[A Demon Llama!]

 QuickTidal, on 05 November 2015 - 04:50 PM, said:

 Maark, on 05 November 2015 - 03:46 PM, said:

 QuickTidal, on 05 November 2015 - 03:43 PM, said:

 Maark, on 05 November 2015 - 03:04 PM, said:

The standard work tribulation of "we're going to change a bunch of processes, not tell you we've changed them and then get on your case for not following the new processes we never informed you of".

This exact shit happens so often at my work that it's basically become the office joke.

Less painful to mash our faces against an active steamroller.

With spikes.

Bonus points when shit changed mid project for some reason that was already approved and good to go.

[Maark Abbott]

 A Demon Llama!, on 05 November 2015 - 05:18 PM, said:

 QuickTidal, on 05 November 2015 - 04:50 PM, said:

 Maark, on 05 November 2015 - 03:46 PM, said:

 QuickTidal, on 05 November 2015 - 03:43 PM, said:

 Maark, on 05 November 2015 - 03:04 PM, said:

The standard work tribulation of "we're going to change a bunch of processes, not tell you we've changed them and then get on your case for not following the new processes we never informed you of".

This exact shit happens so often at my work that it's basically become the office joke.

Less painful to mash our faces against an active steamroller.

With spikes.

Bonus points when shit changed mid project for some reason that was already approved and good to go.

I'll take those bonus points and thank you very much.

[Illuyankas]

 Mezla PigDog, on 05 November 2015 - 09:05 AM, said:

Officially have a healthy bun in the oven. Got the pictures to prove it. Yeah that's all great blah blah blah but just to say that so far being pregnant for 3 months has possibly been the most shit experience of my life. Eating makes me feel sick, not eating makes me feel sick. drinking more than a sip at a time makes me feel sick, spending a normal amount of time on my feet makes me want to fall down, I can't sleep through the night and I can't even find comfort in a nice English cup of tea because that makes me feel sick too!!! I might as well be dead. If I had £1 for every time I have whined "I just feel all wrong" in the last 12 weeks I would be at least £20 richer. If I had another £1 for every hour I have spent lying on the sofa watching shit tv then I would have significantly more. Thank god I can work from home. I'm looking forward to the alleged improvement in months 4 to 6. Sidenote - Docs have given me the all clear too, it's not like I'm special and there's anything particularly wrong with me.

A Very English Pregnancy

[worry]

Maybe you've got that super-puking condition the princess had when she was pregnant.

[worry]

Anyway, the license plate was stolen from home, BK. I did feel naught but worry, Maark. Time is a flat snorkel, Abyss.

Anyone else shocked that Rupert Murdoch buying National Geographic has led to this? https://www.washingt...f839_story.html

[amphibian]

I've subscribed to NG since about 1989. The magazine has undergone several transitions since then, with an editorial change somewhere in 2002/2003 kicking it up to previously unreached levels of quality. Most months since then for the last twelve years, NG has been the best magazine on the planet.

The selection of writers, the photography, the article topics, the art direction, it's all been brilliant. I'm sitting two feet away from three of this year's issues and I am thinking about getting one of their maps of Amazonian river zones framed.

I'm certainly worried that the cuts are going to affect the institutional culture that produced this decade long run of sheer excellence and the genuine care for making the planet better.

I'll remain a subscriber for a while, but I'm watchful.

[Gnaw]

"Several people in the channel’s fact-checking department, for example, were terminated on Tuesday, employees said."

Yeah, that's going to work out well.

[Binder of Demons]

Now maybe it's looking back through rose tinted glasses, but when i was a child I thought the National Geographic documentaries were great. But the last few times (over a 10 year period) I tried to watch one of their docs, I got so angry with the piss poor explanations and patronising tone that I switched them off. Maybe it's because I'm (somewhat) trained in the areas they were talking about that it seemed like they were trying to pitch it at 5 year olds (or certainly an audience with the attention span of a 2 year old). There was one doc where they were going to use some sonar to locate a wreck, and the way they made it sound like such an amazing thing, all I could think of was the fucking L'Oreal ad proclaiming, "Here comes the science bit". Patronising shite.

I know the budget of the BBC natural history unit is massive, but it's more that they seem to be able to find the right balance between giving enough info to satisfy those who are already somewhat informed, and not talk completely over the heads of the casual viewer.


As for the publication, I was a subscriber from when i was kid, into my late teens, and thought they were great. I would have held the magazine up as an example of good writing, good research, and beautiful photography. I became quite disillusioned to find out that they were as guilty of "massaging the facts" as anyone, when I was starting out doing nature photography. I remember there was a bit of a scandal when they were found to have manipulated photographs the make things look nicer, without telling the photographers involved. One particluar case involved making a composite photo from 3 originals and passing it off as real. This lead to jobs being lost, lawsuits, and a serious lack of credibility going forward. I for one, stopped paying any serious attention to them then, and only occasionally looked at an issue or a product of theirs on a whim (probably because i was conversant with several people who had shot stuff for National Geographic at that point). I just expected more. and then, the documentary films were the killing blow for me.


messing with my groove is that ironically, after that rant, I am actually trying to clear out a room of a load of old gear, some of which is my old collection of national geographic magazines from when i was a kid. I have been procrastinating all night, and need to just get ruthless and throw a load of crap out.

[Macros]

Yeah Murdochs not gong to use the NG to further poison the world with his views and politics.

[Mezla PigDog]

 Illuyankas, on 05 November 2015 - 06:08 PM, said:

A Very English Pregnancy

It's jolly rotten I can tell you Jeeves! I'm not feeling at all spiffy.

 worry, on 05 November 2015 - 08:06 PM, said:

Maybe you've got that super-puking condition the princess had when she was pregnant.

From casting around my friends I think I'm at the harsh end of the normal spectrum. I know someone who had the super puking condition and she was hospitalized so I definitely don't have that. Official health advice is that you only need the doctor if you can't keep anything down for a whole day. I only puke a bit, I can eat, it just makes me feel terrible.

Doing a bit better today, woke feeling semi ok, then got up and puked a bit and now have managed to clear up some of the mountain of laundry and washing up that has built up in my dining room and kitchen. Mr PigDog keeps having to work away so I've been properly wallowing. The current insurmountable issue is that I've been too tired to take the kitchen bin out so it smells and I know that changing it will make me puke! I put it outside. Mr PigDog is home tonight, he can deal with it.

WHEN WILL I START TO GLOW?????!!!!!

[Maark Abbott]

 amphibian, on 05 November 2015 - 09:34 PM, said:

I've subscribed to NG since about 1989. The magazine has undergone several transitions since then, with an editorial change somewhere in 2002/2003 kicking it up to previously unreached levels of quality. Most months since then for the last twelve years, NG has been the best magazine on the planet.

The selection of writers, the photography, the article topics, the art direction, it's all been brilliant. I'm sitting two feet away from three of this year's issues and I am thinking about getting one of their maps of Amazonian river zones framed.

I'm certainly worried that the cuts are going to affect the institutional culture that produced this decade long run of sheer excellence and the genuine care for making the planet better.

I'll remain a subscriber for a while, but I'm watchful.

Given what he's done to our newspapers, I'd not hold out hope.

[QuickTidal]

Considering the sad tale of what happened to Canadian Geographic Magazine after it was bought by Shell Oil...I have VERY little faith that Murdoch and Co. won't screw with the NG structure, content, and output...I mean isn't Murdoch a frigging climate change denier?

My dad and I both subscribed and collected NG magazine for years (him since the 1950's, me since the 80's)...and I still love it up to today. These days I don't subscribe, but pick it up more often than not (based on the content appealing to me)...but yeah, this is pretty much the death knell for the magazine we all knew. There is no way in hell that things won't change with Fox owning such a large portion. Which is sad...cause I can't even go to Canadian Geographic as a backup!

[Solidsnape]

Job hunting. Yuk.

[Abyss]

 Mezla PigDog, on 06 November 2015 - 10:51 AM, said:

 Illuyankas, on 05 November 2015 - 06:08 PM, said:

A Very English Pregnancy

It's jolly rotten I can tell you Jeeves! I'm not feeling at all spiffy.

 worry, on 05 November 2015 - 08:06 PM, said:

Maybe you've got that super-puking condition the princess had when she was pregnant.

From casting around my friends I think I'm at the harsh end of the normal spectrum. I know someone who had the super puking condition and she was hospitalized so I definitely don't have that. Official health advice is that you only need the doctor if you can't keep anything down for a whole day. I only puke a bit, I can eat, it just makes me feel terrible.

Doing a bit better today, woke feeling semi ok, then got up and puked a bit and now have managed to clear up some of the mountain of laundry and washing up that has built up in my dining room and kitchen. Mr PigDog keeps having to work away so I've been properly wallowing. The current insurmountable issue is that I've been too tired to take the kitchen bin out so it smells and I know that changing it will make me puke! I put it outside. Mr PigDog is home tonight, he can deal with it.

WHEN WILL I START TO GLOW?????!!!!!

You are glowing.

You just cant see it under the sweat grime dust puke kitchen scraps dirty socks...



Re the nausea, for what its worth, eating, even a snack, when you're NOT feeling hungry or nauseous can help in some cases. There can be different reasons for the nausea but if you're one of those people who is getting in in reaction to hunger (more or less), it can help.

[Puck]

Phone: *ring* *ring*
Puck: Yeah?
Mom: Where are you?!
Puck: At home, looking for work.
Mom: Why are you not here? There's stuff that needs to be done by tomorrow morning!
Puck: ..because you said it has to be done on Saturday.
Mom: Yes, but early Saturday. By 8am.
Puck: That's something you never mentioned.
Mom: I can't be expected to remember to tell you. (no, really, she said that, seriously)
Puck: If you don't tell me something's different than usual, I cannot know that it is.
Mom: Well, no need to sulk about it. Are you coming over or not?

..that's AFTER we've had the 'Please stop planning my time away as you please, because as you keep pointing out I am old enough to work and organize my own life'-talk for the upteenth time. It reminds me of the time when she threw me out of the house and I was staying with friends who lived an hour and a half by train away for two months, yet she still expected me to jump and come over whenever she had something she though I should do.

We also had the same talk the other day, when she fully espected me to come over and help at her workplace, but only told me an hour before the fact, and was awfully indignant when I told her I had an appointment to get an anti-allergy shot and would not be allowed to work for most of that day, as I might just up and faint. Naturally, it is my fault she cannot keep her work straight.

It'd be funny if this hadn't been going on for the past ten years. She keeps yelling at me to get a life and a job, then obstructing my attempts at self-employment (because paying legal taxes is the devil), but can't manage the work she takes on without so much as remembering to tell me early enough.

But I bet that since she's not going to get any propr dinner served tonight (since I'm heading over to waste hours on things I've told her many times I don't want to do), she's going to be cranky as hell.

*sigh*

/rant


Edit: Guess whaaat? I go over to her workplace and she's like 'You're too late, I'm going to head home now.'
...

This post has been edited by Puckstein: 06 November 2015 - 06:19 PM

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Don't think I will like the new job. I miss my time at home with my son.

[worry]

Puck have you thought about having her committed to an asylum and usurping her place?

[A Demon Llama!]

Didn't get a raise at work. When I told my manager I will not be continuing to do the extra shit that I've been doing for the last few months (I was not told to do but did it through initiative) that they pretended to not notice/ look into even when explicitly asked by me to look into before the year review, I was told what other duties I would like to have taken off from my job description. Bunch of douchefruits.

I guess I will be taking shit reaaaal slow from now on.

[Puck]

Aaaand I officially have no home anymore. I honestly, truly do not care anymore what my mother does. I have just started picking myself back up, with therapy and getting this self-employment thing under way. I don NOT need her to drag me back down. So yeah, she threw me out.

[Tsundoku]

Are you able to crash at any of your mates places? Maybe couch-surf for a while?