So London. Job Interview. Third round job interview, down to two candidates and actually a quite intense, competitive affair, with many of the interviews/events being head-to-head against her. Her being the other applicant, an intelligent young lady, about my age, with a frightening degree of knowledge about fungi. Most of it was easy(ish) enough, role […]
…but just for the day. Yes, once more I’m awake at some ungodly hour to catch a flight to Heathrow for, this time, the 3rd round of job interviews (or maybe it’s to discuss terms, they wouldn’t tell me on the phone – one never knows, but they wouldn’t be shelling out ca. €600 for […]
I think I’ve used up far too many words on pathetic little men doing awful things of late, so time for something else. “But, but, that’s why we come here, to read about your ridiculous escapades”, I hear you cry. Well, today I’m in a somewhat foolish mood and am directing you elsewhere…
1. First up […]
Emily, an American, over at “It Comes In Pints?” has a massive list consisting of “things I like about Britain, Fuck Yeah!”
As someone who on Thursday night listened to a German acquaintance patiently explain to me why London “deserved” to have been bombed*, it’s wonderful to read lots and lots of people list things about […]
The alternative choice for the title was “Out-cycling Mark Holland”, obviously that’s never going to happen in real life – I’m a runner who occasionally does triathlons, he’s a cyclist – I bet he even shaved his legs when he was competing. No, but today I thought I might be able to better his Tour […]
You’ve read the post title and are thinking “Oh Heavens, what’s he going to say?”
Occasionally, I go to conservative chat blogs and try to keep my debating skills honed by being the moderate, or as I sometimes get called the “Godless-pinko-commie-Jew-hating-EUnuch-faggot”. If I take exactly the same position in left-wing chat blogs I’m a “Fanatical-Christian/Zionist […]
I have to admit, I’d almost given up on my country. I felt its hard won rights and traditions were being dangerously eroded (thanks Tone). That we’d gone soft.
After yesterday and today I think somewhat differently, I might even have to give up my plan of marrying an American to gain citizenship and move to […]
Fuckers!
11:42 CET: Mass E-mail from “Nick” - who works disturbingly near to Tavistock Square “I’m okay. Bus blew up in front of office…. it’s split in two….there’s a leg on the pavement”
I’m also quickly tiring of hearing the phrase “England ist ein Kriegsführende Nation” - much like the World Trade Centre (which, this thankfully […]
Hmm. Schwäbisch schreiben ist eigentlich ziemlich schwer. Vor allem wenn man in Stuttgart wohnt, wo fast alle sowieso quasi-Hochdeutsch reden. Also, schluß mit Schwäbisch, jetzt geht’s um Bürokratie-Deutsch.
Übersetzt: Ich bin faul und hab’ heute einer mail bekommen mit aufschnitten von den blödesten Bürokratie-Sprüchen Deutschlands. Ich würde versuchen, die meisten ins Englische zu übersetzen, aber manche […]
“Well, every other case I’ve seen or heard of has been as a result of, erm, ‘intimate contact’ with sheep.” the doctor said, as he wrote out the prescription (this was whilst I was studying in Glasgow and he apparently did get a reasonable number of lonely crofters and shepherds from the west coast of […]
