Hedganian Posted February 20, 2012 Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 Anyone remember when you could assume that someone who left school with some certificates would have decent abilities in Maths and English? The missus has some job interviews coming up this week - every one of them has "numeracy and literacy assessment" as part of the application process. It's shameful when having qualifications is no longer considered proof of being able to do something to an acceptable standard. And yet people still insist that the standards aren't dropping... Link to post Share on other sites
scorch Posted February 20, 2012 Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 Absolutely. I went to college last year to improve some of my qualifications and I was shocked at how far ahead of the curve I was, even though I had been out of school the longest (almost 10 years) and should therefore have been the rustiest at it all. Worryingly enough, I ended up correcting 2 of the tutors on several occasions. Link to post Share on other sites
paranoiddroid Posted February 21, 2012 Report Share Posted February 21, 2012 my grammar is shocking unless I proof read, what is pissing me off today is tramadol. Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted February 21, 2012 Report Share Posted February 21, 2012 My wife is on Tramadol, beta blockers and a tri-cyclic anti-depressant as a sleeping pill. Does help with the pain though. Standards dropping? At school I got a 3 © in Standard grade English. I am sure you are all aware that I can be a meticulous grammar prat at times. Today I was teaching Key Skills level 1 to a young soldier who got a GCSE grade C in English less than 5 years ago and who thinks that: "Aswel", "Gunna" And "Spose" are real words. He put them in written homework. In case you aren't a Faceberk those represent "as well", "going to" and "supposed". I would laugh if it wasn't my job to teach him to do it properly. Link to post Share on other sites
paranoiddroid Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 tramadol is beginning to stop working Link to post Share on other sites
Hedganian Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Go to your doctor and get your prescriptions updated/changed. Don't leave it until it's too late. Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Yeah, because it's an opiate you can basically just keep taking more and more and as long as you are still in pain it won't kill you. That's a gross oversimplification but yeah, you should get the dose adjusted. Link to post Share on other sites
paranoiddroid Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 its a pain I hate doing it the changes I mean but I need to. Link to post Share on other sites
Habakure Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 I'm trying to find out what borough council look after this road Penntington Raod A572 between newton road and common road, heres a link:- http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=355201&y=395055&z=110&sv=pennington+lane&st=6&tl=Map+of+Pennington+Lane,+St.+Helens,+Merseyside,+WA9&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf St Helens council say the road belongs to Warrington and Warrington council say, it belongs to st helens. After looking on the internet ( which is not concrete proof, I know), all the signs seem to point to St Helens. Its driving me mad. Basically, there is a huge hole in the road and it ruined two of my wifes wheels (the tires where repairable, but the wheels themselves are not) on her fiesta. When she rang up st helens council, they said a load of people had rung up and that the road belonged to warrington. Link to post Share on other sites
hitmanNo2 Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 Well, if no one wants to lay claim to it, claim it as your own and setup a toll ha ha. But seriously, send a recorded letter to each of the councils informing they are each blaming the other so one is in the wrong and they'll have to get to the bottom of it. Link to post Share on other sites
Moriquende Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 Was supposed to get my salary today as it's payday. Guess what? The bank has *fruitcage*ed up the transaction so I won't get my money until monday. This wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't for the fact that I'm going skiing in Italy tomorrow and need that cash in order to pay for a few important things. I *fruitcage* hate banks. The people who work there are lazy *albatrosses* who sit on their *albartroth* all day(well, pretty much) and they can't even make an automated transaction work properly. GRRRRR. Link to post Share on other sites
Vice Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 @Habakure Something similar happened on a road near me. Its between Leeds and Wakefield councils and neither thought they responsible for it. One letter sent to the MP. Two weeks later it was fixed up. I cant sleep at the moment, its annoying. Was up at 6 this morning, at work all day, now its nearly 11 and im wide awake and probably will be until 3am. been averaging 3.5/4 hours sleep tops each night this week. Usually I have 6/7 a night. So I'm feeling drained now. Its not awful at the moment, but I had this happen before where it went to down to 3 hours a night sleep max, with a full day of work to follow. Wondering if I should go to the docs and get something to help me sleep before it slides into silly levels again? Link to post Share on other sites
Mike_West Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 I finally get enough money to complete my Muzzelite 10/22 project. Then I go googling and find lots and lots of forums repeating the same thing: "horrible trigger pull", "*suitcasey* trigger pull", "atrocious trigger pull" And now I'm seriously considering backing out. Link to post Share on other sites
Xaccers Posted February 26, 2012 Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 I cant sleep at the moment, its annoying. Was up at 6 this morning, at work all day, now its nearly 11 and im wide awake and probably will be until 3am. been averaging 3.5/4 hours sleep tops each night this week. Usually I have 6/7 a night. So I'm feeling drained now. Its not awful at the moment, but I had this happen before where it went to down to 3 hours a night sleep max, with a full day of work to follow. Wondering if I should go to the docs and get something to help me sleep before it slides into silly levels again? Might be worth trying to fall into split sleeps, like humans used to a couple of hundred years ago, worked for me with insomnia at uni. Have something to eat in the evening, not too heavy, go to bed and get 4 hours sleep, so say 7-11, then get up come online (avoid any threads that might work you up), read a book, then go back to bed just over 4 hours from when you need to wake up. Link to post Share on other sites
scorch Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 I got subjected to Geordie Shore. I managed 5 mins before I put my headphones on and spent the rest of the evening creating a new Spotify playlist. Seriously, *suitcase* like this is what is wrong with the youth of today. (and I feel old having just typed that) Link to post Share on other sites
EngageNZL Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 Don't worry Scorch, I feel the same way and I'm only 20! That show and its counter-part Jersey Shore honestly disgust me. How people watch that stuff today, I have no idea. Small things for small minds I suppose. Ok, I'm still KINDA young, but even I agree that music today, for the most part, is shocking. Even compared with the stuff I was listening to when I was a young teen, which has nothing on a lot of the older music around, this modern pop stuff is just rubbish. Don't get me wrong, there are still fantastic artists out there, its just a shame that to find the good ones, you have to dig through piles and piles of absolute rubbish. That being said, I do appreciate the fact that it is a very "rose tinted glasses" sort of thing, as I'm sure at the time the Beatles were playing there were still many rubbish bands around that kinda swamped their popularity at least in the beginning. I think it's just a shame overall that so many sub-par bands are effectively drowning out the better ones over and over, and to find something really decent, you have to dig. Deep. Link to post Share on other sites
Mike_West Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 I'm doing the job of three people right now and I'm getting completely confused. I lost pretty much all work time on Tuesday due to some retarded meeting that ended up without any conclusions. I actually have no idea what I should be doing, as I can't focus on EVERYTHING AT ONCE. Link to post Share on other sites
Xaccers Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 I'm doing the job of three people right now and I'm getting completely confused. I lost pretty much all work time on Tuesday due to some retarded meeting that ended up without any conclusions. I actually have no idea what I should be doing, as I can't focus on EVERYTHING AT ONCE. A friend of mine in the civil service just refuses to attend meetings as he's got too much work to do. Link to post Share on other sites
my_plague_666 Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 well, i'm rather glad i put off getting that dent in my car fixed for quite so long. you see, this morning i woke up to find that some kind hearted soul has added a rather fetching go faster stripe to my passenger side door and rear quarter (the panel that was kicked in earlier) sadly it's not the aesthetic i was going for so it'll need to be repainted. on the bright side i'll have only had to pay for one lot of paint. woo hoo! Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 Bernie Ecclestone is a complete waste of oxygen. I am totally fed up with the fact that the Formula One is not on the BBC any more. However I have come up with a partial solution. Link to post Share on other sites
scorch Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 I hate when people pull an ebay sale before it ends because it hasn't made as much as they want. It always happens after free listing weekends. Link to post Share on other sites
Hedganian Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 That's against eBay rules. Then again, eBay is a major cause of grief recently - every time eBay.co.uk changes something, they make it worse. The most recent change means that your profile summary page only shows things you're buying, all the things you're selling are on another page. Well that's not a SUMMARY then, is it? And don't even get me started on the banning sellers from leaving anything but positive feedback. Link to post Share on other sites
hitmanNo2 Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 It's pretty stupid pulling it at the last minute as more often than not, I get a flurry of bids in the last 5 seconds or so. Listing something for less than you're happy with parting for it is just stupid. Especially when you list it for free on free listing weekends. And yeah, that bugged me too when they removed the things you were selling from your summary. I thought maybe I had to change a setting or something after they updated. But no, just ebay being predictably retarded. I wish Google would setup a rival auction and payment system. They would make a killing. I would drop ebay and paypal in a second and move over to Google. Even of the fees were the same. Link to post Share on other sites
Habakure Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 Having watched the first two races on sky, I have to say, it is a poormans version of what the bbc can put together. Sky's mini documentrys before qualifying/race are no way near as good, as the bbc made ones (sky also repeats, an afwul lot. To be expect, as sky sports news only has a new story every hour). I can't see sky keeping formula 1, as I reckon people will not watch the race if it is also being shown on bbc1 (they still have silverstone an dmonaco, I believe). Rant:- Waiting for the kwa kriss to be released and not knowing if its going to be delayed/######. Fuggitting funk. Edit:- I did not know, that the other word to describe poo (see *suitcase*), isn't allowed. Learnt something new today. Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted March 28, 2012 Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 I have been watching the F1 on Sky Go and I concur. Not really their fault but I was irritated on Sunday, 1 and a half hours of guff, 8 laps and a 45 minute break. Up at 06:30/07:30 and didn't see any racing until 9/10ish. Racing was good though, the rain made it interesting, shame about Button though. Perez was flying. Most of the races in a similar time zone to us are going to be on the BBC. Link to post Share on other sites
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