Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

[Paulclem]

Amazing how such brilliant writing is married to such low production values.

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.

[soundofmusic]

I like South park - it feeds my uncultured side, as does Jackass. I have to laugh. I'm glad Jackass wasn't around when I was a lad - I had some mad mates!

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

[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.

[The Atheist]

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.

[Paulclem]

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.

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 - brrrrr

Most of the rest of the time - shorts.

[prendrelemick]

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.

[Paulclem]

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.

[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.

[The Atheist]

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.

Changing paradigms, my backside.

[Paulclem]

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?

[prendrelemick]

Mapped into a negative employment role.

[Paulclem]

In the 80's it was being a dolie, or a dole-queue-Johnny.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

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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[prendrelemick]

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.

[soundofmusic]

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.

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

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.

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

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.

What sort of shoes do you wear?

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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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....