ComicalGnomes wrote:
I have had a very long day, a very long one. Very long. I am tired.
Ah well, it's over now. Treat yourself to a nice slap-up dinn.... oh.
Frugal living starts tomorrow. I haven't gone shopping yet. I've spent all of today and yesterday helping the gf move out. She's all gone now, and I'm alooooone. sniff sniff, etc.
ComicalGnomes wrote:
Frugal living starts tomorrow. I haven't gone shopping yet. I've spent all of today and yesterday helping the gf move out. She's all gone now, and I'm alooooone. sniff sniff, etc.
So as of today you are living on your own? I presume then that you are naked, by this point in the evening.
Awwwww, big hugs to CG.
Anything we can do to cheer you up?
Anything we can do to cheer you up?
Craster wrote:
ComicalGnomes wrote:
Frugal living starts tomorrow. I haven't gone shopping yet. I've spent all of today and yesterday helping the gf move out. She's all gone now, and I'm alooooone. sniff sniff, etc.
So as of today you are living on your own? I presume then that you are naked, by this point in the evening.
+ eating a Pot Noodle while watching Emmerdale Farm.
Mimi wrote:
Awwwww, big hugs to CG.
Anything we can do to cheer you up?
Anything we can do to cheer you up?
C'mon, I've no job and a girlfriend, I'm guessing my need is greater here....
But you have her to hug you...
CG will rely on us all for cuddles now.
CG will rely on us all for cuddles now.
Mimi wrote:
But you have her to hug you...
CG will rely on us all for cuddles now.
CG will rely on us all for cuddles now.
I'll stick to a manly handshake if it's all the same.
Mimi wrote:
Awwwww, big hugs to CG.
Anything we can do to cheer you up?
Anything we can do to cheer you up?
Ironically Mimi the gf is the one who is upset. So far, myself, I'm generally just fine. This whole living seperation is a highly mature experiment to see if we do in fact miss each other enough to give the engagement/marriage thing another go. It'll all work out for the best.
Must remember to get a cat, I now have enough room to swing one.
chinnyhill10 wrote:
Mimi wrote:
But you have her to hug you...
CG will rely on us all for cuddles now.
CG will rely on us all for cuddles now.
I'll stick to a manly handshake if it's all the same.
ASBO, thanks, all the same.
Oh, I thought the 'sniff sniff' thing meant that you had genuine feelings you ice-cold stone-hearted concrete shelled robot that is dead inside.
Only kidding. Sqqqueeeeeeeeee
Only kidding. Sqqqueeeeeeeeee
ComicalGnomes wrote:
Mimi wrote:
Awwwww, big hugs to CG.
Anything we can do to cheer you up?
Anything we can do to cheer you up?
Ironically Mimi the gf is the one who is upset. So far, myself, I'm generally just fine. This whole living seperation is a highly mature experiment to see if we do in fact miss each other enough to give the engagement/marriage thing another go. It'll all work out for the best.
Must remember to get a cat, I now have enough room to swing one.
You ain't a bad 'un so should work out for ya.
Love Mali A.
PS Please stop mimi "Squeeeeeeee"-ing. Makes me feel squiffy...
Craster wrote:
So as of today you are living on your own? I presume then that you are naked, by this point in the evening.
Mimi wrote:
Awwwww, big hugs to CG.
Personally, I'd have waited for an answer before offering that.
I've eaten too much chocolate and now feel ill. I have to eat the chocolate today because I can't eat it starting tomorrow. Arragh! 
Nurburgring, fourth lap. 7:05 including 8 seconds penalties. Woot!
AceAceBaby wrote:
Nurburgring, fourth lap. 7:05 including 8 seconds penalties. Woot!
*Does not mention his 06:38.659. Or indeed (and much more rage inducingly) the 06:40.something with 15 seconds of penalty due to cocking up the last corner spectaculary*
Fourth lap ever. 
That's Ace. AceAc*shot rings out*
Also what car?
Also what car?
Good to see that those loan sharks on Facebook are finally being honest about their rates...
After about three and a half hours of play I've finally unlocked my first additional tournament (and first achievement - five points! Woop!) on Sega Rally. How many more tournaments are there? Seventeen? Fucking hell, I'll be here all year.
Dudley wrote:
That's Ace. AceAc*shot rings out*
Also what car?
Also what car?
It's the final time trial in arcade, so you get to drive a spiffy group C Porsche thing. No assists either. It was under the target time, which was why I was happy
Morning.
MetalAngel wrote:
Good to see that those loan sharks on Facebook are finally being honest about their rates...
Ah Facebook. Being an up to date sort of guy I recently joined that. I wish there was a button for friend requests that says "Sorry but I knew you briefly 8 years ago and frankly I wouldn't recognise you if you walked past me on fire"* as well as "You're a c*nt, fuck off".
I mean, am I the only person who wants a "friend" list that actually is a list of people I like and who would want to have a beer with? As opposed to total random people I met once in a supermarket queue.
Or am I some kind of socially retarded misery guts? (thinks better of inserting *that* Dimlie).
* To be fair, this applies to most people as I have shit recognition.
I'm not on facebook. Or myspace. When I die in an accident, the BBC are going to struggle for an obituary...
Have to go to Oxford or Banbury to sign on. Ho hum.
AceAceBaby wrote:
Dudley wrote:
That's Ace. AceAc*shot rings out*
Also what car?
Also what car?
It's the final time trial in arcade, so you get to drive a spiffy group C Porsche thing. No assists either. It was under the target time, which was why I was happy
Ah that thing, I'm not sure I've actually completed that one.
If you didn't know, the choice of car there is entirely deliberate on the part of the devs, it refers to the circuit's outright record set by the "Would have been great" Stefan Bellof.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NqFrqLBcCGk
This man went round in 6:11.13. In that car. In real life. The fucking nutter.
Dudley wrote:
This man went round in 6:11.13. In that car. In real life. The fucking nutter.
Good grief.Speaking of spectacular 'Ring laps, have you seen Faszination?
richardgaywood wrote:
spectacular 'Ring laps
Now there's an image search where you want Safe Search turned on.
And talking of searching, the gay porn links are back in Google when you search for my real name. Good thing I'm not applying for any new jobs right now.
The Rev Owen wrote:
richardgaywood wrote:
spectacular 'Ring laps
Now there's an image search where you want Safe Search turned on.
And talking of searching, the gay porn links are back in Google when you search for my real name. Good thing I'm not applying for any new jobs right now.
I have p45, last payslip, passport. Is there anything else I need to take to the job centre, apart from ym sense of self worth which I assume I can leave at the door?
MaliA wrote:
I have p45, last payslip, passport. Is there anything else I need to take to the job centre, apart from ym sense of self worth which I assume I can leave at the door?
Some fags. Even if you don't smoke you'll need one after dealing with the folks at the job centre. In my experience, anyway. I gave up cigarettes years ago and I want one now just thinking about it.
The Rev Owen wrote:
MaliA wrote:
I have p45, last payslip, passport. Is there anything else I need to take to the job centre, apart from ym sense of self worth which I assume I can leave at the door?
Some fags. Even if you don't smoke you'll need one after dealing with the folks at the job centre. In my experience, anyway. I gave up cigarettes years ago and I want one now just thinking about it.
I am expecting it to not be a pleasant experience.
Wait. Jobcentre?
You have a motorcycle and an attitude already. All you need is the samurai sword and an advert in the local papers, and you're good to go.
You have a motorcycle and an attitude already. All you need is the samurai sword and an advert in the local papers, and you're good to go.
kalmar wrote:
Wait. Jobcentre?
You have a motorcycle and an attitude already. All you need is the samurai sword and an advert in the local papers, and you're good to go.
You have a motorcycle and an attitude already. All you need is the samurai sword and an advert in the local papers, and you're good to go.
The who the what now?
MaliA wrote:
Is there anything else I need to take to the job centre, apart from ym sense of self worth which I assume I can leave at the door?
Balls to that man. You've worked, paid National Insurance, and you are legitimately out of work through no fault of your own. You are entirely entitled to be doing this and entirely entitled to Jobseeker's Allowance and whatnot. Don't let the fact that there are people who game the system[1] take away the fact that the system is supposed to be there to help people like you at times like these.[1] I heard of someone who was between their undergraduate degree and PhD and didn't want to work but did want the dole money; he spent most of that summer revising and stuff, to be fair, and not lazing. He signed on, and naturally they tried to pressurise him into work, including all sorts of stuff like six month contracts that he actually couldn't do. The job seeking system wouldn't allow him to specify that he only had six weeks or whatever it was.
In the end, fed up with being forced to attend interviews with employers who couldn't actually employ him, he modified his skills profile to indicate that the only thing he knew how to do was to be a shephard, as he grew up on a farm. Thing was he was reporting to a job centre in the middle of inner city Birmingham. Funny thing was, it worked, the staff stopped hassling him about jobs and let him draw his dole for a few weeks, whilst (presumably) keeping an eye out for shephard jobs within 5 miles of Birmingham...
Balls to that, if I had a foreseeable six week period like that, I'd either stick it out or get a damn job, and not fuck about with the local job centre to try and squeeze a bit of cash out.
My gf was unemployed (following a redundancy payout) for nearly six months but was too proud to sign on to get the cash to which she was entitled. I think that would be true for me too, but only if I had enough cash to live on in the meantime. If I was skint I'd be down there at 9am the next morning, yessir.
My gf was unemployed (following a redundancy payout) for nearly six months but was too proud to sign on to get the cash to which she was entitled. I think that would be true for me too, but only if I had enough cash to live on in the meantime. If I was skint I'd be down there at 9am the next morning, yessir.
ComicalGnomes wrote:
Balls to that, if I had a foreseeable six week period like that, I'd either stick it out or get a damn job, and not fuck about with the local job centre to try and squeeze a bit of cash out.
My gf was unemployed (following a redundancy payout) for nearly six months but was too proud to sign on to get the cash to which she was entitled. I think that would be true for me too, but only if I had enough cash to live on in the meantime. If I was skint I'd be down there at 9am the next morning, yessir.
My gf was unemployed (following a redundancy payout) for nearly six months but was too proud to sign on to get the cash to which she was entitled. I think that would be true for me too, but only if I had enough cash to live on in the meantime. If I was skint I'd be down there at 9am the next morning, yessir.
I was on the dole for about three months, then got a job doing market research. So my dole and housing benefit stopped. Two weeks later, they sacked me. (Well, they sent a P45 in the post, which I took to be a hint.) That was fine dole-wise, they just started paying me again, but the housing benefit took about three months to start coming through again, during which time I had to scrounge and borrow off everybody I could just to pay the rent.
ComicalGnomes wrote:
If I was skint I'd be down there at 9am the next morning, yessir.
As I recall this guy was skint, and didn't want to go home to his parents because he wanted access to the University library. It's reasonably defensible, I think, but more importantly, quite funny. When I was in this position my PhD supervisor, bless him, managed to wrangle a few quid on some other research scheme to tide me over. richardgaywood wrote:
Thing was he was reporting to a job centre in the middle of inner city Birmingham. Funny thing was, it worked, the staff stopped hassling him about jobs and let him draw his dole for a few weeks, whilst (presumably) keeping an eye out for shephard jobs within 5 miles of Birmingham...
My job centre was also inner city Brum. Aston, to be exact. Or round that way. I used to go to the job centre and often they'd have nothing - literally nothing - on the "New Jobs" board. Not the best time of my life, but I got through it and got to play a lot of Doom, Sam & Max and Civ.
Bugger.
I have, quite genuinely, no money. The cheque I was supposed to get last Friday will now be with me on Thursday. Which given the amount of time it takes these things to clear means I have to get a tank of gas and a week and a bit of food on precisely no pounds and no pence.
People go "oh, but you've just been on a round the world honeymoon" - well, yes. Which I worked damned hard to pay for before hand, paid for the wedding, all of it paid for. And we had to re-buy things like airline tickets and stuff. We don't get paid while we were on holiday, so I've had two weeks pay since the middle of April. That cheque wipes out everything in a single stroke but right now I could scream with frustration.
I'd sell my body, but 50p isn't going to help.
I have, quite genuinely, no money. The cheque I was supposed to get last Friday will now be with me on Thursday. Which given the amount of time it takes these things to clear means I have to get a tank of gas and a week and a bit of food on precisely no pounds and no pence.
People go "oh, but you've just been on a round the world honeymoon" - well, yes. Which I worked damned hard to pay for before hand, paid for the wedding, all of it paid for. And we had to re-buy things like airline tickets and stuff. We don't get paid while we were on holiday, so I've had two weeks pay since the middle of April. That cheque wipes out everything in a single stroke but right now I could scream with frustration.
I'd sell my body, but 50p isn't going to help.
Vaguely, what part of the country do you like in, Plissken?
Stockport, but I'm damned if I'm travelling to whereever you are to have you stick your cock in my arse. Not even for *thinks* 75p.
I'm not looking for charity, I'm just wanting to vent.
I'm not looking for charity, I'm just wanting to vent.
Vaguely, I could drive to see Plissken in about 15 minutes from where I am
ComicalGnomes wrote:
Balls to that, if I had a foreseeable six week period like that, I'd either stick it out or get a damn job, and not fuck about with the local job centre to try and squeeze a bit of cash out.
Instinctively I'd agree, but the usual advice you get is to sign on anyway, because they're also paying your N.I, which you won't be doing even if you can comfortably last a few months without sponging off the taxpayer[tm].
kalmar wrote:
ComicalGnomes wrote:
Balls to that, if I had a foreseeable six week period like that, I'd either stick it out or get a damn job, and not fuck about with the local job centre to try and squeeze a bit of cash out.
Instinctively I'd agree, but the usual advice you get is to sign on anyway, because they're also paying your N.I, which you won't be doing even if you can comfortably last a few months without sponging off the taxpayer[tm].
And it's the only reason I went back in 2001.
For pie?
ComicalGnomes wrote:
Vaguely, I could drive to see Plissken in about 15 minutes from where I am
Christ, I'd avoid going to Comical's house for dinner at the moment, Plissken.
Idea! We'll teach him to cook stuff, he can pay us!
ComicalGnomes wrote:
For pie?
There were disappointingly low amounts of pie.
Well here I am sitting in my car on a housing estate near Guildford with an hour to kill before my next job.
Have finally got the Sony 810i connecting the laptop to the internet (only via Sony's horrific software, natch) but I'm stuck with GRPS despite the fact that if you browse the web on the phone it uses the 3G connection. ARRRGGHHH!
Phones and computers are bitches. 3G would be so much better and I'm on holiday next week.
Have finally got the Sony 810i connecting the laptop to the internet (only via Sony's horrific software, natch) but I'm stuck with GRPS despite the fact that if you browse the web on the phone it uses the 3G connection. ARRRGGHHH!
Phones and computers are bitches. 3G would be so much better and I'm on holiday next week.
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