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  • The Green Beastie

    From Coupé From Coupé

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  • > The scene: A secret governmental office in some seemingly innocuous building in London. Four top executive types sit around a conference table. Man 1: Right, the department that provide us with our funds are wanting to cut our funding back unless we can prove how valuable and useful we are to the country. Man…

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  • Outtamawae

    > The youth of today. Perfect in every measure, in the eyes of their parents. Educated to the max and ne’er a want to be denied. Bliss.   The same could, no doubt, be said of the youth of my day. We were educated often beyond that which our parents had been. Needs met, fed’…

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  • Stairs stares

    Being in a college you would expect lots of stairs. Especially as there are 5 floors to the main building and ladders don’t really cut the mustard* really do they?

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  • Food heathenry and other skills

    I made a mistake. A truly terrible mistake.  I’ve ordered a brand new HTC Desire HD as a replacement to my irritatingly fantastic yet annoyingly Windows Mobile 6.5 HTC HD2. Mistake you ask? Surely the Desire HD is everything a technoaddict could ever want until the next must have comes out?! Indeed! It is. Sadly…

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  • This morning I was overjoyed at the prospect that I wouldn’t have to navigate to Rugby having been told on Friday that I should go to LemSpa. On arrival at the Leamington Spa campus I was greeted not by smiles but by glowers and “What the fuck are you doing here? You’re supposed to be…

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  • Goodbye Santor

    This afternoon I packed the last few items into the van and waved goodbye to Santor aka Gnomepants Manor. It was sad to see it retreating into the distance through the wing mirrors and slightly weird to watch familiar sights of Brierley pass by for the last time. Weird because when I moved there, I…

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  • Stupid

    *Her *- I have all these weird emails in my inbox. I think I might be infected. There’s about 50 of them. I daren’t open them *Me* – Ok I’ll come and investigate *One long walk to the other end of the college later **Her *- Look! *Me *- *Observing large collection of emails in…

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  • And getting paid for it. Sounds like a dream job. It’s not. Let’s see now…

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  • A levels? Arse levels

    > When I left compulsory education back in 1992 A levels were hard. I’m sure they are still hard but back in the day, they were hard. If more than 20 people at your school got A grade A level results fingers would have been pointed and investigations into cheating conducted. At that time we…

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