Fuji have got some cashback deals for the next few months.

X-E2 has dropped in price recently and the “kit” 18-55mm lens is excellent.

All this go round and give them a kicking lark is a bit daft, just end up getting nicked and possibly going away

Also you might end up getting the worst of it, just because you initiate it doesn’t guarantee coming off better

Its real life not an episode of The Sopranos

How about going to university and getting a degree in something you are interested in that might help gaining future employment

Should get some funding and depending on what happens probably never need to pay all the loan back.

My 17 year old Toyota Corolla 1.3 hatchback has just passed it’s latest MOT

We have one of these, R reg and passed its last three MOT’s with nothing wrong.
Best car we have ever had and still see quite a few old ones about.

Latter day Scoubido then, what next the the clacker ball things?

Seems a good enough reason to me, but as previously said sickie is easiest.
We quite often had long weekends away and just gave our daughter a letter to take in citing domestic reasons.
Can’t see how a day or two missing playing with the sand and water has any effect on education

Saw this comment that made me chuckle

Suarez hopes that Uruguay play Germany so he can try shoulder of Lahm

One year ban is my guess

Lens producing soft images at largest aperture is not uncommon, in fact pretty much to be expected.

A well known dealer in secondhand cameras and lenses will not refund for complaints of a similar ilk

Sounds like the buyer may have had unreasonable expectations, but probably easier to refund/resell in this instance.

Not that hard trying to fill seven weeks, more of a problem when you have to make plans for fifty two

Only ones I try to avoid are the thirteen that are plagued with teachers

My daughter has one of these Tissot

Couple of years old now, worn everyday and keeps good time, hers is stainless, but think they do them with a black face too

Not even sure it would do that, would entirely price out low earners

It always did, not everyone owned houses, that’s what council/private rented property was for

Still think it should be capped at 3x income to make it affordable

Totally agree, used to be like that and house prices only went crazy when people borrowed far more than they could sensibly repay.

Will the box still work?

No and good riddance to the useless thing, lost all of our recorded programmes though so watch out for that

Surprised how much better the picture was when we bought a new HDD recorder

But then it all boils down to the thing that people shouldn’t behave like bastards. But they do.

Exactly right, never understood why anyone would want to make another persons life intolerable.
Some of the injustices I witnessed at my last company were disgusting, people who had worked in a reliable fashion for over thirty plus years just forced out of work.
Not skivers or those with horrendous sick records, just ordinary people who did a thorough job rather than cut corners to make the stats look better.
Some of these megalomaniac tossers need to have a hard think about the consequences of their actions and the untold misery the victims of their petty actions suffer

It may well seem to be a kangaroo court and obviously I won’t go into any specifics on here, however, the question I keep coming back to whether the rest of the organisation should support someone who on average, has 3 months sick per year (over 3 years).

So if someone who had provided good service becomes ill they would just be discarded like a piece of refuse. Doesn’t a company have some duty to support such an individual, perhaps the disabled should never be employed either if they are less productive.

What a poor state of affairs we have left for the younger generation

I like threads like this. It gets me fired up for this afternoons disciplinary (35 days off sick so far this year) I’m sure that bloke will also say we are a bunch of shysters who should leave him alone!

Just a thought, perhaps this chap is genuinely ill?

With your fired up comment and preconceived notion of a malingerer I doubt this will be much more than a kangaroo court

Thoroughly enjoyed my run ins with managers and HR people over the years.

Most were so busy that they made fundamental mistakes in procedure and when the evidence was presented had to concede defeat.

Such incompetence that I did seriously consider offering my services as an independent paid advisor to anyone embroiled in these disputes.

Document everything using email, make sure the read receipt function is enabled and always take a friend to interviews. Can be worth recording them too, such a shock when you can produce evidence of what was actually said.

Use their own rules and incompetence against them, for example write a really long email and slip something to your advantage in the middle. Most times they are never read properly and surprising what you can get agreement on with this method

When I was a kid many years ago living in the east end we really were broke, mum had to borrow my ten bob birthday money to buy grub for dinner. Sometimes down to our last half a crown for the gas meter and the foreign coin in the electric meter.
I knew exactly how much things cost when I went to work, but would hate my kid to ever live like that
So chuffed that she has got good qualifications and a professional job after working hard to achieve it, seeing her happy and relatively well off is more than enough recompense for me (she has to have enough cash to buy nice camera lenses which her poor old dad can then borrow)

Never bothered about it, my daughter costs a lot less to keep now she has finished uni and gone to work.
What does a few meals cost and youngsters have it hard enough these days, not out to make money from my own kid
Rather she invested in a decent pension so she can retire at a sensible age
She has never given us any grief and nice seeing her enjoy life whilst she is young

Another green vote from me, round here is UKIP’s powerbase apparently

Mr Garbage reckons its because we still have the most English way of life and don’t want it to change.

Yes, If the meds are anything like some of those I have tried over the years for cluster headache

Nothing specific so had ones that are primarily for epilepsy, bi- polar,heart problems and the list goes on. All fairly heavyweight stuff with less than pleasant side effects, so bit of tolerance required presumably for a colleague you think is swinging the lead

I know bugger all about teaching, but read an article last week about how so many children are still not toilet trained when they start primary school

Might be worth a bit of researching

Yes please then we wouldn’t have the porn brothers and their old tart just up the road

UKIP’s days will be numbered (even quicker) if they ever try to ban Eurovision

Yep, Imigran definitely works. Suffered from migraine for many years since a teenager, completely debilitating and leaving me confined to bed for a couple of days every few weeks. Prescribed Imigran when it was a relatively new drug, previously only available in injection form, 20 odd years ago and it’s been a life-changer – still get them but the Imigran keeps things under control while the migraine runs its course and I can get on with things.

Good to know there is something you can take to relieve the suffering, never had migraines, but a colleague at work suffered badly from them and saw how devastating the effects were on her.
Did try the nasal spray form, but didn’t seem to work that well, think it was too low a dosage.

Always get an achy neck and shoulders after taking it, but considerably better than the headaches. Was warned about taking too much though, can apparently cause a stroke. If I get to that point its a quick course of steroids, wonder if they also work to break up a spell of migraines?

Sumatriptan should do the job, believe its called something like Immigram at the chemists.

I use it in injection form for cluster headaches, but reliably told the tablets work well for migraine

My gas usage has rocketed since having a Worcester Bosch combi fitted after everyone told me my 20 year old boiler was inefficient

My gas usage has plummeted since having a Worcester Bosch combi fitted after getting rid of the Ideal Response POS

I worked 7.30-15.30 Mon-Fri, retired now and still get up about 6.00, always liked to get going early

Have you managed to get the latest version of iPlayer downloads working (i.e downloading successfully, then playing off-line) on a wi-fi tablet with HDMI output that’s currently available to buy for under £200?

Watched all the recent Line Of Duty episodes via iPlayer downloaded on a Hudl then through the TV via the HDMI lead.

3 bed end of terrace Victorian house about 140 a month for gas and electric

I think your association of anything German with fascism betrays your deep-rooted racism. You should be ashamed. I may beat you across the head with a rolled-up manifesto

My apologies for comparing a repugnant megalomaniac xenophobe with a minority party of thugs/loonies who blames all the nations ills on other european countries and immigrants to Hitler

Few years back I had to run a telephone cable across the Grand Union canal near Kings Cross (worlds shortest submarine cable)

Chap who was working with me got chatting to a young’ish lady who lived on a canal boat.
Some months later he chucked the job in and went to live with her making craft fair type objects.

Was round that way a couple of years later and out of curiosity went to have a look. He was still there with her, happy as Larry and seemingly without a care in the world. Have to say I was rather envious at what looked such a carefree lifestyle, but daresay it had its drawbacks

Nigel Farage and UKIP are the modern version of Roderick Spode and his party the Black Shorts

The latters idea of giving every child at birth a British made bicycle and umbrella could become UKIP’s first policy

Also found it interesting that the term “wunderkind” was mentioned by a pro UKIP poster, they really won’t last a thousand years and not keen on VW beetles either

Another vote here for Hallowed Be Thy Name closely followed by Fear Of The Dark

I didn’t have much in the way of a career, just had a job albeit a reasonably well paid one

Did get to pick my daughter up from school and sit with her over the park on the way home enjoying our ice lollies watching the birds and squirrels.
Long weekends away, the three of us in an old touring caravan we kept on a farm or self catering cottages.

Wouldn’t change a thing, you can keep success whatever that is. Just make sure you don’t regret it, can never have that time again

All time classic

From about three minutes of this one

Adopting this kiss arse culture will only make things worse for your children when they start work.
Terms and conditions have been hard won over the years, but the current trend is just to give them away for nothing

Lots of people think they are important because their employer give them a mobile and laptop. More like they get you doing even more work on your commute when that time was once spent having a read of the paper.

Another worrying trend is people leaving the company mobile on when taking leave or even worse off sick.

Wake up and regain some dignity along with much needed leisure time

I always took the position of if I work then you pay me, didn’t go to work for the fun of it

Unlucky thirteen for me, can’t imagine using some of those words especially the ones nearer the bottom of the list.

More likely to burst out laughing if someone used one of the more obscure terms.

Canon would be my choice although I think you will only get a s/hand one for under 100 quid.

Think I would be more worried about UKIP in that neck of the woods, same meat different gravy