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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    My spirit guide called Greg recs we should burn her as she's clearly a witch
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  • jamesco
    jamesco Posts: 687
    W1 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/19/why-i-sent-oxford-university-rejection-letter

    Well that's a massive surprise isn't it! She's a Guardianist.

    I suppose she'd rather they knocked down all the old buildings and made a replica council estate so she'd feel more comfortable.

    She's not going to like courtrooms much either.
    W1, is your real name "Jeremy Clarkson", by any chance? 'Cause if it is, you're wasting your talent on here for free -the Sun pays you for such gold.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,372
    itboffin wrote:
    My spirit guide called Greg recs we should burn her as she's clearly a witch
    I have an image of a man in blue lycra embroidered with feathers, sat in a dimly-lit, smoke-filled wigwam.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    clarkey cat wrote:
    clarkey cat wrote:
    Still smash her though.


    I don't know why, but I get the feeling that's not a very short list.

    I'm just a very sexual person.

    There's very sexual, there's feral, and then there's you.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,372
    jamesco wrote:
    W1 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/19/why-i-sent-oxford-university-rejection-letter

    Well that's a massive surprise isn't it! She's a Guardianist.

    I suppose she'd rather they knocked down all the old buildings and made a replica council estate so she'd feel more comfortable.

    She's not going to like courtrooms much either.
    W1, is your real name "Jeremy Clarkson", by any chance? 'Cause if it is, you're wasting your talent on here for free -the Sun pays you for such gold.
    Out of interest W1, did you actually read the article - you know, know your enemy and such - or did you just take one look at the URL and clatter out the above in disgust.
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    W1 wrote:
    I don't generally write complete cobblers, and am certainly not as stupid as to do as she has done - even if I were 19 again (I wish!).

    Stupid? What has she done that's stupid. At worse made herself look a bit daft in the eyes of some of the population (and that a part of the population she won't mind if they do think that) and got her 15 minutes of fame. So what? It will have no impact on her future, it has harmed no one, it has damaged nothing. Pretty tame really compared to a lot of stuff students do. How is that stupid to the extent of you having a rabid fit about it?

    And don't get excited about being 19 again - you'd just waste it all whining about lefties again. :lol:
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    I have visions of a 19 again W1 in a chunky woollen jumper, drinking ale, by the log fire in an old man's pub. Dreaming of getting the courage to strike up a conversation with a group of aged lecturers who are moaning about "the youth of today", "pinkos" and "hippies".

    Probably not dissimilar to it was first time round!
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  • W1
    W1 Posts: 2,636
    rjsterry wrote:
    jamesco wrote:
    W1 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/19/why-i-sent-oxford-university-rejection-letter

    Well that's a massive surprise isn't it! She's a Guardianist.

    I suppose she'd rather they knocked down all the old buildings and made a replica council estate so she'd feel more comfortable.

    She's not going to like courtrooms much either.
    W1, is your real name "Jeremy Clarkson", by any chance? 'Cause if it is, you're wasting your talent on here for free -the Sun pays you for such gold.
    Out of interest W1, did you actually read the article - you know, know your enemy and such - or did you just take one look at the URL and clatter out the above in disgust.
    Yes, although I felt a bit sick afterwards.
  • W1
    W1 Posts: 2,636
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    I have visions of a 19 again W1 in a chunky woollen jumper, drinking ale, by the log fire in an old man's pub. Dreaming of getting the courage to strike up a conversation with a group of aged lecturers who are moaning about "the youth of today", "pinkos" and "hippies".

    Probably not dissimilar to it was first time round!

    I think you're confusing me with RJS.
  • W1
    W1 Posts: 2,636
    Rolf F wrote:
    W1 wrote:
    I don't generally write complete cobblers, and am certainly not as stupid as to do as she has done - even if I were 19 again (I wish!).

    Stupid? What has she done that's stupid. At worse made herself look a bit daft in the eyes of some of the population (and that a part of the population she won't mind if they do think that) and got her 15 minutes of fame. So what? It will have no impact on her future, it has harmed no one, it has damaged nothing. Pretty tame really compared to a lot of stuff students do. How is that stupid to the extent of you having a rabid fit about it?

    And don't get excited about being 19 again - you'd just waste it all whining about lefties again. :lol:

    The older I get, the more pinkos annoy me.

    Of course there is a liklihood it will impact on her future. Would you employ her, knowing she's going to be one of those people constantly taking the p!ss and bleating how it's so unfair? Jeez, good luck to you if you would. She wants to be a lawyer but is already notorious about disliking archaic institutions - good luck to her too in front of a judge.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,372
    W1 wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    W1 wrote:
    I don't generally write complete cobblers, and am certainly not as stupid as to do as she has done - even if I were 19 again (I wish!).

    Stupid? What has she done that's stupid. At worse made herself look a bit daft in the eyes of some of the population (and that a part of the population she won't mind if they do think that) and got her 15 minutes of fame. So what? It will have no impact on her future, it has harmed no one, it has damaged nothing. Pretty tame really compared to a lot of stuff students do. How is that stupid to the extent of you having a rabid fit about it?

    And don't get excited about being 19 again - you'd just waste it all whining about lefties again. :lol:

    The older I get, the more pinkos annoy me.

    Of course there is a liklihood it will impact on her future. Would you employ her, knowing she's going to be one of those people constantly taking the p!ss and bleating how it's so unfair? Jeez, good luck to you if you would. She wants to be a lawyer but is already notorious about disliking archaic institutions - good luck to her too in front of a judge.

    As opposed to someone who is constantly bleating about pinkos? Every time. But you knew that anyway.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    This is the first time I've seen the term pinkos used out of the context of McCarthyism.
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    W1 wrote:
    Of course there is a liklihood it will impact on her future. Would you employ her, knowing she's going to be one of those people constantly taking the p!ss and bleating how it's so unfair? Jeez, good luck to you if you would. She wants to be a lawyer but is already notorious about disliking archaic institutions - good luck to her too in front of a judge.

    You are talking twaddle. If students being annoying had a detrimental effect on their future employability, none of them would ever get a job. Being annoying and thinking you are terribly clever is what being a student is about.

    So, unlike you, she has an excuse. You should have grown out of it.

    And nobody will remember this next year let alone by the time she graduates.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,372
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    This is the first time I've seen the term pinkos used out of the context of McCarthyism.
    Greg66 wrote:
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    I take it as a badge of honour these days. :twisted:
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  • W1
    W1 Posts: 2,636
    Rolf F wrote:
    W1 wrote:
    Of course there is a liklihood it will impact on her future. Would you employ her, knowing she's going to be one of those people constantly taking the p!ss and bleating how it's so unfair? Jeez, good luck to you if you would. She wants to be a lawyer but is already notorious about disliking archaic institutions - good luck to her too in front of a judge.

    You are talking twaddle. If students being annoying had a detrimental effect on their future employability, none of them would ever get a job. Being annoying and thinking you are terribly clever is what being a student is about.

    So, unlike you, she has an excuse. You should have grown out of it.

    And nobody will remember this next year let alone by the time she graduates.
    Stop making ridiculous comparisons.

    Alll student stupidity ends up on the BBC home-page and an article in the Guardian does it? Silly me.

    That's the moronic thing - it's one thing to write a stupid letter, it's another to get it on the news.

    Any employer will google her even in 10 years time. Please don't be so naiive as to think they won't.

    I note that you didn't say you'd employ her.
  • W1
    W1 Posts: 2,636
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    This is the first time I've seen the term pinkos used out of the context of McCarthyism.

    Then you don't read enough posts by Greg66.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    W1 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    This is the first time I've seen the term pinkos used out of the context of McCarthyism.

    Then you don't read enough posts by Greg66.

    That IS McCarthyism isn't it? ;)
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  • W1
    W1 Posts: 2,636
    rjsterry wrote:
    W1 wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    W1 wrote:
    I don't generally write complete cobblers, and am certainly not as stupid as to do as she has done - even if I were 19 again (I wish!).

    Stupid? What has she done that's stupid. At worse made herself look a bit daft in the eyes of some of the population (and that a part of the population she won't mind if they do think that) and got her 15 minutes of fame. So what? It will have no impact on her future, it has harmed no one, it has damaged nothing. Pretty tame really compared to a lot of stuff students do. How is that stupid to the extent of you having a rabid fit about it?

    And don't get excited about being 19 again - you'd just waste it all whining about lefties again. :lol:

    The older I get, the more pinkos annoy me.

    Of course there is a liklihood it will impact on her future. Would you employ her, knowing she's going to be one of those people constantly taking the p!ss and bleating how it's so unfair? Jeez, good luck to you if you would. She wants to be a lawyer but is already notorious about disliking archaic institutions - good luck to her too in front of a judge.

    As opposed to someone who is constantly bleating about pinkos? Every time. But you knew that anyway.

    You'd be correct - if I was googleable. I'm not, she is.

    I'm not sure complaining about socialists would be too damaging to a legal career.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    W1 wrote:

    You'd be correct - if I was googleable. I'm not, she is.

    I'm not sure complaining about socialists would be too damaging to a legal career.

    I helped move someone jobs who, when you googled their name, came up with 5 pages of hits for newspaper articles about their sordid (in parts, illegal) life.

    Can't give many more details (for obvious reasons), but it's certainly alright.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,372
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    W1 wrote:

    You'd be correct - if I was googleable. I'm not, she is.

    I'm not sure complaining about socialists would be too damaging to a legal career.

    I helped move someone jobs who, when you googled their name, came up with 5 pages of hits for newspaper articles about their sordid (in parts, illegal) life.

    Can't give many more details (for obvious reasons), but it's certainly alright.

    OMG, Greg66 will have a fit when he sees that grammar, or lack of it :)
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    rjsterry wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    W1 wrote:

    You'd be correct - if I was googleable. I'm not, she is.

    I'm not sure complaining about socialists would be too damaging to a legal career.

    I helped move someone jobs who, when you googled their name, came up with 5 pages of hits for newspaper articles about their sordid (in parts, illegal) life.

    Can't give many more details (for obvious reasons), but it's certainly alright.

    OMG, Greg66 will have a fit when he sees that grammar, or lack of it :)


    Ah, I don't want to give the gender.

    I helped someone move jobs, whose name came up all over google having done sordid & illegal stuff. Said person is doing pretty well.

    That better?
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    W1 wrote:
    Stop making ridiculous comparisons.

    Alll student stupidity ends up on the BBC home-page and an article in the Guardian does it? Silly me.

    That's the moronic thing - it's one thing to write a stupid letter, it's another to get it on the news.

    Any employer will google her even in 10 years time. Please don't be so naiive as to think they won't.

    I note that you didn't say you'd employ her.

    No - all student silliness doesn't necessarily end up on the BBC home page etc but who cares? The news pages publish piles of filler every day and only a real saddo would care about it. OK, I'll concede that there are some twits that might be adversely affected in their opinion of her based on juvenile silliness a decade ago but I suspect most will understand that a 19 year old is someway short of being a fully developed adult.

    Would I employ her? How the hell should I know. She hasn't done her degree yet and she is still barely more than a child. I wouldn't be keen in my business to employ anyone without at least a Masters qualification.

    If I had to employ her or you now though, I'd take her any day of the week. She'll change - we'd be stuck with you being the way you are for good.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    My firm hired someone who was on the BBC news as a student whinging that they can't get a job.

    (S'not me, believe it or not).
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  • W1
    W1 Posts: 2,636
    Rolf F wrote:
    W1 wrote:
    Stop making ridiculous comparisons.

    Alll student stupidity ends up on the BBC home-page and an article in the Guardian does it? Silly me.

    That's the moronic thing - it's one thing to write a stupid letter, it's another to get it on the news.

    Any employer will google her even in 10 years time. Please don't be so naiive as to think they won't.

    I note that you didn't say you'd employ her.

    No - all student silliness doesn't necessarily end up on the BBC home page etc but who cares? The news pages publish piles of filler every day and only a real saddo would care about it. OK, I'll concede that there are some twits that might be adversely affected in their opinion of her based on juvenile silliness a decade ago but I suspect most will understand that a 19 year old is someway short of being a fully developed adult.

    Would I employ her? How the hell should I know. She hasn't done her degree yet and she is still barely more than a child. I wouldn't be keen in my business to employ anyone without at least a Masters qualification.

    If I had to employ her or you now though, I'd take her any day of the week. She'll change - we'd be stuck with you being the way you are for good.
    Oh well, there goes my career.

    Thing is, Rolf, you wouldn't know it was me. That's my point.

    I don't have a masters anyway.
  • W1
    W1 Posts: 2,636
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    W1 wrote:

    You'd be correct - if I was googleable. I'm not, she is.

    I'm not sure complaining about socialists would be too damaging to a legal career.

    I helped move someone jobs who, when you googled their name, came up with 5 pages of hits for newspaper articles about their sordid (in parts, illegal) life.

    Can't give many more details (for obvious reasons), but it's certainly alright.

    Well we all know banks aren't picky. The more sordid the better perhaps!

    Law firms, on the other hand.....
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,683
    Do I detect you did Oxbridge Law W1?

    Google my (full, 3 name!!) name and you get a result of a news report about a man being set to Prison for GBH (not me!!!), Has nt stopped me getting any jobs. I think you re being a bit over-sensitive about this. It ll take her 5 years minimum before she's looking anywhere anyway.
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    W1 wrote:
    Thing is, Rolf, you wouldn't know it was me. That's my point.

    No, I wouldn't. But these days loads of people have a big identifiable internet presence - letters to Universities aren't the sort of things that are going to stand out as big negatives. I think a presence on the BBC is going to be an interesting change to the predictable photos of drink and drug addled parties (but even those I wouldn't hold against a prospective employee though obviously some might).
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,372
    edited January 2012
    W1 wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    I have visions of a 19 again W1 in a chunky woollen jumper, drinking ale, by the log fire in an old man's pub. Dreaming of getting the courage to strike up a conversation with a group of aged lecturers who are moaning about "the youth of today", "pinkos" and "hippies".

    Probably not dissimilar to it was first time round!

    I think you're confusing me with RJS.

    Yeah, hands off!

    BTW, I pruned my roses yesterday - plenty of buds, so should be a good year.
    W1 wrote:
    Thing is, Rolf, you wouldn't know it was me. That's my point.

    And unless she advertised it at the interview, you probably wouldn't know it was her either - if you googled, say, Elizabeth Nowell (assuming Elly is not her full name), then she doesn't come up at all.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,773
    To get this back to the important things. I'm with CC, I would if she asked me nicely. Poor girl needs more curves.
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  • W1
    W1 Posts: 2,636
    rjsterry wrote:
    W1 wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    I have visions of a 19 again W1 in a chunky woollen jumper, drinking ale, by the log fire in an old man's pub. Dreaming of getting the courage to strike up a conversation with a group of aged lecturers who are moaning about "the youth of today", "pinkos" and "hippies".

    Probably not dissimilar to it was first time round!

    I think you're confusing me with RJS.

    Yeah, hands off!

    BTW, I pruned my ross yesterday - plenty of buds, so should be a good year.
    You're my favourite RJS, you really are.

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