Blue Sky Thinking...
My boss says this all the time, what the fuck does it mean?
(Andy-Bhoy I'm here all week, try the veal., Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:43, 6 replies)

It means:
"I'm a corporate fucktard with no ability to think for myself, so I use vapid, meaningless phrases."
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:44, closed)

I think
it's similar to thinking outside the box.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:53, closed)

Basically...
it means he has something against clouds, anti-vapourist bastard.

This is still the prejudice QOTW isn't it?
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:54, closed)

Blue-sky thinking = head in the clouds

( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 14:42, closed)

it means your boss is a cunt

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 19:30, closed)

I meant for me,
several tours of this fine nation of ours, taking that very phrase to thousands of kids aged about 15-17 yrs old through a presentation that was very much like a game show. They would bus hundreds of the little fuckers in, twice a day, at each venue we visited, we were out for months. I doubt any one of them paid the slightest attention, they were more interested in acting hard in front of their rival school sitting on the other side of the auditorium. (Except for Liverpool, strangely enough. The kids there sat in silence and listened, whereas the rest of the country it was like a monkey house. Possibly to do with the fucking scary teachers/handlers they had in the 'Pool - one of them shouted "SIT DOWN" and my arse was on the seat before any of the kids. I suspect they take NO shit up there)

The phrase, IIRC, means "seeing through all the clouds to the bright blue skies above*", and the event was to let kids know that if they had a great business idea, they could get help from various Business Development Agencies, that the fact they were penniless retards need not stand in their way. Of course, this omitted to take into consideration that kids with REAL entrepreneurial spirit would find a way round the hurdles themselves, duh.

When I hear the phrase, I think of drunken rampages in hotels, drugs, more excess than any rock 'n' roll tour (because we had waaaaay more spare time on our hands), and a fucking fine lump of cash at the end of it, even when filtered down through the Development Agencies/Business Link/Production Company/etc etc. Of course, it all originated from our glorious Government, God Bless 'em. I could really really do with another one of those jobs, then I could buy my new Jag.
Talk about clutching at straws, I think it was meant to try and salvage ANY of the generation of school leavers that have absolutely no hope of being anything other than dolescum, who simply want to be "famous and rich". The nation won't be able to pay for that many losers, I'm sorry to say. Maybe if they taught them properly in schools and brought back apprenticeships, there wouldn't be so many blank-faced youths out there who haven't a clue how to tie their own laces.

* It does NOT mean "being a fucking dreamer who needs to get his feet back on the ground", oh no, not at all.
(Rsoles, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 20:08, closed)