Chindie

Maths was something I was glad to leave behind. I was good at it despite myself. Hard to explain, but for things like division I've always done things the long way round and it never quite set right in my mind. Pathetically I still can't mentally do division that even comes close to difficult. We got taught long division at primary school in such a way that just seemed to confuse me and since then I just couldn't do it very well. Somehow at GCSE I got an A and then legged it from the subject forever more. They wanted me to do A-Level - Hahahah. I was doing one of those sort of... competency tests that some jobs get you to do, you do a written word one and a maths interpretational one after with a time limit the other day, that knocked home just how poor at maths I was. The maths bit gave you graphs that were reasonably complex and asked you to work out calculations of things that weren't on the graph using the info provided. Couldn't get my head round the calculations how to do most of it. And I know they weren't that hard.

Draw. Loss wouldn't at all surprise me. A win would.

Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche into Ludovico Einaudi - Nightbook Music for when you're in a foul mood and want to calm it. Like now.

Mint Royale - Don't Falter. Possibly the only thing touched by Lauren Laverne I like. And even then not so much. into Frank Turner - Photosynthesis

I've ignored the poll by the way because it's a different prospect to what the post says, and the post is a more interesting thing to discuss.

Ronaldo. I've never been sure that Messi would quite take to a much more physical league. I also think he benefits immeasurably from how good Barca are. Messi in a team like ours in our league in this moment in time would be good, but I think Ronaldo in the same situation would be a greater success. It'd be a closer cut thing if we were talking about Messi being in Manchester Uniteds side. I say all that as a guy who doesn't like Ronaldo but appreciates his ability.

Theres an interview with Osbourne on the news at the moment about the VAT where he goes on about it being 'a tough but necessary move' etc etc and other such bollocks. Anyone else thats been able to see it, do you get the impression throughout the interview that he's trying to stifle a smirk and a laugh? No idea why tht struck me, but it did. He really is a clearing in the woods.

Xenia...! I... can't... breATHE!.... Great film, and Famke Janssen at her hottest. No no no, no more foreplay

He plays for Spurs, so I hate him. Used to like him.

This, almost exactly. Work meant I couldn't see the match. In short, I'm happy for the point but Houllier still needs to do considerably better than a point against Chelsea that appears to have been a bit last gasp to impress me.

One problem with that article, the end. I'd argue it already has turned. And that's a worry for the Frenchmans survival at the very least.

On that list I think it's Inception for me but I don't rate it now as such a great movie (still very good mind). Four Lions is the best comedy I've seen in years but I don't think it's quite best of the year stuff. Shutter Island was fun hokum but I'm surprised how much love it got, it isn't that good. It's a B-Movie with a budget. the twist you can see coming before the film even starts. Kick Ass is great but again, not film of the year stuff. I enjoyed it a helluva lot though. Social Network is good, bummed far too much by the critics and for me anyway, was actually somewhat spoiled by how unlikable it's subject matter is - Zuckerberg is a vile character with few redeeming features at all. It's well made though. Not seen the Secret in Their Eyes. It's basically Inception by default for me. It falls down when you start to look closer at it, its wow factor diminishes rapidly once you try to analyse it or make a deeper sense of it. It reveals it's flaws more readily - far to much exposition, occasionally quite boring, etc, but it remains a good film.

No. The only thing that even slightly makes me doubt he should be sacked is our own ability to replace him and not end up further in the shit. But he really should go.

Oh it wasn't just that he was wondering if we could do the price match, he was expecting us to.

Always worth saying this, but he is the subject of one of my favourite football facts - he's allergic to grass.

Nothing wrong with price-matching, we do in fact do it... with anything in the town. I know of no shop I could walk into, who does price matching, and say 'This is cheaper on Amazon, match it for me' and would actually do it. Except maybe John Lewis. Its just a stupid queston imo.

Idiots who ring shops with stupid questions. We had one earlier who asked if we could price-match Amazon. And every day we get someone asking for trade in values for 20 titles and expects us to just know off the top of our heads and tuts when we don't.

I think a lot of people would be happy to get behind the manager. Provided they were carrying the metaphorical knives.

Sue Perkins for some reason.

December 28th is the Spanish equivalent of April Fools Day, coinciding with some Godbothering claptrap called the Massacre of the Innocents.

We've been having to take a different route from day one - we didn't have the sheer financial brute force to get us very far, we never had that. It took us to 6th and even then it wasn't quite enough to really cement us there, because we had to constantly spread that cash thinly as we tried to evolve. We never got the point we had a solid base to add diamonds to. We almost did, and then we started to wither the foundations and ended the investment.

Incredible.

I think it's Lerners top priority. I also think it's one even he, today, would file firmly under 'Dreams'. Even way back at the start he had to know it'd take a fair whack of money and luck to do. Now we're trying to do it on luck alone, and luck doesn't carry much of a punch in these things, only sometimes landing the knock out blow that money has softened the target up for.

A guy I work with. He's a raving Christian so immediately I don't particularly like the bloke but he has a very annoying trait. Occasionally, I'll need to have a mooch for stock behind the till, or have to dig through a massive pile of price stickers when doing pricing up, also behind the till. I know exactly what I'm looking for and I'm not incompetant. Without fail, no matter what, he will ask with this really annoying tone that suggests he's somehow above me, what I'm looking for. Every time. I don't need the help. I don't appreciate the tone that suggests he's my boss. He's the same as me, all he has over me was he was lucky enough to be on a shift when a memo came round telling all stores to till train all staff. He's done this for the month or so I've been working with him. He does it to everyone else, even the managers and older staff, and it pisses off us all. One of the guys I work with gets so pissed off for by it the other day he apparently, without a hint of a joke in his voice and as an ex service man, said that if he asked him what he was looking for again he was going to smear his nose across his face. And the other staff, including managers, thought this was a) **** hilarious, and pretty reasonable. The annoying guy has now been taken aside about his 'being helpful' and understanding his lowly station. Drives me up the **** wall.

Hadn't noticed it was in that exact packaging.