I would like a pool table though.Originally Posted by Pepe
I would like a pool table though.
Having a giant house sounds great until you realise how much cleaning you'd have to do
*employ an ethnic minority to do
Or that.
I thought that too. I have used it probably less than 20 times in the 5 years we have had the house. Thank god I bought a second hand one.
A pool table would be brilliant.
My territories got placed number 1 for sales in April
Normally we're sat in about 7th behind the people who do the Middle East, the South American mining sector, the south east Asian fishing boat sector etc etc.
In other news, the boss just came in and said it'll be end of June before the furloughed people return. Happy days.
He's basically milking the scheme for as long as possible, then. You better hope it doesn't get extended.
Surely it can't be extended? The country will go bankrupt. Although I guess it's that or a shit ton of people get laid off on 1 July.
They've already extended it once for some reason, it wouldn't surprise me if they do it again.
My lot Furloughed a load of people today. They're paying the extra 20% as well. I'm not included.
That's how those things go. It is easier to just head to your local pub whenever you want to play.
I employ a white woman to do mine. Am I doing it wrong?
You should be applying a Phillipino to complete the circle of life.
As if pubs have pool tables in them these days. Take that pool table out and you can pack in another two or three tables and an extra 15-20 people.
We had our best profits for March April in 5 years but it would be the next three that would want to be worried about.
I haven’t seen a pub with one in years. The cues are too good a weapon.
Is this an Irish thing? Every pub in Swansea had at least one pool table and they were legally obligated to serve drinks in plastic glasses in case a fight broke out most days of the week.
They just seemed to die out more than being a rule or anything. You’d see the odd one in a proper pub in the country but any built up areas would rather have the floor space too.
That was every weekend for me from the age of 16 to around 24. Pool on Friday and Saturday night in the pub, winner stays on among around 20 of us. We always used to be raging when he moved it away on a Sunday evening to clear the dance floor for the country and western band.
I've just done a 40 minute telephone interview with a news paper regarding the new starter bollocks. My anxiety levels went through the roof.
Imagine how the poor fucker on the other end of the line must be feeling.
40 minutes? Jaysus. Are you the only one being quoted in the story?
If you're actually pushing this forward Tim, I work in communications and I can provide some of our dos/donts when doing those sort of interviews. Really they're only looking for like 2-3 sentences to illustrate the point they already want to make so it's about hitting those. Happy to talk it through with you on another format.
I just spoken honestly about the situation as to how it affects me and others plus what could have been done, what could still be done to ensure many more are eligible etc.
I've never done anything like it but I've been at this for a solid month now. It's gone beyond getting furlough now, it's more the principle of the matter as it's just not right. Not just for me personally but for so many others. Every day the stories get worse, it's quite upsetting tbh so any advice is welcome advice.
He’s not wrong there, most of the pubs still have a pool table in around here, in awful, shoddy condition normally.
Only legally obligated to use plastic on match days though, so ample opportunity for glassing available.
Today I discovered I can really sabotage my productivity by downloading something through steam or PSN whilst working.
One in the house would be class though.
Especially in this day and age of no pubs.
I reckon with music or sport on the telly or something I could kill hours if I had my own pool or snooker table.
You’d probably really need to be single. Though the table would most likely take care of that anyway.
Yeah, that's the thing. It's always the dream, but if you ever even have a sniff at it there's a whole host of reasons why it isn't happening.
Until you go for one of those dining table flip jobs, to presumably take your weight when you decide to hang yourself.
I toyed with the idea of putting a dart board up again but I’ve a savage board setup in my Da’s attic and I should probably get that (whenever that happens) before buying.
Plus my brewing stuff is in the dartboard spot now.
No-one likes the better at pool than everyone else guy though.
'Oh Ian, potted 9 in a row again, good game'
That’s the only real way to get better.
My boss has been in for the last half hour telling us how MENTAL Tiger King is.
He really does stray into Brent territory sometimes.
We have a wfh system in place, where I work 8.30/9-12 Mon-Fri, my wife works 1-5 Mon, Tue and Thurs. She's teaching music lessons over Zoom, which is handy as that keeps money coming in. Whoever isn't working has the kids, obviously, and as I know my wife is teaching most of the time I wouldn't dare dream of just walking in to get something and manage to keep our 3 year old from walking in constantly, but this doesn't seem to be a courtesy she can return me. Presumably she thinks it's ok as I'm not 'live' teaching constantly but even when I am in Teams meetings (and I tell her) she will still come in. It's doing my head in a little bit and I might have to say something, but in the nicest way imaginable because I think lockdown is making us (and the kids) a bit cranky and that shit will escalate quickly.
No locks in your place?
You have locks in your place other than on the bathroom?
Once you have small kids locks are a bit of a liability, as well as being weird.
I don’t even have a lock on my bathroom.
I'm a twit
Same. Its obvious if someone is in the bathroom anyway.
When we moved into our house one of the bedrooms had a lock on the door but you could only lock the door from the outside. Like they were locking a child in the room. Nasty stuff.
I don't know.
As others have said, only lock is in the bathroom. Considering a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign instead. Or a tie on the door handle.
I've seen well to dos on twitter who put flashing bike lights on the door as their other halves don't pay attention to signs.
One of our joint managing directors has just been fired
Absolute juice central.
Is that the useless one?
They are both useless, but no, this is the massively corrupt Indian one. The David Brent one lives on.
It was a cracking announcement email too. 'Please note that xxx is no longer employed by the company.' Ends.
Have you found out why?
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