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» Stuff You've Overheard
Couple on a bus in Bristol
"I loves yer,
I shags yer,
I buys yer chips
and yer still does me 'ead in"
(Thu 10th Jun 2004, 13:58, More)
Couple on a bus in Bristol
"I loves yer,
I shags yer,
I buys yer chips
and yer still does me 'ead in"
(Thu 10th Jun 2004, 13:58, More)
» You're a moviestar baby
You know you're getting old when
You've got a really good answer to last weeks question and get so befuddled that you answer the week before thats question in the same post.
I inadvertently stumbled upon Pulp doing a signing at HMV in Bristol, I had the album at home and didn't want to buy it again so I got Jarvis to sign the first thing to hand; a postcard of Captain Kirk (all hail 'the Shat')up to his waist in Tribbles that I had just bought in Forbidden Planet.He wrote "a lot of trouble!!! Jarvis" thus proving that he knows his Star Trek and giving me a truly odd piece of memorabilia. I'd scan it for you if I could be arsed to peel it off the fridge.
(Fri 12th Nov 2004, 18:25, More)
You know you're getting old when
You've got a really good answer to last weeks question and get so befuddled that you answer the week before thats question in the same post.
I inadvertently stumbled upon Pulp doing a signing at HMV in Bristol, I had the album at home and didn't want to buy it again so I got Jarvis to sign the first thing to hand; a postcard of Captain Kirk (all hail 'the Shat')up to his waist in Tribbles that I had just bought in Forbidden Planet.He wrote "a lot of trouble!!! Jarvis" thus proving that he knows his Star Trek and giving me a truly odd piece of memorabilia. I'd scan it for you if I could be arsed to peel it off the fridge.
(Fri 12th Nov 2004, 18:25, More)
» Clients Are Stupid
My old career
sorry to post twice in a row but I keep remembering stuff from my old career, I used to be a sound engineer for touring theatre, mainly musicals, yes I'm glad I got out with my sanity, just try listening to Grease 8 times a week for a year....
I digress.
A common term amongst sound engineers is the DFA pot (Does F**k All) whenever a performer asks for something that they can't have, ie enough foldback to deafen everyone in a mile radius, we just used to pretend to turn a pot (knob) until they were happy. 99 times out of a hundred they went away happy despite us having done FA!
Another memorable time was when a particularly thick actor called in sick (this was before the whole 9-11 thing made this particular complaint more widely known)
Actor-I can't come in Today, I've got anthrax
Company manager-Oh god that's horrible
Actor-Oh it's just a twenty four hour thing ....I'll be in tomorrow
Company manager-....
she just hung up and recounted the story to me as i happened to be in the office at the time.
As far as I know the actor in question still works in musical theatre, I don't think the real world is ready for him.
(Wed 31st Dec 2003, 1:54, More)
My old career
sorry to post twice in a row but I keep remembering stuff from my old career, I used to be a sound engineer for touring theatre, mainly musicals, yes I'm glad I got out with my sanity, just try listening to Grease 8 times a week for a year....
I digress.
A common term amongst sound engineers is the DFA pot (Does F**k All) whenever a performer asks for something that they can't have, ie enough foldback to deafen everyone in a mile radius, we just used to pretend to turn a pot (knob) until they were happy. 99 times out of a hundred they went away happy despite us having done FA!
Another memorable time was when a particularly thick actor called in sick (this was before the whole 9-11 thing made this particular complaint more widely known)
Actor-I can't come in Today, I've got anthrax
Company manager-Oh god that's horrible
Actor-Oh it's just a twenty four hour thing ....I'll be in tomorrow
Company manager-....
she just hung up and recounted the story to me as i happened to be in the office at the time.
As far as I know the actor in question still works in musical theatre, I don't think the real world is ready for him.
(Wed 31st Dec 2003, 1:54, More)
» Clients Are Stupid
F5 fool!
I have just started work as a helpdesk type bod for a training company, we send out ex-teachers with laptops and projectors to teach the teachers. Bear in mind that to become a teacher you have to take a degree and then a teaching qualification!
Trainer- I'm having trouble getting rid of the toolbars on my powerpoint presentation
Me-You need to press F5
Trainer-What, hold them down together?
I dropped out of Uni.
(Wed 31st Dec 2003, 1:30, More)
F5 fool!
I have just started work as a helpdesk type bod for a training company, we send out ex-teachers with laptops and projectors to teach the teachers. Bear in mind that to become a teacher you have to take a degree and then a teaching qualification!
Trainer- I'm having trouble getting rid of the toolbars on my powerpoint presentation
Me-You need to press F5
Trainer-What, hold them down together?
I dropped out of Uni.
(Wed 31st Dec 2003, 1:30, More)
» Evidence that you're getting old
When...
you tell a workmate the sad news about John Peel and they reply "Who?"
Honestly, where's your sense of history?
(Fri 29th Oct 2004, 18:55, More)
When...
you tell a workmate the sad news about John Peel and they reply "Who?"
Honestly, where's your sense of history?
(Fri 29th Oct 2004, 18:55, More)