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We’ve noticed that customers who whinge about their health all the time have also ordered Remembrance of Things Past: v. 1 (World Literature S.) by Marcel Proust - he was a hypochondriac too, you know. For this reason, you might like to know that this book will be released on 10 September 2006. You can pre-order your copy for just £6.99 by following the link below.
Remembrance of Things Past: v. 1 (World Literature S.)
Marcel Proust
RRP: £6.99
Price: £6.99
Release Date: 10 September 2006
“and you’re done”. Why’s that sound like there should have been the ping of a microwave* just before it?
And are you done, give that you appear to have been on Gas Mark 7 for a few days?
*Or whatever noise Rayburns make when they finish [I imagine it’s a sort of small thud as the last moisture in the carbonised potato makes a break for it], before you get Sloaneier-than-thou on me.
Did you instantly order it, bullied into it by Amazon? A good read, at least.
Anyhoo: After looking at my last credit card statement it could equally well be “And you’ve just been done.” I really must stop reading, or at least buying, books. So, Waterstone’s and my best sprinting shoes in future….
And what’s all this talk of Sloaniness? Rayburn’s are for honest, hard-working Northern folk as what work down pit and can barely afford a potato.
BiB: Proust? I can’t be reading Proust - I’ve got to get through “Competency-Based Interviews: Master the Tough New Interview Style and Give Them the Answers That Will Win You the Job” first. It really is the most unimaginable twaddle.
Oh aye, aan they rubs theys hands agither for to get soot-spindles what thems use int stove.
I seem to remember someone making offended noises after I mentioned the word ‘aga’ with reference to them, shortly followed by them correcting it to Rayburn.
As for twaddle, try ‘What Colour is Your Parachute?’ which is full of endless exercises (you even get to draw pictures) to improve self-knowledge thus actuating strategised attainment profiles… still don’t know what colour it is though. Anyway, why’s it matter whether it’s made of cerise chiffon as long as the bloody thing works?
Said he yanking the ripcord in frantic panic.
The problem with the Competency based interviews is the increasing legions of HR folk who swallow the twaddle whole. As companies contract out HR more and more, it means you have to jump through the twaddle hoops to get in front of someone from the company who can actually figure out if you’re any good.
Don’t do it! Some of the sentences in that book last for up to 7 pages without a full stop.