HOW RUDE!!!

Posted on 8 October 2007 by boryssnorc

I stopped to buy petrol this morning. Nothing strange there.

Had to wait for some eejit blocking the bowsers to move. Nothing strange there.

Struggled to get the petrol cap off. Nothing strange there.

Filled up with fuel and nearly spilled some on my shoes. Nothing strange there.

Waited for eejit in front of me to get a personalized tax invoice . Nothing strange there.

Paid with my visa…. again… Nothing out of the ordinary here.

But then I got handed my receipt….

Holy snappin’ duck shit! How bloody rude is that! $1.139c per litre.

The sign out the front says $1.13/litre, the price on the actual bowser says $1.13/litre… so where do they get off charging nearly a full cent extra without it being the advertised price? Is this even legal? And how long has this been happening and I haven’t noticed it cos I’m a slack tart when it comes to keeping or reading my receipts!

This Is England – trailer

Posted on 8 October 2007 by boryssnorc

Being a product of the 80s and having had quite a number of skinhead friends way back when, I thought I’d have a look at “This Is England”. The trailer looked really interesting even though there was no way that a film about skinheads in 80s England was going to be all tiptoeing through the tulips in Doc Martens to a cool Madness soundtrack. It wasn’t as full on as Romper Stomper, but it did resemble my experience of skin head types from years ago… most of them politically apathetic and far more interested in hanging out,findin groovy clothes, shaving their heads, listening to the The Specials and The Clash etc. They used to get excited about whether or not your shirt was a genuine Fred Perry and what hole Docs you had but mostly couldn’t give a fig about race relations and I never saw any of the nasty altercations or extreme bigotry associated with the skinhead stereotype. Mostly I remember them being passionate about their music just like any other subculture group.

Anyway, I quite enjoyed the film. Still think the dopey Mum was a loon for letting her 12 year old boy hang out with a gang of skinhead types who were all obviously much older than he was. She’s depicted as only getting excitable or concerned at his shaved hair cut, no mention of Mum being concerned about her little boy being exposed to racial prejudices, violence or even a mild concern that her kid should have friends his own age… nope, it was the haircut. I quite liked the movie though and the central kid was really good.

Funny Test

Posted on 7 October 2007 by boryssnorc

Well it’s no surprise to me that I hate the fart jokes… but here is some test results from one of those silly on line quizzes that confirms it. And to those detractors who have oft times said I have ‘no sense of humour’… well here! Be proved wrong. I do have a sense of humour after all – it’s just not one that’s easily appreciated by the masses.
*sniff, sniff*
RMB

Your Score: the Wit

(52% dark, 38% spontaneous, 15% vulgar)

your humour style is: CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK

You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you’re probably an intellectual, but don’t take that to mean pretentious. You realize ‘dumb’ can be witty – after all isn’t that the Simpsons’ philosophy? But rudeness for its own sake, ‘gross-out’ humour and most other things found in a fraternity house, leave you totally flat.

I guess you just have a more cerebral approach than most. You have the perfect mindset for a joke writer or staff writer. Your sense of humor takes the most thought to appreciate, but it’s also the best, in my opinion.

You probably loved the Office. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check it out here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/.

PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Jon Stewart – Woody Allen – Ricky Gervais

I still have my Wet Haddock of Impertinence.

Posted on 6 October 2007 by boryssnorc

I’ve been a bit down on the SCA since my Crux days. It was a job I never wanted. I was kinda ‘volunteered’ for the job and to inherit that partiuclar office when it was in as much disarray as that was…. well, it doesn’t bear thinking about. It was a full on nightmare, that took me about 10 months to wrestle back under control under difficult circumstances (by difficult circumstances, read- with dozens of nazi-herald types looking over your shoulder, nit picking on every little thing). The SCA is supposed to be fun, but when you find yourself in situations like that one, simply due to the lack of willing and knowledgeable applicants, then it suddenly ceases to be fun. Shrug… the old saying is true.. you get what you pay for and this is never more true than when you’re dealing with volunteers. I came away from the thankless mess saying ‘never again’ …. only to pick up another SCA mess, in the form of a truck accident, this time.

I’d like to be able to get stuck into making some seriously cool medieval ‘stuff’ again… one of these days.

I am the Queen of Everything that is Nothing!

Posted on 5 October 2007 by boryssnorc

I am the Widget Queen!!!

I was in a meeting this morning doing some training on Quoting (you know telling our customers how much stuff will cost them etc).

Yeah… it really was as fun as it sounds. :S

Anyway, in this meeting was … the General Manager, the Customer Service Manager, two Business Development Executives and four of my contemporaries (Account Managers) and Me!

We were having a discussion involving some hypothetical companies, one of which was called ABC Widget Co. … which elicited a doey eyed…. ‘what’s a widget?’ from one of the Account Managers.

Errr….. I thought everyone knew what a widget was – it’s just one of those things!

So the GM , who was chairing the meeting, explained “It’s one of those things in the bottom of your beer which aerates the drink or something when you open the can…”

Errr… like yeah…. kinda right … but no bonus points for you!

Then one of the Business Development Executives (now these guys are glorified salesmen… you’d think they’d know something about widgets) pipes up with “Really? I thought it was one of those little things you put on your desktop that tells you the weather or time and stuff”.

I am sitting here with knitted brow at this point, wondering how I am the only one in the room who knows what a goddamn widget is!

“Well actually 😉 … a widget is both of those things ‘now’. But they were likely called widgets because they didn’t know what else to name them. A widget was traditionally a term used in Economics as a hypothetical undefined product… it’s just a ‘thing’ when it doesn’t matter what the thing is.” Etc Etc Etc.

Sigh…
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