just had the metaphoricl rug pulled from under me.
moving to brighton, working in west acton. just been told that despite being regarded as 'very conscientious' and my work as being 'something i could do from home NO problems' and 'we trust you' i will NOT be allowed to work from home one day a week, to facilitate me NOT spending every fucking hour god sends at work, on a train, or in bed, and being able to do useful things like finish learning to drive, help out round the new house,because some other people who presumably, don't have the same kind of shining fuckin record, have also asked and been told no, and it would be unfair. what shit on your parade recently?

alt q: no, fuck you, no alt q.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:42, 113 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

That's a bit shit.
*sympathies*

Ill set an alt Q for ya: What's everyone listening to? I'm currently listening to Snot; Stoopid, from the album Get Some. Fuck they're good...
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:47, Reply)

Rock and Roll Lifestyle by Cake

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:51, Reply)

Nice - that's now on the list.

(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:53, Reply)

Selling Jesus by Skunk Anansie.
Ooh, and now Fahrenheit Fair Enough by Telefon Tel Aviv.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:53, Reply)

Ooh, I've got tickets to see them soon* I think.

Providing the person who said they'd buy them, bought them.
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:55, Reply)

I had a look at their dates in November
then had a listen to their new album and it's woefully lacking in the energy of their earlier stuff, so decided against it.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:55, Reply)

Aww really? I haven't heard any of it yet,
although a couple of people I've spoken to have said it was good.

I'm mainly going because their drummer is absolutely fudging brill.
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:56, Reply)

Maybe I'm just biased because Paranoid and Sunburnt and Stoosh were to of my most-listened-to back in the day.
I've only heard it once and scattered tracks on shuffle but it's been a bit meh.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:57, Reply)

Paranoid and Sunburnt was fucking shit. Particularly the lyrics.

(Cave Duck, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:02, Reply)

You're fucking shit. Particularly the lyrics.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:13, Reply)

Oooh, what an angry little man you are.
You must have been radicalised by listening to Skunk Anansie.
(Cave Duck, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:19, Reply)

I think they must have tried to intellectualise his blackness
before realising he wasn't black and there was distinct last of intellect to work with.
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:21, Reply)

And being excluded from the Rrrriot Girl movement due to not having a vagina
just pushed him over the edge. Grrr.
(Cave Duck, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:26, Reply)

I'm listening to The Cure.
I don't know why.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:55, Reply)

I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and say 'I like The Cure'

(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:55, Reply)

me too
even the more pop type stuff. But I prefer the dark stuff, like off Disintegration
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:00, Reply)

*stands up*
I like The Cure too.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:41, Reply)

Sit down you oaf, apart from 'A Forest' they are shit.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:02, Reply)

Fuck right off you hippy.
Pornography, Head on the Door and Disintigration are classics.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:10, Reply)

'Killing an Arab' is passable
Head on the Door is bent. Goth for people too bent to be actual goths.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:15, Reply)

I would say pop for people who don't like pop.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:24, Reply)

I don't like (80s) pop. And I don't like that record either.

So nerr.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:27, Reply)

You is a hater.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:36, Reply)

Is that a Norah Jones cover?

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:56, Reply)

Yay Snot!
Haven't listened to them in years.

"My balls! Your chin! My balls! I wanna put them on your chin!"
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:58, Reply)

That's such a good tune.
In fact I think the album may be one of my favourites of all time...
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:00, Reply)

The Thermals - More Parts Per Million.

(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:58, Reply)

The new one 'Personal Life' is a bit of a let down.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:46, Reply)

I quite like it so far.
Not listened to it properly though yet.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:53, Reply)

twilight soundtrack
*dyes hair red and dreams of Edward*
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:01, Reply)

no Edward thanks
but I wouldn't say no to Robert Pattinson
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:04, Reply)

A meeting a friend had at work
That I'm transcribing for her. Her bosses are idiots.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:02, Reply)

Sucks to be you then.

(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:03, Reply)

It's funny, because when I used to work there one of them was one of my bosses
However, it is also an incredibly long meeting.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:06, Reply)

Binary Sunset from Star Wars: A New Hope
Excellent.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:04, Reply)

Drive by Incubus
And previously Mayhem by Imelda May
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:17, Reply)

when is the IM gig?
I'd love to see her.

Well, when I say 'see' I really mean 'backscuttle her till her eyes pop out'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:06, Reply)

I'm listening to 'Kayleigh' by Ma-fucking-rillion on my internal jukebox
MORE'S THE FUCKING PITY.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:06, Reply)

you shit on my thread!

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:48, Reply)

soz
and sorry about not chewing my tomato skins more.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:10, Reply)

*shakily picks up phone receiver*
*Mashes keypad with my tear covered fist*
"I-I... *deep breath* N-need a *deep breath* Waaaaaaaaambulance"
*drops reciever to the floor*
*collapses in a heap*
(PsychoChomp, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:51, Reply)

do you have a database with all these things in them
ready to be copied and pasted?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:01, Reply)

Yeah it's called my brain.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:02, Reply)

it looks suspiciously like it is exactly the same as when you posted it yesterday or the day before.

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:07, Reply)

I copied and pasted it from my brain.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:15, Reply)

weird

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:18, Reply)

I'm confused, you moved house bassed on a job telling you can work from home one day a week; and now they're saying 'no' to that?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:01, Reply)

no.
i moved house based on the girl i'm set to marry finding her dream job in brighton, and was HOPING to alleviate the commute with a wednesday working at home. which has failed. book me into that mothafuckin waaambulance and dose me up with a shot of MTFU, i'm gonna need it. stat.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:10, Reply)

Allright then, Man the Fuck Up
you made a bad decision based on hope rather than getting something concrete. If it's that bad either move back to London, or find a job in Brighton. Or Hove actually.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:11, Reply)

well, that's the end game yes
but unless i get monumentally lucky, which i already maxed out my allowance of this lifetime, i need another year's experience and more MINIMUM unless i want to work in prontaprint for £15k making fuckin takeaway leaflets and living off beans on toast. this job is good, and i need to work here for a while longer before i'm starting to thimnk about middleweight positions.. there's too much competition for the junior stuff there, i'm too expensive, they could get some student for about ten grand less.. sure i got a good skill set etc, but without the experience, no one wants to know. and FUCK office work.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:14, Reply)

You have a job
Shut up, stop complaining, MTFU.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:15, Reply)

You not moving to London then?

(Bazongaloid, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:18, Reply)

Not just now, no
They didn't take on any of the 3, and laid off 600 folk. Then the other job up north didn't want me either. I am becoming poorer and more irritable with each passing day.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:20, Reply)

What do you do?
You're an accountant right?
(PsychoChomp, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:21, Reply)

No
Design Engineer.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:28, Reply)

Oh, I have no idea where to even look for jobs like that.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:32, Reply)

The one with the chickens is an accountant aren't they?

( girlinthehole, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:31, Reply)

I have no idea what most of you do.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:32, Reply)

Is your regained lust for chicken meat causing you to stalk him?
EDIT: Watch out Count Duckula (I think)she only wants you for one thing.
(Cave Duck, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:33, Reply)

Well I will if I can remember his name.

( girlinthehole, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:35, Reply)

See edit for my best guess.

(Cave Duck, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:38, Reply)

colonel dracula. he is totally stalkable.
i have been doing it for YEARS
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:49, Reply)

What do you do?

(Bazongaloid, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:15, Reply)

Makes shit choices apparently.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:17, Reply)

multimedia design & Photography
and making shit choices, apparently

incidentally, how does staying with someone you love and supporting them equal a shit choice?
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:21, Reply)

because you let her get her own way.
It's a slippery slope.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:22, Reply)

because she ASKED me..
...if she should a: take an amazing job she never thought she'd get and had been hoping for for maybe five years
or b: keep looking for a job in london (which i hate) (which although she never said it, i know for a fact would entail her going out alone to some of the worst, most deprived and dangerous areas of london to try and provide care to people who often don't want it, or whose families don't want them to have it.. which is not cool)

and she asked me which i wanted.
not all women are evil succubi.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:27, Reply)

She's brainwashed you.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:29, Reply)

good, it needed washing
it's STILL filthy.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:37, Reply)

^bitter single man is bitter and single^

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:29, Reply)

Snakes with tits the lot of them.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:35, Reply)

too much tranny-porn

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:52, Reply)

Hahahah

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:03, Reply)

i know
my one super-cutting and accurate comeback and the recipient bugger hasn't even seen it. rage.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:05, Reply)

It's POTD worthy.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:09, Reply)

I KNOW, RIGHT?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:19, Reply)

Not being funny or nothing....
.... but how can you complain against a teenager taking shit wage 'cus of lack of experiance, when you don't have the experiance yourself and are demanding a hell of a lot more cash?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:36, Reply)

I hate to say it, but it's a fact of life, whatever you choose, you almost always start at the bottom.
How can a printer work from home anyway?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:39, Reply)

Well gonz they have small printers now you can fit in your home. Some are even small enough to fit on a desk

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:58, Reply)

I want this one
www.ebuyer.com/product/219216

I'd take a macro of my bumhole and fill all the windows with it.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:07, Reply)

this is true usually
however, if you start in the middle struggling like a bastard, it's reasonable to expect to go across, or up, rather than down. plus, when you're on a certain wage amnd you have things like rent, bills, travel, and a girl to think about, it's no small thing to take a massive hit in your wage.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:36, Reply)

you misunderstand me
more power to the student taking a shit wage. i'm not saying i don't have the experience for his job. i'm saying i don't currently have the experience, even really for mine, the one i do now. and to get a job like that again, i need more to rely on than blind luck, this one i got headhunted by the MD while working in a shitty job, and kinda came in, hit the ground running, and worked my bollocks off. that's all well and good, it means i ain't getting fired for SHIT here, they are pleased with me, however, this doesn't count for SHIT on paper, if they've got a dude with a nice folio and five years experience, versus a dude with a nice folio and one and a bit years experience, guess who's getting the interview? i'd like to have confidence to go for the bigger jobs, but i'm also realistic, and with the number of cv's flooding in, they filter by experience and qualifications before they even look at your work. sad but true, as anyone who's looking right now, or has seen an ad posted on gumtree get 400 odd views in it's first day.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:34, Reply)

Ahh, I see what you mean.
It's a shitty thing to happen, expecting something that doesn't come through, but look at it like this; it's only one day different from what you were expecting anyway, and it'll just be for a year or soo while you build yourself up; which when you consider it's a life-plan (moving in with someone you're gonna marry), it's not the end of the world.

I know what you mean about having bills that you need to be sorted with but there are two incomes and you should be cool with that; people in the area survive with worst.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:54, Reply)

Waaaaaah Waaaaah Waaaaah
Suck it up
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:10, Reply)

if i suck it up
i'm gonna spit it back out.
on your face.
you'll love it.
they call it boo-hoo-hoo-kakke.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:11, Reply)

So your job is cock dribble
I've lost all sympathy for your pathetic plight
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:13, Reply)

you had sympathy!
this is a heartfelt internet.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:15, Reply)

On an unrelated note
Today I have been crowbarring the phrase, "Gucci Loafers", into as many conversations as I can, with hilarious results.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:13, Reply)

Where have you managed to use it so far?

(Bazongaloid, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:14, Reply)

"Hello Sir, I'd like to buy some Gucci Loafers"

(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:16, Reply)

Were you in Burger King at the time?

(Bazongaloid, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:18, Reply)

In a bakery.
Turns out they don't do designer bread.
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:23, Reply)

Whilst talking about the old guy in accounts who we suspect was
running around his living room in a pair of speedos doing squat thrusts all weekend and reciting the alpabet backwards...in a pair of gucci loafers, and no socks.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:25, Reply)

I post this once a fucking week
but I have pissed on Noel Gallaghers Gucci loafers - sorry but it's 200% pertinent.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:04, Reply)

So look for another job closer to home

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:16, Reply)

i plan to
but the market's a bugger right now.
i'm basically resigned to at least six months of a life that goes wake-commute-work-commute-eat-sleep with about enough slack time for a shit and a quick scratch of the balls at each end.
i know, it could be worse, blah, blah, waaaaambulance is en route. just bad week for the news to arrive.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:18, Reply)

I basically have the opposite problem
I work near home for three or four days a week and the other ones I have to drive a hundred miles to our other office.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:20, Reply)

Apocalyptica doing Metallica.
Just came on shuffle and stuck the whole album on.

not as good as I remembered
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:20, Reply)

I have that album.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:21, Reply)

I remember liking it a lot more than I am at the moment.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:23, Reply)

saw them at Sonisphere
one of the highlights. They were seriously good. They have a drummer now and only 3 cellists.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:35, Reply)

well I didn't enjoy that at all. I used to love this album. It can do one now.
Tokyo Police Club ftw
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:58, Reply)

the album isn't a patch on the live performance
their version of seek and destroy was brilliant.

the drums really added a lot too
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:00, Reply)

This just came on for me
How To Destroy Angels - The Spaces In Between.
Beautiful.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:53, Reply)

The fact some knobhead has moved into our flat
He wants to stay on our sofa for fifty quid a week. I've told him to fuck off but he won't listen.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:55, Reply)

Weren't you that knobhead a couple weeks back?

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 15:59, Reply)

Er, no.
I just went into the front room and he told me to turn my music down. I might lob him through the window.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:11, Reply)

What a knobhead.
How has he managed to get into your flat in the first place?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:33, Reply)

I'm doing a lot of commuting myself
But should be finished soon. I'm too tired to cook or clean, therefore, I live from ready meals and my flat is a mess. I'll never lose all the weight I have to lose before January.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:04, Reply)

'Whiskey and Wine' by The Motors.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:12, Reply)

The Motors of 'Dancing the night away' fame?

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:26, Reply)

It's the B-side of that 45

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:29, Reply)

How frightfully annoying. Do you not have a say in this?
Alt q:
Solemn Ground by Fit and the Conniptions
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:47, Reply)