chrisp65

GLC are 'the **** bomb' as my old nan would say. Seen them 3 or 4 times, great night out. Eggsy once borrowed my pen on a train, yeah, I'm that connected.

So Christmas thread all things vaguely Christmasish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwlP9F1FEDM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vX4ETlCr4A

I only signed up to this site because I've been a life long Bicks supporter, the sooner this place is renamed BicksTalk the better although that sounds somewhat like the content of TBAR now I come to think of it. could you imagine the Bickster controlled VT match thread is nearly there love, 5 minutes away throwing up in Rogues Gallery will cost you £40 travel thread would be mostly Birkenhead and how the hell do you find the car park for the Pyramids Shopping Centre

I haven't understood the nuances of genre since apocalyptic zombie trance metal melded into death baby jazz.

Having a beard is different. unless you look like Robinson Crusoe, but I would not recruit someone at interview who had "messy hair" because if you can't be arsed to tidy it for an interview, I'm wondering what else you can't be arsed to do either. We used to have an architect working for us that always wore cream coloured everything. But would then have a complete outfit change in the afternoon, to burgundy. He had a cream coloured convertible Golf and he would arrive at work and step out of it wearing cream shoes, cream slacks, shirt, jacket and beret. Then at lunchtime he would slip away and come back all in burgundy or plum. Every day for 2 years. Right up to the point when he changed his car and turned up to work in a brown convertible Golf. From then on he always wore all brown, head to foot including a brown beret. He said he only changed the beret 'for the joke'. Afternoons he still wore the burgundy / plum outfit. Nutcase. Not sure what that has to do with anything.

a very quick look, suggests he wasn't without 'background' - if a privileged background gives you nothing else, it can give you the self belief and understanding of what you can do and what opportunities are out there, regardless of whether anybody handed him seed money or a contacts book lifted directly from wikipedia, the bastion of all things true .... Early life[edit] Branson was born in Blackheath, London, to barrister Edward James Branson (1918 – 2011), andEve Branson (born 1924), a former ballet dancer and air hostess.[] His grandfather, the Right Honourable Sir George Arthur Harwin Branson, was a judge of the High Court of Justice and a Privy Councillor.[8] Branson was educated at Scaitcliffe School, a prep school in Berkshire Branson attended Stowe School, an independent school in Buckinghamshire until the age of sixteen.[9] Branson has dyslexia and had poor academic performance as a student, and on his last day at school, his headmaster, Robert Drayson, told him he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire.[9] Branson's parents were supportive of his endeavors from an early age. When 15-year-old Richard decided to breed budgies and persuaded his father to build a huge aviary, his father built it. Branson's parents have been described as encouraging.[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson

Yes, we're all being warned to brace ourselves, which could well be a self fulfilling prediction. If the PM and Chancellor put out a message that 'more shit is coming' what does that do for investment in business? Of course, this time it won't be a 100% home grown downturn as with the international banking crisis. This time it will be because of all the others.

I think I put the three words 'christian', 'sin' and 'soul' in there deliberately, to wind up the infidels. But yeah, I do also more or less agree with it, in that we need to be taught respect, self control and consequences for our actions either by our relatives, society, or the state. But it's not an easy concept to get over in a short piece on a footy messageboard.

I think maybe the loss of good christian teaching and values in this country has lead people to extremes of immediate self gratification with easy sex and fast food and cheap money just buying endless over salted and over sugared variations on sin dressed up as choice and modernity. But in the long run it's caused a deep, sustained and painful loss in that people's souls are empty, other than for the clogging residue of late night kebabs, xhamster and call of duty. Either that, or people just need to chill out a bit and enjoy the ride.

no no no my missus is my bestest friend, she's the funniest person I know and has improved my outlook / my income / my cultural appreciation / my cooking skills etc then, after all that, she does sex things to me! what's not to love? if she broke tomorrow and I had to get rid, I'd go out and get the exact same model again

yep, the People's Republic of Barrybados the more towns I visit, the more I like home tried to get a photo of the chemical works this morning but my old camera I keep in the car appears to have finally died I've fixed it a few times with a whack on the kitchen worktop etc., but 2 times out of 3 it won't focus or just won't take the shot bugger

the lights of a working town on a winter's evening

Well that's an easy one to work out. Are you dead? If you're not dead, much more chance you're a big gay bear.

All that sniffing and re focusing the eyes, poor bugger clearly had quite a cold. But yeah, fat Elvis is good Elvis. Burning Love, Suspicious Minds, Viva, all that stuff is just brilliant for in car karaoke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx7I4DfUGM4

thank you

my nan

What are you hoping to achieve by saying this? Some kind of vague urban intellectual vibe thing going on here?

PDF at their request, because their portal wouldn't accept DWG's. But the PDF was saved to the size it says on the drg., so if we say it's 1:1250 at A1, we've saved to A1. Basic good practise. Of course, you're absolutely right, we include an info box with the standard blurb - never ever whatsoever scale off a paper print as only a monkey would do that. We then include all the dimensions they could require plus a scale bar plus a big note telling them what size paper they should be viewing and what the approx scale would be if they choose to print at A3. So I'm at a loss as to what else we could have done - not least because we send out 3 or 4 of these a week, every week and never had this problem before. I suspect, they've employed somebody to reject applications to try and buy some time for an under resourced department. Something beginning to creep back now the building trade is beginning to pick up. We had an advertising application rejected recently because we hadn't included a flood risk assessment. We were changing the signage above a shopfront and they wanted a pdf of the local flood plane and a statement and 'proof' that our fascia sign for a shop wouldn't increase the risk of flooding. incidentally, I take exception to the phrase lazy architects. I prefer the much more pc, 'differently motivated'.

Had a planning application rejected today that I submitted 2 weeks ago. Reason for rejection? The drawings weren't to scale. The drawings were submitted electronically. You can print them any size and any scale your heart desires. I've even included a couple of keys and scales and dimensions to help you. But no, wait 2 weeks and reject an electronic drawing because its the wrong paper size. The Planning bod isn't available now - probably taking their TV back to Currys because it's on the wrong channel or too loud or doesn't heat toast evenly.

and to be fair, I've got a thing about women in garish knitted balaclavas

I wouldn't necessarily punch Tony Blair. I'd just drop him off somewhere hot n dusty, just wearing his underpants and an old fashioned advertising sandwich board that read 'I'm Tony Blair'.

hmmm, I'm going to offer: Pussy Riot the meeja love them