STEPHEN FRY

I'll take a look, always fun to look. not sure I'll get one of those cause I don't think I'll wear them.

sorry couldn't resist it more on ranting in our latest show just out "Ignorance is Bliss" Oh yes it is...i should know!

http://standupcomedy.podomatic.com/

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hello fryfan *hugs back* I'm a bit less grumbly today I think, let's hope it lasts eh!

Nice avatar, by the way.

thorleyc2 said:
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by"

Hope your both feeling better now.I think fryfan20 is lovely and whatonearth is almost certainly lovely too (in a fluffy, moist kind of way)

(sorry if this post makes me seem like a simpering idiot )

At least Douglas Adams had the luxury of being able to miss deadlines without destroying his career...or so it would seem, anyway.

Moist? Well I did nearly wet myself laughing during a conversation with a colleague today nearly, not quite.

I've just had my day and a half of induction on this new flexible new deal.

urgggggghhhhhh! The same ye olde crap all over again.

CVs, jobhunting and dire cheesy movies with violins about people who overcame obstacles to achieve their desires. PROJECTILE VOMITS - a la method acting - coughs up the furball of despair.

Then someone starts spouting about aspiring and that 'nothing is impossible'.

OH YES IT IS - like me tap dancing on the surface of the moon to the 'lullaby of broadway'. So, I ask this jobs broker about doing training courses and she looks at me like i've just slapped her on the arse and says in a tweety voice - we don't do that sort of things here.

Whoppee shit.

Yes - so tell me about aspiring and empowering people? Ugh.

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH....AND THE PISSING COFFEE MACHINE IS SHIT - my brew tasted like a vagrant's sweat...just don't ask!!!!!

I'm going back to reading my book and thinking about empowering two of my fingers to tell them where get off from pedalling the same old spiel while they rake the money in from the unemployed.

BOING.

Thank you Tito.

I feel like I'd spent the last day and a half in some alternate universe with a lot of happy-clappy painted faces, with the occasional flicker of desperation showing behind their eyes.

Perhaps I'm being cynical, but I've noticed that when one chap was telling all these stories about how people had successfully found job, that the bullshit stories were the ones where he paused before starting them. And I could see by the way he occasionally stumbled through it that he was making it up as he went along. Whereas others he coasted through.

But, what upsets me most, is that I thought they would ACTUALLY listen to what I wanted to do - not 'BE REALISTIC ABOUT MY EXPECTATIONS' as the small print on their professionally printed gumpf said. Which is another way of saying for you to do any old crap they offer you.

I've off to grill some fish fingers. Yummy.