Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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Just don't say anything about Common People. Bit of rivalry I think.
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I think I'll let the youngsters refer to other pop music combos. I might ask Mr Albarn if he digs Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, or any other hep cats.
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Telling off a solicitor for carelessness in one of their emails, and them agreeing with my assessment and apologising. I also said I assumed that they wouldn't be charging for any of the emails involved in straightening it out, and they agreed to that too.
I also once enjoyed writing to solicitors who were dragging their heels over paperwork that it appeared they were either 'unable or unwilling' to do their part of the bargain and that we might have to take steps... they did the paperwork promptly then.
Mind you, it's not much of a recompense for the mahoosive sums I've had to pay solicitors over my mum's estate, but to be fair to them, that's not been their fault, other than their being solicitors.
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Having had a rather torrid few years at work, finding out that my "numbers" (such as they are)Nate rather better than many more experienced staff members...
It won't make a difference but still, a bit of an unspoken eff-ewe.
We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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The judgment of what is chargeable and what isn't is tough sometimes. Lots of firms hard wire the skill of learning that judgement away from lawyers.
Solicitors and grammar are not close bedfellows. Neither are solicitors and proof reading.
I can confidently say that my won peofession is hjed touch much higher standards,
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Without going into too much detail, let's just say that they should have known that careful drafting and proofreading would have been very wise in this particular case to save wasted time and unnecessary upset. It would also have been better to have admitted straight away that it was an error than to pretend it could have been 'unclear'.
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Yeah, okay, agree that if you think the client is a moron, there's likely to be an irony alert somewhere down the line.
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Time flies, I thought you’d only gone into a new job in the last year or so!
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They've always liked a bit of brass - Popscene, The Universal, End of a Century Fade away, Badhead.
Have fun! I'll give it a watch.
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Got the short medley ready to rehearse, so will now work on the social media team to see if DA can be brought up after his ceremony to meet my merry band.
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Parklife, feel good inc and song 2 - love it.
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Ha, I'll pass that on, thanks. Looks unlikely we'll get to meet him (every minute of his time is accounted for, sadly), so a positive comment from a cyclist called Graham might be the best we get...
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Guess his speech will be sometime after 12.15, looking at the list of graduates.
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That didn't cheer me up... less preparation than Boris Johnson for one of his speeches. Very bad form.
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Not much of a speech was it lol
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Glad I'm not on the social media team trying to make something out of that. The angle I offered them was better than what they've got now. I really have no idea why he bothered to come down.
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He lives local doesn't he? Somewhere in Devon anyway.
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Yer... training, new career, new place, old dog type situation...
One of those "take a look at me now" moments while knowing that the people you want to know don't and if they did would say that it didn't matter (except that had it been the other way round then it definitely would have mattered).
Still, props to me, I had a nip of the good whiskey...
We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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Didn't know that - somewhere in the South Hams apparently. Still a bit bemused by his DGAF attitude today... either decline, or do it properly. First time I've seen anyone basically make so little effort having accepted the invitation.
Actually made me think about what I would say if I were to do an hon grad speech... I think it would be something about how the actual degree was probably measuring the least important part of their subjects (my theory being that the things people are marked on in exams, so hence the curriculum/syllabus content, are chosen because the most important things are the hardest things to assess objectively). But that those qualifications/bits of paper are like the keys to open doors into worlds in which your real understanding and skills can help you explore and learn in order to change the world (this latter bit being the antidote to my telling them that their degrees are just bits of paper).
Anyway, if it were shit, it would still be better than Damon Albarn's non-speech.
I've now done the music for 334 graduations.
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I thought he seemed quite touched but maybe didn't appreciate what was expected. He obviously had nothing planned. The band were up in that London at their movie premiere yesterday night.
Everyone seemed very appreciative of what you were doing anyway!
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I'm not sure if they are given suggestions about the sort of thing that is the norm for graduation speeches, but suffice to say the organising team didn't seem impressed. I think if I didn't know what was expected, I'd either look up some examples or ask.
The day before - Will Young - this is how it's done.
Starting at 1.07.39
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PS - yes, nice to be a part of their special day and to bring some fun into it. Knowing that everything we do is not only being heard by everyone in the hall but also being archived for posterity for whoever stumbles on it is a little scary, if I think about it too much. Though I think I'm getting the hang of it now...
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You don't look quite as much like Paul Scholes in that one. Still a hint.
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I see he's ten years younger than me, but got less hair. So I'll take a win there.
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1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Only 334? Pah. Youngster. I've cover graduation since 1994 with roughly 18 - 20 ceremonies a year. I make it about 540ish.
Notable hon grads: Nigel Kennedy; Bill Bailey; John Cleese; Superset guy; HRH Edward; Don McCullin; Dyson; and a whole host of people that were not on my radar until I photograph them.
Just finished 15 this week. Hot and sweaty in the trouser depth for sure!
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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So Brian, if it was you and Nigel Kennedy doing a duet, would you still want to punch him in the face like the rest of us do?
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