>>14229
Just out of interest, what is the pay like?

>>14231
>you cannot control who you are up against

Excellent post. A lot of people are crap at customising their CV or their cover letter for the job - thats a big thing. But you also can't forecast or control who you are up against. I've recently missed jobs because I wasn't available (3 months notice) or the other candidate was a bird and they wanted diversity. C'est la vie. I'm cool with that, no matter how disappointing it might be.

OP, here. Strange thing, I did exactly as >>14235 suggested with a note to say I'd been invited to apply to this job.

About 45 minutes later I received another e-mail with an apology, saying there'd been a mixup with the recruitment system and that they hadn't intended to send out the boilerplate rejection.

This raises so many more questions.

Thank you to you lads anyway, all your suggestions may well have been the case. It turns out that I'm still in the running, however.

>>14236

The job advertisement says 50K per year.

>>14240
Once we hired 6 temps through an agency from the 30 odd applicants the company we recruit though told everyone they didn't get the job. So I phoned up the agency to arrange when I was going to interview the 12 we shortlisted. Everyone got sent the same rejection letter and most of them being actually competent got jobs elsewhere in the 2 weeks between posting the job ad and the end date. This meant we had to re-post the job and go through a load of CVs again.

>It had five stages of selection: the application, a video interview, a couple of work tests, and a final interview.
Seems a bit much. I hate this sort of thing. I just avoid it nowadays. Once they ask me why I am no longer interested, I tell them that their process is too long, and ridiculous.

I had one company ask for video of me talking about my experience and projects I lead on, alongside the application, interview, assessment, a presentation, and a final interview. I had another company that wanted me to do a two hour presentation on some subject they would share with me at the first interview.

It is too ridiculous. I am not applying to become the CEO.

The Royal Albert Hall might be an example, maybe. It's a bit more faux-Greco than I was thinking.

Brick Romanesque or Brick Renaissance. It's mainly found around the Baltic Sea, but it crops up wherever the local geology favours clay over stone.

>>5614

My guess was going to be Brick Gothic, but I guess the differences are marginal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Gothic

I don't think it's any of these because I'm thinking of stuff that's mostly used on older but still functional public buildings in this country; fire stations, libraries, town halls. They were all built around 1900. But yeah
>the differences are marginal.

Reminds me a bit of Whitchurch asylum in Cardiff, built 1908, now abandoned (and quite interesting to have a look around -

)

How easy is it to start a union? The chairman is very anti-union, which makes it even more of a fun project for me to start one.

>>14226
Probably far easier to invite an existing appropriate union in - they'll be well into it, and it's probably quicker.

"I know it's short notice, but can you give an hour long presentation to ~100 people tomorrow despite only having a couple of hours of proper training on the material because one of our usual presenters can't make it due to something that was entirely foreseeable?"

I like the company I work for because of how informal and laid back it is most of the time, but the dysfunctional management means every now and then something will crop up that's last minute and will need urgently sorting.

My work are expecting me to do one hour shifts at a client's house. So I have to pay £5 on the bus, travel an hour each way, for a net profit of £5. Absolute wank.

Someone has started a "side hustle" as a Body Shop At Home consultant, which means they're constantly trying to sell their wares.

I'm not sure if they count as pyramid schemes, but selling things like this, Avon and Usborne Books always seem to be aimed at so-called mumtrepreneurs.

>>9045
Elderly people taking up a sport where you routinely fall from a height or swing into a hard surface, what could go wrong?

I've got about £45k in a couple of old workplace pension schemes. How do I figure out the best place to move them?

I've tried using the Monevator broker comparison to look at flat fee providers, but I'm finding it hard to follow.

https://monevator.com/compare-uk-cheapest-online-brokers/

>>9083
Look at AJ Bell and Hargreaves Landsdowne.

I use HL - their mobile app is fine, their desktop site is fucking awful. Lots of people like AJ Bell. This presumes of course, that you're looking to move them into a SIPP and manage it yourself?

I think Freetrade have a SIPP now too? Got the app but never actually used them.

>>9084
>This presumes of course, that you're looking to move them into a SIPP and manage it yourself?

Yeah, I'm going to invest about half sensibly and use the other half for taking punts.

>>9085
An extremely good strategy - thats exactly what I do, and I easily make 14% - 18% per year. If any of my punts comes off, it'll be a lot higher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZALtzTmPz-E


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s9e7Nq1VO4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_cdKPMcjiQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VQXZyGcBls

>>12997
That first one is absolutely excellent.

>>448945
*boiled, not booked

>>448942
I would but then they'd probably turn around and say they want kids just to waste your time as well. It's rather frustrating to have to dump yet another woman and to likely continue my tradition of never having a valentine.

>>448944
This was a Korean place but it's more of a Chinese thing. Can't say I took to them, it's like an extreme form of ribs where there's very little meat to justify the hassle and in the case of feet you're spitting out bones.

If you're curious about the trotters then it's salty rubber.

>>448944

Trotters used to be a common British and Irish pub snack. You'd nibble at them like a meaty corn-on-the-cob.

Growing season is starting again.

I've got twelve chili pepper seedlings in my heated propagator right now. They are almost literally growing by the hour at the moment.

Chili peppers as well as other nightshades need a long growing period in our climate, so I always start mine right after the winter solstice. Which means that I then get to harvest the first two or three fully ripe cayenne peppers off my plants as early as mid-June.

Don't bump this thread any more lads, we have a new one.

/wdg/ - Weekday General

>>448954
>>448954
>>448954

>>70212
OK, so it's the Fresh Prince of Bel Air but every single member of the Banks family is a cool gangsta type basically. OK

>>70217
It's gritty and real.

Will Carlton be gay? If not, that's a real missed opportunity. If so, that's embarrassing woke tokenism that I'll probably complain about.

If I need to pay money for some streaming service to watch this, I won't watch it, but I can think of one way that would make a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reboot watchable, entertaining, uniquely different from the original and thrillingly modern:
>I got in one little fight and my mum got scared
>And said you're moving with your aunty and Uncle Louis in the Nation of Shamanism

In other words, I wish they'd bring back The Boondocks.

>>70219
>THE NATION OF SHAMANISM
Bloody wordfilters. I knew I should have gone with the Five-Percent Nation.

I think a modern fresh prince should subvert the concept, and instead of sending a hood rat to live in bel-air, it should send a black trust fund brat to live in compton. it wouldn't be comedy, it would be gritty and relevant.

Qualityland is hilarious, its a dystopian novel about what if Amazon was brought in as consultants to help fix Germany following a financial crisis. In one section in outlines how books have become personalised to the user so the Bible becomes a father-son story with a Star Wars twist and The Trial is an action story.

The title is a little clickbait but its an assessment of what has gone wrong between Sino-American relations in recent years followed by a sober analysis of the difference between the two and some predictions for the future.

The main selling point is it's written by a former senior diplomat for Singapore so you get a different perspective acknowledging how the current rivalry has been caused by strategic miscalculations from both sides. It provides a good overview of how China alienated the American business community from a lack of central control and how it continually fails to provide proper spokesmen and voices to the wider world outside of party slogans - including a report of a British diplomat who found it painful to deal with the Chinese who continually treat Britain with disdain that highlights why China has no friends. Equally you get a look at how the US has pushed conflict with China by violating its own agreements and putting China into position where it can't save face but is now in a position where it faces a serious challenge in beating China in a cold war it started. Also contains such gems as Europe needing to work with China in Africa because the US cannot possibly afford to support African development and the existential problem that eleventy-billion African migrants crossing the Mediterranean over the next century will either erase Europe or send it into right-wing extremism.

You can tell it was written in late 2019 though. In one comparison the author talks about how being born in China may be a better bet than being born in the US as the poorest Chinese will fair better in life, which is probably still valid but obviously the book describes what is going on in Xinjiang as detention motivated by terrorist attacks akin to the US in Afghanistan because I guess the whole genocide angle hadn't become public knowledge by then. It also has a very Singaporean approach to Hong Kong where the issue isn't democracy and the rule of law but how the population wasn't pacified by provision of social housing, which is rather out of step with the Hong Kongers I've met who hate the mainland Chinese as a people and the CCP for deliberately ruining the city.

>>7367
Did you read this just to better chat up Hong Kong expats? Be honest.

>>7367
>the book describes what is going on in Xinjiang as detention motivated by terrorist attacks akin to the US in Afghanistan because I guess the whole genocide angle hadn't become public knowledge by then
I am confident that the Uyghur stuff was already being described as a genocide in 2019. I can't prove it, but the Wikipedia page (which is actually titled "Uyghur genocide", in an astonishing statement of non-impartiality for the usually impartial Wikipedia) says it started in 2014, but most of the references are in fact from mid-2019 or later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
Anyway, your review of this book makes me suspect its author is more pro-China than I am.

I went into my local library to read a random book a few weeks ago, because I needed to waste a couple of hours. I only read about 30 pages of "America and Iran: A History", but those 30 pages were bloody fantastic so you might enjoy it if you like this sort of thing.

I'm hoping the rest of the Culture series is a marked improvement because this was alright, but it certainly wasn't anything to write home about and it dragged in parts.

I went to a Kunt gig, but he was only playing new songs and they were all shit. I hung out with him afterwards and he had a couple of strippers in his entourage. Well, one of them was naked I've no idea about the other one.

Dennis Waterman had died. I was walking down the rainy high street, and everyone was gathered around a display TV in an electronics shop window, women crying, as the BBC News reported on the death of Dennis Waterman. Had to check he was still alive when I woke up, the dream was that visceral.

I bought a large vineyard stretching multiple acres across the Franco-Spanish border at the Pyrenees. Upon reading up on the history of the place I learnt that it took many years and millions of euros of public money for France and Spain to finally have a ruling on precisely where the border sits for my vineyard which is odd as the region is more or less a settled matter between the two.

When I was asleep I thought to myself that such a legal battle had been stupid considering I own the whole thing but fortunately I'm not so daft in my waking life as I assume the wines will have different market value depending on which side of the magical line they sit and a different tax and state aid regime. Perhaps though there would be some kind of rounding up that would occur for the purposes of my vineyard though, I'm sure dream world me know what he's doing considering he owns a massive vineyard.

>>448950
I'm now getting adverts to invest in wine, thanks.

>>448951
Now is probably not a good time to invest in wine. Similar to the recent discussion on /poof/ about Rolex watches, prices have been shooting up because a lot of money is flooding into the en primeur markets due the sheer amount of surplus cash floating about. It's also likely that new entrants will keep everything they buy in storage and won't actually enjoy any of it themselves, so supply of a certain run won't become more scarce in that way.

>>448811

>Katherine Ryan is very intelligent and funny

Being Canadian, she's not as vacuously exuberant as many Murrikin women, but I would hesitate to call her intelligent. Most of the interest in her is probably based on her still looking like a shagable 25 year old although she is well into her late 30s.

>>448812
> late 30s.

I'm in my fifties - she looks fucking hot to me. Also, it's quite difficult to be actually funny, in on the joke, without being intelligent. She strikes me as a clever bird.

>>448813

Which kind of proves my point. She is a dream shag for middle aged men who would like to go a lot younger but can't quite pull actual 25 year olds anymore.

I don't mean that as an insult to you, because I am also in middle age (40ish), and getting somebody under 30 interested in you is a trick that becomes more difficult to pull off with every year that passes.

I'm on holiday this week but it doesn't feel like I've been able to recuperate at all. Partly that's because we've just had Christmas but also because I can't seem to unwind, I wish I'd stayed at home and taken a proper week to live the NEET life I really want.

>>448806
>>448807
For me, ARE Katherine is one of the most stereotypical London girls you get. You'll know the sort if you live the city; she does articles for some shit like Bloomberg or has her own online magazine, does vaguely arty stuff within very predefined and safe bounds, usually lives across the river in a more suburban bit.

I want to fuck her because I know she will be an utter bore to talk to, probably pretentious too if you get her in the mood, but that she will absolutely suck your dick like a pro.

I've not liked playing xbox (or getting into it properly) for years now and I got given an old xbox one as a present a few years ago.

I've always had it, but mainly to play the odd game when bored every few months for an hour or use it for apps.

I randomly downloaded Halo on Game Pass and I've never liked Halo but I've actually really enjoyed it and it's slightly reignited that nice escapism games used to give.

Strangely happy about this.

>>24148
So how is this second Matrix film everyone's been talking about?

>>24154
I couldn't be arsed leaving the house, in the end.

>>24156
Pissed and bluepilled.

I thought it was pretty good considering how bad it could have been. Only thing that didn't really work for me was Smith.

It was a pretty clever film actually if you consider all the meta stuff to be a valid part of a film's appraisal. I'm sure we've all either watched it or watched a video review by now, and we know how the central conceit is basically to just subvert the whole idea of a Matrix sequel.

Now, that's fine, but the thing is this film isn't going to age at all. It's a film of here and now, and it will have no lasting relevance. And I think they knew that- That's why all of it looks so cheap and naff. That's one of the biggest things I noticed about it all, it didn't feel like a big budget movie, it felt like a Netflix adaptation. It might have had a high budget, but the crew certainly didn't agonise over the process of making it.

It's nice if you're an arty farty film critic snob who likes to think about the deep stuff and the meta-context; if you actually wanted a good Matrix sequel, though, you're shit out of luck.

It's kind of the exact opposite of Denee Veelnuh's Dune. That film is exceptionally well made, but straight as an arrow, with all the subtextual depth of a drink coaster. In fact all of Dennis Veelnerv's films are like that, people wank over them but they're always just really hyper-focussed, "one note", very literal. He even managed to make Blade Runner too straightforward somehow.

>>36251
Nope. It's a good thing this kind of behaviour is getting explicitly mentioned, but in terms of practical changes the impact is minimal.

>>36250
>inciting hatred against women to be made criminal offence

Imagine making 20k a year and having to arrest blokes for complaining about women down the pub. "Ello ello ello, not all women are such an utter pain in the arse that you consider pursuing a homosexual relationship with your effeminate friend who has now grown his hair out."

Or complaining about the way our society is structured that has alienated young men, however poorly the argument is made and whose fundamental complaint of isolation has been twisted by the only people in the world who seem to give a fuck about them. It's really quite shocking how we brush this issue under the rug like we're not going to end up with a society run by alt-right and Peterson fanatics in a generation.

>cornering someone

How did the mating ritual of Japanese anime people lead to a police officer rape-killing a woman?

>>36251
We have to have special rules for women now because we forgot how liberal humanism works.

>>36253

>It's really quite shocking how we brush this issue under the rug like we're not going to end up with a society run by alt-right and Peterson fanatics in a generation.

You know, the longer it goes on the more I'm starting to think that's part of the plan. The ruling elite has decided allowing the fisherperson and larger civil rights and sexual revolution of the 60s happen was a mistake and we need some good old fashioned social norms bringing back into society.

Of course, that men will have to carry on enduring all the harmful things men endured before feminism, that fisherpersons never did anything about even though they constantly talk about doing things about them, but now they will carry on enduring them after feminism has been defeated too. Thank goodness for that eh.

It's almost like the whole thing was a diversion in the first place to stop us getting carried away making actual structural, material societal changes at a time of great historical turbulence. Of course, we're in much steadier waters in current year, we needn't bother with all those concessions.

>A Metropolitan Police officer accused of a string of sex offences is facing further charges linked to another four victims including six counts of rape, prosecutors said.

>David Carrick, of Hertfordshire, will be charged with nine further offences, the Crown Prosecution Service said. In total he is accused of 29 crimes against eight women from 2009 to 2020.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-59944241

It's just one or two bad apples, lads.

>>36613
Rape of civilians is part and parcel of having a police force.

Maybe it's just The Mirror, but that article reads as though it's trying to sell the lifestyle. I'd really like to live 'off-grid' as a shepard or even a peasant, but I don't want to do it if i'm playing into someones agenda.

I've read it takes an acre of land to feed a single person from crops.

>>448935
You could probably get away with less through hydroponics and vertical farming.

>>448936

Not the easiest thing to maintain if you're in any way actually off the grid though.

>>448937
Neither would an acre of land be.

>>448934
Its all well and good having land, but not all land is suitable for growing on. You're not going to grow a lot outside on stony hillsides. Which is why there's a lot of sheep and livestock on that land instead.

One of my friends is a real middle class Good Life wanker with his little bit of land with goats, duck chickens and extensive veg garden. Being a professor, he has a ton of time off over the summer and only does lectures 3 days a week tops. He's still not completely off grid, though he is trying to get planning permission to put more solar panels up.

>>448890

All of the brokers being interviewed by Joan Bakewell had working-class accents. At that time, losing your regional accent was almost a prerequisite for social mobility - Joan Bakewell grew up in Stockport, but you wouldn't know it from her perfect RP. Even the young lady in the yellow blazer spoke in an accent that would be considered "common" by the standards of the day, the sort of accent you might hear on Eastenders but certainly wouldn't hear coming from a newsreader.

>>448891

I (Thatcherlad) think that the situation is much worse than the blind profit motive. Britain is horrendously corrupt, we've just been conditioned to think of it as "sleaze". Somehow a foreign person taking an envelope full of cash is seen as worse than a British person giving their nephew a £150k job or their mate a £150m government contract. We use phrases like "it's not what you know, it's who you know" without for a moment reflecting on the awfulness of that reality. Our institutions aren't laissez-faire, they're structured to aid and abet corruption.

I think we should let capitalism go mental and use the resulting tax revenues to patch up the damage, you probably think the government should play an active role in managing the economy, but neither of us are served by the current state of affairs.

>>448892

I'm not convinced. The other lad in turquoise, at a push, but the one in black had plums in his mouth.

>>448894

The "t" in "better" is progressively overcorrected as he repeats it, betraying the fact that he'd naturally drop it. His vowels are far too close and fronted to be even remotely RP - the "a" in "Labour" is a dead giveaway.

It sounds like you lads have misunderstood what she meant.

>>42451
Agreed, looked like a personal army/bumsore/drama post which is why it is gone.

Rachel Riley's been replaced by a chunky black woman. A massive improvement in every way.

>>42527
I'll have to go visit my dad - see if his viewing habits have suddenly changed.

>>42527
It's temporary due to maternity leave, isn't it? Although since they probably film 20 episodes of Countdown a day, our new lady could be with us for a while.

>>8528
Please don't do anything rash fella, each and every one of you are great lads, and it would hurt all of us if any of you did anything irreversible. We're all knobheads with issues, some more severe than others, and we can all talk things through seriously where demanded and we all have time for you.

Hope you're okay.

Six months today.

>>8537
Well done mate, sincerely. I hope to get there one day too.

>>8537
Very well done.

>>8537
Good work, lad. Keep it up,

I used to have a LISA. Then I bought my first home in London and realised the house has to be less than £500k to get the bonus, which pissed me right off.

>>9100
Stop it, I'm tearing up.

>>9100

>I used to have a LISA.

So did I. She had the most alluring kind of petit figure, barely scraping five feet and flat chested, but deeply feminine with an arse that could crack walnuts. She had this mischievous grin and a filthy sense of humour that just melted me at a glance. I took her virginity, she took mine. We had the most disgustingly cute nicknames for each other. But it was not to be. She changed. I changed. We grew apart. It couldn't last.

Different kind of Lisa, I know, but sigh

>>9102
I think I read about this online. Is your name Bart?

>>9103

Not quite.

>>36601

>In my experience, every single time a person or an organization has used that "boo hoo hoo forgive me please I am just dumb" excuse, it was a lie to cover for something much worse than that.

Really? Then you must live in a much more competent world than I do. Horrendous fuck-ups happen all the time, because a) human beings are very fallible and b) most organisations are at least somewhat dysfunctional and lacking in accountability.

Where malice is involved, it's frequently in the form of a cover-up of incompetence rather than a deliberate intent to cause harm. The Post Office scandal is an obvious example of this - nobody wanted to wrongly prosecute nearly a thousand people for fraud based on completely false evidence, but lying to the court for a decade was easier than admitting "we spent a billion quid on a useless IT system and we don't know what to do about it". The worst miscarriage of justice in British history was just a schoolboy lie taken to extremes.

The bleak reality is that most people are actually quite shit at their jobs and we've created a culture that allows powerful people to evade accountability. There's no grand conspiracy, just a tacit omerta. Nobody in a position of power wants to hold anyone else to account, because they might be next in line. Some people really do have terrible skeletons in their closet, but the secret most people are hiding is simply that they have no idea what they're doing and spend most of their working hours trying not to get caught out.

>>36601

Are you by any chance the sort of person who wholeheartedly believes and accepts the accuser's story in every big sex scandal, because "I knew he was one of 'em"? The sort who can spot a carpet-bagger at forty paces?

The sort who is frequently wrong, is what I'm getting at.

>>36603

You will have to admit that UK has a lot of carpet-baggers in its ruling caste. I wonder if we will see a British Epstein in our lifetimes.

>>36604
>I wonder if we will see a British Epstein in our lifetimes.

Jim'll?

>>36602

Cyril Smith and Jimmy Savile were quite competent at their job!