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Author:  Zardoz [ Wed May 06, 2020 15:24 ]
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Mr Chonks wrote:
DBSnappa wrote:
Happy Birthday Sean Connery's maddest film

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Dragonheart

Author:  Grim... [ Wed May 06, 2020 15:28 ]
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Zardoz wrote:
Mr Chonks wrote:
DBSnappa wrote:
Happy Birthday Sean Connery's maddest film

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Dragonheart

That one where Catherine Zeta-Jones wears the leather trousers.

Author:  Zardoz [ Wed May 06, 2020 16:46 ]
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No. Because she’s not in it.

Dina Meyer is though. *awaits stock response*

Author:  Grim... [ Wed May 06, 2020 18:22 ]
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God I hope she kept her top on.

Author:  DBSnappa [ Wed May 06, 2020 18:53 ]
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Mr Chonks wrote:
DBSnappa wrote:
Happy Birthday Sean Connery's maddest film

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Okay. Your challenge is to watch Zardoz and come back with another hot take

Author:  Zardoz [ Wed May 06, 2020 19:19 ]
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Grim... wrote:
God I hope she kept her top on.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
I couldn’t tell.

Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Wed May 06, 2020 20:16 ]
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Happy birthday Z-boy!

Author:  Zardoz [ Wed May 06, 2020 21:25 ]
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Ta, GJ!

Author:  Warhead [ Wed May 06, 2020 21:29 ]
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DBSnappa wrote:
Mr Chonks wrote:
DBSnappa wrote:
Happy Birthday Sean Connery's maddest film

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Okay. Your challenge is to watch Zardoz and come back with another hot take


Author:  DavPaz [ Thu May 07, 2020 9:32 ]
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What election are we not getting today? Was it local government?

Author:  Kern [ Thu May 07, 2020 9:33 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
What election are we not getting today? Was it local government?


Local for areas that were due for them. Also police and crime commissioners, for the six of us who bother.

Author:  Findus Fop [ Thu May 07, 2020 11:10 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
What election are we not getting today? Was it local government?


Mods.

Author:  Bamba [ Thu May 07, 2020 13:02 ]
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Mrs B just got offered a new job that she really wanted, which is awesome obviously. What's less awesome is that the email they sent offering her the job sets out conditions including "presenting in person" proof of the qualifications she's claimed on her CV. That doesn't speak well of their attention to detail that they didn't think to amend what's presumably standard text in the email. I just don't understand how people can be such idiots, and now she's got to back to them and find a diplomatic way of pointing out that what they've requested is dumb as fuck and that they'll need to provide her with an alternative way to meet their requirements.

This is all happening with a background of them suggesting a start date ten days from now. Realistically she can't even hand her notice in until she's satisfied their requirements, and it's idiotic that they think that can all be done so quickly in the midst of a global fucking pandemic; especially when they're the ones wasting time by suggesting unachievable shit in the first instance.

I'm not sure why it's all annoyed me so much, except in as much as this sort of needlessly thoughtless bureaucracy always has done. Plus the fact that what should be a 100% happy occasion for Mrs B has been marred somewhat by her getting stressed over the potential impact of their stupidity. It's all just so unnecessary when someone at their side putting like 30 seconds of thought into what they were sending would've smoothed the whole thing over.

Author:  markg [ Thu May 07, 2020 13:40 ]
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Has the email been sent by a person or spat out from some system? It's not great either way but possible in the case of the latter that it's just one of those things that's not been on anyone's priority list to change at the moment.

Author:  Jem [ Thu May 07, 2020 13:45 ]
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Someone sent me an email yesterday regarding a job and the spec includes a meeting in person, and I can't tell if it was written months ago and they've just struggled to find someone to take it on or whether they genuinely expect to meet me in person. 8)

Author:  myp [ Thu May 07, 2020 13:53 ]
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It’s a bit crap but it’s something quite easily clarified/sorted and probably not worth getting all that annoyed about.

Unless they insist on it still afterwards, then fuck them up.

Author:  Bamba [ Thu May 07, 2020 13:55 ]
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markg wrote:
Has the email been sent by a person or spat out from some system? It's not great either way but possible in the case of the latter that it's just one of those things that's not been on anyone's priority list to change at the moment.


It was written by a person, albeit probably most likely copy and pasted or instanced from a template. To be fair the HR person has been pretty responsive so it's mostly sorted now ('right to work' can be covered by Mrs B showing her passport on a Zoom meeting and the proof of qualifications will apparently just have to wait until the organisation reopens properly post-COVID) but it was just all so unnecessary. Anyway, fuck it, it's all good news given that this is the change of career she's been hoping for since last year and gets her out of the fairly shitty (and temporary) role she's in right now.

Author:  Jem [ Thu May 07, 2020 13:58 ]
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Yay for the long awaited change of career :luv:

Author:  Bamba [ Thu May 07, 2020 13:59 ]
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Mr Chonks wrote:
It’s a bit crap but it’s something quite easily clarified/sorted and probably not worth getting all that annoyed about.


Oh, for sure, I'm genuinely not sure why this kind of thing annoys me so much. Possibly I'm still smarting from my on-boarding to Evil Inc which they outsourced to a fairly useless third-party. So if there was any questions or confusion (which there was) then Evil Inc's HR couldn't give the slightest fuck and just kept palming you off. Like, I don't care about any of this shit; they're your fucking requirements! Utterly needless stress in the midst of an already fairly stressful life change, y'know?

Author:  DavPaz [ Thu May 07, 2020 16:34 ]
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(To the tune of Don't Stand so close to me)

(there was) NO SAND!
(there was) NO SAND!
(there was) NO SAND, in B&Q!

Author:  Findus Fop [ Thu May 07, 2020 17:28 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
(To the tune of Don't Stand so close to me)

(there was) NO SAND!
(there was) NO SAND!
(there was) NO SAND, in B&Q!


(To the the tune of Alright by Cast)

Because you-ou-ou bou-ou-ou-ou-ought it allllllll-lah.

Author:  markg [ Thu May 07, 2020 17:50 ]
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Whenever I shut down my laptop I always hear "Shut down anyway?" to the tune of "There's no other way" by Blur in my head. I don't even like that song, it annoys me and now I hear it almost every day.

Author:  Trooper [ Thu May 07, 2020 18:30 ]
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<mac startup chime>... It's been 7 hours and fifteen days.

Author:  Findus Fop [ Thu May 07, 2020 18:45 ]
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markg wrote:
Whenever I shut down my laptop I always hear "Shut down anyway?" to the tune of "There's no other way" by Blur in my head. I don't even like that song, it annoys me and now I hear it almost every day.


Maybeee, if you didn't want that, you could close all your programs first, cuz that's how I fly.

Author:  myp [ Thu May 07, 2020 21:49 ]
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Lock the taskbar, lock the taskbar

Author:  MaliA [ Thu May 07, 2020 22:07 ]
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Siri don't like it.

Author:  Findus Fop [ Thu May 07, 2020 23:11 ]
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Quoting the last two posts:

FUCKING YES

Author:  throughsilver [ Fri May 08, 2020 0:40 ]
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markg wrote:
Whenever I shut down my laptop I always hear "Shut down anyway?" to the tune of "There's no other way" by Blur in my head. I don't even like that song, it annoys me and now I hear it almost every day.

I read that to the tune of "all that you can do is watch them play".

Author:  Findus Fop [ Fri May 08, 2020 14:13 ]
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Anyone had any joy connecting a wireless keyboard to a smart tv (sony and lg). Basically I want to be able search on Youtube etc on the TV without having to use the laggy tv remote to input text.

Author:  Zardoz [ Fri May 08, 2020 14:21 ]
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No.

Author:  myp [ Fri May 08, 2020 14:32 ]
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Plug it in, see what happens

Author:  Satsuma [ Fri May 08, 2020 14:37 ]
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I didn’t even know it was a thing but a google search reveals this help for LG tvs: https://www.lg.com/ph/support/product-h ... 118-others

Author:  Findus Fop [ Fri May 08, 2020 14:53 ]
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Satsuma wrote:
I didn’t even know it was a thing but a google search reveals this help for LG tvs: https://www.lg.com/ph/support/product-h ... 118-others


That actually gives the answer I need! Thank you. Apologies for lazy non googling.

Author:  myp [ Fri May 08, 2020 15:33 ]
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It’s ok, most of us put as much effort in with our answers as you did with your question

Author:  Zardoz [ Fri May 08, 2020 15:34 ]
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No

Author:  Findus Fop [ Fri May 08, 2020 15:34 ]
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There's no limit.

Author:  Trooper [ Fri May 08, 2020 15:45 ]
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There's no other way

Author:  DavPaz [ Fri May 08, 2020 15:48 ]
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Shut down anyway?

Author:  Findus Fop [ Fri May 08, 2020 16:49 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
Shut down anyway?


:)

Author:  MaliA [ Fri May 08, 2020 19:14 ]
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Huh.

Author:  Zardoz [ Fri May 08, 2020 19:23 ]
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Are you human, or are you prancer?

Author:  MaliA [ Sat May 09, 2020 14:21 ]
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Cheers

Author:  The Great Tyrant [ Sun May 10, 2020 9:44 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Cheers


Nice set up.

I want a paddling pool, but apparently I'm already at maximum redneck for this suburb.

Spend most weekends drinking beer in my Daisy Dukes, shouting Texan obscenities and throwing garden detrius at the pigeons who keep pooping on us from the trees above, all whilst surrounded by piles of junk I've fashioned into garden furniture.

Husband said it's like a missing scene from Tiger King.

Author:  DavPaz [ Sun May 10, 2020 10:00 ]
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Sounds like suburban Middlesbrough

Author:  MaliA [ Sun May 10, 2020 13:41 ]
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Hevva cake.

Geddon.

Author:  MaliA [ Mon May 11, 2020 11:46 ]
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Mishal Husain has a lovelier voice than Charlotte Green

Author:  Warhead [ Mon May 11, 2020 15:57 ]
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Fiona Talkington has a lovelier voice than Verity Sharp.

Author:  Findus Fop [ Mon May 11, 2020 16:06 ]
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Warhead wrote:
Fiona Talkington has a lovelier voice than Verity Sharp.


Well she would with a name like that.

Author:  DavPaz [ Mon May 11, 2020 16:31 ]
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Is the 360 DJ Hero controller worth anything? A friend has just given me one with a load of 360 games.

Author:  Grim... [ Mon May 11, 2020 16:41 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
Is the 360 DJ Hero controller worth anything? A friend has just given me one with a load of 360 games.

My friend who runs a gaming "museum" was really happy when I sent him mine as he said they're really hard to get hold of, so maybe?

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