Paid Members Dead Mike Posted October 19, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted October 19, 2012 I was summoned to do jury service beginning on 31st October. My work's totally cool with it, they've had copies of letters with the dates etc & I said I'd text my boss the night I'm done & to him know when I'm coming back to the office. They rang me today to say they had a surplus of jurors & I could either request to still do it or be excused, I opted for excused (everyone's told me it's boring as shit). Â Herein lies my query.... Â I'm going to a gig in Manchester the night of the 31st with a group of mates, if I still take off the day of the gig & the day after I could just tell work my jury service is done & I'll be back in the office the following day. Allowing me to drink all afternoon in Manchester & at the show. Have the Thursday off to recover & play xbox then go back in work for the Friday, where they'll be chuffed to see me as they're bracing themselves for me to be gone for up to a fortnight where my boss will absorb my workload. Or I could be honest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members FLips Posted October 19, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted October 19, 2012 I was summoned to do jury service beginning on 31st October. My work's totally cool with it, they've had copies of letters with the dates etc & I said I'd text my boss the night I'm done & to him know when I'm coming back to the office. They rang me today to say they had a surplus of jurors & I could either request to still do it or be excused, I opted for excused (everyone's told me it's boring as shit). Â Herein lies my query.... Â I'm going to a gig in Manchester the night of the 31st with a group of mates, if I still take off the day of the gig & the day after I could just tell work my jury service is done & I'll be back in the office the following day. Allowing me to drink all afternoon in Manchester & at the show. Have the Thursday off to recover & play xbox then go back in work for the Friday, where they'll be chuffed to see me as they're bracing themselves for me to be gone for up to a fortnight where my boss will absorb my workload. Or I could be honest? Â If you can get away with it, take the time off. May as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members WWFChilli Posted October 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted October 20, 2012 Bollocks. Instead of reading post after post all I'm getting is the first post in a thread and then a list and link of the previous posts in the topic. The fuck have I done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members swiftstrike Posted October 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted October 20, 2012 Bollocks. Instead of reading post after post all I'm getting is the first post in a thread and then a list and link of the previous posts in the topic. The fuck have I done? you have switched the display mode to outline, go to the top on any thread and click options and change display mode to standard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HWM Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Does downloading torrents directly to a external hard drive work? I've changed the directory file to one on my external drive but this seems to be making Transmission (torrent client) crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 Yeah, I don't have any problems doing it on my Windows netbook with a really small internal hard drive (using the Vuze client). I think I've always downloaded to the internal drive on my Mac, though I use Vuze on that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members WWFChilli Posted October 21, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted October 21, 2012 Is it best to book a flight, just a flight, further or nearer to the plane departure date or is it really all over the shop depending who you book with, airlines wanting to fill seats etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrest Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 I remember overhearing a discussion with someone who worked on plane ticket pricing who explained that plane tickets are priced according to a stunted formula, so for example, the first 20 seats (purely for talking sake) are priced dirt cheap (and usually at a loss, regardless of legroom, window seat etc. After that, the next x amount of seats are priced at a higher rate, and when those are gone, the next allocation are priced even higher right up until the last seats which are over the odds. Â If what he said is true, then it'd make total sense to book as early as possible, because even though it isn't dependant on time, it's all about how many people have bought seats already. It is essentially pot luck, but the earlier you book the less likely that all the cheap seats will have been taken. Â Take all this with a pinch of salt, pepper and vinegar because I heard it when buying a christmas present in Thorntons, so not exactly a source for the bibliography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members niff Posted October 22, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted October 22, 2012 Is it best to book a flight, just a flight, further or nearer to the plane departure date or is it really all over the shop depending who you book with, airlines wanting to fill seats etc? Â Can't remember where I heard this but apparently its best to check at the start of the week as they are supposed to be lower and then increased as demand grows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SiMania Posted October 22, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted October 22, 2012 I was summoned to do jury service beginning on 31st October. My work's totally cool with it, they've had copies of letters with the dates etc & I said I'd text my boss the night I'm done & to him know when I'm coming back to the office. They rang me today to say they had a surplus of jurors & I could either request to still do it or be excused, I opted for excused (everyone's told me it's boring as shit). Â Herein lies my query.... Â I'm going to a gig in Manchester the night of the 31st with a group of mates, if I still take off the day of the gig & the day after I could just tell work my jury service is done & I'll be back in the office the following day. Allowing me to drink all afternoon in Manchester & at the show. Have the Thursday off to recover & play xbox then go back in work for the Friday, where they'll be chuffed to see me as they're bracing themselves for me to be gone for up to a fortnight where my boss will absorb my workload. Or I could be honest? Â Best be honest and not deceive them as you'll probably get caught out, liars always do. Â If you company tries to claim your time back from the courts as money then find out you weren't there, they might fire you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evets_backwards Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Does anybody know how to watch Bellator & Strikeforce in the UK? Â Is it a matter of downloading the shows somewhere or are they shown on TV? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathrey Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 They are not shown on TV over here so the internet is your best bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrest Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Isn't Strikeforce shown on Primetime? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathrey Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 I stand corrected, it is indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted October 23, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted October 23, 2012 Isn't Strikeforce shown on Primetime? Â Not always. They showed the Heavyweight GP finals in May but they didn't show a few events before that and haven't shown the last couple. They only aired the May card because they'd already secured the rights to show the 4 GP events over here. Â Basically, yeah, torrents. It won't matter soon anyway because the January card looks like being it for Strikeforce. Â As for Bellator, they've been on about distributing their shows worldwide for ages now but we've got fuck all. We had the same with WEC. Torrents again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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