I hate those. Usually I find I just end up emailing them and they just email back saying "oh just put the 1st of the month in". If it is any help, that problem irritates me so much I have put serious thought into exactly how you avoid that problem.

As Toby keeps saying, "I wish i could fly"

I've decided that my qualifications actually give me more arm ache than anything useful. So glad I didn't go to uni, less to write on long and annoying job application forms! :P meh :P
Toby ranted about online application forms several posts back and I'm doing likewise now. The one i was trying to fill out was so useless i've resorted to the 'old-fashioned' way of using pen and paper :P For the 'qualifications and work based training' section, it wouldn't let you proceed unless you entered the year, month and DAY you started and finished each course. Can anyone else remember the precise date they started secondary school and college? For notice period it had a drop down selection of everything except '1 month' which I needed and thought was actually quite common for most jobs! grr :P

END OF RANT
*falls asleep*

Tumbleweed.

T U M B L E W E E D

probly have now ;)

Sometime soon we are going to have used up all the tumbleweed images on the entire web...

people...words...communication? .......tumbleweed...

hot smut library

*screams and runs out the door* so many books, so much tidying, so little time....

Surrender to the Goat and worship Him

Agh! Horrible and trance-inducing Van Mildert JCR forum invasion!

don't ask me, the delivery bloke just knocked on the door and said, 'one hypnotic sloth to sign for please'. It's just been.. following me around ever since. bit of a liability, really, seeing as it's already hypnotised four drivers while i was about town looking in shop windows wishing i needed to buy something which claimed the lives of pedestrians subsequent to unlucky motorists' errant drifting down the pedestrian precinct out of allotted delivery hours
there has been the further matter of its gaze fell on those out shopping who having collapsed in slumber have been regrettably dragged away by animals & the unscrupulous, shrieking to find themselves roused from sleep well out of their element and in a whole heap of trouble!

*stands on one leg and does a chicken impression* buc buc...

There is little consensus of opinion here:

Ctrlphreak: Blue! It's always blue!
Sr. Gibberish: Hit it, hit it! I want its halberd!

So if John wants to get a grip on Jill, and they both have the same birthday and it is wednesday, what colour is the doorknob on the cupboard that they hide in to get some privacy?

So, if Jill is Afro-Caribbean and John is White British, they may only intersect in employment if they share the same birthday? This has terrible implications for boss-secretary relations, you realise. Management would need a firm grasp of set theory in order to get a firm grasp on anything else.

The main problem, of course, is that Imhotep is invisible.

Employment is a mapping over the set of tuples (birthday, ethnic-type)?

it's to test whether you can successfully remember your date of birth 4 times

or maybe in case you have more than one birthday, like the queen

/me drops cheesey off a low wall onto a well-greased inclined plane

Which will win? Irritability, apathy or physics? Place your bets now! </banzai>

(Yeah, yeah, no need to get tetchy. I wasn't trying to offend, merely querying what I considered to be rather drastic action. As you were)

Addendum: I hate fookin' forms! Why, in the name of all things bureaucratic, do online job application forms require you to fill in your D.O.B four times, your previous employment details twice and your ethnic origin in about five different ways using a combination of tick boxes and drop-downs?!? Is this merely a test of potential applicants' resolve, or perhaps the by-product of some twisted curse placed upon the HR department to ensure an infinite supply of paperwork for tormenting secretaries with?

EOR (End Of Rant)

I have enough evidence and I have acted according to my prudence and reason, not according to my emotional responses. I deliberately left enough time to consider the case rationally and calmly, and, having considered, I acted. Can we let this drop now please?

I still think you're being less than objective. And no, I was not using the term gentleman in jest - despite his numerous foibles and lack of social conscience, he's still part of the human race.

You're all funny little buggers, aren't you?
*pats the (ir)regulars affectionately on the head*

He didn't have shell access, and honestly I doubt he would be posting here again anyhow. I've already discussed this with Jimmy at some length.

Mossy: :gb2ooc:

Edit: If I were allowing my personal feelings to affect this there would be a Deny rule in httpd.conf stopping him from reading anything on this server. That is not my aim in this.

(I do hope you were using the word gentleman in a sarcastic fashion)

Venturing my opinion, as co-admin of this particular server, I personally have no issues with letting #87 post here. I would claim that nobody should have admin rights or shell accounts without good reason, but I see little harm in letting people post. If any of his posts to this site were inflamatory or tasteless then obviously he'd be removed. Your personal feelings towards the gentleman should not impact upon the administration of (semi-)public fora such as this.

That is all.
(geeze, someone fetch me a carpet bag and a talking umbrella)

how very... yes.

b&

Ben Grandis (#87) will no longer be posting here, due to a massive breach of trust. He had been de-adminned for some time, since it became obvious he was no longer fit to be in that position; and he has now been removed entirely and is no longer welcome here.

Any comments may be either posted here or directed to me in person if it is felt that they are not appropriate for this forum.

It's about time we had our own forum drama. :-)

Edit: I just realised this is my first coherent post since february. Fuck that.

oh hay jimmy have you seen- piles

There's only one answer to that.

"The moose will bite onto a pinetree, inside the pine an elevator will lift people up to enter the moose through the mouth. The bransches from the pine will serve as an umbrella over the antlers."

WHY CAN'T I UNDRESS THE MOOSE AND COVER HIM IN ... oh, never mind.