i find it interesting !!!!!!

[Stevieboy]

I use backspace edit like a big whip on myself five or ten minutes after the initial pleasure.

LOL!!!! You make me laff dude. How do you come up with that shit

[Robusto]

I like to play at being a nonce of sorts.
Not a nonce nonce. Just a prat with syllables.
I can't take anything too seriously, you know.
Most things are worthy of a laugh, I find.

Surely nobody watches The One Show without corpsing?
I sort of live like that.

Teaching is full of seriously boring documentation.
I have to find a parachute.

In short, I like a laugh.
As Chris Morris says:

JOIN ME!!!

[Stevieboy]

What do you teach Robusto?

Did you catch Chris Morris in The IT Crowd - he stole the show for me

[Robusto]

I haven't seen that, but my boys rave about it. It's sitting in my BT Vision thing here, so I'll try and catch up.

I'm a qualified French and German teacher. Over the last three years, I've done those subjects less and have taken on IT, Drama and Music. Music Is My First Love. I play regularly in a very good band round here. When the Head of Music had a breakdown, I offered my services. I'm also a Head of Year and Head of Work Related Learning aka Tills and Hands and Shoes and Handbags and Page The Fuzz.

In September, I will either have been made redundant, or I will be Music exclusively or majorly.

We are all under threat of redundancy at present because of the merger of two schools, but as far as I can tell by winks and nudges, I'm in the clear. My post is not challenged by an equivalent member of staff in the other school.

I love my job but have to deal with the occasional rude shit. I can turn the volume up convincingly and within accepted parameters so am usually telling kids off for their rudeness to other staff, and not to me. There's a lot of play acting in this. Wearing Stetsons in the street helps as a confidence booster for workplace extemporisation.

I hate the extra short-lived crap that is thrown relentlessly at schools by Labour and Conservative alike. We have our agendas constantly and radically altered every month. The essence of the job is lost in idealistic (ridiculous) new targets. Most staff are fed up because of the complete bollocks they often have to motor but thankfully have the sort of humourous outlook I described earlier. Management teams usually apologise profusely for the new nonsensical projects that come along and that we have to deliver - but they say we have to do them. And we do these days.

Stalin is cool.

I escape through music, sex, cigars and dogs. The escape plan seems to be holding together.

Is your work pressurised, mate?

[Stevieboy]

Is your work pressurised, mate?

Not at all! I put sticky labels on bottles of pills, sign the check box and get paid. I love the staff I work with as well which goes a hell of a long way. I'm in a lovely wee town just outside of Dundee with a mostly retired clientele. A HUGE bonus is no shoplifting or junkies

[larrysputnik]

The other main forum I belong to (non-cigar) is in self-destruct mode at the moment. Arguments. Insults. Swearing. Really infantile taunts. Posts and threads being deleted left, right and centre. The disagreements have been taken to Facebook and one of the protagonists is trying to get loads of anonymous Facebookers to click on to the site and insult the admin. The admin are going nuts, particularly the person who owns the site. The whole thing seems to have arisen from the language policy of the site. Swearing. When should it be allowed or pruned? A bit of very inconsistent pruning IMO has taken place, and the whole of the community is in disarray. The trouble is the language was used very offensively. There are always gay spats on the site. (It's a musicians' site). In short it has become a music site with fuck all to do with music and all all to do with nonsense...

I have said this before on here. Once more for luck...

I am so pleased to be a member of a site here about something I'm passionate about that doesn't self-destruct, and where the atmosphere is at-ease, and where I can occasionally use the language I like to use as an adult without causing intentional insult.

This site is VERY amicable compared to some of the nonsense that goes on out there. What's clear is we're united by enthusiasm - and that's just what I seek when I can jump out of my life's obligations and escape to our deliciously fragrant phat boys' club down the tubes a few times a day every single day.

Not a rant, but just some reflections borne of clear comparisons of different sites this week online.

You should just post this response to all of the nonsense: "Fucking musicians... "

[Robusto]

And it would be an apposite one, Joe.

[Deano]

Bless Bryan for his excellent use of English.

[Robusto]

It's the material I watch, you know.

[Deano]

That's funny because I never hear them using that kind of language in Debbie Does Dallas

[Robusto]

The squeals are an aid to punctuation.

[bigjohn62]

wow did not expect so much feedback. anyway what i was referring to was the gentleman- like way the comments are made as opposed to the other forum. where after awhile it sounds like and reads like a bunch of childern making their point. i don,t see that here.which i like. just a bunch of grown up men speaking their mind

[Robusto]

Great when communication is mangled through rampant chap-twattery.
Way to go.

[Stevieboy]

I used to post on a Smashing Pumpkins forum years ago and had to give up as there were a few juvenile nobs ruining it Let's make sure that never happens to this place

[Robusto]

Great comment, Fellow Fungus.