Uninteresting Trivial Facts

[MikeW]

Guess which is the only film on IMDB that has a rating out of 11 instead of 10?

This is Spinal Tap?

[MikeW]

I've just got my Chemistry HNC. Degree beckons. Thankyou MMU.

Congratulations!

[Futtocks]

This is Spinal Tap?

Correct!

[MikeW]

Cars, specifically air conditioning units on them, are bloody expensive

[Severus]

I've just got my Chemistry HNC. Degree beckons. Thankyou MMU.

 

Sam?

 

Many congratulations. 

[Wolford6]

I've just got my Chemistry HNC. Degree beckons. Thankyou MMU.

 

 

Congratulations. Was that despite having Sev as a lecturer?

[Shadow]

Woken at 2am by the contents of half an open lemonade bottle seeping though the duvet, causing a sudden cold wet feeling on my back. Hoping tonight remains uneventful and ones other half puts the top back on before he zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

1

are you Absolutely certain it was lemonade

and

2

lemonade in bed? eeeuuucchhh!

[amm]

1

are you Absolutely certain it was lemonade

and

2

lemonade in bed? eeeuuucchhh!

 

In that split second of waking I went through the thought process of what the hell is it ha ha 

 

It felt like it was something coming out of my back, but didn't feel like blood as  it was cold - so it was a case of 'what's on my back!' 'what IS IT?!'.....only to turn to him and see the lemmo bottle with no top on, now splurging yet more onto the duvet I had disturbed jumping out of bed

 

He always has to have a drink by the bed - I know - lemonade - he doesn't do water like the rest of us 

 

First time he's done it in 5 years and he's on a red card...SINE DIE next

[ckn]

I've just come out of a meeting with senior management at my current client where they were talking about the performance of the staff in the department.  I was representing the 30 people temporarily seconded to my control.

 

They had a big redundancy operation last year with the director stating that they had kept the cream of the department, they have done trivial recruitment since.  Today's meeting started with that same director demanding that we, the managers, do something about the serious under-performance of those on the lower half of the performance bell-curve.  I was the only one who raised that you could have the top 100 people in the world in a company and a properly weighted bell curve performance system would have half of them in the "below average" range.  It was like something out of a Dilbert comic.

 

The token HR drone sat looking horrified at the stated plan to "manage out" the bottom 20%.

 

The IT support manager just sat quietly as he was ranted at for having poorer statistics so far this year and complaints about slow service were high.  It's telling of the culture of the place that he didn't complain back asking what's he supposed to do when over 60% of his team were made redundant yet they were expected to take on even more work.

I think I need a new career...  I'm very glad that Friday is my last day at this client.

[ckn]

A supposed friend of mine liked and shared an EDL link about a UK weather broadcast having Ramadan timings on it.  Out of interest, I read the comments on the link along with my friend's comment and it was just full of utterly racist and obscenely offensive stuff.  It's very highly likely this will be an ex-friend unless she denies all knowledge of it and it was her idiot other half posting on her Facebook page instead of his.

[timtum]

Aaaaargh!

 

Season of flies / mouches.  I hate 'em.  I nearly ate 'em yesterday not noticing until just before chopper time that a couple of carbonised little wotsits had joined the bangers in the frying pan.

 

I know its wrong, but today the fly paper has gone up in Chateau Timtum.  

 

"Help me, help me"

[Futtocks]

A film whose cast includes Max von Sydow, Alexander Skarsgård, Stellan Skarsgård, Mads Mikkelsen, Peter Stormare and Terrence Scammell... got to be a dark, brooding psychodrama, surely? Or the latest Scandi-crime thriller? Er... no. Not exactly.

[Futtocks]

Look who finished tenth in the Botswana Premier League!

[amm]

This time next week I will be putting this on and getting unbearably excited mwhahahaha

 

 

 

 anyone who tries to rain on my parade can kiss the other one x

 

[ckn]

We have a very first world problem in our house today:  We have far too much fresh food to eat before it goes off.  The freezer got two packs of beef and some leftovers, the wife will use the lamb to make a curry today and it's salmon for lunch.

[terrywebbisgod]

Eldest son on work experience this week,working as an audio engineer,gets to work at the Wilko Johnson gig in York on Sunday.

One happy son,he's met Wilko,carried his guitars,helped him with the soundcheck.Also met Norman Watt-Roy,who's playing bass for Wilko and Steve Howes son,who's playing drums.

[Wolford6]

7502

[ckn]

BT decided today to create a cease order on my phone line with immediate effect.  This immediately cancelled my fibre broadband and my broadband provider sent me a note saying that I may have to pay up for the rest of the contract if I can't fix the problem.

 

Now, the funny part is that I've never missed a direct debit or payment ever.  BT think it was "user error" on their side and it'll take 7 days to reactivate my phone line.  They offered a £10 credit to my account.  I made it very clear that that's not even slightly acceptable.

[ckn]

I've just received a further call from BT Collections asking me to immediately pay the outstanding part-month balance on my account due to my contractual breach by closing my account without notice.  I was in full Rab C Nesbitt rant mode by the end of that call.

 

After telling BT to just reactivate the service so I could move to a different supplier, I tried to do that but couldn't.  I wanted to move it to a different company but BT's systems say that the account is ceased and untransferrable.  The very, very helpful people at Zen told me exactly what to say to the BT people to get the problem sorted.

 

I wanted a quiet day today as well as I had planned to spend the day writing.  Telly off, no radio, no distractions.  That worked well then.  I think I'll just give up for the day and start again tomorrow.

[ckn]

I really love how the banner advert for me on this page is for BT.

[amm]

403,387,282 people born in the world between mine and his birth dates! How extremely lucky he was to find me

[Wolford6]

Nah, it was pretty easy.

 

There were only eighty four good looking women left in Lancashire. Fifty of them had scouse accents and twelve lived in the Salford gay village.

[ckn]

One of my aims this week was to experiment and see if I could get over my dislike for Windows 8 and Office 2013.  I reinstalled a Win8 virtual machine with Office 2013 on Saturday and have been using it pretty much exclusively since.  I'm now fed up with it and it's getting archived again.  Back to Mac OSX for my generic operating system with Windows 7 for the few apps that aren't Mac compatible.  What possessed Microsoft to create an operating system that's substantially worse than Windows 7?  Win7 is a solid, reliable and very usable operating system, Win8 is a hybrid disaster for a standard computer.

 

Same with the applications.  Win2013 is a processor hog that shares a Win8 GUI, as are its add-ons that I normally use in Project and Visio.  Back to Office 2012 for Mac and the 2010 PC variants for Visio and Project.

[amm]

Leigh and back has done me a power of good. Can't beat family time

[Phil]

One happy son,he's met Wilko,carried his guitars,helped him with the soundcheck.Also met Norman Watt-Roy,who's playing bass for Wilko and Steve Howes son,who's playing drums.

 

 

How can this be fair? It's just not!!!!!!

 

Stamps foot*