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HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?
I like Watched Walker for city strolls. Would happily watch any goon doing the same.

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HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Does anyone know anything about licensing artwork for commercial use?

A relative who is an artist has been asked by a company to quote to do some artwork that they want to use in many different ways (she doesn't know exactly what yet) and she asked me to suggest what she should charge. She reckons it will take her about 15 days to produce the artwork.

I said £7500 plus licensing fees.

Everyone else is telling her less (£200-£400 a day for example) and she thinks that even that is cheeky and the company will think she is greedy. I said the company will think she is a complete numpty if she charges less.

This particular company bought some art off her a few years ago and it has even been seen on the tv in a news item about them (not about the art but it was there with her name on it quite prominently in the background).

Normally she just does artwork for private individuals or small organisations such as churches so no experience in this larger realm!

I saw a good blog once for calculating how much you should charge for art. It boils down to - imagine you are doing this full-time. How much would you need to live the life you want to live? Yearly? Work out what that boils down to hourly. Then charge a hefty whack on top of that because you also pay for supplies, and also for all the art you did BEFORE this, that wasn't sold, that is the reason you can do this art now. And that's just for selling to private customers. To a company? Rinse em.

Meanwhile work is really busy and I'm sick to the back teeth of The General Public. I'm doing my best for these loving people. gently caress.

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

Azza Bamboo posted:

Look, furry porn has really put the art world into stress testing. If you can't spit out passable cell shaded full figures for £30 a go then you're going to be outpriced.

Nah, that's not so. I mean, yeah, people will do it cheaper, but then those aren't your customers. The kind of people who buy furry porn will pay a *lot* and those are the people you want to court. It's better to give art away if you feel charitable than to underprice it.

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?
My sister's mother-in-law is a dreadful snob. Talks down to people, deeply concerned with appearances, the worst kind of middle-class Hyacinth Bucket. She works in a Waitrose as a checkout operator and I don't disdain that work *at all*. I've done that work, it's hard. But she's very, VERY careful to emphasize to everyone that she works at WAITROSE. She saves the bags and takes them with her to Sainsburys and Asda so people don't see her with a lower-class bag. She's hilarious.

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

NotJustANumber99 posted:

what is even inside them? Can I make my own out of like a parsnip and some glue?

Cotton swabs, test liquid, little plastic vial things, and the cartridge. You swab your nose, squeeze your germs into a couple drops of the liquid, and drop that onto the test cartridge. On the off-chance you've never actually had to do one.
If you can get a parsnip up your nose, god bless

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?
Yeah, we get a box of 56 every third day or so and it's gone within the hour, even limiting pickup to one pack per customer. And then we spend all day answering the phone saying over and over 'no we don't have any tests, no we don't know where you can get them'.

And then I have to log onto the NHS's 'manage your service' website and enter every single collection individually, all 56 of them, with a dropdown field for 'anonymous? yes/no' and a space to enter the lot number of each test given out. When we were using codes, we had to manually type in the codes, too. Amazing. Thank goodness I don't have anything better to be doing in my completely overwhelmed pharmacy!

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?
Lately they've started using the service where GPs can bounce people back to the pharmacy if they think we can triage it better. But almost everyone they send us actually does need to see a doctor. Sometimes they even write in the bit for 'reason', something that makes that obvious, like 'tonsillitis, white spots on tonsils' or 'conjunctivitis' for a tiny baby. Those things are GP only! So it just adds a few hours to the patient's turnaround time, because we need to see the email and then respond, and most often we're just telling them to go ahead and call the doctor again anyway. It's not like we can make them a special appointment if it turns out they really, really do need to see a GP after all. We just tell them to try again.

I am half an inch from burnout, friends. Today I sat on the stairs at work and cried for fifteen minutes. I'm so tired.

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?
Thanks chums. I'll get some sleep tonight, things will probably look better tomorrow. And if not I can always start my Chaos Plan which is to get super bad at my job and blame it on my disabilities to see what they do.

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Thank god we've brexitted and your allowed to use imperial measurements again.

I can go and piss off a mod somewhere and get probated if it would help cheer you up?

Awww thanks mate <3

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?
Thank you friends. Sometimes it's nice to have a bit of a vent. You are comrades.

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?
Hello mates, so many of you were nice to me last night that I wanted to check in and say I'm feeling better today. Our new manager started, she seems all right so far. I still badly need to get out of this job, but I no longer feel like I need to do that *right this minute* with nowhere to jump to. Also I just had some milky way stars and they are my favourite. Thanks again friends.

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

Lady Demelza posted:

HopperUK for new political party leader. This is clearly the only way to solve everyone's problems.

gently caress yeah, put me in charge. I will gently caress some poo poo up.

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?
You'd have to make a loop, or else kill each monarch as soon as it went through so that the one following would be the monarch after it. We could repurpose CERN and fire royal babies around it I suppose.

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?
Is there somewhere we can find out about specific examples of this on the BBC? Like what Eastenders stories were being pushed by the government, as opposed to just confirming to typical social standards because of limited imagination?

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

fuctifino posted:

I haven't watched it in years and don't follow any storylines, and can only guess. The police chief didn't go into specifics, as he was purely focused on wooing the other attendees with 'look how much power we have' to get them to sign up to the NCC. He failed, on account of being a drunken letch, and the fact he wanted the NCC to be nothing more than a dictatorship where everyone had to blindly agree to his decisions.

And for the record, everyone at the dinner thought he was bullshitting about being able to embed stories until the Izzy story started airing.

Yeah but that was on Corrie, you said, right? They also have product placement on Corrie. The idea that outside interests can get stories placed there isn't startling at all. I'm concerned specifically with the BBC since that's what we're all talking about. And 'please put a storyline in your soap to convince people that medical cannabis is okay to use' isn't really horrifying which is why I would like examples of more sinister versions of this.

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

OwlFancier posted:

I think politically I currently most closely identify with a khornate berserker.

Sure, Taurox the Brass Bull has a temper, but you have to admit he gets results

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?
Ugh I've been invited to do an assessment for a job and I have to have a webcam on. I've ordered one because honestly these days if you want to remote-work you probably need one but goddamn I've gone all these years without one. I would much rather do this thing on my main PC than poke at my iphone.

Still, got to second-stage of the application, that's kinda nice.

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HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

The Wicked ZOGA posted:

I'm not saying it isn't but blood is one of the stubborn stains

Nah, rub salt on it, scrub it hard in cold water.

I remember giving this advice to a friend at university who'd had a nosebleed and he laughed at me and said 'How would *you* know how to get bloodstains out?'. I had to explain about periods.

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