The best thing about working in an IT dept is the bizarre conversations people have. For example yesterday our little group had a discussion about herbal teas. The benefits of herbal tea, herbal infusions and red bush tea over coffee and normal tea and vice versa.
Everyone in the group put forward there opinion about the various teas and infusions and told the rest of the group how much tea and coffee they drink on a day to day basis. John and Julie both came to the same conclusion. They like normal Tetley tea. Neil likes Green tea and Redbush Tea but isn’t to enamored about herbal infusions. I like coffee myself but only two cups in the morning and then I move onto redbush in the afternoon. The conversation ended rather abruptly. I dont think anyone could maintain the energy required to keep this livley discussion going any longer.
Posted by struthy on 10/26 at 11:49 AM
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<b>My Nana and papa were telling me that Spain is suffering even worse than Britain at the momment. </b>
Benidorm is sufferng paricualrly (my uncle was over thier on holiday, he told them, so it is the truth). Apparently,,, because prices are so high, no one is going on holiday anymore. Benidorm used to employ over three thousand waiters. Now it only employs 1000. That leaves two thousand unemployed waiters.
According to my Nana and papa (who got the information from my uncle, who was in Bendorm for a week on holiday, who never exaigerates anything, unlike the uncle everyone else has who does exagirate.....) the 2000 unemployed waiters, are living in the streets of Benidorm in cardboard huts,,,, and it is £10 for a pint of lager.
My nana and papa, its mad when you go round there......
I love my nana and papa, but sometimes my nana repeats herself. She will ask me and my brother what we do for a job everytime we go round.
My brother will tell her, “I work as a gardener”. Both my Nana and my Papa understand this, they can talk about it, they smpathise with Jamie as he tells them about his bigotted boss, the cold weather, what he does for lunch.
Then, I tell them. I work as a web designer in an IT dept..... There is silence, they look at me, confused, and ask “what do you do??” I try to tell them about web sites, the internet, what my company does, selling information about how to obtain information to get contracts that are involved in maintaining information for the government,,,,, but as I am telling them I am thinking to myself,,,, what the fuck DO I actually do.....
My Nana, with a kind of confused yet knowing look usually ends the conversation with a very sincere,,,, “Thats nice, do you want a cup of tea son”.
Posted by struthy on 10/26 at 11:35 AM
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<b>I heard the Government might be forcing certain people to take it. </b>
A friend at work pointed out the similarities between this scenario and the plot to “Day of the Tripids”. You know,,,,, The aliens take over government, and enforce an immunization program that spreads an alien virus that turns the human population into zombie like creatures who share a collective consciousness and obey the will of there masters.
To me this just sounds like a crazy idea. As if the population of Britain could ever be turned into a mass of brain dead drones who live there day to day lives without a second thought, unquestioningly obeying orders from above.......
I<b>t would never happen in Britain. </b>
<i>"Hello Mr Struth are you interested in buying some insurance for the credit card we sold you that you didn’t want?"</i>
<b>The people of this country are to individual for that to happen.</b>
<i>"I hate Simon Cowel, but that Zac, he’s lovely and he’s such a good singer, I think he has got talent” </i>
<b>The people of this country are independent free thinkers - I mean, look at your place of work.</b>
<i>"Yes boss I think your right, I am lucky to have a job and it is only correct that there should be a wage freeze, and I don’t mind working an extra hree hours a week for nothing”
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<b>The people of this country care to much about freedom.</b>
<i>"Those Iranians seem dangerous, maby bombing them is an option"</i>
Actually, maby there is something in this theory....... I think we have already been given the fucking alien virus. Maby the one they are handing out just now is the cure........ Fuck, imagine what the cure might do.
Instead of waking up at 7 in the morning after a shit sleep and forcing yourself out of bed to go to a place that you hate for 9 hours where you do stuff you don’t care about.....
You might just wake up and say to yourself. Fuck it, I’m not going to work. I’m sleeping in till 12, then I am going to get up, eat a packet of biscuits and watch day time tv for the next 5 hours.
Imagine everyone done that, it would be like everyone in the matrix took the same pill as nero, the matrix would collapse, chaos, anarchy, madness! I think that might be a good thing. At least it would put an end to strictly come dancing, Britain’s got talent and all these other pish shows.
<b>I bet Simon Cowel is the fucking alien leader as well, it is that big, weird colored head of his that gives the game away.</b>
Posted by struthy on 10/26 at 11:20 AM
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