^ what about us that don’t know the word for egg in french?

I made that eathquake joke up myself.

I’m sort of proud of it.

There’s a reason those aren’t funny anymore.

Can you tell what it is yet?

(Credit to scotroutes for that one…)

I thought you were being a bit of a dick there, then I slowly got it.

How do Nepalese secret agents like their martini’s?

Shaken, not stirred.

That is where I am having trouble

The nerd in me wants all singing and dancing, not i7 too spendy, but the sensible part of me says go Surface 3 or Note 12.2

However – once I chuck a keyboard and pen on the surface and a keyboard cover on note 12.2 they aren’t far off the 1kUSD for the Pro 3 with cover.

^^ read loads of reviews, all tell me that I need one, but which is proving a dilema.

I like the idea of office, but I do a lot of work in google now, office is just handy for opening files when I need it.

I can buy a slightly larger stylus for note to make it more comfortable.

I like the fact android give me access to shit games when I want them, but a surface would give me access to the odd half decent game when i need a play

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/honda-accord-2-2-ictdi-diesel-estate-/111660905380?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item19ff8233a4

Vast inside, comfortable, can be remapped.

Or if you don’t mind petrol find the 2.4 version, quick and comfortable, makes about 180bhp if I remember right.

Go to the Dr.

I’ve just had a member of staff off work for what he thought was stomach pains/acid reflux at the top of his stomach.

Drs at hospital put him on an EKG as part of the hospital practice, and before you know it he is about to get a ancheoplasty.

He had blood clots in the arteries around his heart, one of them was 100% blocked. No explanation for why, or how, it just happened.

Shook him up, cost the insurance company 27kUSD

^ Been there, done this and got the t-shirt, and I would recommend to anybody who thinks they might be interested in teaching, skip the poorly paid bit, get qualified and do it properly. The TEFL game is a young persons game – and if you are going to do it, go to Korea where you can at least bank some money to further travels.

Far too many English teachers out there who give the profession a bad name.

Positives – you get to live somewhere different, eat different food, and possibly travel a bit.

Negatives – employers don’t care, so not something exciting on your CV. easy to get trapped out there, met so many teachers who are stuck in a rut, not enough money to get home or do anything.

Saying that – doing the TEFL grind for a couple of years was what got me into it properly, got me qualified and into a decent enough a job.

^ That is an issue one of the ESL teachers I subcontract as a TA is facing just now. Rest of the academic staff, expat academic staff, are paid well, whereas I have contracted her on exceptionally good rates for the school.

She wants to live an expat teachers lifestyle on a poor, TEFL teachers wage. The have and have nots are becoming more apparent for her.

Does this gig in Shanghai include health insurance?

I kindly agreed to give subcontracted teacher access to our basic health insurance programme that I provide to local teachers, about 12GBP per day health cover if needed.

I warned it was basic, but would cover doctors visits, didn’t have to do this, but it was a “I know i’m paying you buttons, so here is something to make you feel better”

I didn’t know, she cancelled her international health insurance and is currently in hospital, has been for several days now, was in the main ward, with everybody else including the dogs, until on her boss took pity on her and put her in a private room.

Certainly highlights the need for proper health insurance if you are overseas.

William Russel cost me around 2500 per year for my wife and daughter a few years ago, and that is a bg chunk of your 850 per month salary.

Being a free spirit is all well and good, until you have a 27kUSD hospital bill, which recently happened to a member of staff, but we have a good health insurance policy for him.

Why does the friend need to line someone up before telling their boss, although it is short notice to tell them at this stage in the hiring year and bad form?

16 hours isn’t a lot of contact time, then you have prep, are you made to stay in work for the whole day, then that is still however many hours per day stuck in an office climbing the walls.

850 is what universities were paying 10 years ago in China for TEFL teachers and they now want to pay that for qualified teachers.

Shanghai will be good for private tutoring outside of work as well, not sure of the current rate there, but if you now have a long commute that has gone as well.

Worth the experience for a couple of years, but that long commute is what is going to kill the fun.

The TEFL games is a tough one, and is a good experience, but 850 living in Shanghai is not a lot of cash to splash around.

I started out in teaching doing something similar to this, but saw the light and got qualified. The cost of the qualification was paid for in the first overseas post, and the student loan cleared. It can be a decent paying gig outside of the UK

A qualified teacher, BEd or PGCE. should be making considerably more in Shanghai, even if they are ESOL is their specialism. Many international schools will require qualified teachers who specialise in ESL/ESOL
Long commutes shouldn’t be part of the package.

If we are advertising for posts, I’m currently looking for an EYFS Teacher and a KS3&IGCSE English teacher.

Hmmm not so fun now. Beer coma until 2am then awake until 5am. I remember why I only do this rarely.

I’ve been listening to a lot of pulp the last few weeks. Forgot how good they are.

No Theakstons out here yet, and it won’t be 1.24 a bottle, more like 6 a bottle if it comes.

Last bottle of delerium has been finished, unless I drink the wife’s wine cooler, it’s good night from me.

Pretty standard stuff from me on “normal” beer…

Cut the time in half, drink strong beer, it is the correct thing to do.

^^ just went and looked at beer bill from taking second in command out, a good chunk of 12.2 tablet will be pissed into a hedge later. FFS should have gone to the local corner shop

^ it is an option Mrs Q says just buy it and stop being tight, I spend loads on her and mini Q, but for me it is so much harder .

^^ Lion just now. It’s an indonesian beer. 8% 330 ml at about 3GBP per bottle.

More than 3 is hard graft.

330ml Trapist Delerium – about 4.75 per 330ml is good value. but three is enough.

Best value is the local beers Tiger, Leo Sing and Chang, but I respect my liver too much

They did miss price Trapist 10% on draft for a few weeks, and a pint was about 5gbp which was a bargain,

They do a beer tower now, missus Q says no i’m not allowed it. but a beer tower of 10% trappist beer would be amazing.

^ and why not, strong beer is the best beer. Who wants to spend their night chatting bollocks, when you can get it over and done with in 4 pints and have made a **** of yourself, and be in bed by 8

^ feeling a bit like that.

I love a cold can of special brew.

Snakebite made with Special Brew and Pulse cider is the business.

Always the way.

Oh shit, my keys are still ins-*click*-ide!

If adrenaline speeds up the absorption of weekend frivolities in your early twenties, that is a sure way to test it.

Unfortunately not, but in moments of desperation, my body can do amazing things. Meet my mum while two Hoffman’s kick in, or bend my wrist, fingers and soul to get the hasp to push the yale lock around.

Many moons ago, I may or may not have swallowed a couple of blotters, walked next door to chat to my neighbours who I was going exploring with, and realised at the sickening moment I had left my keys inside as I shut the door.

Option A was to try and drive to my folks and back to get the house keys before it went wrong, Option B was hang out until Sunday, not unkown, on Friday evening for flat mate to return. Option c- whch worked, was finding out a hasp, can be used to turn a yale lock through a letter box.

Good weekend was had.

Do you use metal or willow?

Is very nice and comes in a fancy bottle

Yesterday, I brought a man in with divining rods to find a new place for a well. I had a go, it didn’t work, he had a go it worked. very odd.

whith his assitant a giant lady body that looked like me in a dress with long red hair who was his assistant marking places on the ground with sticks.

A thoroughly bizarre but entertaining morning.

http://fireflybicycles.com/bikes/road-ti-carbon

^ If I had posted that in the wrong forum there would have been a right mard going on.

Diesel – stops it growing, ay stop most other things growing in that area as well.

Rogue Hazelenut

McEwans Champion

All I can think is – is it socks down there or natural.

Nature stuff that

Just had one of these, darker and larger walk across our living room wall, then disappear into the bedroom.

I hate them. Freaky things, last time I had one in the house it attacked me, or I scared it by screaming and it fell off the wall, one of the two.

This one I know from the other night watching it leap about 2m from wall to wall outside when I disturbed it. Must have felt it was ok to come in.

^ It was bought because it looked massive and would hold my 108kg mass.I ruined the wooden arms within 30s or so catching them under my desk.

Chair itself weighs about the same. I suspect that maybe it was designed for people, locally, who generally aren’t as large as me.

Just flipped it upside down, and I am going to have maintenance weld a support rod between the moving up and down parts to stop it sinking. That will sort it out for now.

If a thread is locked, then unlocked and nobody notices, did it ever happen?

Tree falling in the woods things again. a bit better than my last attempt

This thread needs some Angry Ram

I suspect this headless man might be involved somewhere

^ yup I like them.

I know the Note 10.1 must be due for an update. It’s just that bit smaller. Still the 12.2 is being eyed up by me. although it is a bit spendy.

There was a 10.1 Pro Note, but I haven’t seen them around for a while.

If Al is Alistair and Alistair is Al, who is Jeremy and why was he watching Al talking to Alistair outside the shop.

Who had the candlestick?

I saw a poster on STW, matther01, reading three pages of a thread and he wasn’t any the wiser. He must be a bit thick.

Or did that not happen.

I want a stylus.

I like my note 2, don’t need a note 4, but a larger format stylus that I can scribble on is what I am after

I would buy a note 10.1 2014 edition, but i know the second I buy it the new model will come out