Clint Eastwood in "A Fistfull of Dollars".
Next up is "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good the Bad and the Ugly".
It doesn't get much better than this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeFpM2OEWPs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XETCBf4m5g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awskKWzjlhk
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In a big coffin. :) Sounds like you are having a good night. Enjoyed the clips, you would love it over here on the glorious twelfth. You can shoot anything that moves, even the beaters, they come a lot cheaper than the grouse. I was thinking of wrestling an octopus next but a character named Gilliatt beat me to it. Are you on the wild turkey again ? Time to egress.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
Great clips Gilliatt. I want to go and watch a film now. I've got some whiskey in the cupboard too. No-ones about and so it won't matter if I flake out on ther sofa.
I tried to read Leviathon once. I think I went for the philosophy - beer philosophy at the local that is.
:lol:
In my experience of these things there is always someone about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
What a pity you would have really enjoyed the chapter where he compares the human condition to the workings of a watch. Timepieces were the in thing in the seventeenth century. It was just about the end of that passage I started drinking as well.
All fishermen are philosophers at heart. Well, at head, anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by jocky
Any bloke that spends hours holding his rod has to have the odd existential moment.
I love that guy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
That's funny. I've just finished watching Randolph Scott in The Texans. Nothing like a good cowboy film, although the Amercian SPCA's absence in those days is pretty noticeable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
been sitting and reading in the wings for months and will comment someday on any all things, but I'm here to ask for advice about quitting smoking. I will not do hypnosis but anything else is possible. I can't drive 55, and it's also too young to die. RSVP
Quitting the cancer sticks depends on a number of factors. If you drink, I assume you do as you are a paid up memer of the Blokes Thread, this makes the task doubly harder. Do you regularly exercise ? Giving up the cigs can mean a dramatic weight increase and obesity brings its own problems. Have you got a short fuse as this can be problematic for your nearest and dearest ? Just throw the pack in the bin and let will power do the rest.Quote:
Originally Posted by gbrekken
Since you mentioned the rock anthem...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdfPER5Cgm8
There are some pretty useful prescription drugs that have had good success with smokers giving up. First step, talk to your doctor!Quote:
Originally Posted by gbrekken
Atheist is right, nicotine replacement as gum, patch, or pill are a good first step. They're healthier than the cigs, although still come with problems like heart and blood pressure risk. They're also costly, but the idea is to wean yourself off them eventually.
Your mind set is the most important thing, you must really, really want to give up. There can be no equivication or doubt.
That's why a visit to the Dr should be the first step.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
The side-effects from replacement therapy is infinitely smaller than that of tobacco and the best results by far are with people who use replacement therapy.
There is also a drug which acts like nicotine, but it has some potentially fatal psychological effects. (Varenicline)
Sorry, I should have expanded on the earlier comment, but I was in a bit of a hurry.
They're heavily subsidised here, but either way, they cost a fraction of cigarettes.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
One other thing which may be worth trying - for some idiotic reason they are banned here - Swedish snus.
While they are by no means "safe", they are much, much safer than smoking.
It is ironic that we have to resort to another drug to help resolve our original drug addiction. In my community the devestation of heroin addiction is highly visible. The skeletor like mother pushing her buggy, carrying her skeletor like bairn to the chemist in order to get her methadone alternative. Then the dealers standing outside the door to collect her benefit money. Happy days.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
Same thing happens here in the poor areas - half the population are starving their kids to pay for crystal methamphetamine while the other half drives around in late model BMWs on the proceeds of selling it.Quote:
Originally Posted by jocky
Why is heroin such a problem in Scotland? It seems to be the last bastion of shooting drugs; just about everywhere else has moved on to coke or meth.
The problems are the same here in certain areas. They're easy to spot.
Rather than read my tortuous attempt at an explanation I will let the brilliantly droll Jonathon Meades offer an insight.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATc6d7vv29M