I fucking dispair sometimes
Warning, boring rant ahead:

As some of you know I've recently been interviewing with an American company, I'd had three phone interviews over the last few weeks and all of them had gone well. Today while trying to nail down an appointment for a face to face interview with the companies one UK member of staff I got the knock back as "while they were very impressed with my technical ability they weren't comfortable with my lack of pre sales experience considering that I'd be such a remote worker"

Now that's fair enough but they knew I was technically sound but lacking in the pre sales experience before they ever spoke to me so to have strung me along for this long only to knock me back now for that has really fucking pissed me off!

Still, the recruiter has something else in the pipeline that he should have more details on next week so that'll be something else for me to try for.
(bill, Fri 11 Dec 2009, 14:28, 13 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

So I passed out on a sofa in a club in Soho last night.
I also completed 12.5% of SOMETHING towards my degree. So I'm feeling the achievement.

I have a mad week coming up:
Monday - prepare for mayhem
Tuesday - White Heat
Wednesday - Cheapskates
Thursday - Candybox
Friday - all day drinking then wherever the night takes us
Saturday - If I'm not dead, the bash
Sunday - Recover
Monday - train to Manc to see a load of friends I've not seen in ages
Tuesday - train back to London to go to a family reunion
Wednesday - Drive back up to Manc.

How's your week shaping up? And have you got christmas presents yet?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 11 Dec 2009, 11:36, 37 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I made a dress last night out of black lace
it fits perfectly, but the question is how slutty is too slutty?

Ladies, what are you wearing/did you wear to your works Christmas do?

Menfolk or women who don't care about what anyone is wearing can have the alternate question of what do you hope to achieve in 2010 that you failed miserably at in 2009?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 11 Dec 2009, 10:53, 189 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Crow tries to cope with cultural differences
One of the other guys in my office is eating something. I think it's some sort of mass-manufactured pasty. Now I normally have no objection to this, but it smells funny and he's quite a noisy eater.

He's Cantonese, so I normally give him the benefit of the doubt, because I'm led to believe in Hong Kong it's quite normal for people to slurp noisily on their noodle soup. But today, the wet, fleshy sound of his lips clapping together as they engulf ever more soggy pastry and savoury goo is really distracting me from the talk I'm trying to write.

Should I say something? Or should I just punch him in the face?
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 11 Dec 2009, 10:26, 64 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

So tomorrrow I am cross the border out of Cornwall heading to London for Santacon
www.santacon.co.uk a mass congregation of santas. We drink and sing and be merry. I would encourage anyone in the London area to get in a santa costume and come and enjoy the fun.

What will you be doing this weekend and which deadly sins will be broken?
( Peej, Fri 11 Dec 2009, 10:19, 18 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Golly gosh!
Moan moan moan *tricks you miserable bastards into reading this*

I don't think I got enough oxygen in my sleep. I still have lurgy but I also have this odd floaty feeling and a bit of not-quite-conscious going on. So I'm having a hot lemonade with a Beecham's in.
I'm going to try and venture out of the house for the first time in four days. My dad will be with me so it's ok. The weather is very nice. The cathedral looks lovely.

So, please say something nice about either: oxygen, unconsciousness, Beecham's powders, The outdoors, blue skies, or cathedrals. Or me.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 11 Dec 2009, 10:14, 25 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

And the next topic is men with fat arses.
Now I like a guy with some meat on his bones and could wax lyrical about pot bellies but why do I gag every time I see a guy with a fat arse?
( girlinthehole, Fri 11 Dec 2009, 10:12, 19 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

BLOODY HELL!
In the spirit of the normal QOTW OT format, i.e., "I am something because of something. What has somethinged you today?", I have the fucking rage.

Why, you might not ask because you don't give a flying fig?

Because on the news this morning, I saw that a family with 12 children are complaining because they might get evicted from their council house because they make too much noise and piss off the neighbours. They were interviewed and the, frankly, fucking scary, wife said "the kids caaaant have kids round to play. We've asked the council for a farmhouse or whatever but they caaaant do nuffink".

For FUCK'S SAKE. I found myself shouting at the television "Well, STOP POPPING THEM OUT THEN, YOU STUPID WOMAN". If she can't afford her own fucking farmhouse to gate up her herd of 12 bloody children (aged 3 to 19), then why the HELL should the tax payers fork out for it? Jesus. I tell you, it's the bloody race to the bottom.

There, I feel much better now.

Actually, I don't. Fucksocks.

So, what have you done recently that you thought would make you feel much better, but, with hindsight, made no fucking difference at all?

Tea. Must drink tea. Lots of calming tea. Tea._{teatea...tea....}
(Deadly Octopus no deaths since, Fri 11 Dec 2009, 8:46, 78 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Little help plz
Early 90's fench classic movie. Children of the something or something of the children. Anyone know?!?
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Fri 11 Dec 2009, 8:34, 19 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

For the win!
I just popped by the 7-11 and bought a whole bunch of English food - mince pies, rice pudding, beef & onion pies, Heinz baked beans, marmite, spaghetti hoops, pickled onions, mushy peas etc.....WOO!
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 11 Dec 2009, 3:16, 7 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Good Evening OT
I've got my hair straightened (lost a bet) and having Pre-drinks at mine before going to a cocktail bar and then a rock club.

What are you lot up to tonight/tomorrow/this weekend?
Alternatively, what cocktails do you recommend?
( Jinxy13 is hating the S key, right about now., Thu 10 Dec 2009, 22:03, 7 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Home Sweet Home

( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 19:43, 49 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I've burnt my tongue as I was too hungry to wait for my dinner to cool down.
Now I have a sore throat and a burnt tongue. FML!
( girlinthehole, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 18:59, 22 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

The Almost Birthday.
My oldest child just turned 20, and I went through with the earlier outlined plan for his party- since he's not quite 21 yet I got him some non-alcoholic beer (not quite beer) and took a box of cake mix and stuck crayons on top of it (not quite a cake and candles) and had one of his friends come over in a dress (a not quite girl to share his not quite beer with).

Pics or it didn't happen, you say? See replies.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 10 Dec 2009, 17:18, 13 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Hohoho little boy - have I got a surprise for you!
www.sketchysantas.com/

Anyone been touched up by a tramp in red?
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 16:53, 6 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I've just had to do a blast of work for some in another office
at about quarter to 3 I was sat thinking I had another interminable afternoon stretching ahead of me, when someone fires up the Vip-symbol.

Now my brain hurts from overuse, but I've got the work done, saved someones arse from a kicking by the client, and am left feeling more smug and self-satisfied than usual. Frankly though I'm amazed I got the bastard to work.

Anything surprised you or made you feel smug this afternoon?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 16:47, 25 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Amanda Knox: Did she do it?

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 15:53, 89 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I think the cleaners have been stealing sweets from my drawer at work
either that or the Milkybar Kid has come along and stolen all my chocolate buttons!?! :(

Have you ever experienced theft at work? If you haven't or can't be arsed to answer that question, here's another one... What is your favourite Christmas film of all time? :D
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 10 Dec 2009, 14:55, 88 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

To move or not to move, he ahí la cuestión.
I've been quite unhappy at work recently, and I've grown fed up of the f***ing rain in Manchester, so for the last 3 months I've been looking for a new job, somewhere in the south (the south of the world, rather than the south of England)

Now, due to this fantastic crisis, it's being more than difficult to find anything, especially as both me and my boyfriend would have to move to the same place, although not exactly at the same time.

Anyway, finally I have the opportunity to move down south. To Reading. With the same employer and for more or less the same salary I have here.

Good things of moving:
- Slightly better weather than in rainy Manchester.
- I'd be living in London (not right in the centre, I'm not mad)
- Work should be better.

Bad things of moving;
- Friends left behind.
- It'll be more difficult to pay my mortgage in Manchester (can't sell until August)

Good things are wining, unless you have something to add.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 10 Dec 2009, 13:55, 57 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

fucking check this out
uk.sonispherefestivals.com/

I'm so there :-)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 13:04, 38 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I have just seen that Donovan/Nolan Iceland advert.
God help us all. If I weren't off sick I might have escaped ever witnessing it.

Will Iceland soon be paying us to take their food? I can't see it getting any cheaper without slipping into minus figures. I like nice food more than I like quality clothing, so I'm more likely to be found in Primark than Iceland, but they do have some 'mazing deals.
What is the future of bargain shops????
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 11:46, 39 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I finally got all the Christmas presents
And just realised that for my siblings I've only bought alcohol or alcohol related things.

Do you think that's a call for problems?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 10 Dec 2009, 10:52, 38 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I like to cook
This year for Christmas dinner I am doing a carvery with Turkey, Beef, Pork, Lamb and Venison.

There will be just 8 off us and one will be my 22 month old daughter.

How will you be going OTT this Christmas? Also Rob Steadman is a cunt.
( Peej, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 10:46, 32 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

fuck yes!
Putting up the christmas tree! Woooo!
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 10 Dec 2009, 9:22, 19 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Christmas traditions
This year is the first year in living memory I'll have daughter with me on Christmas morning. She's always come to me either late Christmas day or early Boxing Day so I've never had the chance to establish any Christmas traditions.

What traditions and rituals do you have for Christmas? Any standing jokes? Does Uncle Barry always get too pissed? Did you always, without fail, get chocolate gold coins and a satsuma in your stocking?
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 9:11, 68 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Hooray!
I've finally tracked down my step-dad's Christmas prezzie.

www.mouse-watches.com/mens_mickey_mouse_date_watch.htm

He's got a Rolex so it's all down hill for him now.
( girlinthehole, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 8:27, 6 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Okay, so I don't have a griddle pan.
But I made a totally brilliant beef stew with dumplings tonight for family dinner. Parents loved it, and best of all, my brother wasn't home to intimidate or bully me. I loved it. I think they were surprised that I could actually cook that well when I'm not stressed out by my bro!

score one for me.

What was the last totally awesome thing you cooked? and how the fuck are you?
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 10 Dec 2009, 8:13, 36 replies, latest was 16 years ago)