General Chit Chat

[thebish]

Ooooh, yuck !! Yakult ??

aye - and not even "fairtrade" - the bad boy...

[Beefheart]

railcard -pays for itself and I'd expect anyone under 25 who uses trains to have one.
Text books - waste of money, they're available in the library and from experience I hardly ever opened my text books.
Official uni accommodation tends to include insurance I think? I never bothered when I wasn't in it though.
Newspaper-Nah.
Fairtrade stuff- Hippy nonsense.
iPod Speakers- Nah.
Academic Diary- Never needed one.
Toastie Press-Yes.
Printer- Used the ones in the library though a printer may be more cost efficient.
Student Card- Again pays for itself in cinema tickets and free mcdonalds cheeseburgers/mcflurrys. (I still get one through ICAS)
Trainers- Hardly a student specific thing is it?

4/11.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I currently have 2 boys at uni ...

- i'd better phone them!!

I note in passing that you live in Devon and at least one of them is in Middlesbrough(?). I'm presuming they're not at Herriot Watt or the University of the Faroes because either they were not offering the courses they wanted or required too high a grade for Six A levels or something. It's not because they want to be as far away as they can physically get from their father, goodness gracious no, it's much more complex than that. When I told my father almost exactly the same, he said, "There's an element of that in there then?". The long pause as I thought of a reply told it's own story.

[thebish]

I currently have 2 boys at uni ...

- i'd better phone them!!

I note in passing that you live in Devon and at least one of them is in Middlesbrough(?). I'm presuming they're not at Herriot Watt or the University of the Faroes because either they were not offering the courses they wanted or required too high a grade for Six A levels or something. It's not because they want to be as far away as they can physically get from their father, goodness gracious no, it's much more complex than that. When I told my father almost exactly the same, he said, "There's an element of that in there then?". The long pause as I thought of a reply told it's own story.

they are both at m'boro - we lived in london when they chose... the stated reason was the Teesside Course is one of the few unis to have the proper computer games programming industry-standard kitemark (Skillset Accreditation) - the other being Abertay which is even further away!! whether there is a hidden reason - i couldn't possibly comment!!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I currently have 2 boys at uni ...

- i'd better phone them!!

I note in passing that you live in Devon and at least one of them is in Middlesbrough(?). I'm presuming they're not at Herriot Watt or the University of the Faroes because either they were not offering the courses they wanted or required too high a grade for Six A levels or something. It's not because they want to be as far away as they can physically get from their father, goodness gracious no, it's much more complex than that. When I told my father almost exactly the same, he said, "There's an element of that in there then?". The long pause as I thought of a reply told it's own story.

they are both at m'boro - we lived in london when they chose... the stated reason was the Teesside Course is one of the few unis to have the proper computer games programming industry-standard kitemark (Skillset Accreditation) - the other being Abertay which is even further away!! whether there is a hidden reason - i couldn't possibly comment!!

If they're both at Middlesbrough probably no 'hidden' reasons then, as my younger brother went to another university as far away from our parents as me but in a diametrically opposed direction as possible. It must just be a genetic trait passed down through the Canaanite bloodline. It's what happens when you're force fed pubes by your parents.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Shee-ite. I've just seen the weather forecast for tomorrow, it starts snowing at midnight tonight and stops snowing on Saturday !!! Shee-ite.

[mrkint]

Were you hoping it would be Sunni?

[thebish]

Shee-ite. I've just seen the weather forecast for tomorrow, it starts snowing at midnight tonight and stops snowing on Saturday !!! Shee-ite.

down here they reckon it's gonna carry on raining tomorrow and stop towards the end of 2017... only to start again the next day...

[thebish]

Were you hoping it would be Sunni?

that's very good, that is!! bravo!!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Were you hoping it would be Sunni?

that's very good, that is!! bravo!!

Indeed, that was impressive.

[Bruce Rioja]

Shee-ite. I've just seen the weather forecast for tomorrow, it starts snowing at midnight tonight and stops snowing on Saturday !!! Shee-ite.

Aye - and I've got two meetings tomorrow, one in Newcastle and one in Stockton. My boss reckons I'll have no problem getting there, which it looks as though I won't. Then there's just the small matter of me getting back!

[bobo the clown]

Shee-ite. I've just seen the weather forecast for tomorrow, it starts snowing at midnight tonight and stops snowing on Saturday !!! Shee-ite.

Aye - and I've got two meetings tomorrow, one in Newcastle and one in Stockton. My boss reckons I'll have no problem getting there, which it looks as though I won't. Then there's just the small matter of me getting back!

Ditto. Solihull in my case. The MD said "well, so long aas you can all get down I'm less concerned about whether there are issues getting back" !! He actually, really said that.

It's final pay negotiations for 4,000 employees, so yes, it's important, but fck. This includes 3 managers from the north west & 4 TU reps & a full-time official from round here. I proposed just posting them the offer !!

[thebish]

Shee-ite. I've just seen the weather forecast for tomorrow, it starts snowing at midnight tonight and stops snowing on Saturday !!! Shee-ite.

Aye - and I've got two meetings tomorrow, one in Newcastle and one in Stockton. My boss reckons I'll have no problem getting there, which it looks as though I won't. Then there's just the small matter of me getting back!

Ditto. Solihull in my case. The MD said "well, so long aas you can all get down I'm less concerned about whether there are issues getting back" !! He actually, really said that.

It's final pay negotiations for 4,000 employees, so yes, it's important, but fck. This includes 3 managers from the north west & 4 TU reps & a full-time official from round here. I proposed just posting them the offer !!

get on your iphone and conference call!!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

¾" of sludgy stuff, white and wet. 75 names on the board of the building I'm working in, and I'm the only person in the office. At least six of those 75 live within a ten minute walking distance radius.

Hmmmm, I might shut the building and go home.

[bwfcdan94]

railcard -pays for itself and I'd expect anyone under 25 who uses trains to have one.
Text books - waste of money, they're available in the library and from experience I hardly ever opened my text books.
Official uni accommodation tends to include insurance I think? I never bothered when I wasn't in it though.
Newspaper-Nah.
Fairtrade stuff- Hippy nonsense.
iPod Speakers- Nah.
Academic Diary- Never needed one.
Toastie Press-Yes.
Printer- Used the ones in the library though a printer may be more cost efficient.
Student Card- Again pays for itself in cinema tickets and free mcdonalds cheeseburgers/mcflurrys. (I still get one through ICAS)
Trainers- Hardly a student specific thing is it?

4/11.

My railcard has already paid for itself five times this season. .

[bwfcdan94]

I currently have 2 boys at uni ...

- i'd better phone them!!

I note in passing that you live in Devon and at least one of them is in Middlesbrough(?). I'm presuming they're not at Herriot Watt or the University of the Faroes because either they were not offering the courses they wanted or required too high a grade for Six A levels or something. It's not because they want to be as far away as they can physically get from their father, goodness gracious no, it's much more complex than that. When I told my father almost exactly the same, he said, "There's an element of that in there then?". The long pause as I thought of a reply told it's own story.

they are both at m'boro - we lived in london when they chose... the stated reason was the Teesside Course is one of the few unis to have the proper computer games programming industry-standard kitemark (Skillset Accreditation) - the other being Abertay which is even further away!! whether there is a hidden reason - i couldn't possibly comment!!

Ouch bad luck for them, they will feel like they are living in the highest class of society when they get back to Devon.

[TANGODANCER]

¾" of sludgy stuff, white and wet. 75 names on the board of the building I'm working in, and I'm the only person in the office. At least six of those 75 live within a ten minute walking distance radius.

Hmmmm, I might shut the building and go home.

Bit of a flurry this morning, and a sprinkling stuck on car windsceens, gardens etc. Nothing much although it's still trying. Pavements just turned it to rain-type wet. Wind is more of a problem, wife set off for the hairdressers and was back in five minutes; wind had shredded her umbrella to ribbons. Dog's not too chuffed with it either

[Lost Leopard Spot]

¾" of sludgy stuff, white and wet. 75 names on the board of the building I'm working in, and I'm the only person in the office. At least six of those 75 live within a ten minute walking distance radius.

Hmmmm, I might shut the building and go home.

Bit of a flurry this morning, and a sprinkling stuck on car windsceens, gardens etc. Nothing much although it's still trying. Pavements just turned it to rain-type wet. Wind is more of a problem, wife set off for the hairdressers and was back in five minutes; wind had shredded her umbrella to ribbons. Dog's not too chuffed with it either

My dog can't believe her luck, she thought snow season was well and truly over. When I let her out this morning she did a cartoon style run up with all four legs galloping on the spot before chucking herself into a pike with double somersault and caroomed headfirst down a snow covered grassy slope on her back for about ten yards all four paws waving about wildly while trying to snap up gobfulls of snow, the daft bitch.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I didn't shut up shop. We've got about two inches of snow, and there's sixteen of us now.

[CrazyHorse]

I was in work all day on my own once one Sunday a few years back when I worked in Carrington, and rather than actually getting on with some work, I busied myself by pretending I was the last human alive like in I Am Legend which freaked me out to the point that I even checked each of the toilets when I went in there to make sure there were none of those zombie things in there.

Plus, I think it worked so well because I actually look a lot like Will Smith.