So, after being given a guided tour round the pool tables, chess sets, table tennis tables, football tables, game consoles, massive two-player Time Crisis II cabinet, internal cinema, kitchens and canteen that offer free food and drink all day, deck chairs and hammocks at the London office of a certain well known company, my would-be manager had to point out that it was still a job, and I would still be expected to do work. If I get the job. Which he told me "not to worry about".

It's been a fair old morning!

Sounds promising. Things crossed for you.

Bamba, much excitement about the Commonwealth games? Are you going to atke some photos of the bike racing for me, the course is a right good 'un?

Does someone fancy referring me to somewhere that tells me what happens to a paintball when it impacts upon something?

I want to know what happens to the paintball itself (rather than the paint inside the paintball) and specifically whether the paintball breaks up (such that the fragments might do some damage).

Anyone know anything about that then?

Do your own research!

Would YouTube help? I bet someone has a super slow motion video of one breaking.

Busted. But seriously, I can't be arsed.

I'll be redundant in a couple of weeks so they're lucky I'm still doing any work and not phoning a load of agencies. I did that earlier.

Thomas the Tank Engine had to shut the hell up to save children everywhere
Classism, sexism, anti-environmentalism bordering on racism: any parent who discovered these hidden lessons will be glad the show’s star just quit

"What are you doing James? You're a big pink steamie," says Diesel, the bad-boy engine. (For the record, all the "villains" on Thomas and Friends are the dirty diesel engines. I'd like to think there was a good environmental message in there, but when the good engines pump out white smoke and the bad engines pump out black smoke – and they are all pumping out smoke – it's not hard to make the leap into the race territory.)

'Cheeky'? He always looked more stupidly smug to me.

Oh dear. The Grauniad descended into self-parody so slowly I didn't even notice.

Thomas and friends is fucking shit though. Either old school Thomas the tank engine or (I never thought I'd say this) Chuggington all the way. Speaking of which, whoever gave the town planning guy in that town the job needs his fucking head looking at. Surely at the interview stage he'd have revealed his hand to say that he's going to create a town with fucking train lines everywhere giving no easy access to anything rather than using driverless trains, which whilst benefitting the anti union sentiment that clearly prevails in chugland is somewhat lacking in the efficiency that would be expected from an autonomous transport system by firstly making the trains sentient, but also making them complete and fucking cretinous dicks. No one has been sold a pup of a transport system like that since Springfield got a monorail. Although saying that, the Greendale train line to pencaster seems a little extravagant as it only has five passengers a week, and always the same passengers. And there is clearly a road there that works quite effiicnetly because until they (in a complete volte face for royal mail) opened the most bleeding edge tech and delivery mechanism enhanced sorting office in Greendale, Pat used to drive there to pick up the post happily everyday. In fact, thinking about it, the guy who set up that system is clearly related to the chuggington town planner, and quite possibly has a cousin in the welsh fire service. All of them clearly left wing with an obsession with unnecessarily maximizing state resources. Thatcher would be spinning in her grave.

Every single free newspaper website has clickbait for this exact purpose. It's still does some of the best investigative journalism going from a newspaper though. Hard to dispute that much.

So, after being given a guided tour round the pool tables, chess sets, table tennis tables, football tables, game consoles, massive two-player Time Crisis II cabinet, internal cinema, kitchens and canteen that offer free food and drink all day, deck chairs and hammocks at the London office of a certain well known company, my would-be manager had to point out that it was still a job, and I would still be expected to do work. If I get the job. Which he told me "not to worry about".

It's been a fair old morning!

Thomas and friends is fucking shit though. Either old school Thomas the tank engine or (I never thought I'd say this) Chuggington all the way. Speaking of which, whoever gave the town planning guy in that town the job needs his fucking head looking at. Surely at the interview stage he'd have revealed his hand to say that he's going to create a town with fucking train lines everywhere giving no easy access to anything rather than using driverless trains, which whilst benefitting the anti union sentiment that clearly prevails in chugland is somewhat lacking in the efficiency that would be expected from an autonomous transport system by firstly making the trains sentient, but also making them complete and fucking cretinous dicks. No one has been sold a pup of a transport system like that since Springfield got a monorail. Although saying that, the Greendale train line to pencaster seems a little extravagant as it only has five passengers a week, and always the same passengers. And there is clearly a road there that works quite effiicnetly because until they (in a complete volte face for royal mail) opened the most bleeding edge tech and delivery mechanism enhanced sorting office in Greendale, Pat used to drive there to pick up the post happily everyday. In fact, thinking about it, the guy who set up that system is clearly related to the chuggington town planner, and quite possibly has a cousin in the welsh fire service. All of them clearly left wing with an obsession with unnecessarily maximizing state resources. Thatcher would be spinning in her grave.

So... you announce the news on facebook, but not in here eh? That's how it's going to be from now on is it

Current employer not taking news very well.

Oh, and they want to see my degree certificate. I'm pretty sure I lost that the day after I graduated.

Current employer should have treated you better, then you wouldn't have been looking for work elsewhere.

Revel in their annoyance, don't feel guilty about it It's not like they ever gave a crap about what you wanted.

As a very wise man on here once said "The only difference between loyalty and not, is the sincerity of the sorry from the company when they kick you in the nuts."

Revel in their annoyance, don't feel guilty about it It's not like they ever gave a crap about what you wanted.

As a very wise man on here once said "The only difference between loyalty and not, is the sincerity of the sorry from the company when they kick you in the nuts."

Read that and weep (rest of) Europe.

In related news, i'm of to Alton Towers for the umpteenth time again in a couple of weeks

I do have to agree with her on the main point of if theres a cycle lane that they are not using, instead choosing to block (often rush hour) traffic, that does make them collosal pricks.

See also: not choosing to release the snake of 20+ cars you've built up. If that were me I'd be extraordinarily embarrased.

One of those "what could possibly go wrong" moments.



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