What’s gone on?

  • Job hunting

    The plan today was to look around the city of Liverpool and pop into a few recruitment agencies. I’m never sure whether this is the right thing to do as most of the time recruitment agencies just say “Email  us your CV” which to me means “Fuck off and don’t bother us with your worklessness”.…

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  • Qualification:Experience Relevance Quotient

    > Looking for work is arduous. Filling in application forms time after time after time with the same information, slightly tweaked to promote relevance to post applied for. I must have filled in more application forms during this period of unemployment than I did during the last period back in the nineties. I suppose this…

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  • Telly time

    Telly time

    Me and the the fruit cake were discussing telly during a blustery walk through the Warwickshire countryside and we thought about what sort of programmes you would run if you owned a television station for a day and could schedule any show you wanted to. The premise being that you have 24 hours to fill…

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  • Day 17. A song that you hear often on the radio: I don’t tend to listen to music radio. It’s a waste of airwaves if you ask me. The only music I tend to hear on the radio is this when I’m driving late or struggling to sleep. The Shipping Forecast from stegzy gnomepants on…

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  • stegzy – Can I help? Student – The printer’s acting weird. stegzy – Is it dancing round the library wearing a hat pretending to be a giraffe? Student – eh?

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  • ““The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”” – Adolf Hitler It’s been years since I did an International Fib Day. Ok I did a poll last year and the day has moved around more than a cigarette lighter in a washing machine…

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  • Job search

    > Probably one of the most disheartening things about looking for work is the fact you constantly fill in forms with the same information over and over again.   Ever since I’ve found out my results, in fact no, ever since April, I’ve been looking for something work like to do. It’s so hard. Everytime…

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  • World Cup

    On my journey southwards on Friday I witnessed several pranged cars, idiots undertaking, buffoons changing lanes late and several near misses. It got me wondering why, in an early Friday evening, people seemed to be in a rush to get places. It also struck me that most of the drivers, if not all of the…

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  • Way back when, in the time of never-never. Before sinister government face recognition software trawled tagged helpfully pictures on Facebook adding your face to the giant database that “does not exist”. Before the twin towers fell. Before the millennium of anti-climax. A much anticipated event occurred. Warnings in the estoteric press and from hippies and…

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  • Imagine nobody had a garden. Then one day somebody says “Hey look! I’ve got a garden!” people would come looking at the garden and go “Wow! This is cool, I would like a garden too”. Then gradually people started making gardens. Eventually, the majority of people had a garden. The impressiveness of the first garden…

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