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I am in a chipper mood this morning! How are you feeling?
Tonight I will be attending one of those planning meetings to object the building of 3 modern houses on the island, which I moved to as I liked that it was a conservation area, so all houses were pretty and had to be in keeping. Feel like a grown up, got my questions written down and all. When did you last feel like a privileged middle class prick?
Alt: racism at football matches? Ingrained problem or minority idiots ruining it for the rest of us.
Altalt: porridge?
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 7:50, 168 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

I have never felt middle class, in spite of private education, university and white collar job.
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But thanks man, it's a huge relief to be honest. Was getting a bit desperate.
Edit: I feel the opposite, always felt middle class, despite shit school, manual job, blah blah. Think it's because my father hates northerners.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:06, Reply)

But it can be measured in many different ways and I am sure Northern professionals are allowed to be called middle class.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:09, Reply)

Actually turns out to leave me better off. Taking in to account insuring the car for business as the higher paid one has no van included, and the cheeky cunts only offered 17p a mile.
So yeah, I'll be based around Oxford, Bucks, Berks, Wiltshire, bit of North London.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:13, Reply)

When does the cash start rolling in?
I have to say, you've impressively re-trained and changed career in 4 months. Fucking good effort.
Rubbishes arguments that there is no work.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:15, Reply)

and where I've ended up showed a little naivety on my part. It was HH that steered me in the direction of where I've ended up, and also I guess acceptance of a slightly lower salary and the knowledge that i'm going to have to prove myself from scratch in this industry. But yeah, there is work, but it's more competitive. I spent hours on my covering letters, and it was those that got the companies to take a punt on interviewing someone with 0 experience.
It's not the job i wanted when i started this whole thing, but it's a route to it, and in a couple of years, I'll be well away.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:23, Reply)

there will be a little bit of evening stuff, but with overtime pay, and the odd weekend away for big contracts, but it's definitely a wild improvement for me and ladypig.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:28, Reply)

make driving to and from jobs a bit nicer out in the country.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:29, Reply)

Yesterday when I was in court as an expert witness for the first time, jacket and tie and everything.
Racists abound. It's just you notice more when there's a crowd of them.
Porridge, winter only cooked with a pinch of salt. Bit of sugar and milk on.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:09, Reply)

Geezer saying his customer didn't have a claim on his guarantee.
Judge decided he did. I struggled to not feel important lol.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:14, Reply)

It was a property management company claiming on behalf of a landlord.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:56, Reply)

What island is it you live on? Last island I was on in the UK was Sheppey, lovely little place.
Alt, don't think it's an overt problem no.
Altalt, fucking hate the stuff. That and margarine ard the Devil's jizz.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:13, Reply)

It's called Osney Island, its got the canal one side and the River the other, with joining channels top and bottom, so there's water all round, bridges on and off etc, but it's small.
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but everyone there seems to appreciate how nice it is here compared to other council flat blocks and keep it all nice. They've got a lovely little green area behind the flats that is kept lovely, unlike a lot of those.
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some of the people round here take the whole village island vibe thing way too seriously.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:47, Reply)

Congrats on the job btw.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:16, Reply)

they've said that due to the fact that I'm already fixed wire trained, if i prove myself a decent worker with boring PAT work, there is opportunities to join their install and testing fixed wire and fire alarm side.
So, initially a lot of crawling around under desks, but potentially the sort of work I wanted to do in the first place, install and design.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:32, Reply)

No offence.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:07, Reply)

everyone knows it's a tautology but there's no other way of saying it without sounding like a prick.
"what are you doing to that PC?"
"oh, just PATing it"
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:54, Reply)

What was said earlier about there being work around, tru dat.
Setting up a business to run in tje new year, market research shows there to ne a reasonable customer base. Basically people who are working long hours to pay off large mortgages, in their 20s and don' t have the time to do a certain thing. I' ve got good hopes for this.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:27, Reply)

i'd love to go self employed in the end, are you going to tell us the idea? or scared one of us might steal it?
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:33, Reply)

Based around gardening. Just thought, crawling under desks gives you a chance for some upskirt photography? Just leave the flash off.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:42, Reply)

I didn't start my present business till in my forties.
Think a bit of life experience helps but the main thing is having a good idea and being totally enthusiastic about it.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:02, Reply)

Yeah I've set 3 up in the past, sold one, still run the other part time, the other failed. This looks to ne a good one.
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Alt. I meet more racists in the pub than at the football.
AltAlt, Sometimes. with water though.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:36, Reply)

I'm feeling tired, but it's pretty much the weekend now.
I don't recall feeling like a privileged middle class prick recently. Should I be feeling this way?
Alt: There are racists in all walks of life; there are more idiots at football matches. Neither ruin much for me.
Altalt: No thanks, I've had muesli.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8:56, Reply)

I've enjoyed this thread, thanks guys.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:10, Reply)

"That reminds me - I think I'll have porridge for breakfast tomorrow."
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b3ta.com/board/11023196
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Odd that it should be put forward for the vote though
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I am, however, at least applying for other work now.
Good on you for sticking up for a conservation area. While building in them is necessary, they should at least make half an effort to make the new buildings sympathetic with the old ones. I'd be filled with middle class fury if they built an ugly steel and glass flat block where I live.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:29, Reply)

These new ones look horrid.
I am glad you're looking for work, nothing worse than being miserable 5 days out of 7
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:31, Reply)

Perhaps Frogso can answer this
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:32, Reply)

It's manageable, but requires determination and commitment. It's rewarding in it's own way but it *is* a decision you shouldn't go into lightly. HTH.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:34, Reply)

Or perhaps you advocate self-medication with a bottle of vodka, while staying in bed all weekend?
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:36, Reply)

Initially I found the SSRIs didn't *do* much, and had my dose doubled. Then I found life was a bit better so knocked taking them on the head, as I kept forgetting to take them and found I didn't really need them, and was experiencing some side effect which were undesirable. I have started drinking more, and would definitely recommend that in pursuit of misery. Unfortunately I don't have the time at the moment to stay in bed all weekend, but it is something I am planning for in the not too distant future.
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Ideally you shouldn't do that, but I'm a fucking maverick and play by my own rules.
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I really can't stay where I am for much longer, though. It's doing me no good.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:36, Reply)

to use a clichè, it was like a weight off my shoulders, instantly perked up, realised how much of a grumpy prick i've been the last few weeks.
Are you going to see about an industry move, or just a different office?
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:38, Reply)

RIP Adam Yauch 4eva in r harts wiv da angles now etc
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:43, Reply)

I'm going for an industry shift with a two-pronged strategy. I'd like to get back into publishing, so I'm going for web content work as a halfway measure. The other prong is AV installation. Two areas that I have transferrable skills for without quite so much direct prick interaction.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:44, Reply)

what sort of area are you looking at? Ladypig is in academic online, dealing with all the onlin journals that univeristies and stuff use. she loves it.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:58, Reply)

fucking hell, mate, have you ever been in a mid-to-high end HiFi shop?
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:59, Reply)

Since you're usually working in boardrooms and pulling out ceiling tiles, you pretty much get left alone.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 10:06, Reply)

inevitably it's getting dragged into urgent meetings and being screamed at to get it set up before the client arrives.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 10:07, Reply)

Also, any cunt that screams at me gets short fucking shrift.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 10:10, Reply)

fucken class man. fuck that shit its just another box innit and ol reggie ent for boxes. if i call a cunt a cunt its cos ive done my fucken research (EG par exampler: theyre holding a fucken conference in the middle of the sauce isle ina asda and i just wanna get my fucken bottle of daddies and who the fuck parks a trolley sideways anyway you doss cunt, ergo i have studied their behaviour in relation to my getting my sauce and theyre bustin my balls man) i ent just read a pithy title in a fucken magazine and gone well how fucken clever no cunt ever thought of this before wait till i just go over here and ringfence my fucken opinions on shit
Altalt: yeah, i like the packets where you put the milk in the packet to measure it cos ive got one of them jugs that you need fucken bionic vision to see the markings and i can never find it in the morning anyway so the packets of porridge thing is a good idea in my opinion
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:49, Reply)

Wise words, Reg.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:53, Reply)

I last felt middle class prickish last night when I took a delivery of firewood for my wood burning stove
Alt:
No need at all. I was at Wembley in 1996 for Sunderland v Charlton play-off final and bumped into some old college mates sitting in front of me. When things started going tits, one of them shouted something racist and I pulled him on it. Call them a cunt yes, but not a black cunt. He initially started to laugh but I told him I'd speak to a steward and get him turfed out. He apologised and stopped. Bumped into him years later and he thanked me for it
AltAlt:
I love a bit of porridge
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9:57, Reply)

i wouldnt fucken advise it is all im sayin
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 10:05, Reply)

but one lead back to a share a picture of yourself thread from a few years ago before my time
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1413741
but most of the pics have been removed by the look of it, probs for the best, and theres one i think of swiper on a date with some guy with glasses and a beard but i don know who that is
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 10:15, Reply)

I'm bemused by people with double-barrelled surnames who went to private schools who claim to be middle class. Fuck off posho.
Alt: I've been to a fair few, not seen much racism because West Brom fans are lovely. The only offensive chant I can remember directed at a black player was some bloke whose brother had just been banged up for murder, who got "Where's your brother gone, where's your brother gone? Far, far away..." all game.
Altalt: Too fiddly, I just get a sausage bap from the canteen.
( , Thu 24 Oct 2013, 10:06, Reply)

His chant was;
Lee Howey, Lee Howey, Lee Howey
Your brother is a cunt
I once caught him singing it to himself in a pub in Sunderland
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www.stokesentinel.co.uk/story-19974973-detail/story.html
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