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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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so soon... so they're closing our office (could be now, could be in June 2013; as soon as they find a new tenant for the office) and they're asking us where we'd like to work: Croyton, London Bridge, Fetter Lane or Reading. We don't know if they're asking just to keep us happy or because they really plan to listen, as we think they'll try to convince us to move to Reading. And we don't want to, for obvious reasons.
This is all happening very quickly, we haven't got our flat in Redhill yet, and might not need it anymore.
Anyway, the question, which things changed/are changing in your life too quick. Do you feel vertigo thinking about them or are quite happy of what happened?
Alt.: Why does everybody hate Monty? He's a good, old school, proper Nazi, what's wrong with it? Anyone can chose to be whatever they want, can't they?
Alt.2: Annoying things about kids vs good things about kids.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:09, 151 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
I thought no one was going to reply...
London Bridge sounds good, it was my second choice.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:15, Reply)
it's really not that bad, it's pretty bad but better than some parts of london.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:16, Reply)
But I don't think I'd like to live there. And Mark would have around 3h to comute to work each way, so no.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:18, Reply)
it was a high class kebab shop and an internet cafe. Tayaab level koftes in there.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:19, Reply)
Classy. Driveby shootings of teenagers?
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:21, Reply)
Safest place to be though, they're not going to blow up their own internet cafe.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:24, Reply)
shashlik and koftes and stuff.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:25, Reply)
With mango chutney. This is a "special" at my local.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:29, Reply)
Two tube bombs were at Aldgate and Edgware Rd - the two most Muslim parts of town I know of.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:36, Reply)
It'd take me around 20 min to get to work and I wouldn't need the tube!
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:16, Reply)
For a small fee, usually just what you have on you at the time
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:38, Reply)
Even someone with poor judgement as well-documented as Al's wouldn't seriously suggest that Croydon is anything other than foul. Designed by the Luftwaffe and with no saving graces whatsoever, it's the only commuter belt town (apart from fucking Luton) with affordable housing for a very good reason.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:33, Reply)
Oh, well, I chose it already. It seems everybody here prefers it too. I'm confused. Is East Croydon any better?
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:42, Reply)
It's probably fine to work in, just not to live. I'mn sure you will find this to be so.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:43, Reply)
I think it's still better than Reading. I'll still live in Redhill.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:59, Reply)
it was my flabby pallid legs. And he didn't crash in to a bus because he was staring in a good way, either.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:33, Reply)
I'm going to picture you as a bronzed beauty making all the male passers by gawp until their wives hit.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:47, Reply)
Of course, this may just be because I'm a bit slow.
Alt: I don't.
Alt 2: there are no good things about children. Actually, there is one - I can walk away from them when (not if) they start to really get on my tits. If I had one of my own it would either become emotionally scarred or be taken off me pretty bloody quick.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:18, Reply)
London Bridge is massively busy for 3 hours in the morning and in the evening though, and whilst easy for commuting I think I'd go mad fighting through that many people in the mornings.
Fetter Lane is a lovely place to have an office but a little too close "City" minus the actual City for my liking. If you have to commute from Redhill, you'll have to change once on the Tube to the horrrrrific Central line in the morning.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:19, Reply)
The pubs are quite good too, if you know where to look.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:43, Reply)
I have a problem with most people, which generally come under a certain umbrella depending on which part of the city I'm in.
I would actually like to be shown some good pubs in the City, I've never really been out there.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:46, Reply)
The problem is that they are shut on weekends...
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 11:26, Reply)
there're direct trains from Redhill. Not very often, but I can go to a train station nearby and walk 5-10 min.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:34, Reply)
You make a good point but that will be hellishly busy!
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:39, Reply)
I think everywhere in London is busy, isn't it? I hate that bit about the city. The people walking fast past you and pushing you, the people walking slow in front of you and taking all the curb, the cars, the buses... not nice.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:43, Reply)
I have a bike already and love it. But I'm not going to use it on the crazy city.
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(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:23, Reply)
The thing is that I haven't finished with my previous change yet. My stuff is all in boxes around the country.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:34, Reply)
I'm finding it difficult to commit myself to moving to Slough. Luton is much better, even though the local bookshop has just closed down.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:29, Reply)
I'd consider suicide as a third option, old boy.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:34, Reply)
I will not cheer you all up by topping myself though. Not yet anyway.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:37, Reply)
When you are strong enough to be one of my pall bearers, I'll top myself.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:43, Reply)
I need to cut my commuting mileage to zero so I can spend the money on a mortgage instead.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:40, Reply)
minus - kids cost money.
plus - you can make stuff up and they believe you.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:29, Reply)
My daughter thinks the alarm sensors are Santa watching eat her tea
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:35, Reply)
White ninja telling to his daughter: You know that everytime you lie, a Unicorn loses his horn and becomes just a normal horse? Now, are you lying to me?
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:44, Reply)
I wish someone close to me had kids so I could tell them this kind of shit.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:42, Reply)
I think this kind of mental thing is good. He also used to terrify him with processed cheese slices
"No Uncle Daniel, NOT THE CHEESE!"
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:59, Reply)
completely ignoringthe fact that I was a brazen coward who would be crying for my mum the first time I saw a Dalek.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:36, Reply)
otherwise, I would have spent countless nights waiting for him, dissapointed.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:38, Reply)
I'm working with this very old man who should have retired years ago, and he's very clever and everybody knows it and respects it. Talking about the project a week ago, in private, I told him that I thought we could simplify very much part of the process by doing this and this. Today, he comes into the office and starts telling everybody that he's got this idea and we can simplify the project by doing this and this. That's my idea. Grrrrr
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:32, Reply)
In future don't give your ideas away. Colleagues are mostly cunts in this respect.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:34, Reply)
Next time I have an idea I'm saying it out loud in front of everyone. Bastard.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:35, Reply)
That's a good idea.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:38, Reply)
I just told a friend and colleague about what happend, and she thinks he just didn't hear me when I said it.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:52, Reply)
Remind him it was your idea.
Don't be too nice about it either.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:34, Reply)
and a character. Everybody adores him. I'm the new "young lady" of the office. They'll never believe me. At most, they'll think he didn't hear me when I said it and had the idea of his own.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:36, Reply)
you'll have to drop it subtly into conversation with the boss: 'XXX tells me you liked my idea about A,B,C. I'm glad I mentioned it to him.'
Alternatively, start very minutely moving his stuff, claiming you can't see or hear certain things that he can, and make him think he is losing his mind. Or slash his tyres.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:39, Reply)
rather than the sensible 'talk to your boss' idea?
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:53, Reply)
but I'll do that moving things around bit. Sounds like fun anyway.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:52, Reply)
Alt: I don't, most of the time; you would say that, his lot were bog mates with Franco, innit; not according to the Nazis, no.
Alt2: They're enormously good fun as long as you can give them back once they become wearisome vs You can't do that if they're your own
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:37, Reply)
Franco didn't participate in the WWII and, for much that I don't like him, he wasn't racist. He'd kill you regardless of your race if you were against him.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:39, Reply)
Apologies. I believe the Nazis did lend support to Franco during the civil war of 1933-36 though didn't they?
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:41, Reply)
Bombed Guernica. First time they tried Blitzkrieg I beleieve.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:45, Reply)
Franco strung Hitler along and then refused to join him. Smart guy, albeit an utter cunt.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:46, Reply)
One of the only things I know about Hitler other than cold historical fact is that he said "The distance between genius and insanity is measured only by success". Which, although basically just another way of saying "History is written by the winners", is a very salient point.
But yeah, cunt.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:50, Reply)
than they were in the outcome of the fighting.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:48, Reply)
they met several times and both sides made promises of "well, if you need me, I'm here" but never got properly involved. Both sides as well sent volunteers to fight on the other's war, but that didn't count as a political decision, just volunteers, you see?
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:54, Reply)
Surely in a totalitarian state any military officer can be assumed as willing and "volunteered". I do see your point but would argue that if equipment and transportation was provided for said volunteers to participate in another country's war it counts as lending support.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:57, Reply)
But Spain doesn't count as participating on the war. We had no money, so I'm prety sure that the Germans paid for everything, and just took the people. And we needed the army at home, to keep the rebelious calm, so I really believe they were volunteers.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 11:04, Reply)
Germany was certainly not lacking manpower
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 11:07, Reply)
They had fuck all.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 11:17, Reply)
When given the chance to be withdrawn from fighting the soviets, they decided to stay on till ultimate victory.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:46, Reply)
Not to mention Spains agreement for the Germans to have land access to Gibraltar for any possible assaults.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:48, Reply)
it was a group of volunteer (one of my best friend's grandpa was there). Franco did approve it, but he said as well that we had just finished our own war and weren't having another. They agreed a lot of stuff, Germans and Spaninsh, but it never happened.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:56, Reply)
It's not difficult to look beyond that veil to the reality that Germany directly intervened in the Spanish Civil War
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(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 11:01, Reply)
So I suppose that makes me fanbwoi, it's a fascinating period of history WW1 and WW2 and the interwar period.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 11:06, Reply)
and I still can't remember anything much other than a few bits from Clause 231 of the Treaty of Versailles.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 11:08, Reply)
I don't know your problem. Everytime there's a civil war, everybody tries to get in and make the most of it.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 11:05, Reply)
You mean an uncivil war.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 11:07, Reply)
WHAT'S FOR LUNCH ?!?!
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 11:08, Reply)
Nuh-uh. No way.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 11:11, Reply)
5 minutes one way and you're by the river, 10 minuites another way and you're in Oxford Street, 5 minutes another way and you're in Farringdon.
You'll be in walking distance for the best places, possibly in the world, to eat and drink and shop.
Think about your collegues, that or London Bridge is also the best choice for anyone who wants to get there via public transport.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:38, Reply)
There are so many resturants in Farringdon I want to try but don't like dining alone, and these are expensive places, but I'm determind this month's pay-week I'll try at least one of them out.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:43, Reply)
I'll let you know as soon as they tell us what we're doing.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:57, Reply)
I went from having a girlfriend and living in London to being single, getting on a plane and moving all my shit over within the space of one month. It's amazing how quickly your life can change.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:38, Reply)
I'm too grounded by 'stuff' to abandon it and leave. Kudos for picking a great country to live in, though.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:44, Reply)
But luckily everything has worked out really well for me. It's funny but once you've made such a huge change in your life you realise it's not that difficult. I would do it all again....
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:48, Reply)
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:51, Reply)
It's cool, hip, has tons of amazing bars, restaurants and most importantly it's cheap...
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:51, Reply)
I lived just below Stuttgart. Really nice down there, especially nice weather in the summer.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:55, Reply)
But that's just a holiday. It's still a bit scary though.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:54, Reply)
And I'd be more careful if I was visiting Jamaica.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 11:01, Reply)
And you won't get any problems except for the beggars, they're not nasty. Just needy.
Alot of travelling though so be sure to take a cushion to alleviate buttock ache.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 11:10, Reply)
If you get the chance, go to the tea plantations for a night. Old world lodge style accommodation.
(, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 11:18, Reply)
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