Be Excellent To Each Other

Happy Birthdays!

Don't touch that game Nickachu! Workmate bought it on a whim and said it's dire.

Happy birthdays!

Happy Birthday Howard!


Who is Sir Hugh?

Only joking Happy Birthday Sit Hugh!

cake and fizzy orange for you both!

It is a sniper game I haven't bought.

I'm not quite sure how the 'Make all attractive women wear Burkhas' section got past the BBC review. However, seeing as how we have contracted out our national sense of Moral Outrage to the Daily Mail and Daily Express, I doubt we'll hear of it again.

Hope all goes well today Mr. Russell.

Last night's Top Gear was certainly interesting, but it seemed they decided that, having netted Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz for the 'Star In A Reasonably Priced Car' bit, they may as well save the budget for other episodes this series. Also, Tom Cruise's lap was a bit messy and didn't seem that fast, making me of a mind to declare bullshit on his laptime.

Honestly, me doubting the veracity of television? Whatever next? No doubt next you'll be telling me that the Ferrari Formula 1 team are cheating cunts! Well I won't hear a word of it!

Happy Birthdays!

Has anyone else here read 'And Another Thing' by Eoin Colfer? I don't do much book reading (I read magazines and newspapers all the time, but very few actual novels), but decided to use this as my way back in - particularly as I was a collossal Douglas Adams fan and naturally wanted to read the sixth installment of The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, even if Adams himself had nowt to do with it (on account of being quite dead).

Anyway, I just wanted to know if I was the only person to find it to be actually a bit shit? It's taking me an age to get through and I'm increasingly finding that I no longer give a shit what happens to these characters that I previously cared greatly about.

Oh.

And happy days people!

I rather like the idea of Queen Victoria doubling as a sharpshooter:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishmon ... 099279897/

and

http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishmon ... 099279897/

It appears to be in some sort of contraption that does all the aiming. Isn't that kind of cheating a bit?

Hehe... I don't want to be the one to tell her

She fucking missed the bull anyway! LOL

I remember reading about that, somewhere. The gun was set up so that it couldn't miss.

Off with his head!

I still have 'Magic Fly' by Space playing on repeat in my brain. Downloading the album probably didn't help.

Hahaha.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/26/nhs_trust/

Pff. I had to make do with ragged, coverless copies of twenty-year-old Razzles, Clubs and the like at the clinic I went to. I distinctly remember one of the few magazines that did have a cover trumpeting an exclusive Phil Hartman interview inside. (I didn't read it.)

Too focused on his pictures.

Happy birthdays!

I didn't get the job I interviewed for, but I didn't get made redundant either. They've offered me a three month secondment to Birmingham to sort out some of the shops down there. I have a couple of days to decide whether I want the secondment and to be in the same position again in three months, or whether I turn it down and take my redundancy after six weeks notice.

I guess I take the three months and use it to look for another job...?

God, I hate being so unsure about my own life.

As a plus point, I might be able to go to the cottage in October.

Keep the job and start looking for a new one.
I'm in a similar boat and I'm having trouble finding a job within 5 months, let alone 3 months. But you've probably got experience and whatnot.

I am an experience machine!

Trouble is, I don't want to go and sort out understaffed shops. But yeah, you know.... employment.

Question is, do you want employment or not.
Simple answer really

I could earn nearly the same amount of money in redundancy payment though... Gragh.

And yes, damn my third world problems.

Surely you'll get the redundancy payment if they give you the boot after the three months is up anyhow? In which case take the secondment and buy yourself some valuable job hunting time.

Correct. It does seem like the sensible option.

Plus I'll be closer to Dimrill.

Personally I would take the redundancy and get out now, assuming it is a good enough offer. There is no way the offer will be any better in 3 months time, and depending on how many redundancies there are, your current place will be a shithole to work for over the next few months.

Sure, staying gives you a little extra time to find something else, but is the stress of staying and waiting actually any better than leaving and knowing?

I've been through redundancy twice in my career so far (that has personally affected me anyway) First time I volunteered to go, but got turned down and had to stay. I managed 6 months before I quit anyway, as it had all gone to pot. Second time in a different place I volunteered and was accepted, the offer was crap but the company had no money what-so-ever, so not worth the stress of seeing if I got to stay and then wondering if I was actually going to get paid each month.

Get out now if at all possible, move on with your life, faint heart never fucked a pig, the only way is up baby, for you and me now.

Trooper. I'd be down in stores, so the shitty place to be would be at head office.

Where I'm currently sat, pissing about on forums.

So i wouldn't really notice the place becoming a shithole to work. The shitty bit would be having to take responsibility for 15ish stores that are chronically understaffed and robbed every other month. I don't mind if I just go in and sort out their problems, but I can't be doing with having to manage the staff rotas or persuade people to do overtime. I had enough of that when I was a store manager myself.

I would be wary of the redundancy offer being modified if you accept 3 threee months. You need to tie these things down before you accept anything. Also, does the 3 months take you over another year of redundancy payment?

Assassin's Creed is very pretty. I'm stuck after only 30 minutes. Stupid cliffs.

It is, but once you've done the first city you'll jack it in.

Or you'll continue on savouring each city and the climbing opportunities.

And then find the sequel to be better and more varied.

in which you will do the first prettier and more varied city, then jack it in.

Or you'll continue enjoying every aspect of the game and love the climbing and sneakily assassinating people.

As is the norm, I agree with Dimrill.

I didn't even finish the first city, I got bored of the rubbish combat and the stupid premise of hiding in a dustbin. Also the, "hey that man is on a horse and the horse is running. KILL HIM!" aspect of travel.

The sequel is certainly a hell of a lot better, but I still enjoyed the first. It was difficult trying to push myself to complete it, mind. The first certainly captured the feeling of being an assassin a bit better, much to its credit.

If anything pissed me off about AssCreed1, it was the lack of speech samples. Jesus Christ, how did they miss that in playtesting?

I'M SO POOR, PLEASE GIVE ME SOME MONEY!
Ad infinitum.

Of course in the first you can simply gallop straight past the guards, get out of range and then hop in hay for a few secs to cool the heat. Saves all that tedious trotting, certainly

That's how I did it, certainly. I acted like such a badass when I realised the guards posed almost no threat whatsoever.

My biggest complaint about Assassin's Creed games: the way enemies will surround you, but then utterly fail to do anything. One will occasionally attack, while people behind you do nothing.

Yowser. Bus just nearly squished a biker who decided to undertake at speed. Bus was indicating left specifically to get out of the way.

Silly motorcyclist.

Oh the old Assassin's Creed is good/bad discussion. I love this when it pops up every three months.

So is it good or bad then? Or what? I demand a definitive answer!

Yes.

Dyed the washing blue.

First time ever.

Fuck.

And a bit no.

Turns out this was indeed a very good song. And yes, it stayed in my head until I went to bed.

Also: HBSH&H
And: take secondment, R

And I love my iPhone 4!