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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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A friend of mine has been complaining about being out of work. "Oh, I've got no money, I hate it..." and so on.
I've been suggesting ways to find gainful employment. She's not long out of college and doesn't have any experience, so I was suggesting skills that can be transferred to the work environment, being very upbeat and taking time out of my day to encourage her.
(Quotes)Her: "I'm not good with spreadsheets and they're fucking pointless anyway and I don't know about data entry much."
Me: "I'm thinking about fairly generic skills that can be applied to jobs. You can still put together a robust CV which we can get out to temp agencies and recruiters."
Her: "Nahhh, I'll pass."
Lazy shit. If you're not going to help yourself, you can fuck off. The world isn't going to fall into your lap. Young/lazy types? I give up.
Country. Dogs. Need another war. National Service. Bring back hanging. Etc.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:07, 232 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
Desperately cute reptiley thing. But endangered, so there goes my chances of having one for a pet.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:11, Reply)
They look all cute but they're trying to look all mean and noble.
Like Pocket Dragons.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:16, Reply)
Iguanas regularly reach 6ft and make pretty good pets if you have the room. Some of them are right bastards, mind. Tegus are wonderful big lizards. Very friendly, on a level with cats for intelligence.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:16, Reply)
There are a lot of fairly similar lizards. They seem to have a similar form to slimmer Rankin's Dragons. And resemble the truly awesome Frilled Dragon...

(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:14, Reply)
I now also have Spike. Who's about three times the size and one eight the intelligence. His greatest joy in life is sitting on a windowsill looking at absolutely nothing. Also a baby python currently called New Snake.
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rarely works though :-/
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:10, Reply)
It's cruel, but it keeps me off the streets.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:31, Reply)
The Dilophosaurus in the film is based on this lizard. The real dinosaur - in so far as anyone can tell with fictional atheist lizard-birds - didn't have a neck frill. They based that dinosaur around the frilled dragon because it looks cool. How'd ya like them apples?
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:01, Reply)
Fucking Crichton. Stop messing with dinosaurs and stick to monkeys!
I'm doin' good thanks baby. Fancy coming back to my parents' garage to listen to me talk about all the technical inaccuracies that have been made in films?
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:11, Reply)
Ain't you from liverpool? I'm sure you can get those spiders as pets in the UK.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:18, Reply)
And a gecko called Cat.
Genius.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:44, Reply)
When I gave my sister two of my baby gerbils (one black, one white) I named them Hitler and The Jewbil because the white one is proper mean to the black one so it's obviously a white supremacist gerbil. Since she's bought a boat to live on she's had to give them to her fiance's parents. She told them they're called Bubble and Squeak.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:51, Reply)
I could get a bearded dragon, and call it Trogdor or Smorg.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:46, Reply)
and I'll probably get bored and want something else next week.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:48, Reply)
I wanted a pygmy hedgehog a month ago. My mates have one, but she won't let her fella dye it blue.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:54, Reply)
It's pretty depressing.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:10, Reply)
for quite rightly being pissed off that we're subsidising their illegitimate crack addict babies that they have with fucking forrins who come over here and build their fucking mosques on the graves of babies, what would they do if you tried to build a church in Iraq?
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:17, Reply)
I bet you've secretly made a chart to show what you are feeling about it already.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:17, Reply)
But I can't get those fucking macros to work...
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:18, Reply)
THAT BITCH MUST PAY*
*unless she's hot
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:19, Reply)
It was quite clever, based on what I've had to eat recently, how much money I've got, what mood I'm in, if I want to cook or not. It worked like a hyraki, like
Cook / Don't Cook
Indian/Chinese/pizza/greek/turkish/burger/fast food (or japanese now) - three or four combinations of dishes in each catagory; based on price, stomach problems, what I've had previously that week or soo.
microwave meal/bung-in-oven/pasta-with-something/ - sevral things based on how much washing up I'd have, what I've got in the cupboard, if it's raining and I need to go shops, if I need to go ASDA or Marks (or now tesco too)
It also factored in if I'm going out later in that week for dinner, and what I'd have then.
Sometimes things cross over.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:24, Reply)
That would be a whicked project for a first app-app (rather than web-app).
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:33, Reply)
or does more confusion-based hilarity have to ensue first?
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:40, Reply)
you're filthy. Me not love you long time.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:49, Reply)
This doesn't take your bowels into account though :/
whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/index.php
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:48, Reply)
I know I'm very very good at what I do, but if I had some umpth about me, I would be a lot further than where I am today. The trouble is with me, is every time I start running I get ill again, and it wares thin very easerly. I ain't given up yet though, I could quite easerly collect sick pay and let the social pay all my bills, well, not easerly because it's been a struggle every time I've tried; lost forms, wrong forms, doctor's notes going missing, being bypassed (rightly) by people who are in more dire strates than me (or at least, act like that).... but I see that as admitting defeat in my case, because I'm always going to get ill, there is no amount of want or money that would change that.
... but still, if I had more ompth, I think I'd be a lot further in life than what I am now.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:13, Reply)
when I'm a millionairess you can do all my websites for all the many many companies I will own.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:33, Reply)
Clearly not good enough to secure a job or rich bloke, though...
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:19, Reply)
Tell her to go to uni - she can delay getting a job for another 3 years that way.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:26, Reply)
There is a red headed goddess working in the new super tesco in Bradley Stoke. Also they sell very cheap games.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:28, Reply)
Enjoy the football last night? Were you cheering Spurs to victory?
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:29, Reply)
As much as I hate spurs. I am quite looking forward to watching them get raped in Europe. 28 minutes until the draw I love football.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:32, Reply)
I was hoping you were going to say you were cheering for the opposition last night.
Then I could have said, that after looking after your nephew earlier this week, 'Not for the first time this week have you been yelling and panting 'cum on Young Boys'
But you didn't, so I can't say that now can I?
What games do Tesco sell on the cheap?
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:35, Reply)
If you want I could edit my post and let you do some copy and pasting? you sick fucker.
Loads most of the new releases are only £30 but Tiger Woods for 11 quid, Street Fighter 15, Mass Effect 2 15.
I am looking forward to Liverpool game later now. Midweek football is brilliant.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:39, Reply)
first point dog fucker you are wrong.
2nd point she is on the checkout two away from me and looked like freckly redheaded version of sienna miller. Very smiley. Next time I will scan the tills to see if she is working.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:49, Reply)
and immolated by the fans if they lost.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:35, Reply)
but he worked out that he was only £87 a month better off and that the commute wasn't worth it so he quit and went back to benefits.
I wanted to slap him around a bit.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:39, Reply)
The jobs they could get if they could be bothered to get off their arses often pay only a fraction more than the benefits they were on.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:44, Reply)
benefits overhaul so people couldn't take the piss.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:46, Reply)
I know a couple of people who genuinely deserve the benefits they're on (for medical reasons), but there are too many people who take the piss.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:49, Reply)
so he couldn't use his hand. They had so much trouble getting the council to pay their rent while he recovered, yet there are fat lazy slags next door who seem to get it all for free.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:53, Reply)
They said I'd have to be registered on the council housing list, even though I didn't want a council flat. I tried to apply, and they said I earned too much, but I only just earned enough for the banks to lend me the mortgage required for the part ownership. Catch 22.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:01, Reply)
That was during the awkward period of my life where I insisted on punctuating my sentences with groin thrusts.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:11, Reply)
Cheers for the NIN help, I was out all day yesterday and today, but I'll check it out tonight.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:47, Reply)
but I'm still going to say it.
YOU'RE UP EARLY!!
hehe
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:48, Reply)
Nah, been shopping for studenty stuff for my new house. I've been up before 12 everyday this week. I'm well proud of myself.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:49, Reply)
I'm impressed.
By studenty stuff do you mean a microwave and a home-distillery?
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:54, Reply)
But mum wouldn't buy it for me. Especially after I said I was sure I could find a use for it locking up innocent young men in my bedroom.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:05, Reply)
it might give her a funny turn.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:05, Reply)
Also rope is much better. No annoying jingly noises when they're struggling to escape.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:06, Reply)
apart from wrists and ankles
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:14, Reply)
restraints freak me out so it's not something I really research
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:17, Reply)
But I read Bizarre magazine, and see some odd things at work. I like to think I'm a little educated in such things, but certainly no expert or indeed practitioner.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:19, Reply)
about Shibari. It looks quite pretty but I couldn't imagine ever being the sort of person who was fine with putting their liberty in the hands of someone else
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:23, Reply)
Sadly you can't un-see anything. If I could, Genki would be at the top of that list...
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:27, Reply)
Interestingly, don't Wiki 'shibari', the pic is NSFW for nipplage.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:17, Reply)
not me I hasten to add. I can't remember the last time something got ironed in my house.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:05, Reply)
and I was just thinking "how?!"
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:06, Reply)
But mother is an OCD level clean and tidy freak.
I didn't iron anything at uni.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:10, Reply)
it was a reasonable excuse for no ironing
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:12, Reply)
Oh, god, what have I done?! I'm a crinkly linen owning monster! Don't look at me... DON'T LOOK AT ME!
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The Victorians could insult like nobody else.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:12, Reply)
You vigorous, ha-penny knee-trembler chasing ragamuffin.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:14, Reply)
I tend to favour painted jezebel rather than scarlet though
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:53, Reply)
surely he isn't eligible for benefits? Or at least not as much?
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:45, Reply)
He is actually a really nice guy though, just needs some direction.
Comes from Milton Keynes you know...
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:47, Reply)
Surely though, not being sat on your arse all day smoking weed saves you a lot of money, so he'd have been a lot more than £87 a month better off?
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:55, Reply)
His status said "weed gets you through the times with no money much better than money gets you through the times without weed" so I pointed out that he has no money because he has weed.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:58, Reply)
I said that the other day.
The reason I have no money is because of obscene mortgage and weddings savings though.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:04, Reply)
She'll probably need some duct tape too.
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It's circulating money in the economy! He gets paid from private sector work on which he pays tax and which in turn he spends on buses who also pay tax and buy fuel which raises tax. This is how economies work. They should have told him to fucking starve and then punched his cock to boot.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:55, Reply)
apparently he is fine living without my respect.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:57, Reply)
But I object to being lumped in with useless workshy shits, which are an entirely different species.
On a different note, I went to see Scott Pilgrim on a not-a-date with my mate yesterday, it was FUCKING AWESOME. A+++, would pay to see again.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:47, Reply)
If I remember the trailer, she's a bit fit.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:50, Reply)
Totally worth the seven evil exes. It's really, really funny as well.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:51, Reply)
Would that not suggest that this might be the one where he has to fight her exes?
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:59, Reply)
I have to go to a party of someone I don't like tomorrow, so I might do that instead. It looks in the trailers like it's really obvious she's wearing a wig, is that the case?
Are you in Manchester? You should come with and trash the place for me (he's the one who vommed in my bed at Wiggy's birthday).
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:56, Reply)
That a shame, I do enjoy trashing things.
I don't think its really obvious, but I wasn't really paying that much attention to her hair.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:00, Reply)
And I would duel all of your suitors for the honour of your hand, m'lady.
*sweeping bow*
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:57, Reply)
She looks about twelve, you're flirting with a girl who looks about twelve. You fucking nonce.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:57, Reply)
I am merely being gentlemanly, in the Victorian fashion.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:58, Reply)
Your chivalry never ceases to flatter me.
(fuck off al)
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:03, Reply)
for offering you a sweet and a ride in his van
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:27, Reply)
Ahem, I apologise, I meant to say "Then I shall have him dealt with most swiftly".
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:20, Reply)
out of all of the things you've done, including that picture you made Vipros.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:24, Reply)
And it's entertaining, but will get boring I'm sure.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:25, Reply)
and felt dirty for thinking about her boobs because she looks about 12.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:05, Reply)
BUT I DO NOT FUCKING LOOK TWELVE. cunt.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:14, Reply)
not now your boys have got stuck into fucking up any chance of the next generation getting hold of some of the millions them and their bezzie mates have made.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:57, Reply)
Labour was all about equal opportunities wasn't it? Let's not forget who fostered the culture that has led to the current situation shall we?
And I'll be fine in all liklihood
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:05, Reply)
They're all a bunch of Old Boy Network, self-serving, fuck-the-proles, greedy dinosaurs. The baby boom generation fostered this culture of greed, which in turn has lead to the cultures of entitlement and someone's always to blame.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:08, Reply)
For not marching on Downing Street and Canary Wharf with a plethora of medieval weaponry.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:13, Reply)
and not even a real one!
How has my life gone so, so wrong?
*moves to Canterbury*
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:22, Reply)
It's not all rosy down Canterbury way.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:24, Reply)
the fat cunt. One day soon the fire brigade are going to have to knock one of his walls down to get him out so he can go to hospital and it'll be live on Jerry Springer and he'll be crying and everything.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:34, Reply)
She'll be saying, 'I don't know how he got so fat,' and, 'I think he's cuddly,' but the neighbours will be waiting to get their pet cat back from his rolly bits.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:36, Reply)
Although he would never have called for a trebuchet.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:29, Reply)
And lug it to London...
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:21, Reply)
I'm sure a piano cobbed through Citibank tower would shit folk up.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:31, Reply)
Get them to drag it for you. It wouldn't be seemly for a commander to drag his own trebuchet now, would it?
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:30, Reply)
while not kicking out Lord Ashcroft despite promising to do so, in fact by discussing how they will give him a new job in the government, and getting Phillip Green, another well known tax dodger, the Tories are certainly not showing that they haven't changed a bit are they.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:14, Reply)
need to be dealt with. That doesn't make Lord Ashcroft right. It just means that so far they've got less wrong than Labour, which thought both of these things were perfectly acceptable
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:16, Reply)
while benefit cheats are less than a billion and mismanagement is only about 2-3 billion and you can't possibly reduce that to nothing mean they are taking the right approach?
Stop talking about Labour, I have never said that Labour were right in their attitude to closing tax loopholes etc. I'm gunning at the Tories, what Labour did or did not do is irrelevant.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:19, Reply)
you can only judge something in context. Taken out of context of other parties/previous governments the Tories are a bunch of selfserving cunts. Compared to Labour and the alternatives they are the best option currently.
And we've had this discussion before. Benefit cheating is not just about the money, it's part of an entire cultural attitude that there needs to be steps to shift
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:26, Reply)
Oh that's alright then. Vipros can make up the shortfall from his immense wages.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:26, Reply)
Bloody young, carefree roustabouts!
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:14, Reply)
At the end of a few days in Cornwall and heading back up tomorrow.
You OK?
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:41, Reply)
I might eat a whole bag of frozen broccoli tonight
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:34, Reply)
I have just compared his junk to frozen broccoli.
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:39, Reply)
His junk's well better than your røde pølser offerings!
(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:43, Reply)
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