RosieH

titch juicy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just returned from the Hipster Mecca, Primavera > Sound in Barcelona. Where people go to listen to > great music and look good doing it. > LOOKING GOOD! F*CK YEAH! more people should try it. I wore my Phoenix bomber jacket to the gym on Saturday in honour of this thread. Tomorrow, I'm taking three hipster Swede clients out for dinner - might wear my Olivia Newton John t-shirt and a vintage kimono.

Exactly Otta - when they're playing / selling it in Top Shop, it stopped being hipster some time since and is decidedly mainstream. Incidentally, I saw NMH the day after you, they were awesome and the crowd was going mad (myself included). Next weekend I will be going to a mate's band on Friday night, Arcade Fire on Saturday and Shonen Knife on Sunday and I'll be dancing all the while. And I'll still be dancing when I see Conor Oberst next month (Conor tout seul, Bright Eyes, Desaparecidos - all bloody marvellous). I don't know what gigs people are going to where no one moves, but it's not something I've ever seen. Choosing the wrong gigs, or standing right at the back maybe..? This slating of hipsters nonsense bugs the shit out of me. "Hipster" seems to have become a generic term for "anyone more fashionable than me". Frankly, while occasionally the outfits are preposterous, I would take that every day of the week over a sea of self-righteous greige and finger wagging. The joy of wearing something bonkers is not to be underestimated. Nor is the pleasure of having fun, being daft and watching Adventure Time. You don't need to thank the hipsters for rooftop campari bars, pop up restaurants and secret cinema, but try to be a little less hackneyed and find a more worthy target for your ire. Incidentally, beards - the hipsters gift to middle aged men - covering, as they do, both a distinct lack AND an overabundance of chin.

Sneery sneery sneery. First hipster I ever knew - massive Steely Dan fan. Hipsterism is in the eye of the embittered, joyless beholder.

Gore Vidal wrote in 1953 of the "Young men with beards wearing blue jeans and open red-checked shirts contrived to look more Iowa than Murger..." I suspect it's the contrivance that gets people's goats, but I can't help feeling it's kind of pathetic to rail against people half your age (or a third your age...!) on account of what they wear. You sound like my dad when I was 14 and he ridiculed my latest outfit from Afflecks Palace or when I put the Smiths on my record player. Get with it, daddy-o. Why are espadrilles more offensive to you than box fresh white trainers or nasty short sleeved shirts? There are tribes aplenty in London, and I find it utterly bemusing that art students raise more ire from the impeccably dressed style mavens of the forum than any other fashion gang. As I thought when I was 14, so I think now - if someone who clearly couldn't give a stuff about their own clothes thinks you're getting dressed wrong, (and what manner of projection is that?) you must be doing something right. And Otta - "apparently they...", "some people..."? For shame, man!

Hipsters Must haves: so much fun and getting all the girls (or boys) that it makes lonely trolls angry If you're going to give in to projecting your lack of self-esteem onto others, please make the effort to get your facts straight: 1) Beards are no longer hipster. They've passed the tipping point by some margin (Jesus, it was even on the Today programme that they ceased to be cool when all the non-cool kids started sporting them) 2) Not wearing a fleece doesn't make you a hipster. It makes you an individual with a modicum of self-respect (There is never any excuse for wearing a fleece unless polar exploring)

I didn't know such things existed. I can't help (sorry), but this sounds fascinating. Good luck.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ..and she's still local as I saw her on the bus > this week! You saw me on the bus you fucker, and didn't say hello?? (oh wait, did you mean Annasfield?) I been up east hanging with the hipsters, but still around and about. Saw that Otta one in EDT the other night.

Are there any plans for a second entrance on Windsor Walk does anyone know? Was trying to work out what the activity on that side was today.

Yeah, it's an absolute bitch - had a very similar issue to the *bobulator* (sorry, I don't know why). I got by with the help of ebay and family, but it does feel like the system deliberately sets out to make you defraud it if the only alternative is starve / lose the roof over your head. Do they still do crisis loans? Edited for idiot fingers.

Thanks MissP76 - really helpful. And Strafer, yes, you'd think someone might have done something before now. Unfortunately my company, until recently, has been run very much like a small family business, with no real adherence to proper processes. We're now part of a fancy dan organisation who should have all of this stuff in place, so I'm hoping someone's going to know more than me. I just seem to be met with resistance and a "she should just pull her socks up" attitude.

Jeremy, just because you're sensible, doesn't mean everyone else is. If it didn't happen, there'd be no need for this, now would there? http://www.webmd.boots.com/cold-and-flu/news/20121116/antibiotic-awareness

Thanks Mike. The reason I was thinking of bringing it up in the appraisal was that the quality of her work is so poor, it has to be a subject for discussion in the appraisal (the poor work, not the dyslexia). Only when I mentioned this to my own boss this week did he say that he thought she was dyslexic - but at the same time he was talking about performance management measures as though it was just that she's rubbish at her job (there are other aspects of her work that are seriously under par). So really, unless she chooses to tell me, I need to take some steps to address the (often very) poor performance, but if it is caused by dyslexia, I want to do what I can to support her. But if she doesn't volunteer the information, does that mean I can never bring it up? In which case, she's potentially going to be unfairly penalised... I feel a bit chicken and egg.

It's fairly straightforward, so I'm not sure why so many question marks. I'm wondering, Sue, how many people on this thread complaining about raw milk potentially killing us all routinely take unnecessary antibiotics, thereby hastening mankind's ultimate demise.

I've recently found out one of my reports at work has dyslexia - at least I understand anecdotally that she does. Her work involves writing a lot of documents, and it's eating horribly into my time constantly having to correct typos before an email can be sent to a client. I've only been managing her for a couple of months, and am pretty appalled that if she is genuinely dyslexic, nothing has been done to support her - she's been an employee for about 6 years. But equally, I'm struggling to manage my own workload because of how much time checking her work takes me. HR not much help so far, and looking on the British Dyslexia Association's website, there's advice that's nigh on impossible to follow (open plan desk situation's not negotiable, our job's pretty stressful at times, it involves lots of writing etc). Her appraisal's coming up - given that she hasn't told me herself she's dyslexic - it's just been suggested by other senior staff - can I bring it up? And any ideas on how I can help her achieve a better standard of work without just taking it all on myself?

david_carnell, coming round here, shitting in our mouths with his TB and his tweedy milk. W@nker. How many of these moaners are fecking us all forever with their insistence on antibiotics for the common cold? Tw@ts.

The Boss is super-awesome, don't listen to them MrBen, they know not what they do.

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Or Australians.

Patently untrue. Risotto made with chicken stock, parmesan made with animal rennet, wine made with isinglass or gelatin. Not "true" veggie food.

And with that, UncleBen was finally spent, and the world was spared his nauseating little sex comments all over the internet evermore. And we all lived happily ever after.

UncleBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > RosieH Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I implore you all to shake that booty that > Jesus > > gave you, shake that booty in the name of the > > Lord. > X x x x x x x x > *shudders* at RosieH shaking bootie UncleBen, I think we hear quite enough about your "shuddering", you intellectually subnormal onanist. Keep it to yourself.

Based on UncleBen's sunless innards. Happy's nice, innit. And clappy got rhythm. I implore you all to shake that booty that Jesus gave you, shake that booty in the name of the Lord.

Sunless innards (thanks, Burbage - going to be quoting that all over this show!)

Burbage Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In any case, kind words cost nothing, and giving > people the benefit of the doubt is exactly the > sort of thing that'll make your sunless innards > feel a little better. I hate to be presumptive, > but your question suggests they're not in the > happiest of states this afternoon. I love Burbage a little bit.

Or eat all the songbirds. But that's not a helpful answer to your question, for which, I apologise.