chrisp65

I was at someone's office in Wolvey earlier today and they gave me a coffee in a Birmingham City mug!

Didn't drink it. Had to spend £3 in the services on my way back to town.

hey, tell him he did a grand job, he's not in the photo due to an unfortunate speaker position, I'm not banjoist.

His sound came over well too (I'm glad I was complementary about them now!). I'll defo look up the Coastguards, cheers for the tip.

They did appear to be genuine and friendly (they had a few tearful mum's with them which was a thing of beauty in a hard London music world). I moved a few to get a photo of the instruments before kick off not realising they were band and they were totally cool about it.

If you're interested you can call up the show on the website and slide through to around about 1 hr 40 mins to listen to the band.

Mary Epworth, live on BBC 6 earlier today.

Only 2 songs but very good. A nice raw sound that hopefully won't be produced out on the album.

yay, just got 2 tickets for the Cerys Matthews show on Sunday morning

hardly gig of the week, but a nice trip out

I was over on Portland earlier in the week and found this place.

Didn't have much time and only had the office snaps camera on me.

But looked interesting, I'll try and get back there with a bit more time to play with.

hmmm, under £300 over 9 months interest free and either:

a) a smug warm feeling and a guaranteed seat when the good times return, or

wander across to the posh seats

bus w@nker!

My understanding is that it was MON who chose the pie supplier. It turned out later we buy them in for more money than we sell them for, losing 15p on every pie. Randy has got Faulkner to fly to France to see how they do pies, but it turned out they didn't really do pies. So in a bit of a shock move we've got a hated vegetarian in to sort us out and he's submitted a tofu pasty as our pie competition entry, it's a bit boring but he keeps insisting it's **** great and not bland like some people are rudely suggesting. There have recently been rumours that we will soon be eating stripey monochrome halal pies.

can't say I can see any problem whatsoever with the creeping privatisation of the police force

a little private enterprise will keep it all competitive and open to new ideas

don't see what could possibly go wrong

It wasn't so much his last chopper out of Saigon, it ended as more of a first guy off the Costa Concordia.

Fourth, Snowy's post usefully mentions crowd behaviour and how people get caught up in it, which I am sure anyone on this forum will need little instruction in.

If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. "Everyone else was doing it" is not, imo, a valid excuse when you get caught.

It most certainly isn't a valid excuse. It may, however, be a real reason (amongst many things) for the behaviour of some.

Putting forward reasons for why people may do things, for why situations may arise, for why conditions may be ripe for certain behaviours to take hold are not excusing them and looking for those reasons should not be confused with and misrepresented as looking for excuses.

Well done that man, you've encapsulated a thought no politician or opinionated face on tv or radio is capable of, the fine difference between giving the reason and offering an excuse.

Skype interview for an unpaid research position during the summer tomorrow morning. The project is really interesting, but it'll be my first ever Skype conversation so not too confident about how I'll come across.

shirt and tie on top

naked and shaved down below

remember not to stand up at the end of the interview unless it really has gone spectacularly well

that's my general skype rule

Eric Pickles

Nick Griffin

Thatcher

Pete Docherty

Worth noting that once you have a photo licence you then need to update it more regularly with consequences if you don't.

On the subject of photo i.d. I was in a supermarket a couple of weeks ago with a couple of people and the till manager wouldn't accept an army photo i.d. or an MoJ photo i.d. as proof, even though the youngest amongst us was clearly in his mid 30's.

fuel economy

two guys in the office have just bought cars, one has a Range Rover the other an slk

both now trying to get the company to switch to rental cars for long journeys

hello? are you really trying to tell me you didn't know a Range Rover ain't overly economical?

oh, and a 'space age' Honda Civic looks like chavvy plastic compared with a two door Golf - fashion vs style

the original Tinker Tailor series is currently in Asda, double DVD £5

I had a meal with a bunch of guys in Malta once.

It was a lunchtime curry. The locals berated my crazy britisher ways of having curry over chips. I was told it was proof of Britain's still backward attitude to food. You can't put wet things over chips.

Then, without a hint of irony, the waitress came around and sprinkled parmesan on all their currys. I declined, this was way too european for me, chicken curry half n half with parmesan on top.

today was the first time in months I had the air con on to cool the car, followed by wandering around site on Sheppey in a short sleeved shirt

to just chip in on Jag dealers which is admittedly a bit OT:

2 years ago I wanted an X type estate (I know, I know), not new, but as new as possible and as high a spec as possible. The Jag dealer on the outskirts of Worcester was awful. Worse than Fiat (which I generally use as a low water mark). I told them I was ready to buy, to the point my previous car had died and I needed a car quickly. The spec I gave them illustrated I knew what I wanted but left a big wide brief, a couple of engine sizes, a couple of equipment levels, virtually any colour. They managed to dick me around for weeks. I asked them at one point if they really were into selling cars or just a cover for something else.

I had a dream about an injured barn owl last night, I felt very frustrated that nobody would help me get it to the vets.

That's quite a common sex dream mate.

The barn owl represents your penis. The injury is symbolism for a limp dick problem. Others not helping, that's your girlfriend's refusal to touch it.

a win at Blackburn, just to keep the picture confused enough for the Directors to be able to stay in denial

(and no, that does not mean I'm secretly hoping my own team loses)

the office e-mailed me today to tell me the e-mail server was down

Australia

Rudd and Gillard at loggerheads again.

I'm not that hot on Aussie Politics, but Gillard gets my vote.

We asked her for a letter of support for our local footy team that was under threat and she sent us a really supportive letter. She wished us well, asked to be kept up to date and mentioned that whilst she wasn't a big football fan in our sense of the word she did have a fave Aussie Rules team and they'd been through struggles so she sympathised.

Had the feel of a genuine letter and was on official paper.

Similar story to the Fashanu one:

I was in a bar in a hotel where a Mr P Weller and his band were staying after a gig.

Weller was 'in the chair' and asking people what they wanted.

On getting around to somebody or other (I usually say Mick Talbot but it might not have been) they asked for an Irish Whiskey.

Ha! announces Weller, you can't trick me, there's no such thing as Irish Whiskey.

We all assure him there is and it's not a piss take.

So he walks across to the bar and says......

Can I have two cokes, a bitter, a lager and an Irish Scotch please.

It was at that point I realised he was just a bloke.

Later the same evening I produced my 12" copy of 'you need wheels' by the Merton Parkas and asked Mick Talbot to sign it. That's how old I am.

I got a Monaco top from a mate. I'm cool with that.

Did he wrap it in gift paper?

No.

Thats ok then.

but why a Monaco top?

Did he:

a) see it, think you'd like it, buy it, no further thought process, or

love the colours, like the cut, appreciate the material and picture you in said top and speedos, insist you try it on there and then?

because when I did my mate got all unnecessary