CI Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Choffer do you live in the UK? They look like parrots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted November 18, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted November 18, 2011 Yup - I'm in SW London. They're parakeets - there's a few of them in the area. Never seen them that close though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Yup - I'm in SW London. They're parakeets - there's a few of them in the area. Never seen them that close though. I used to work in Bexleyheath/Welling/Erith area. There are hundreds of the feckers in that neck of the woods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shillzz Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Last time I was in London, my old man pointed at a flock of birds and boldly stated that they were "Parakeets". Now he's always fancied himself as a bit of a piss artist so I didnt think much of it at the time, but maybe he was right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Nice, obviously escaped a domestic situation sometime ago and have colonised down there Noisy feckers, we had a pair of love birds once, no need for an alarm in the mornings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted November 18, 2011 Moderator Share Posted November 18, 2011 Nice, obviously escaped a domestic situation sometime ago and have colonised down there Its always good when an abused partner finds the courage to fly the nest :winkold: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islingtonclaret Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 They're well noisy. Hundreds of them in south london. Went to Greenwich park a couple of times this summer and couldn't believe how fast they're breeding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCLaura Posted November 18, 2011 Author Share Posted November 18, 2011 Just done a quick browse of the job sites for the first time in a few months. The situation still appears depressingly shite on that front :| Isn't it though? I am job searching for the first time in about 7 years and my word it is different. And the amount of applicants for each job now is just scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Yup - I'm in SW London. They're parakeets - there's a few of them in the area. Never seen them that close though. used to work in Bexleyheath/Welling/Erith area. There are hundreds of the feckers in that neck of the woods. loads of them in Surrey as well ..they used to land on the tree in my back garden , they chase all the other birds away and strip the tree bare ... not seen them since i moved but I assume they are still about ,was rumoured to be up to 30,000 of them !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Better than magpies I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 I realise the site needs to make money but come on .... :wow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villadude Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Just done a quick browse of the job sites for the first time in a few months. The situation still appears depressingly shite on that front :| Isn't it though? I am job searching for the first time in about 7 years and my word it is different. And the amount of applicants for each job now is just scary. Same here, I'm being made redundant next April after nearly 20 years at my place, it does look pretty grim out there these days.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Well, thats my weekend well and truly balls'ed up. Car died on the way home from work, cambelt went and just about had enough momentum to get onto the kerb out of harms way. Bollocks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 I realise the site needs to make money but come on .... :wow: Is that a 'learn how to make a screenshot' tab? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 The Jobs&Benefits Office has to be the most demoralizing and outright miserable place on earth. To get in I had to walk along what can only be described as a prison yard with high walls and barbed-wire and (I may have imagined this) a man standing in uniform, back to the wall of a security building flicking a coin as though eyeing me up and wonderin' how long I would last inside. Once inside, well, the prison facade had faded and was replaced with what I can imagine a euthanasia clinic would look like. Everyone was friendly and happy-clappy at the reception as if on direct orders to look as cheerful as **** in order to keep those sorry souls from bolting out the door as soon as they saw their death at the end of a corridor. I grabbed my ticket (I was now just a number) and walked into the customer enquiry/personal adviser room, which essentially had all four walls covered in cubicals in which the drones sat, all of which either ageing or alarmingly overweight, and all you could hear was a mix of the clikity-clak of the keyboard or the monotonous tones of an acne-faced manatee/woman in the far corner giving advise on 'being on the sick' which could easily be misheard and understood as the final binary-inspired tones one would hear while the robot reassures you that your imminent death will be quick and pleasant. So, after half an hour of waiting and being suffocated by the overwhelming feeling of mind-numbing bureaucratic process taking place, I was finally seen to by a bearded elder who seemed well beaten by life and looked at me with such contempt. I was talked through the process of claiming benefit and how they can help and that I should come back to see a personal adviser, and that was that. When I finally fled, I found solace in a local Subway and whilst looking around at my fellow unemployed, a mixture of single-mothers and chavs in stolen tracksuits, I realised I was now well and truly in the system and it felt mightily demoralizing. I have to do it all again on Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Is that a 'learn how to make a screenshot' tab? Indeed . I am not very I.T. savvy . Luckily it doesn't show "donkey porn" or any of my other usual google searches . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villadude Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 The Jobs&Benefits Office has to be the most demoralizing and outright miserable place on earth. I had a quick look in there a couple of weeks back, the first thing I noticed about the place was the over powering stench of body odour, seriously it **** stank in there. And yeah you're right, it's proper grim in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 1. Where is BOF ? 2. Don't Do It Doug should change his avatar back to the baseball guy shaking his head. 3. Seriously , Why the hell are we advertising Man Ure commercialism on a Villa website . Its disgraceful . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 I... I think I just saw R. Lee Ermey in a pistachio advert. I need to lie down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 I don't get a Man U advert, maybe they're linked to sites in your history/cache Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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