Painting The World Pink

...But senior management make me that angry anyway.

All the news sites are building up to Thuggo Griffin's appearance on Question Time like it's the FA Cup final. (Maybe Griffin's the ball!)

The Indy has a list of things we may like to know about The BNP - something for the other panellists to look at.

There's the Graunaid's Live Text Feed - telling us about the protests against the Fat One's appearance. That'll feed his "Martyr Complex"!

I'm more amused that The World, His Missus, pet dog and cat feel obliged to comment. Found a copy of The Sun lying around in the work canteen this morning - according to the hypersexual Russell Brand, it's good that the BNP will be appearing on QT so the public can see that "the BNP peddle rhubarb".

Rhubarb is evil then, and hopefully one of the other panellists will preparing a grilling as I type.

Thank goodness it's a strike day on Friday - I could do with a break from these 6am alarms.

From Malakeas' idea.

My name is RIThompson and I will no longer tolerate online stalkers.

I will not feed their fire by responding to their comments or posts except in three ways:

1. I will choose to delete their offending comment if I can
2. I will ignore their comments/posts on another blog
3. And then, I will move on.

I will not give them blogging space or another thought for there are many other people here that deserve my energy and attention.

May this blogging community regain its blogging spirit and take back this community from stalkers and claim it as their own.

If you believe this as well, then copy and post this on your blog with your user name.

That is all.

The Over Zealous Bureaucrat of the Week award has got to go the Morrisons store that couldn't sell a woman a bottle of wine, in case her 17 year old daughter drunk it.

A few points come into my mind (and don't get lost in there),
1. She's 17! Legally, if she's in a restaurant with her family, she can have a drink.
2. It was her mother buying the drink, not her. If she has a drink at home it's perfectly legal - it's not like her kid is a 3 year old.
3. The French (and the rest of Europe) are probably laughing at our prohibition attitude to drink.
4. Finally, any teenager shopping with her mother is probably not the sort to hang around outside Sainsburys/Morrisons/the offy with a bottle of White Lightening.

The Graunaid asks today, "are students living a champagne lifestyle?

Yes. But the champagne is cheap sparkling wine from Tesco.

Some professor at Queen Mary's university (clearly his research was done within the confines of his faculty) thinks that students live in estate agents dream homes and eat fine foods from posh supermarkets.

Ha. Really? Doesn't sound like my uni days to me!

Friends, or Young Ones?
(Yes, I'm aware that Young Ones was set in a different era but try to imagine them studying now!)

Accommodation: My friends rented a house from a landlord who didn't care that the place was falling to bits - as long as he got his rent money every month.
Verdict: Young Ones.

Eating: None of us bought our lunch from Waitrose or M&S. Okay, we bought wine, sushi and other goodies, but they were the Tesco cheap version. Our food came from either Tesco, Greggs, or one of the many fake KFCs that dominated the high street of Sh*tehole 3.
Verdict: Young Ones

Technology: We had desktops - at home and in the university library. That was our main method of typing essays/looking for library books/checking facebook/blogging. As for mobiles, we live in a time when it's necessary for life and work to have one. Usually cheap and on pay as you go.
Verdict: Young Ones.

So, I don't know what planet this professor did his research - I'm guessing it wasn't the same one that my former polytechnic university inhabited.

1. Is there anybody you just wish would fall off the planet?
Not exactly fall off the Earth, just get out of my face and stop annoying me!

2. How do you flush the toilet in public?
I don't. I flush it in private

3. Do you wear your seatbelt in the car?
All the time (except when parking)

4. Do you have a crush on someone?
Surprisingly, not at the moment.

5. Name one thing you worry about running out of.
Marbles.

6. What famous person do you (or other people) think you resemble?
No one.

7. What is your favourite pizza topping?
Cheese.

8. Do you crack your knuckles?
no

9. What song do you hate the most?
Ooh...hold on while I find my list. Oh, probably any Aqua song.

10. Did just mentioning that song make it get stuck in your head?
No.

11.What are your super powers?
Unlocking doors with my fingertips.

12 Peppermint or spearmint?
spearmint

13.Where are your car keys?
On my bed.

14. Last song you listened to?
Hurt by Johnny Cash

15. What's your most annoying habit?
Like Matt, I interrupt far too much - I blame my short attention span and the fact that I'm short so people talk over the top of my head.

16 Where did you last go on vacation?
Vacation, not family functions. Bath in January.

17. What is your best physical feature?
There's two of them.

18. What CD is closest to you right now?
A CD rack full of them.

19.What 3 things can always be found in your refrigerator?
Milk. Bread. Butter.

20 What superstition do you believe/practice?
Don't really have superstitions, only morning rituals.

21. What colour are your bed sheets?
The current ones? Blue.

22. Would you rather be a fish or a bird?
A bird. In one sense, I'm a bird already.

23. Last thing you broke?
A knife handle - only one corner of it.

24 What are you having to eat tonight?
Probably a chicken curry.

25. What colour shirt are you wearing?
Yellow (not pink)

26. If you could be doing anything else today, what would you rather be doing?
Whatever it is I'm doing now, just not here with the view of wet north London.

27. Do security cameras make you nervous?
Not really.

28. If you wrote a book about your life, what would the title be?
"Why am I here again?"

29. Last time you went to a cemetery?
The day after my Granny was buried.

30. Last concert you went to?
Leonard Cohen in London

31. Favourite musician(s)/bands you've seen in concert?
See answer to last question. I haven't been to see many concerts.

32. Next concert you're planning to attend?
Planning? I haven't planned any concert trips!

33. Do you talk to yourself?
Yes. Started whenever it was that I first went mad.

34. Have you ever adopted or purchased a pet?
A goldfish which lasted about 3 years until I accidentally boiled it.

35. Have you ever been present when an animal is being born?
No, not yet anyway. Still time though.

Happy Friday everyone. Hope none of you are working this weekend, like me!

Looking through the BBC website, I found this item of the weekend's news.

Really, when did we stop trusting that most people actually behave like adults?

1. Why not just give out paper scissors? They just about manage to cut paper, and are generally useless for anything tougher.
2. There might be some confusion over what a guillotine does! It is nothing like the execution method used by the French for two centuries, and so cannot be used to cut your head off! And as for beating you over the head with that - how paranoid are you?! If you're terrified of the public beating you up, don't bloody work in a public place!

Got that, because I really don't want to explain it again!

Dear Employers, recruiters and HR managers,

Following on from scanning yet another disheartening job page, I have a question to ask you.

Why do you think that managers and executives are of more use in a recession than administrators and other underlings?

It seems that all these new managers that are being recruited are not going to have any one to manage! (But they won't be managing people, because they'll all their time in stupid meetings)

And another thing - why not help out a poor agency worker (me) by offering them a contract for a few months/years. There must be thousands of people in my position who are searching for proper work and only see jobs for management. Please consider all of us - make up a few jobs, make them ongoing temp/permanent roles and hire me. I don't ask for much.

Yours very hopefully,

Ros of Pink Blog