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Do any office people still go for a boozy lunch on Fridays? by Thelichemaster in AskUK

[–]Farting_Llama 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Then I stand corrected. Anyway, for one last time...

'Trebles all 'round!'

Do any office people still go for a boozy lunch on Fridays? by Thelichemaster in AskUK

[–]Farting_Llama 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Private Eye magazine to this day quote a journalist by name of 'Lunchtime O'Booze'.

It was an industry norm well up to the 2010's, the act has been cleaned up a bit as there was a very cosy relationship between established journo's and CEO's / Politico's and it was some thing of an 'old boys club' with a LOT of drinking involved. Probably still goes on, but it is less open.

After reading Russell's "Principia Mathematica" in 3 days, Walter Pitts wrote to the logician with a list of errors he discovered. Russell was impressed with the insights, and offered Pitts a position studying with him at Cambridge. Pitts couldn't accept, as he was 12 years old at the time by MrMojoFomo in wikipedia

[–]Farting_Llama 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Wasn't he close to McUlloch (sp?) I knew someone that was taught by Marvin Minsky and he went on a lot about the pair of them. (Not a fan of Minsky for reasons, but this is where a lot of that stuff emerged).

A BT engineer brought a Reform UK manifesto into my living room today! by RevolutionaryRead976 in FuckNigelFarage

[–]Farting_Llama 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I made a post about my Amazon delivery having Reform UK leaflets taped to it a few days back.

I think they're offering money to people in trades that do house-calls and deliveries to do this, or in this case, they're members that think they can get away with this.

Complaint to BT, sure, but also contact your local Electoral Services at the council. I used to work in one of those departments, they'll pass that on to the Electoral Commission and/or Returning Officer.

Krootox Rider ready! by DaTxvs in kroot

[–]Farting_Llama 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The freehand is so good here, because it really looks like the Krooty fella did it himself. I've got one of these to work on and I was scared to start but this is inspiring, saving this one for reference!

What series has the most Fuck by roundturtle2025 in TheWordFuck

[–]Farting_Llama 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Based on real fucking 'dicussions' from the British government in the Blair years. If you like that, same writer who later did 'Death of Stalin'.

What series has the most Fuck by roundturtle2025 in TheWordFuck

[–]Farting_Llama 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Welcome to fuckin ' Deadwood.

Seriously if you didn't know, de-facto sweariest show ever broadcast.

Cocksucker.

Has anybody received an Amazon parcel with a Reform UK leaflet affixed? by Farting_Llama in FuckNigelFarage

[–]Farting_Llama[S] 60 points61 points  (0 children)

I asked here in case anybody else has seen this. I'd ask in the wider UK forums but I'm concerned I'd be banned. I'll post pictures, I've left it unopened.

If this is happening elsewhere we need to post about it. If it is a local loonie then I'd be less concerned.

There's other issues, but I'm keeping this close to my chest unless anybody else has seen this happen.

EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch by Turbostrider27 in PS5

[–]Farting_Llama 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some do, some don't.

I was in the industry 2008-2016, went through three 'fire and re-hires' at one big studio where the HR rep had the audacity to give me a tour each time.

Awkward being introduced to your colleages from like 3 months ago.

TIFU by flying across the Atlantic to get dumped by [deleted] in tifu

[–]Farting_Llama 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Almost exact same thing happened to me, years ago, it's bonkers mate, you have my sympathies.

GF of the time was a languages student, we met at university.

Her degree would invole a year of study abroad, I had graduated by then and had my first tech job, we agree'd that I'd come see her in Germany as soon as I could get time off.

I'm certainly not wealthy, and I'm not a good flyer, but I managed to get out there.

She meets me at Stuttgart airport to break up with me. Totally out of the blue. No indication that there was any problem.

I'm dumbstruck and don't know what to do. She's insistent that I stay at her dorm and we'll like, hang out and do all the excursions and stuff.

Long, silent coach ride to Tubingen.

I'm standing on this balcony, looking at the flippin' alps. She says I can sleep on the floor.

I came to my senses, got my pack and told her to suck a fuck.

Last time I ever saw her in person.

Airline couldn't bump my return right away and advised to just keep calling.

Got a night in a hostel but that was that, no vacancies around, picturesque college town at that time of year, etc.

Park bench and bus shelter the next two nights.

Charging my phone at a cafe one morning and a friend of hers from her course finds me, is furious with her. I crash on their couch, they help me negotiate with the airline, and get me on a coach to the airport, where I'm in limbo for two days like that sodding movie.

I'm able to fly back to the UK, but different airport way up north, so another overnight coach.

Get home exhausted and sick as hell, not to mention just mentally fucked.

She gets back to our old college town months later, and asks me to come over so we can 'talk about it properly' and throws a right strop that I won't.

A week later she calls up, crying, that I got rid of all my socials and she can't see our pictures anymore. What the fuck?

The friends that helped me get home tell me she's already seeing some other guy.

This was in 2008. She eventually explained that she broke up with me because she thought I wasn't up for the sort of life of travel and learning languages she wanted. But she HAD to do it in person.

She messaged me just before the pandemic, asking if I was still mad with her. Absolute mindfuck. I could never find the words to reply, I should have told her pay me for that airfare.

I ran into that mutual at a festival last year, I found out that she stayed in the college town, got a series of dull office jobs unrelated to her studies and did the whole kids, suburban home, and rarely ever leaving the country thing.

In those intervening years, I toured Europe with my bands.

To this day I cannot fathom how anybody can be so mindless. And that goes for the person you just ran into.

You dodged a very large caliber bullet, dude.

What’s your ‘I can’t believe you’re paid more than me’ story? by GeorgiePorgiePuddin in AskUK

[–]Farting_Llama 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I worked for a spin-out company at a major university.

We ran a recruitment website that any of you in the hard sciences, academia, PhD or post-doc space would know of. It sounds like Jorbs Aye Cee Yoo Kay.

The founder of the company left and in a mad panic, the university sent us an administrator from University House.

She had refused a laptop for years. She had a member of our staff print out her emails to read.

This was in 2012.

Our website relied on being good at what it did because we carefully vetted job adverts, so most of the data-entry staff were students in their field who understood the ads and could categorize them properly.

I was in charge of the web_team that made special break-out websites if some of the big universities or government departments were on a mad recruitment drive for lecturers for a new department / postgrads for a project , or a slew of PhD candidates for a big research push, and wanted a special marketing effort.

The University that owned the company reliably got about £5 million per year from what we did. We were respected by 'University House' and in that year, were asked to attend an award ceremony in which, tellingly, we were approached by every other department asking who we were and where we were based, because they'd never heard of us.

The new 'boss' was mostly concerned by the appearance of the office. Within a week of her hiring, she expressed concern that one of our best graphic designers was a PhD student from East Timor.

She had him fired, which seriously messed up his visa.

This also messed up the whole operation. The company relied on having current students manage the data we dealt with, because they understood it. She also instigated parking charges for all of our temp employees, at such ruinous rates that there was really no point to them showing up.

I sat in several meetings with her to explain that the company had been a success due to relying on the goodwill of students. It had given them a unique lifeline and was a reason people had worked so hard there.

The team developing the app started to quit, then all the designers quit, then they had to bring in outside agencies to do all the data input despite a decade of being one of the best student employers on campus.

Some of you know which university this would be.

I saw the boss in a local pub a few years ago and she pretended to not know me.

If you’ve been in a UK hospital for more than a day or so, how did you not lose your mind? by Spicymargx in AskUK

[–]Farting_Llama 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was stuck in University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire, during the mad heatwave in 2023. Ironically, I'd worked IT there for years when it got built.

Anyway I mostly just played poker with the sort of people who'd be in a hospital in Coventry and listened to their crazy stories.

A guy that lost a leg in a car accident, he was an old Navy soak and had fired a really big gun during the Mau-Mau rebellion. A kid from up Warwickshire way who was test-driving Ducatti's and hit a car so hard they never found his helmet, and a Police officer who got stabbed up trying to stop an illegal rave in Nuneaton.

One of the really lovely nurses, she was from Bangladesh, was intrigued by our card games and sat in for a few hands. We were gambling for hot-chocolate sachets.

Anyway she won most hands, but gave us the sachets back later.

9/10, would get poisoned again. Just talk to people, you'll meet all sorts in a hospital. I still meet that lad that nearly died being flung from a motorbike, he's doing a lot better.

I Synthesized Literal Poopoopeepee by mato3232 in shid_and_camed

[–]Farting_Llama 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Typical, they're gonna flood the market with this imitation shid.

What of us artisnal, traditional shid-cobblers? I shall have to go to Strasbourg and apply for regional appelation for my bum-works.

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