Today I'm happy about......

[bobo the clown]

Today I'm happy about my first Full House.

It's the little things..........

??

Having your name down the right hand side of the board index as the last post on all the topics.

Like I said, little things.

Aaaah. A "Dan".

Gotcha.

[Gary the Enfield]

Today I'm happy about my first Full House.

It's the little things..........

??

Having your name down the right hand side of the board index as the last post on all the topics.

Like I said, little things.

Aaaah. A "Dan".

Gotcha.

It wasn't intentional until I saw I only had 2 to do. It's cathartic.

[Prufrock]

I allowed myself a wry smile on behalf of a few of you today when reading a letter in the London Review of Books arguing for the abolition of the private school system as it prioritises soft-skills and creates an underclass of people on zero-hours contracts propping up the lives of the already-monied. The byline read: John Dooley - Castelnau-Rivière-Basse, France.

I checked, and it's a few hours from the Champagne region.

OK - I subscribe to the LRB and the letters page frequently accompanies me to the post-breakfast loo... don't remember that one. What was the date?

Ask a librarian!
Wait, that's me. I'll save you the effort. It was just a letter to the editor as follows:

Letters
Vol. 36 No. 14 · 17 July 2014


Like Alan Bennett …

Alan Bennett’s sermon is a welcome comment on the ‘unfairness’ of England’s problematic private school system, but he doesn’t discuss the effect of this unfairness on our ‘democratic’ style of government (LRB, 19 June). For example, 32 per cent of our MPs have been drawn from the privately educated 7 per cent, and 64 per cent of senior posts in the civil service and government administration. Since these MPs – like Tony Blair or the present coalition leaders – can be found in all three major political parties, the public school agenda is always lurking. Hence Blair’s New Labour, with its antipathy to trades, skills and manufacturing, its supplanting of professional diplomas in favour of university degrees, and its doing away with apprenticeships and polytechnics in favour of trumped-up universities. All this in the cause of making money rather than things, which has resulted in one English firm after another being flogged off, or privatised, in a desperate attempt to prop up the UK’s languishing balance of payments. Meanwhile, state education is failing because those who are making the money haven’t the slightest incentive to improve it: the system is perfectly adequate for creating a pool of semi-skilled or unskilled workers for the zero-hour jobs on offer, or for furnishing the army with recruits for its failing projects abroad. Finland got rid of its private education system some years ago. Until England does the same, and makes a clean sweep of it, ours will remain both undemocratic and derelict.

John Dooley
Castelnau-Rivière-Basse, France

That's the badger!

And LK, no point, I just thought it would entertain those who like to use the epithet 'Champagne Socialist'.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Today I'm happy about my first Full House.

It's the little things..........

I don't think I've ever had one of those... although I've managed a couple of flushes in the Owt Else.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I'm on 'light duties' at the mo, and I'm not allowed to be in front of display screen equipment for longer than ten minutes every hour, which as a database manager you can imagine has some serious drawbacks as to what the feck I'm doing at work. So, this morning I've been exploring the wonderful world of our archive system, and boy have we got some shit stored away in a lower basement, a basement and an under-garage.
Basically about the only people that have been in there for the last ten years or so have been a series of receptionists (mainly of the temp variety) who have briefly ventured in to dump an R-chive box full of 'crap' onto the growing piles as close to the doorways as humanly possible.
Some of the lower layers of the R-chive piles have disintegrated into burst-open-damp-cardboard-fed mould colonies. Towards the back of the lower basement a particularly high and wide pile of boxes has undergone what in a natural cave-system could only be described as a roof-fall, blocking off the far wall not only from access but view as well.
But being an intrepid explorer I ventured in undaunted and have been rewarded by having my Howard Carter moment, because there - hidden from the outside world for over twenty years (at least) - is a complete IBM S360 [Model 20 one of our nerds informs us] mainframe computer. It's museum quality*, and is undergoing a steady stream of awestruck visitors from our software and database teams as I type (or at least the part of the workforce who are neither sufferers of asthma nor claustrophobia).



(Edit - ah! apparently not so museum quality - it's missing either a tape drive or card reader system.)

[William the White]

I allowed myself a wry smile on behalf of a few of you today when reading a letter in the London Review of Books arguing for the abolition of the private school system as it prioritises soft-skills and creates an underclass of people on zero-hours contracts propping up the lives of the already-monied. The byline read: John Dooley - Castelnau-Rivière-Basse, France.

I checked, and it's a few hours from the Champagne region.

OK - I subscribe to the LRB and the letters page frequently accompanies me to the post-breakfast loo... don't remember that one. What was the date?

Ask a librarian!
Wait, that's me. I'll save you the effort. It was just a letter to the editor as follows:

Letters
Vol. 36 No. 14 · 17 July 2014


Like Alan Bennett …

Alan Bennett’s sermon is a welcome comment on the ‘unfairness’ of England’s problematic private school system, but he doesn’t discuss the effect of this unfairness on our ‘democratic’ style of government (LRB, 19 June). For example, 32 per cent of our MPs have been drawn from the privately educated 7 per cent, and 64 per cent of senior posts in the civil service and government administration. Since these MPs – like Tony Blair or the present coalition leaders – can be found in all three major political parties, the public school agenda is always lurking. Hence Blair’s New Labour, with its antipathy to trades, skills and manufacturing, its supplanting of professional diplomas in favour of university degrees, and its doing away with apprenticeships and polytechnics in favour of trumped-up universities. All this in the cause of making money rather than things, which has resulted in one English firm after another being flogged off, or privatised, in a desperate attempt to prop up the UK’s languishing balance of payments. Meanwhile, state education is failing because those who are making the money haven’t the slightest incentive to improve it: the system is perfectly adequate for creating a pool of semi-skilled or unskilled workers for the zero-hour jobs on offer, or for furnishing the army with recruits for its failing projects abroad. Finland got rid of its private education system some years ago. Until England does the same, and makes a clean sweep of it, ours will remain both undemocratic and derelict.

John Dooley
Castelnau-Rivière-Basse, France

That's the badger!

And LK, no point, I just thought it would entertain those who like to use the epithet 'Champagne Socialist'.

My 17 July issue arrived this morning.

you've spoiled the letters page for me!

A glass of champagne can compensate. You owe me!

[Prufrock]

Seems fair.

I'm willing to offer a pint at the next London away game you're at in full and final settlement?

[TANGODANCER]

I'm on 'light duties' at the mo, and I'm not allowed to be in front of display screen equipment for longer than ten minutes every hour, which as a database manager you can imagine has some serious drawbacks as to what the feck I'm doing at work. So, this morning I've been exploring the wonderful world of our archive system, and boy have we got some shit stored away in a lower basement, a basement and an under-garage.
Basically about the only people that have been in there for the last ten years or so have been a series of receptionists (mainly of the temp variety) who have briefly ventured in to dump an R-chive box full of 'crap' onto the growing piles as close to the doorways as humanly possible.
Some of the lower layers of the R-chive piles have disintegrated into burst-open-damp-cardboard-fed mould colonies. Towards the back of the lower basement a particularly high and wide pile of boxes has undergone what in a natural cave-system could only be described as a roof-fall, blocking off the far wall not only from access but view as well.
But being an intrepid explorer I ventured in undaunted and have been rewarded by having my Howard Carter moment, because there - hidden from the outside world for over twenty years (at least) - is a complete IBM S360 [Model 20 one of our nerds informs us] mainframe computer. It's museum quality*, and is undergoing a steady stream of awestruck visitors from our software and database teams as I type (or at least the part of the workforce who are neither sufferers of asthma nor claustrophobia).



(Edit - ah! apparently not so museum quality - it's missing either a tape drive or card reader system.)

A very similar story: I once asked why we were paying out a small fortune for off-site storage units. Not getting a decent answer I got the systems manager to go out there with me and decide what was any use any more. Effectively, the answer was "not much" and he agreed to getting rid and off-hiring the storage. Amongst the items deepest in were a couple of Radio Shack portable model computers. I gave them to an employee. Wish I'd kept them now as they were declared no good and mine to do as I wished with.

[bwfcdan94]

Today I'm happy about my first Full House.

It's the little things..........

??

Having your name down the right hand side of the board index as the last post on all the topics.

Like I said, little things.

Aaaah. A "Dan".

Gotcha.

It wasn't intentional until I saw I only had 2 to do. It's cathartic.

It has never been intentional for me, its more I used to splurge huge quantities of nonsense, now I only splurge moderate amounts of bollocks.

[Bruce Rioja]

We're both fine thanks, Bobo. A most impressive birth weight. I'm just struggling to come up with a name.

I quite like Rupert Poopot.

Brilliant. Brilliant. Now there's just the issue of its dual nationality

Seriously though, this week's greatest moment of concern was heading briskly into a chemist thinking 'Oh feck, what's Finnish for Imodium?'

[Salford Trotter]

My nephew called today he had passed his Geography degree from Oxford University...I'm a happy uncle tonight

[TANGODANCER]

My nephew called today he had passed his Geography degree from Oxford University...I'm a happy uncle tonight

Good stuff S.T.

[Bijou Bob]

Seems fair.

I'm willing to offer a pint at the next London away game you're at in full and final settlement?

A pint??! Far too working clarse for WtW shirley?!

Tonight I've had a lovely meal with family to celebrate my son's 18th. Where did that time go??!

[Prufrock]

Right, having baulked at the price last time I'm determined to go this. £33.50 at the Roundhouse it looks like, which is about £15 cheaper than the last tour too! Need to find someone to go with though given 'er indoors is going to be off gap yah travelling .

The Roundhouse looks like an absolutely perfect venue for them. You're in for a proper treat.

Well, I couldn't persuade anyone else to go but with one sold out and one seemingly close I took the plunge, and will be going to a gig solo for the first time! Won't know what to do.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Life. The good shite is beginning to burst through the crap. Still a mixed bag mind, and I don't help myself, but feck it.

[TANGODANCER]

Happy I painted the exterior kitchen door and window frames on Thursday and mowed the lawns yesterday (more so since it started pxssing down a couple of hours ago).Tonight and tomorrow now free to watch football and relax.

[Lord Kangana]

I just found out that I stayed in the house where Jean Jaures wrote his famous speech that he made at the Greves de Carmaux. Last year (me staying there that is, the speech was in 1892). Never knew til now. I'm sure there'll be a minority of WtW who will find this interesting

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I just found out that I stayed in the house where Jean Jaures wrote his famous speech that he made at the Greves de Carmaux. Last year (me staying there that is, the speech was in 1892). Never knew til now. I'm sure there'll be a minority of WtW who will find this interesting

Surely for it to be famous more than one of us must have at least heard of it! or him.

[William the White]

I just found out that I stayed in the house where Jean Jaures wrote his famous speech that he made at the Greves de Carmaux. Last year (me staying there that is, the speech was in 1892). Never knew til now. I'm sure there'll be a minority of WtW who will find this interesting

I know of Jaures of course - mostly for his courage in opposing the First World War which led to his assassination. What was the 1892 speech?

[Prufrock]

Played a big part with Zola in the Dreyfus affair too.