Misuse of the word âchampionâ, especially in the work place.
I recently saw a sign advertising for " domestic abuse champions ".
Do these people who come up with these titles actually read them out loud?
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The new GDPR rules (data protection) coming and more specifically all of the consultancies and it companies who are creaming themselves about the fees they think they can charge to âhelpâ us get through it.
You will be fined ÂŁ20m it you get this wrong, let us save you - how about fuck off
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I had just about graduated and entered the professional world when I noticed the first of these huge fucking scams.
They called it Y2K. A tremendous amount of hype and business was generated with the idea that our computers were not ready for the transition into the 2000s, the perceived âproblemâ being that people might be running legacy systems that were not modelling years with four figures.
I remember being at Ordnance Survey in 1996-97 and without revealing any official secrets, like, there were projects then concerned with investigation of potential vulnerabilities in their systems due to that issue.
In reality, it turned out that most computer programmers and language designers were smart enough to realise that a four digit date might be useful thirty years before the turn of the century. Y2K passed without incident. No planes fell out of the sky. No nukes started their journeys to pre-programmed targets.
Now _maybe _that complete non-occurrence was down to the diligence of all those people brought in on a temporary basis to investigate systems made the difference, but I doubt it.
The only thing Iâm certain of is that those consultants, and the IT industry in general, made a fuckload of money checking things that were almost certainly okay to begin with.
Y2k, I didnât really understand the panic? I know a lot of people made money out of it
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Thanks for explaining
I saw and open wardrobe and immediately called it a closet when asking the mrs why it was open and the clothes that were meant to be inside were all over the floor.
I have been indoctrinated
I am losing my natural speech patterns and language due to the influence of American TV.
Aaaaargh.
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Awesome. 
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So ASLEF have agreed to management terms for a large pay rise graduated over the next 5 years which doesnât seem to fall in line with what the RMTâs position is (that it is all about safety). It looks like the RMTâs position has now been weakened somewhat. What happened to solidarity?
Some weird background noise that kept me awake a lot last night and still seems to be going tonight. Cannot work out what it isâŚ
Ah background noise.
I live with it constantly
at work the hum of machinery running and you can hear the changes in a pumps pressure or speed.
at home the hum of AC units and the thump of the pile driver where they are putting the piles in for the new bridge across the river Kwai (Batangas river really)
but the one I do like is the water coming out the falls and down the small artificial river into the swimming pool this is very soothing.
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That farking Black & White Photo thing on FB. FFS 7 days and 7 tagged people? The whole farking planet will have had to do it by next week.
Plus the ABUSE I got for posting this pic - no, the context wasnât accepted (ie what I used to escape from the place)
at least I regained some morale ground with this one but still got stick because it had a âpersonâ in it
And then farking Eric - FFS doesnât even know how to use Google Images, save a picture, edit that picture and then upload it so HE gives me abuse for tagging him.
Bollox
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Ah, the rythmic whirr kerchump hiss of 24 hour concrete pumping on the construction site that we call âsurvival campâ
And the farking beep beep beep beep beep of permanently reversing Diggers/Trucks/Labour Buses.
Running an Electric Fan at speed setting 2 next to the bed is the only affordable solution that doesnât involve shotguns and getting arrested
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You want to talk about noise!!!
Builders - theyâve driven me into a small corner of the house, theyâre drilling my office wall as I type - Iâm having to wee in a tupperware container - every night and morning I brush my teeth in the front garden, the neighbours think Iâve lost it.
Bear Grylls would brush his teeth with the contents of that tupperware container
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We have âChampionsâ for various projects / Schemes / Activities, at work and when you ask any of them about what it is they actually do or what training they have had to be a âchampionâ in said item they invariably say ânone we pick it up as we go.â
Nuff said.
The bloody busy body old hag that has just taken over the neighbourhood watch scheme and came round soliciting money for their newsletter. Then proceeded to lecture me about what constitutes appropriate rubbish to put into the recycling bags. She has been up and down the street checking everyones rubbish bags and told me that I needed to take more care with what I put out.
At what point does justifiable homicide kick in.
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Fill your recycling bags with old porn mags. Give the old dear something to think about.
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Just tell her to sort it for you as you cant be fucking bothered to do it and why doesnât she piss off.
Fill your recycling bags with old porn mags. Give the old dear something to think about.
Or Dignitas leaflets.
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Actually, dignitas leaflets and porn mags are recyclable, so she could well be happy. Best throw in a chrome plated dildo to get her going.
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