How exactly has the working class "fallen behind" I. The timespan of that chart? Working class live in luxury compared to 60 years ago!
How exactly has the working class "fallen behind" I. The timespan of that chart? Working class live in luxury compared to 60 years ago!
Realised I need a new job last week when a recruiter tried to get me interested in going to the Falkland Islands for 2-4 years and I found myself seriously considering it 😬
Plus I didn't want to be a distraction! Next time!
It was indeed that very train. Nice smooth ride, thank you! Did think about giving you a shout when I got off at Attleborough but decided you might think I was some kind of weirdo 🤣. Your colleague was very patient with a blatant and shameless fare dodger.
I think you're driving my train again. I just got onto the Norwich train at Ely. I'd have felt a bit silly shouting "sausage rolls" though!
Hohoho. Bonus letter arrived. Way more than I was expecting. Upon further investigation, it appears the "Rewards Manager" (who clearly doesn't know how to use Excel) has fucked up and given everyone double bubble. 🤣🤑
I think I will still get the honour of first cut 😂
Snap! It was delivered today but I'm away from home with work. Wife gets the honour of unboxing it 😂.
Trains round out way are great for this. Press the button and nothing happens for a few seconds whilst a little bridge extends to the platform, then the door opens. People mash the button frantically, and throw daggers if you press once and wait 😂
Downing Street soon then?
Maybe it isn't a deterrent but a few bullets are cheaper for society than keeping someone locked up for the rest of their life .
That looks like a Tim Hunkin creation.
Poisonous?
I just caved in and helped myself to the buffet after a streak of no dry up whilst away that's lasted 3 months.☹️ And I had KFC for tea last night ☹️☹️
Delia has a good recipe.
Pancake cereal... Tell me more. Become quite partial to homemade American ones but you can't beat a good crepe.
American style or Blighty style?
I've had a weird hankering these past few years to do the Cake Wrath Way. All of it. All 250ish miles. Staying in bothys. Proper hardcore.
They didn't have bad dreams about things going bump in the night and breathless screaming and panting did they? 😂
Oh yes! That looks like a proper boozer.
Jarvis Cocker mooning when Michael Jackson was in the middle of Earth Song.
My dream is to have a ride on garden railway. Just need a big enough garden!
I just give up with all the happy new year bollocks in meeting and just respond "yeah whatever"
Trying to work with squabbling kids and wife in the background is not working though, so heading to site tomorrow!
I just keep thinking each day is another day towards the possible 7-figure bonus in 2 or 3 years and early semi-retirement before 50 🤞
I have a few recs
Yeah go on then.
Even worse are the "I'm so proud of my son/daughter who's just completed a degree at a mid-tier university and has secured a job as an intern on fuck all money. Next they will save the world." 🤢🤮
Looks nice.
Yeah I got the joke, just struggle not to get riled up by self-righteous thick twats!
If private educate doesn't mean a better education, why get so worked up about it and demand a "level playing field?" There really are some thick folk around. Totally incoherent ramblings.
I think that one is more of a soldier and girl situation.
Went home before I made an arse of myself but forgot my bag 🫣. Had to go all the way back to London on Sunday to retrieve it from colleague as boss wanted something by midday Monday when I was going to a funeral. That wasted 8 hours of my life 🤬.
Didn't you have a similar situation last year? Had our work do last week. It was shit, the "meal" was sharing platters and waiters kept topping up my wine glass even when I asked them not to.
Middle lane hoggers are twats. I undertake them, only about 50% get the hint. Closely followed by tailgaters, my car has a propensity to randomly slam the brakes on when using the cruise control, then they get irate as they think I'm brake checking them.
Went to my aunts funeral. Met her about 12 times in my 45 years. It hit me really hard right when I wasn't expecting it and I don't really know why.
Nil illegitimo carborundum
🤣 funnily enough that thought also crossed my mind 🤣
Did think about tapping on the window at Cambridge to ask if you're "That Tall Bloke" but decided you might not appreciate the disturbance.
It was indeed very smooth! I was the guy in the blue floral shirt, blazer and black overcoat at your end of the platform, though I guess you weren't really observing the passengers 😂. Been hoping I'd catch you for a while, you seem a nice chap.
@thattallbloke.bsky.social is that you driving 1K67 this morning?
Good contender for when Chris Evans did his "top ten tenuous links" spot on his radio 2 show. I reckon this would be about a 4.
Never worked out why Hilton are always pushing the phone key option. Yeah, it opens the room door but it doesn't work the fucking lift. "Yeah you need to give it a couple of minutes to connect with the lift". Just give me a bloody key card.
Well, she says the iceberg is melting so presumably it'll all be fine in a week or two and he can enjoy another Old Fashioned, and toss this shite onto the fire for a bit of warmth.
My wife used to be a teacher. She once caught a 7 year old kid with a box of cigs. "Why have you got these? You shouldn't have these!" "Yeah yeah. I know. I'm tryna quit alright?" 😳
Sick the lot of them. Wonder if they ever stop to think oif they'd be rooting for him if he'd forced himself upon them.
Gorgeous cat! Mine sulks when we get home after being away 🤣
Show us then!
Best part was the tannoy system played messages twice, so we all got to listen to the whole thing again. Tannoy system mysteriously broke beyond repair shortly afterwards...
Looks like it's already been used.
Same guy called the auto-tannoy but didn't hang up properly. "Could X please call Y urgently....I bet he doesn't bother, fucking arrogant cunt. Thinks he's god, he's only a fucking factory manager and not a very good one...[2 minute diatribe].
Then there was the time in work someone accidentally sat on the transmit button of his radio and broadcast his very forthright views on several colleagues until someone intervened "John, everyone can hear that you daft twat, you're sat on your radio!"
Was at a work function that filled 2 rooms. They were love streaming a wandering camera from the other room. Wanders up to a drink guy in conversation "That [manager] is a fucking wanker, right cun..." and that was the end of the livestream 🤣