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david_carnell

david_carnell

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Jeremy Wrote:

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> Men who get snotty about what other men wear to

> work!

>

> ?30 uniqlo trousers, non-iron shirt, job done.


I'm sure you're a valued Carphone Warehouse employee, Jeremy.

Jeremy

Jeremy

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david_carnell Wrote:

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> I'm sure you're a valued Carphone Warehouse

> employee, Jeremy.


If I was working at a Carphone Warehouse, I might make more of an effort! As it is, I spend most of the day sitting at my desk, and very rarely physically meet anyone from outside the company. There just doesn't seem any point wearing a nice suit or ironing a shirt! I have no need to impress anyone.

the-e-dealer

the-e-dealer

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SO I'm moving house and ring my bank for a small overdraft for a week. Computer says no. Sorry you are a risk .


So a week later house sold ?1/2M in bank. Bank rings out of the blue - we noticed a large deposit would you like us to to help you invest it. My second word is "OFF" . The bank's name - First name Lloyds. F**CKERS!

I have told them in no circumstances will they get their hands on my money and I am moving banks. (35 Years I was with them!)

Otta

Otta

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Well I used to have a ponytail at various stages, but agree totally that balding blokes should definitely not have them, which is why I got rid. I hate that I have a bald patch, but it's undeniable. And unfortunately I don't suit a grade 1 all over which is what I feel like doing when I see a photo of the back of my head.
Robert Poste's Child

Robert Poste's Child

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the-e-dealer Wrote:

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> SO I'm moving house and ring my bank for a small

> overdraft for a week. Computer says no. Sorry you

> are a risk .

>

> So a week later house sold ?1/2M in bank. Bank

> rings out of the blue - we noticed a large deposit

> would you like us to to help you invest it. My

> second word is "OFF" . The bank's name - First

> name Lloyds. F**CKERS!

> I have told them in no circumstances will they get

> their hands on my money and I am moving banks. (35

> Years I was with them!)


Are you familiar with the (former) FSA's matrix of evil?


http://www.standard.co.uk/business/markets/jim-armitage-barclays-is-evil-and-clever-and-nothing-can-change-that-8559627.html


Lloyds is good but incompetent, so they probably didn't do it on purpose.

david_carnell

david_carnell

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Jeremy Wrote:

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> david_carnell Wrote:

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> > I'm sure you're a valued Carphone Warehouse

> > employee, Jeremy.

>

> If I was working at a Carphone Warehouse, I might

> make more of an effort! As it is, I spend most of

> the day sitting at my desk, and very rarely

> physically meet anyone from outside the company.

> There just doesn't seem any point wearing a nice

> suit or ironing a shirt! I have no need to impress

> anyone.


Ah Jeremie, as the French know: le style est l'homme. You are not wearing a costume: you are exactly as you appear to be. If you look and act like a complete dork, then maybe you are. Style is not superficial, but the external expression of something deeper.


Your unironed shirt and shiny uniqlo trousers merely inform your co-workers that you do not care. About them, about yourself.


Love yourself Jeremy, love yourself. And then go and get some nice tailored trews. ;-)

Siduhe

Siduhe

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Lloyds is good but incompetent, so they probably didn't do it on purpose.


My recent experience is exactly the same - I've asked Lloyds to let me do three things in the last 12 months (having banked there for 20 years) - nothing crazy but I need a dollar account for example for some personal payments, and all of those requests have been rejected as being "unacceptably risky for the bank". Doesn't stop them phoning me up every 6 months when I'm about to make my tax payments and asking me if I want to invest that money in Lloyds products instead, even though I've asked them not to.

BrandNewGuy

BrandNewGuy

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The downgrading of the words ?nerd? and ?geek?. I saw one of our local hairdressers in a t-shirt bearing the slogan ?I?m a hair geek?. Huh? Does it now just mean it?s something you?re not shit at? In my day, nerds and geeks had severe social skills problems ? is this no longer necessary?
Loz

Loz

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BrandNewGuy Wrote:

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> The downgrading of the words ?nerd? and ?geek?. I saw one of our local hairdressers in a t-shirt

> bearing the slogan ?I?m a hair geek?. Huh? Does it now just mean it?s something you?re not shit at?

> In my day, nerds and geeks had severe social skills problems ? is this no longer necessary?


As a long-serving geek, I object to that. Geeks have always been those that are particularly good at something generally intellectual and generally to the annoyance/confusion of those that were a bit scared of what was, essentially, a different culture.


It's good to see the word get wider acceptance and use.

BrandNewGuy

BrandNewGuy

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Loz Wrote:

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> Geeks

> have always been those that are particularly good

> at something generally intellectual and generally

> to the annoyance/confusion of those that were a

> bit scared of what was, essentially, a different

> culture.


So not really possible to be a 'hair geek', unless you're a top-level research trichologist?

midivydale

midivydale

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Actually not little nor irrational but people saying that my 2 year old has great rythm (he hasnt, he bounces around like any toddler) makes me want to scream out loud - every time. Or another one "bet we will see him on x-factor in a few years".


Come on people - he is two!! Please let him be an innocent child, unaware of your ignorant predjudice for a few more years.

Millhaven

Millhaven

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oh yeah. Nearly forgot. People who insist of asking barstaff "Can I get..." instead of the proper Cnglish "Please can I have..." should not be served and should be banned from the pub until they can speak proper English like I does.


Apologies if either of the two examples have been covered.

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