Gus Mears

Anyone got any advice on when to ask someone if they want to meet in person after talking online?

 

Get the feeling it might be a 'it's right when it's right' thing, but don't want to appear too keen or too disinterested.

Rare Saturday in, so think I might actually order the Joshua card this evening. Not massively interested in his fight, but I'm a total Eubank mark and I'm genuinely keen to see Benn for the first time. It's like being back in the 90's and it's great.

Pleased to hear about the job Steak. Very much in the same boat in that the early starts are helping me keep off the sauce more than I was before.

 

 

I'm posting while in the midst of a bad weekend. The referendum is over and I do plan on belting down more than I normally would. I'm confident I can stop before Monday, which I couldn't have done a year or so ago.

Rob Lowe had his whizzer and chips out on film back in the 80's didn't he? Plus one of the birds he was nobbling was underage. This was back when nonces didn't exist though, so it was fine.

Sorry to hear about that Wretch, sounds like a shit time. Not wanting to pry too much, but is it an aspect specific to the job that's causing the in-work drinking? Hours you are doing or something?

 

I think I'm pretty much at the same level as I was last time I posted in here. Struggling to limit myself to getting wankered once per week, but by and large, not being too far off. I'd love to cut down more, but frankly, I just get bored to tears.

 

 

There are many CV templates around to help structure it. If it's lack of experience in your field, you should consider carpet-bombing employers and agencies with a cover letter & CV to generate interest and get feedback.

 

 

 

I was basically coming in here to post this. I hate the term with a passion, but it's largely a numbers game getting a first post-grad job and you're incredibly unlikely to get anything approaching the job you really want to do just out of Uni.

 

Agencies are annoying, but I would recommend signing up for as many as you can think of. You'll then need to badger them relentlessly in order to get them to do much of anything. However, I did get a couple of temporary contracts out of University through an agency called Brook Street.

 

Also, I would be prepared to do a crap job for a while just in order to have a job. I ended up working in the Christmas department of a garden centre for minimum wage the year after graduating and it was shit.  It was still better than being on the dole though. While I'm not sure I agree it's always easier to get another job when you already have one, it certainly takes the pressure off desperately needing every interview to be a successful one.

 

Good luck!

Everything should have worked about Baku and then Rosberg snored his way to victory.

 

The general dullness of the last two weeks has been put on a pedestal by Pau di Resta. Why Sky thought they needed to draft in an even more boring version of David Coulthard, I don't know. Even more baffling was that Channel 4 appeared to have Karun 'Cucumber' Chandock, legitimately one of the shittest F1 drivers of recent years, doing punditry.

 

I changed over to the high-octane golfing action on Sky Sports 1 instead.

Relatively sure that Whittingdale and the gang at Culture, Media and Sport are planning to alter the Iplayer/TV License rule during this Parliament, so make use of it while you can.

 

Otherwise your house will have shit loads of the telly detectors camping outside. It's true because the letter said so.

Horse cock girl has messaged me back! She basically just ignored the post completely.  Call her Lev Yashin, because she's a keeper.

Yep, thought that was pretty much it. As my old man used to say 'there aint no coming back from her thinking that you bum horses'.

A brief update here of the online dating saga that no one on earth is following.

 

I was talking to a girl about Shakespeare and the messages seemed to be going well. I then attempted to mention than I had recently "played Nick Bottom in a Midsummer Night's Dream. Donkey ears and all".  What I actually did was forget to type the first bit and then wrote "Donkey ears anal"

 

I only just realised, she hasn't replied and it was two hours ago.

That particular letter about the vans camped outside of the house with special TV detectors was the biggest load of cobblers I have ever read. I love the idea of a bunch of people staked outside of my house in a Pret a Manger van or something listening in, "I'm sure I heard Mystic Meg in the background there. Go, go go, he's watching the National Lottery live again".

But what if you get caught by one of their magic vans that can detect if you're watching the telly?

The current Talksport bumpers for the Euro football sound like they were written by Enoch Powell. Brilliantly jingoistic.

 

There is one that I heard yesterday that is a two minute orgy of cod-foreign accents, culminating with some bloke screaming "VIVE LE FOOOOOOTBALLLL!!!!" with such bone crunching force that hymens must have been shattered all around the immediate vicinity of my car radio.

Does anyone have any experience of working for O2? I've got an interview tomorrow a role as an O2 Guru which is Full Time, much better than the part time job I've had for the last two years.

If I get it, me and the wife can finally have the chance to save properly again

I don't personally, but a good mate of mine worked in their telesales team and said they were an excellent group to work for.

 

He did leave a few months ago, but that was more to do with his manager promising nonexistent promotions than anything O2 did as a company. Is an O2 guru an advisor role?

I would probably class Edgbaston as my favourite ground in the country. It actually has some degree of home advantage for England, which is more than I can say for Lords over the past x number of years. As much as a hate Surrey, Oval is probably the best designed ground I have watched cricket at. Genuinely not a poor seat in the house and it's easy to get beer and urinate without having to plan it in your diary.

 

Like with many things, I blame the ECB for ruining counties going to smaller grounds by trying to get everyone to build test/ODI worthy grounds (and then giving up on them having tests after 10 years). First off, fucking ECB. Second, it means that counties like Glam, Durham and Gloucester are going to be knee deep in shit for the foreseeable future because they are paying these new grounds off and can't afford to play away.

 

Somerset used to play at the Bath Festival once per year in a CC match. People take the piss out of Taunton for adding ten to your average as it is, but fuck me, in Bath I probably could have had a better average than Ramprakash at test. It was billy willy small.

 

That was something I loved going to and my Dad before (Dad once saw Brian Lara bowl but not bat there, which is brilliant) and it's gone forever largely thanks to the shitehawks in London who appear to just as well want four day cricket to die forever in favour of an endless procession of marginally profitable, but utterly soulless, limited overs matches.

 

Christ, I sound like Fred Trueman in the 90's there.

Your nephew would have absolutely loved day two of Gloucester vs. Glamorgan from a few weeks ago, Butch. The most notable things were David Lloyd getting out on 99 and me missing Graham Wagg hitting the best shot of the day because I was in the khazi.

 

There must have been literally dozens of people in attendance. I was the youngest one there by 83 years and a window broke in one of the flats for absolutely no reason and started pissing glass down on top of spectators. It was absolutely wonderful day.

Just heard that from 8th July Sky Movies will now be known as Sky Cinema.  People will still call it Sky Movies and then eventually they will probably go back to calling it Sky Movies. Why do companies have to piss about. Rant over.

 

 

I would imagine that they spent an inordinate amount of money on an agency to come up with ideas on how to improve brand recognition and they then recommended this, completely pointless, change.

 

The only one of these kind of name changes I can recall that worked in (semi) recent memory is when they changed UKG2 to Dave and viewing figures skyrocketed, despite it showing the same 14 Top Gear episodes.

Apologies in pulling a Lazarus on this thread.

 

Anyone playing at all this year? I never got the chance to at school because we essentially played rugby 13 months per year, with the odd bit of athletics stapled on. However, a good mate of mine who captained a uni side helped train me up the other year and I had my first club game a few weeks ago.

 

I decided to learn to bowl leg spin because I wanted to, despite being naturally athletic and quite obviously suited to pace bowling. So I'm skipping in and bowling like Richie Benaud on smack at the moment. Absolutely no accuracy, but I can actually get it to turn quite a bit, which is rewarding.

 

My batting is even worse. As our captain said of me: "When you hit it, it stays hit". Unfortunately, I hit one at about the same regularity as Hayley's Comet, so scored a disgustingly agricultural straight pull for 4, before being bowled through the gate immediately after.

 

I was absolutely shit, but it was an incredibly fun experience. It's also a real departure for me in terms of the sports I am used to playing. I have taken up cricket and golf in the past 12 months, both of which require you stay quite relaxed. I'm completely used to rugby, distance running and weights, none of which really engender being laid back.

 

On a separate note, have managed to get to quite a few live games this season including the hated Surrey vs. my beloved Somerset last Friday in a T20. Despite being a pig, I defy anyone to find anything more satisfying than Chris Gayle hitting enormous sixes, particularly against a team captained by Gareth Batty. Got Somerset vs. Pakistan in a few weeks, which will mean that I have seen every major country play apart from New Zealand.

 

It's wonderful being able to hop on a train, get to the County Ground within 40 minutes and watch a day of good quality sport for about £15. Anyone else getting to a game or two this season?

Civil Service/local government is a really good bet if you can get it. While the pay generally isn't amazing, the work/life balance is quite good and once you're in it's like trying to leave the mafia or something. It's 4 Lyfe Brother.

 

If it's anything like the local authority I work for, they are bloody desperate to send you on training courses every three seconds.

 

I'm only planning on being there for 18 months until doing a Masters, but every single other person in the team has been there at least five years and has been promoted at least once. We are particularly 'local jobs for local people' though, in that my manager would rather promote an imbecile from within than hire someone competent from outside.

 

Only three of us have a degree out of the team of nine and frankly, mine had nowt to do with me getting the job.

 

Good luck with the job search.

Don't forget 'DAD ROCKS!' CDs too. Music made specifically for 55 year old men with a Porsche and a penis that doesn't work properly anymore.

Nothing more than a moan here, but I fucking hate the EU Referendum.

 

I work in planning and running elections for a Council and every moron known to man has come crawling out of the woodwork for the 23rd of June. We're massively short staffed due to a team member being seriously ill and another having left and most of the rest of the team are the archetypal local gov. lifers who have been here since 1985 and have progressed almost nowhere because they are gibbering idiots.

 

Every day is a 12 hour day. Every weekend is a work day.  Every day is spent wading through emails from people moaning about things such as 'the fact we are being biased against the leave campaign by encouraging young people to register to vote'.

 

Bring back dictatorships I say. This democracy lark obviously isn't working.

Chips and egg done well is much harder than so called exotics like curries and the like. Get the fundamentals right and everything else will fall into place.

 

 

You're not that wrong. Despite being a pretty good amateur cook, I am absolutely hopeless at frying eggs. I always end up spilling them after I have cracked them. Generally ends up looking like I have just spaffed on my T-shirt.

She obviously wasn't a very good crack addict if she's overweight. I was led to believe the pounds melted away.

I really like the sound of scallop chowder on that channel.

 

I'm on a seafood kick at the minute as I am trying to limit red meat to one day per week. Did lobster in a lobster shell and white wine sauce as a starter at the weekend, which was excellent even if I do say so myself.

 

Did a monkfish tail, wrapped in parma ham and stuffed with butter and thyme, in a tomato and saffron sauce for the main. Served up with some mashed sweet potato and asparagus. Worked well and I adore monkfish.

 

If anyone has any inspired ideas for Gurnard, please let me know. I'm doing that for the first time tomorrow.