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I didn't really get the Apprentice this year, it seemed they just made it up as they went along. I thought Sugar was investing 250k into your business. When it got down to the end, he now wants 50% of their businesses.

Paul the dentist was the best all rounder I thought, and Sugar wanted 50% of all of his businesses not just the new dentist practise he wanted to set up. He isn't going to accept that, glad he didn't.

Phil the pie man's business had 700k in the bank, so I don't understand why he needed more investment when he's got good cash flow. And from the companies website, it looked like a family business so he wasn't sole owner. 

Flo and Tre were both really good, it's just their business proposals weren't very good.

It was a bit anticlimactic having Phil and the gym woman in the final. They were only appealing because their businesses were set up and making money. I think the best two candidates were Paul and Flo. 

Does anyone use Vinyl Me Please? It's a US vinyl subscription service where they (re)release a couple of vinyls every month, from different genres. You can just buy them as and when too. Usually in limited numbers and in different colours. I've picked up a few from eBay from UK sellers. Aretha Franklins, Never Loved A Man, The Way I Love You & Spirit In The Dark. Both sound absolutely amazing.  They've been cut and remastered off analogy tape by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound. Don't know who he is and where it is, but he has magic fingers.

They come in hard card vinyl sleeves with OBI strips and sometimes a little notebook with listener notes. So it's more of a collectors item.

I think their genres they now release. Are VMP Essentials, Classics, Rap & Hip-hop, Country, Rock.

I normally search on eBay for VMP - as looking up Vinyl Me Please. A lot of the sold out records, have buy it nows for inflated prices. 

I thought Joe Cordina wanted super fights or unification bouts?! My boxing knowledge has slipped recently,  but I've never heard of Anthony Cacace. Ranked 11th with the IBF supposedly.

On 3/19/2024 at 8:07 AM, Mr_Danger said:

Fuck me if Masters of the Air didn’t feature the all time greatest flag shagging moment in the final episode. Really enjoyed the series that managed to blow a huge budget on some brilliant aerial shots whilst having absolutely shocking green screen spattered throughout. As good as Callum Turner and the chap who played Rosie were you gotta hand it to Elvis who just looks like an absolute mega star every time he’s on screen. The living embodiment of an aftershave advert. I look forward to trying to guess where I’ve seen the other 90% of the actors before in the years to come.

Enjoyed Masters Of Air for what it was. But the character development was dreadful. It was comedic at times, the way people would pop up and then disappear again.

I thought the BBBoC would have buckled, glad to see they won their case.

Benn could have just admitted what he's done (twice) and moved on. He would have been back over here fighting by now. But the twat would rather fight spuds in old dance halls in the middle of nowhere in America.

12 hours ago, CAREBEAR LUVVA said:

Just got back from seeing The Hives on the first night of their current tour after a four-month break. I was expecting pretty much the same 15-song setlist that they've been doing for the last year or so, but they've added about half a dozen extra songs from their back catalogue. We got a few songs that haven't been played for 6 or 7 years, and one from the latest album that's never been played live before. It was strange to look at the crowd and realise that I first saw The Hives in about 2001 when I was a youngster, and now 20-odd years later there's loads of kids the same age as I was back then going mental to those same songs which are still being performed with as much energy and enthusiasm as they were back then. Absolute joy, ridiculously good fun, a truly ten out of ten evening.

I was reading they have set up a thing called Franc"hives". Where they personally support Hives tributes bands. Because all their gigs are sold out. They put on shows with tribute bands at reduced costs, so fans can see the next best thing.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-hives-announce-uk-tour-for-first-franchised-cover-bands-3603602

Any reason why Buatsi is only now winning British and Commonwealth titles? I always compare him to Lawrence Okolie, as they went to 2016 Olympics and turned pro at the same time. Adjoining weight divisions as well. Okolie has already won, a world title, defended it a few times and lost it. It doesn't look like Buatsi has any extended layoffs in his career and his opponents looked decent but nothing amazing. Is he being held back for one reason or another?

My dad decided after furlough ended and it was time to go back to work. He would rather retire as he didn't want to upset the dog.

Local theatre going all in with this one.

On 1/20/2024 at 10:57 AM, SuperBacon said:

The pull cord in my bathroom is broken. It won't double click, so if you pull it, it will click "on" but not a double click when it goes "back up" simple wiring job a sparky mate says.

My landlord said "Clearly you're pulling it too hard (bit personal) as we've never heard of this issue before"

I don't even know what to say to that.

Cost about £5 from Screwfix and take about 15 minutes to fit. Did ours the other week when our 18 monther got hold of it, and it got stuck on.

On 1/21/2024 at 10:22 AM, Onyx2 said:

I had a lovely time at the Majestic in King's Lynn some years back. As with many of these, an old converted theatre, quite small inside, with a bar on each of its 3 levels. 

I contemplated cropping out the guy smashing a pasty into his face but it was too UKFF to remove. 

Fairly local to me and went many times in my youth. Still only £5 a ticket. They recently refurbed the seating. 

Yep. Day beds in the front row.

Daniel Dubios doesn't know where he is 

We went to Malta this year and went to the Popeye village. They've turned it into a proper tourist attraction now. 

That's the levels in boxing.

Bam landed 60% of his power punches going into the final round. A Rodriguez jab was more powerful than Sunny's best hook. Sunny threw a vicious 1/2 when Bam was goading him with his tongue out. Didn't even leave a scratch.

Sunny's boxing IQ was outmatched by Bam's speed, power and 7" reach advantage. Great action packed and skilful fight.

Good to see Jordan Gill get the win against Michael Conlan last night. At 130lbs he looked a totally different fighter. Conlan's punch resistance looks like it has gone now.

After Kiko Martinez steamrolled over Gill last time, I think people thought he was done and would be a safe opponent for Conlan as he doesn't punch very hard. 

But those extra pounds added a steam to his punches. Conlan down from a crunching left in the 2nd. His legs never really recovered but he had some success in the 6th with a flurry of uppercuts. Gill put more pressure on in the 7th. After a stream of shots in the corner and no fight back, referee waved it off.

The stoppage may have looked premature but Eddie Hearn said Jamie Conlan was in the corner with the towel ready to throw it in. And noone complained. I think they knew, how hurt he was and didn't want him to take any unnecessary punishment.

Started watching the Saturday Nights from when they first aired in April 92. Jim Herd has gone and Kip Frey is "in charge." It's a funny old show, Missy Hyatt opens every show introducing Jim Ross and then you never see her again.

Jim Ross is partnered with a different guest host every week, who also is on commentary with him. This ranges from the normal. Jesse Ventura to the not so normal, American footballers and Kip Frey even does one show. The worst so far is Jason Hervey, he was about 20 in 92 and looks about 12. He's half the height of Jim Ross and just doesn't shut up talking shit. Supposedly he was having it off with Missy Hyatt around this time which makes it even weirder.

Most of the wrestling is squash matches until the main event which is your WCW mainstays going at it

The odd thing is, every main event is 2/3 falls matches.

This is good when it's Austin vs. Z-Man or Austin vs. Windham. But the Jason Hervey episode had Arn Anderson vs. Big Josh in a 42 MINUTE match!

There was another match. Greg Valentine & Terry Taylor vs. The Freebirds for the US tag titles. The Hammer and the Taylor Made Man were the champs. By this point there were not enough credible tag teams for those belts to exist. And the teams who did have the belts were just thrown together. Bill Watts merged the belts with the World tag titles later on in the year. The last holders were Dick Slater & The Barbarian.

23 hours ago, Fog Dude said:

How are the long-term unemployed ever meant to get back in the game – or into work for the first time later in life – if that very fact is a leading reason for the people doing the hiring to be utterly dismissive? 

You never know, those 'quirks' that supposedly made them unsuitable might have been them actually developing a personality while free from the rat race for a while. 

Unemployment shouldn't mean a complete loss of dignity and equally, having a job shouldn't mean you need to leave your humanity behind completely for 8 hours a day in the name of being 'professional'. 

Interviews are load of bollocks anyway. They cost companies time and money, clearly discriminate in favour of neurotypicals (as shown by your attitude towards a non-verbal candidate), are not fun for recruiters and even less so for interviewees. CVs ought to speak for themselves. If anyone lies on theirs they'll soon get found out, and it's technically illegal to do that so perhaps that law should actually be enforced more often.

To put it into context, the candidate was not long term unemployed or later in life. He was 19, fresh out of college. But my point was, he never had a job, his whole life. No paper round, no Saturday job. No summer job in the holidays from college. I would expect someone has a basic knowledge of how work life is, before coming to their first full time job.

And that's not solely his fault. If he never had anyone pushing him to find a job or learning to drive, he's not going to understand. Whomever dropped him off for the interview, should have had a word in his ear to take the headphones off.

Apart from his qualification was in robotics, which is nothing to do with what we specialise in. He couldn't drive and we work in a rural area. So would have been difficult to get to us on a daily basis.

The now departed HR manager took that initial zoom interview on her own. After I had originally said his CV was not suitable. She then let him through to interview stage because he was more normal than the previous candidate. When it got to pre-interview the MD looked at the CV and said why are interviewing him, he clearly isn't suitable.

He also showed us a product he had been developing. In his right pocket was a Samsung mobile phone and then on a chunky 2m cable it was attached to a power bank, in his left pocket. He gleefully told us, his phone's battery now lasts for a week! He told us, if he replaced the battery in his phone, it still wouldn't last very long. (bollocks) So he took the battery out completely and put this industrial looking connector on it. He didn't see the downside that if he unplugged the connector from the phone, it immediately shut down. So he just made himself an unmobile phone.

We have in the past employed an older gentleman (mid 50s) who had been unemployed for a little while. His quirks included.

- Falling asleep after lunch multiple times a week

- Collapsed on the toilet, so now we have special locks fitted.

- Told the workshop, he had been bleeding from his anus. And it was normal for a man of his age to do that.

- Told us, he helped invent the Microsoft mouse.

- Lived with his cousin in a lodge on a golf course. He brought her to the works summer BBQ. She brought along her book of erotic poetry she had written and told everyone, her cousin has a nice bum 

- Put on his CV that he was certified to do fine levels of soldering. He couldn't even solder two wires together. Then would blame the cable was faulty.

8 hours ago, westlondonmist said:

Are you going back out or thought about inviting a couple back for a chat. Might be worth doing just to see if you can find out a bit more personally.

I think the job advert has been pulled, it's going to be tweaked and put back up.

Unfortunately not really up to me, I join in, in the interview as one of the heads of that department. Me and HR usually do a zoom chat to sniff out the weirdos. And the above were the ones who got through the interview stage. If the MD doesn't like them, I don't have much overrule 

One chap passed all the numeracy tests, so we wanted him to come for a paid week's trial. Then the finance manager said that was too complicated to process, so that got kiboshed.

We did have a guy who came for an interview a few years ago for the same job. He didn't say anything when being introduced to everyone. He sat down, pulled out an A4 pad and wrote down all of his answers on that. Turns out he was voluntary mute. Not much use on tech phone support.

We are looking for some new staff in my department at work. Computer technicians basically. And we have had 5 people come in for interviews and every one of them, had different quirks, traits and wouldn't have fitted into the current group.

One guy had never had a job before, turned up 15 minutes late and was wearing over ear headphones around his neck throughout the interview.

I don't expect a candidate to wear a full 3 piece suit. But another guy turned up wearing a sweatshirt with ET on the front of it.

One guy came in and the first thing he said was, he was really nervous and had not had a job interview in 6 months. He had been unemployed for 8 months. His parting words were asking me what the time was, when I gave it to him, he responded, he was off to the dr's to get his medication.

Another interviewee went through his whole list of failed job interviews and feedback, when he was asked what he had been doing whilst unemployed for the past year.

The problem we have encountered is, a lot of the candidates have the skills to do the job. But their personality and traits went against them. So it's a real struggle hiring someone based on that.

What happened with Joe Cordina's fight location last night? Eddie Hearn previously said he had outgrown the 5k Cardiff arena. Then he went back to box at that dinner hall room in Monte Carlo.

Horsham managed to bag a replay with Barnsley after drawing in the 1st round of the FA Cup. What's even more shocking is Barnsley's home kit this season.

What a mess of a shirt.

On 10/23/2023 at 10:21 PM, SuperBacon said:

Yep, and here is as a kid meeting Jim Root with his Dad, and then years later, recreating the photo.

Yep, shame he is an absolute dick though. Left Against Me via Twitter in 2012. Then Laura Jane Grace went on Twitter and posted all the stupid shit he had done whilst in the band.

“We once had a drummer who sprained his ankle and wanted our tour manager to call 911 and have an ambulance come for him #entitlement”

When our tour manager said no, the drummers Daddy called him and scolded him saying the drummer was a “star” and needed to be treated as such”

“We once had a drummer who would go behind our back and tell house light people to focus all stage lights on him. #entitlement”

“We once had a drummer who threatened to sue us after he quit via twitter #entitlement”

“We once had a drummer who told me to move aside on stage cause the audience couldn’t see enough of him #entitlement”

There was a story a few years ago where he delayed rehearsals for an Eric Idle stage show for two hours. He wouldn't start rehearsals until a wardrobe assistant showed him, her tits. In the end she gave in. And it was put down to him being a "charming scoundrel" & "his womanising ways." Billy Connolly was in the show and gave him a bollocking supposedly. If you Google, Russell Brand, Billy Connolly the story comes up.

Watched a few of the latter episodes from this series. Ones like the Bam Bam Bigelow & JYD episode there wasn't much there to make it interesting. In the JYD one, his nephew said, "JYD did drugs whoopdedoo... they all did." Which is true, and makes you think why he was a subject choice. There was a little bit of truth bending in there too. They said after his WWF run ended in 1988. He ended up in WCW because Bill Watts brought him in, in the early 90s. (Would have been 92). But he was in WCW a month after his WWF run ended. And was there in 89, 90, 91, 92 & 93.

Supposedly the back injury which postponed the rematch hampered Smith's weight cut. He had to take off 45lbs after the new date was announced. Cut too much, too fast. I think once he saw 20,000 had sold out the AO.  He's making the date, otherwise Eubank was off for another fight. Smith ain't getting another payday like that.

Just seen Brian McIntyre. Eubank/Crawford/Stevenson's trainer has been remanded in UK custody. Tried to get on the plane back to the States with a gun in his bag!! What a nutter. Begs the question, did he enter the UK with it as well.