I came here to post this!
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 21:49,
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This is real isn't it?
Is it?!
This is like every parish council I've ever dealt with but I can't tell if anything is satire any more
(, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 21:58, Reply)
If it isn't
then it's very well done.
Looks real to me though, it's hard to be such an officious asshole insisting on exact rules without over hamming it.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 22:22,
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Was the world always this crazy?
Where is this all going to end?
twitter.com/CruzanChoklate/status/1357333984850685952?s=20
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 22:13,
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haha polyurethane hair helmet
She's lucky her skin hasn't reacted to it.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 3:10,
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wtf!!
so many questions
if or when this starts to come off, I suspect it will start to break up in sheets and look really weird
what happens to her growing hair? will it bubble up?
(, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 18:36, Reply)
I have had a fair few zooms lately with lets call them "creatives"
none of them like this vid, mind. but yesterday i had a meeting with only tech and developers to kick off some big project, first one in a long time, and christ the difference was refreshing. Problem. solution. problem. solution. "everybody clear about what they have to do? Good"
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 5:48,
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I know where you're coming from
But having dealt with a room full of tech types warring through a power vacuum I think it may be situation dependant. I'm a creative and we're an absolute shitshow so god knows.
That said I've also heard about the machinations of a local arts organisation and I think you can imagine what that is like. Power corrupts but absolute power and pink paper certificates can corrupt absolutely.
(, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 8:54, Reply)
Hmmm...
'I had a meeting with only tech and developers...Problem. solution. problem. solution.'
'I'm a creative and we're an absolute shitshow'
I think I see what is going on there.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 12:17,
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I should have explained further.
The warring tech department were absolutely frozen and self-defeating. Just running in circles unless they were the individuals attempting 'Machiavellian' pushes to lead. So much of it seemed to be the solutions were there but without a key individual to compartmentalise they all tried to fix their specialisation.
I believe it's all about specific groups and how they work together. I've met incredibly effective gangs of addled artists as well as the stereotypical creatives blue-skying themselves to unemployment.
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I guess any work environment is capable of being dysfunctional
Though I'm of the dilbert opinion that whenever somebody from marketing gets involved you can see the cracks forming in the building walls.
It's more when non-experts get to have their opinion about something they don't fully understand of have had little experience of. Their knowledge is often inversely proportional to the stridency of their view, so you spend a lot of meeting time rubbing your temples and thinking how can you best explain the flaws in their reasoning in a way that won't make them out to be be the dropkick that they actually are and generally wishing you'd never invited them, as you know if you had competent developer or an interface designer it would be a 30 second conversation and then you'd move on
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 7 Feb 2021, 0:09,
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Brilliant!
Based on my experience of "localism" this is spot on
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Mster Johnny Ekstrom, now that's a name, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 8:21,
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I was on a parish council for about eight months
thinking I'd do my bit for the community, but it turns out they are all retired, white, middle class folk with an opinion about everything, and no real knowledge. They may be well intentioned, but really they are mis-guided, ill-informed, narrow-minded nimbys.
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Varmint, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 8:57,
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I'm probably backing up a stereotype here
But this applies to where I live.
(, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 9:47, Reply)
pretty much everyone in this country in a position of power is like that
(, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 10:12, Reply)
Having tangled with the Resident’s Association at my old flat regarding a boiler installation I have to agree.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 12:17,
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Power comes to those that wait
until they are retired and bigoted.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 12:22,
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Complete with the playground bullying crap.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 13:31,
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I wouldn't last that long, I'd be too exasperated.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 13:29,
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I've been involved on and off with a couple of steam railways over the years
their volunteer meetings are very similar (all arguments over procedure, petty power squabbles etc) but with the added excitement of a load of retired shop stewards who spent their entire working life "fighting the management who are out to screw us over"
The assumption that anyone in power is out to get you isn't all that helpful when you're trying to decide what colour the fence around the carpark should be painted.
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LP, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 16:36,
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Oh, too many painful memories of committees like that.
I quit a bat conservation group because one of the meetings went widely off topic, and what started as an argument about whether sandwiches should have the crusts cut off escalated into near fisticuffs and shouting about cutting them into triangles or rectangles.
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Varmint, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 21:35,
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I hope you were on the side of triangles
And not one of those terrible rectangle monsters
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LP, Sat 6 Feb 2021, 9:09,
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You see waht they need is to..
...take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of purely external affairs.
(, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 9:25, Reply)
nothing more parish councily than the Monty Python team these days
sadly
(, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 10:02, Reply)
Suffered one of these regarding lock down measures for a local market...
... tons of this kind of paperclip-counting waffle with the highlight expected to be when the newly installed, and not very good, market manager was due to speak. Two hours in he excused himself from the meeting, having not said a word...
(, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 11:26, Reply)
I've watched this 3 times.
I want to see the previous episode.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 17:59,
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Handforth's only 5 miles from where I live...
I'm not the least bit surprised by the goings on...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 21:29,
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I came to check it'd been posted too
Quality stuff.
#1 on trending now,
Also, she was on "Woman's Hour" on Radio 4.
(, Sat 6 Feb 2021, 10:03, Reply)