I once found photocopied pornography in a birdwatching hide on a nature reserve whilst on a school trip over 25 years ago. Snatching it out of my hands was the fastest our 60+ aged teacher ever moved
In a call centre working customer service (which could be a thread on its own) we constantly had people digging their own graves but the one that sticks in the memory is a girl who we discovered was answering every call, asking what the problem was, saying “I’ll just transfer you to the department who deals with that” then just transferring them to the back of the same queue she’d answered the call from. We didn’t transfer anyone to any other departments in that job, we dealt with everything ourselves. Months before anyone realised she was doing literally nothing all day.
It wasn’t a well run call centre. Call Quality was one person who sat next to you for ten minutes listening to your active calls, and they didn’t actually record any calls for months.
There wasn’t an awful lot of diversity in Baywatch (or a lot of shows at that time really), I think Traci Bingham was the only black lifeguard in the whole run, and there was Garner, who was the cop in the earlier seasons. It would be a very different show if they made it now.
We used to go swimming in national school every Thursday and there used to always be a school ahead of us and a school before us. Came back one time and the lads who had arrived after us had gone into the pool to start their lessons. For some reason (i was around 9 at the time) i grabbed one of their bags , took all the clothes out of it and flushed them down the toilets. Needless to say i was caught. Parents had to buy the guy who's clothes i flushed down the toilet a new liverpool jersey because amongst the stuff i flushed down was a cream reebok liverpool shirt. I presented it to him the following week, was like one of those transfer photos with two lads shaking hands and holding a jersey between them.
1st year of secondary school, age 11 or 12, learning how to wire a plug in the science lab. I had a length of wire and I’d connected a plug to either end of it. I thought, I wonder what would happen if I plugged both ends in and switched them both on? (The first stupid thing, but it gets stupider).
I’ll watch the first episode for CM Punk but if it’s just Dynamite with a paint job I won’t stick around. If TK is booking it it’ll be near unwatchable.
For context, we live in Moray in NE Scotland it’s a constant bone of contention because up here we often get charged more for delivery because courier companies consider Moray “Highlands & Islands” because it has an Inverness postcode, even though it’s neither Highlands nor Islands.
I was at this, poor Daphne & Celeste got pulled off after 2 songs, right after saying “you can boo all you like, we’re not getting off”. I joined in with the booing and the chanting (not the bottle throwing) and it was hilarious at the time but 23 later years I do feel quite bad about it. Allegedly Corey Taylor had to comfort them backstage because they were crying a lot.
Online gaming. Just can’t be fucked. I’ve been a casual gamer since the Sega days, I have an XBox One that I dust off now and again but I just want to play by myself, everyone on XBox Live is an arsehole and I’m bad at all the games.
I wear an automatic Seiko 5 most days but it’s needing repaired at the moment and I have a Citizen automatic as backup, then a few quartzes, Casios, Timex, Swatches etc that chop and change depending on my mood. I’ve tried a smart watch but ended up selling it again, I just like the look of a classic watch.
There’s one really good Chinese in my area that’s cash only and phone order / in person only, and several mediocre ones that are on Just-Eat and the likes. Guess which I order from most?
I had a beautiful 6ft sunflower last year that I never planted, finally figured out that I’d hung some fat balls up over the winter for the blue tits right over where it grew so presumably there were some seeds in the fat balls.
You pushed a button on the bottom of the can to heat up the coffee, there were two sections in there, one containing a red liquid and the other a white powder, when you pushed the button it broke the foil seal between them and two chemicals reacted and heated up. I’ve no idea what the chemicals were, could have been totally harmless but seemed like a first class ticket to chemical burns and / or accidentally drinking chemicals.
I found meat was getting really expensive so I’ve drastically cut back on that, we cook all our meals from fresh and we’ve saved a lot of money on the couple of packs of chicken or mince every week. Takeaways have been cut back from weekly to monthly and nights out in the pub have become a bottle of wine in the house or back garden.
I told a barber last year that I wasn’t that keen on it and said “it’s a bit flat on the top” and I may as well have called his mother a whore. He was not happy.
We had a horrible run of bad luck last year, the cherry on top was when my wife’s job fired her while she was off recovering from the surgery, but things have got much better since then, thank you!
I’ve seen the episode but can’t quite remember the context, she was definitely telling a story, I’m sure it was something to do with going skiing and that’s what she wears when she goes skiing. I’d say was probably a punchline coming but she gave up on it after Sean’s zinger brought the house down.
Doesn’t bother me. It’s only a couple of inches.
This is why whenever i travel I always have headphones in, even when most of the time I’m not actually listening to anything.
I once found photocopied pornography in a birdwatching hide on a nature reserve whilst on a school trip over 25 years ago. Snatching it out of my hands was the fastest our 60+ aged teacher ever moved
“Photocopied” is the best part of this story.
Was it somebody geocaching? Maybe a game of Treasure Hunt? Possibly a game of Killer? Lots of reasons.
If it was then I ruined that game. That would be pretty weird treasure though.
In a call centre working customer service (which could be a thread on its own) we constantly had people digging their own graves but the one that sticks in the memory is a girl who we discovered was answering every call, asking what the problem was, saying “I’ll just transfer you to the department who deals with that” then just transferring them to the back of the same queue she’d answered the call from. We didn’t transfer anyone to any other departments in that job, we dealt with everything ourselves. Months before anyone realised she was doing literally nothing all day.
If it took months, then it means either her manager / team lead or the Call Quality team were not doing their job.
It wasn’t a well run call centre. Call Quality was one person who sat next to you for ten minutes listening to your active calls, and they didn’t actually record any calls for months.
There wasn’t an awful lot of diversity in Baywatch (or a lot of shows at that time really), I think Traci Bingham was the only black lifeguard in the whole run, and there was Garner, who was the cop in the earlier seasons. It would be a very different show if they made it now.
We used to go swimming in national school every Thursday and there used to always be a school ahead of us and a school before us. Came back one time and the lads who had arrived after us had gone into the pool to start their lessons. For some reason (i was around 9 at the time) i grabbed one of their bags , took all the clothes out of it and flushed them down the toilets. Needless to say i was caught. Parents had to buy the guy who's clothes i flushed down the toilet a new liverpool jersey because amongst the stuff i flushed down was a cream reebok liverpool shirt. I presented it to him the following week, was like one of those transfer photos with two lads shaking hands and holding a jersey between them.
Remarkably I also did this, flushed a kids football shirt down the toilet in the pool changing rooms for no reason (although I never got caught)
1st year of secondary school, age 11 or 12, learning how to wire a plug in the science lab. I had a length of wire and I’d connected a plug to either end of it. I thought, I wonder what would happen if I plugged both ends in and switched them both on? (The first stupid thing, but it gets stupider).
I’ll watch the first episode for CM Punk but if it’s just Dynamite with a paint job I won’t stick around. If TK is booking it it’ll be near unwatchable.
For context, we live in Moray in NE Scotland it’s a constant bone of contention because up here we often get charged more for delivery because courier companies consider Moray “Highlands & Islands” because it has an Inverness postcode, even though it’s neither Highlands nor Islands.
The real question is di yi hae ony mince?
Hid a wee drap Wednesday but I’ve hid neen since.
I was at this, poor Daphne & Celeste got pulled off after 2 songs, right after saying “you can boo all you like, we’re not getting off”. I joined in with the booing and the chanting (not the bottle throwing) and it was hilarious at the time but 23 later years I do feel quite bad about it. Allegedly Corey Taylor had to comfort them backstage because they were crying a lot.
Online gaming. Just can’t be fucked. I’ve been a casual gamer since the Sega days, I have an XBox One that I dust off now and again but I just want to play by myself, everyone on XBox Live is an arsehole and I’m bad at all the games.
I bought a bottle of orange Lucozade last week, 380ml 🤔 could have sworn they used to be 500ml.
I wear an automatic Seiko 5 most days but it’s needing repaired at the moment and I have a Citizen automatic as backup, then a few quartzes, Casios, Timex, Swatches etc that chop and change depending on my mood. I’ve tried a smart watch but ended up selling it again, I just like the look of a classic watch.
There’s one really good Chinese in my area that’s cash only and phone order / in person only, and several mediocre ones that are on Just-Eat and the likes. Guess which I order from most?
If you are me, the just eat one. Calling people up is an absolute ballache.
Absolutely. Convenience and avoiding using the phone trumps quality every time.
I had a beautiful 6ft sunflower last year that I never planted, finally figured out that I’d hung some fat balls up over the winter for the blue tits right over where it grew so presumably there were some seeds in the fat balls.
I find women with abs really attractive, guess there’s nothing else for it than to start sucking dick.
Nescafe hot-when-you-want self-heating coffee cans, Smith's Cheese Moments and Bovril flavour crisps.
Very short lived and probably rightly so, dismantled a can to see how it worked, I’m no chemist but it seemed pretty dangerous.
What was inside?
You pushed a button on the bottom of the can to heat up the coffee, there were two sections in there, one containing a red liquid and the other a white powder, when you pushed the button it broke the foil seal between them and two chemicals reacted and heated up. I’ve no idea what the chemicals were, could have been totally harmless but seemed like a first class ticket to chemical burns and / or accidentally drinking chemicals.
I found meat was getting really expensive so I’ve drastically cut back on that, we cook all our meals from fresh and we’ve saved a lot of money on the couple of packs of chicken or mince every week. Takeaways have been cut back from weekly to monthly and nights out in the pub have become a bottle of wine in the house or back garden.
Just you. How have you even managed that?
I told a barber last year that I wasn’t that keen on it and said “it’s a bit flat on the top” and I may as well have called his mother a whore. He was not happy.
Or stay at home.
My sweet girl died two years ago and I still cry about it from time to time. Bloody little heart breakers. Her name was Onion and she was amazing.
RIP sweet kitty. One of my two ran away about 6 months ago after a house move and I miss her terribly.
That was a terrible day, no wonder you had a good sob.
We had a horrible run of bad luck last year, the cherry on top was when my wife’s job fired her while she was off recovering from the surgery, but things have got much better since then, thank you!
I’ve seen the episode but can’t quite remember the context, she was definitely telling a story, I’m sure it was something to do with going skiing and that’s what she wears when she goes skiing. I’d say was probably a punchline coming but she gave up on it after Sean’s zinger brought the house down.
Really amused by the idea of a family in Shanghai or group of friends in Mumbai going out for 'an English' on Friday evening.
https://youtu.be/H-uEx_hEXAM