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Dell_Zincht posted:Did you write their Wikipedia entry, by any chance? No I just had the 1 yen + shipping the album was going for on Amazon and enough idle curiosity to push the button. I suspect that if there was a sexy 90s celebrity I was going to perv over in my middle age it'd be Jet from Gladiators.
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crispix posted:If you could get a vicar to bless a thing of gravy you could christen t'babby in a font of gravy too, maybe
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Jun 23, 2020 03:31
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Need to be out of my flat between 12 and 1 today so I have to find another TV to watch Boris tell me to what extent the pub can open.
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I wanted to go on Funhouse and Knightmare and that but looking at clips from those kinds of shows as an adult the kids were so middle class 
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crispix posted:I wanted to go on Funhouse and Knightmare and that but looking at clips from those kinds of shows as an adult the kids were so middle class They were like a gateway before you could get a bit older and be a marketing manager from the home counties making a fool of yourself on the Krypton Factor or Crystal Maze
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Jun 23, 2020 10:01
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I remember as a kid wanting to apply to be on some CBBC show where you go to borneo, but we couldn't afford a printer lol I did eventually live there for 3 months tho so...
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Jun 23, 2020 10:16
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One of my school friends got on Finders Keepers. He was loving poo poo and brought shame on us all.
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Jun 23, 2020 10:34
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crispix posted:If you could get a vicar to bless a thing of gravy you could christen t'babby in a font of gravy too, maybe gravy is inherently blessed imo
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Jun 23, 2020 10:37
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Party Boat posted:gravy is inherently blessed imo My family had to host a Peruvian English teacher when I was a teenager when she came over with a group for a cultural exchange/further teacher training and as part of their stay they had to make poster presentations of some element of British culture that they'd learned about in the 4 months or so they were staying here. Then at the end of their stay we had to go to the language school and look at the posters and listen to the teachers talk through them. One of the posters was about British cuisine and was mostly reviews of restaurants they'd been to and takeout menus they'd picked up but right in the middle was a large collage of a man with a suitcase and a plane ticket back to Peru but he had a thought bubble with a picture of a gravy boat. This symbolised the difficult decision the teachers had to make because if they went back to Peru they were leaving a land of delicious and plentiful gravy, available with any meal. There was also a gravy boat in the suitcase and another one on his shirt. I mumbled "wow this guy really loves gravy, huh?" and one of the teachers grabbed my arm and forcefully jerked me away from the poster to whisper in my ear "he had gravy in his pockets".
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Jun 23, 2020 10:49
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Jun 23, 2020 11:04
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Pocket Gravy. What a lad.
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Ratjaculation posted:I remember as a kid wanting to apply to be on some CBBC show where you go to borneo, but we couldn't afford a printer lol temp job as an orangutan
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Jun 23, 2020 11:25
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I'm regretting being awake.
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Jun 23, 2020 11:32
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People who are working from home: how much 'work' are you actually doing? I'm still just about managing the 9 to 5 thing but my lunch breaks have gradually expanded to a comfortable 2 hrs.
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Jun 23, 2020 11:40
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a lot more but accomplishing the same management overhead for actually delivering stuff and fixing stuff is significant when everyone's seperated, so we're having to fit more work into a smaller timeframe, and for some reason all the senior managers whose job involves holding meetings and setting direction don't seem to realise there's problems because their jobs have stayed identical
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Jun 23, 2020 11:46
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crispix posted:I wanted to go on Funhouse and Knightmare and that but looking at clips from those kinds of shows as an adult the kids were so middle class I know of a member on here who was on Knightmare. Sadly the clip is lost on a VHS somewhere at his parent’s house.
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Jun 23, 2020 11:58
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Pistol_Pete posted:People who are working from home: how much 'work' are you actually doing? My job hasn't had anything for me to do for like the last 6 months anyway, now all of a sudden they do so I've gone from just about keeping my laptop awake to actually doing something. And I don't like it.
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Neurophonic posted:I know of a member on here who was on Knightmare. Sadly the clip is lost on a VHS somewhere at his parent’s house. Please tell me it was one of the kids who died/got their adventurer killed by not knowing left from right.
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Neurophonic posted:I know of a member on here who was on Knightmare. Sadly the clip is lost on a VHS somewhere at his parent’s house. Most of Knightmare's on youtube now, if you search for it. Plus you get to revisit the awful 1980s racism about the Chinese!
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Pistol_Pete posted:People who are working from home: how much 'work' are you actually doing? For the last few weeks, a whole lot of gently caress all. But that's mainly due to there not being the work to go around (I work in accounts related to hospitality). Now things are starting to ramp up a bit and I'm feeling aggrieved that I can't fit in a couple of Escape from Tarkov raids in between each email. Also, Knightmare was by far my favourite TV show when I was a kid. I had a re-watch on YouTube a little while ago and after about 5 minutes decided some things are better left in the past. Lemon fucked around with this message at 12:30 on Jun 23, 2020 |
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Work forgot to pay our courier's invoices during furlough so our service got stopped, and for some reason they are now taking forever to get them paid despite the payments presumably being a few quid, given that we didn't actually deliver anything from March onward. And since I have now run out of laptops to repair and can't get any back, I basically answer five emails a day from home going "sorry, we can't do anything yet, ask again next week" then play videogames.
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Jun 23, 2020 12:29
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My job is very hands on, if I'm not at work there's only emails to answer and the odd conference call to set up. Those have been dwindling in number since we left as I imagine people have actually realised they can do a fair bit of that themselves Pre-covid we were getting about 200 jobs a week between 9 of us. We're amazed if we get 10 these days.
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In the early days of WFH I didn't have much to do and treated it more like I was on call. Would do whatever was needed of me or respond to emails but otherwise I'd chill. Been a bit busier recently as they've started to resume some of the regular "business as usual" stuff
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Jun 23, 2020 12:54
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going to teh pub for a pint and some rona
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Jun 23, 2020 12:55
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Alcohol kills germs, so I guess pubs are some of the safest places you can be in, so long as you drink heavily the entire time you're there.
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Jun 23, 2020 13:00
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I dont like that the pub is getting opened on a Saturday. Why not like a Tuesday or something? I know we're going to be immediately mobbed whatever happens but jeez.
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Jun 23, 2020 13:02
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we've ditched 2m, lads its 1m-plus now. Stay alert!!
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Jun 23, 2020 13:13
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Pistol_Pete posted:People who are working from home: how much 'work' are you actually doing? I work on "daily rate" and it's based on output so I can't clock in and sit around, I need to show some input to the clients. I have "I'll commit X to Y days a month to your company" contract and "honor system" which I don't charge them for non-output days (like, I connect to VPN and check the e-mail, write some replies and log-off) and they simply sign anything I do include extras such as extended phone calls, IT problems. There is enough stuff I can work on so if I want to put  there is no shortage on stuff to do. Remote working sucks rear end because my job is hands-on and gets really confusing when trying to figure out things remotely.Other jobs are project-based or recurring (like, attend to an audit once a month, update the quality plans etc.) and that what I can do remotely. Let's say, I get a contract for 10 days of work for updating a QMS and got paid a bulk sum, I can power through in 4-5 days and just iron out details and do editing according to the client feedback. I love those jobs and they both pay better and gives me flexibility. April was quite slow with all my clients going into hibernation and things picked up around early May and now I started doing on-site work as the clients open up (they were all essential businesses anyway). I use the free time to work on getting new professional charters, online certification, and doing some business admin when I'm not doing my visa stuff. Some days I just can't find the energy/motivation to do anything at all which always feels bad later on but, oh well, if you need a 4-hour depression sleep, you need a 4 hour depression sleep.
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 Found a picture of the gravy man.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:there's a horse outside what does it want?
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goldenninjawarrior posted:
Legend.
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Lemon posted:what does it want? it's delivering a corpse. there's a funeral on
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social distancing is finally over. we've beaten covid-19 everyone!! go out and hug the next person you see and kiss them on the mouth
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hemale in pain posted:social distancing is finally over. we've beaten covid-19 everyone!! go out and hug the next person you see and kiss them on the mouth 
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As if I have to go back to work at the pub and I can't even go bowling by myself after work.
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Pistol_Pete posted:People who are working from home: how much 'work' are you actually doing? My work output is quantified, and they've not changed their targets. I'm probably doing more actual hours than normal due to fewer breaks in the day to chat, but about the same work due to not having people around to ask for sanity checks on my decisions/interpretations. The job can be and is done from home by a lot of people, so the necessary stuff was mostly in place. I think the admin/policy/legal/IT side of things at our place have had a much tougher time of it, and their management probably will continue to because they were always telling their staff it was impossible to do their jobs from home and it turns out it ain't.
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covid severity level has been downgraded to level 3, or "medium nandos sauce"
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But how cheeky is it?
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Medium Nandos is technically non-spicy food for me so I guess it's time to go out.
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