From the Thatcher auction linked above. I've looked up all the words and, no, still no idea.
Gombeen man = shady businessman wanting to be bribed by Heath, who has a whacking headache after drinking the koolaid poitin of talks with the Nationalists (and by implication the IRA), at Sunningdale, Berks. (Civil Service College),. which makes it 1973, I think. Or is that too early for Mrs T?
While Mrs T, Rev Paisley and someone I don't recognise - Mr Hume of the SDLP, or Mr Cosgrove the Taoiseach? - look on in consternation.
Edit: cxould be Barbara Castle.
Jim Prior not Ted Heath, I think. Prior was Mrs T's Northern Ireland Secretary.
ETA scooped by viewcode!
Think the other mystery man is Garret Fitzgerald who was the Irish PM at that time.
A quarter of 18 - 25 year olds have exaggerated their CV.
Bit of a crap shoot employing them isn't it?
My CV stated that I'd played for the Cambridge University First Bridge Team. Which was both (a) true, and (b) deeply misleading.
It was the very last duplicate pairs match of the Cambridgeshire League, and (perhaps unsurprisingly) the Cambridge University First Team was miles ahead of everyone else. I was good friends with Tom Townsend (then the England Under 21 Bridge team captain), and he said "we're a man short, come along and play."
So I did. I played for Cambridge University First Bridge Team, and my partner was Tom Townsend.
It was a lot of fun, and I got to put it on my CV. If anyone asked, I told them the truth about what happened. But it was also - I suppose - enormously misleading, because I am a very average bridge player.
How to mes change! My grandfather was sent down from Christchurch for taking £2,000 off the Dean at the bridge table
A quarter of 18 - 25 year olds have exaggerated their CV.
Bit of a crap shoot employing them isn't it?
My CV stated that I'd played for the Cambridge University First Bridge Team. Which was both (a) true, and (b) deeply misleading.
It was the very last duplicate pairs match of the Cambridgeshire League, and (perhaps unsurprisingly) the Cambridge University First Team was miles ahead of everyone else. I was good friends with Tom Townsend (then the England Under 21 Bridge team captain), and he said "we're a man short, come along and play."
So I did. I played for Cambridge University First Bridge Team, and my partner was Tom Townsend.
It was a lot of fun, and I got to put it on my CV. If anyone asked, I told them the truth about what happened. But it was also - I suppose - enormously misleading, because I am a very average bridge player.
How to mes change! My grandfather was sent down from Christchurch for taking £2,000 off the Dean at the bridge table
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
Admirable
For 50 years I've scratched a living on the outer fringes of publishing and have been, in no particular order, printer, publisher, photographer, designer, writer, editor, web designer and delivery boy. If any of these roles had demanded a CV it would have confirmed the fact that I was qualified for none of them.
Has anyone ever asked about your degree?
I’ve also gone my entire life without anyone ever inquiring about my degree, university, results etc
It was a 2:2 in Philosophy from UCL, and I was damn lucky to get that given my contemptuous attitude to my own course
I have a 'second'. You're the first person ever to ask.
My place observed a tripartite distinction between promising, average and NBG. None of this 2:1 and 2:2 malarky.
From the Thatcher auction linked above. I've looked up all the words and, no, still no idea.
Gombeen man = shady businessman wanting to be bribed by Heath, who has a whacking headache after drinking the koolaid poitin of talks with the Nationalists (and by implication the IRA), at Sunningdale, Berks. (Civil Service College),. which makes it 1973, I think. Or is that too early for Mrs T?
While Mrs T, Rev Paisley and someone I don't recognise - Mr Hume of the SDLP, or Mr Cosgrove the Taoiseach? - look on in consternation.
Edit: cxould be Barbara Castle.
Who is the cartoonist? It looks a bit like Cummings, but it's a bit too intelligent for him.
I think it *is* Cummings.
The portrayal of the Nationalist side isn't very sympathetic, though that is down to the newspaper. It was certainly usual. I remember seeing a cartoon at the time of bombings in England and it showed IRA pilots of Heinkel-like bombers raining down their payload on London etc while Wilson or more probably Callaghan looked up futilely. Edit: the visual approach to the Republicans was similar.
Cummings was a dreadful cartoonist. He owed his prominence and longevity to a chance remark from Churchill to Beaverbrook praising one of his cartoons. It cemented his position with his employer.
The reason I wasn't sure it was Cummings is that he would often write on them the name of the person or thing he was depicting as the drawings were so bad it was generally difficult to recognise them otherwise. This isn't the case here, and the idea is much more convoluted than he normally attempted. The point is however obscure, and unfunny, which was fairly typical.
He really does not rate very highly amongst cartoonists despite having occupied a prominent position at The Express for decades.
Edit: Ah, I see he wrote 'Sunningdale Hooch' on the side of the jar, which is a giveaway. The cartoon is competely incomprehensible without this (and merely poor with it.)
From the Thatcher auction linked above. I've looked up all the words and, no, still no idea.
Gombeen man = shady businessman wanting to be bribed by Heath, who has a whacking headache after drinking the koolaid poitin of talks with the Nationalists (and by implication the IRA), at Sunningdale, Berks. (Civil Service College),. which makes it 1973, I think. Or is that too early for Mrs T?
While Mrs T, Rev Paisley and someone I don't recognise - Mr Hume of the SDLP, or Mr Cosgrove the Taoiseach? - look on in consternation.
Edit: cxould be Barbara Castle.
Jim Prior not Ted Heath, I think. Prior was Mrs T's Northern Ireland Secretary.
ETA scooped by viewcode!
Think the other mystery man is Garret Fitzgerald who was the Irish PM at that time.
The suggestion by Michael Crick that she should resign is laughable. Focus pullers in the film business have been 'borrowing' ads forever so they could get a break working as a cameraman. Some I know have become super successful. It would be a bit harsh asking Ridley Scotts DOP to resign after lighting 'Gladiator' because he exaggerated his part in a Renault commercial
Shocking news that the entertainment industry is full of liars and bullshitters....
CV embellishment nowadays though is an inevitable consequence of shitty HR practices.
The sort of practices that demand 4 years of experience for an entry level job, or 10 years of a skill that didn't exist 5 years ago.
Plus the fact that it's all run through AI now before it ever reaches a human being, means you have to keyword stuff a CV like an old-timey SEO optimised web-page. I'm good with Spreadsheets, Microsoft Excel, Tables, Functions, Charts, Cell Editing, VBA scripting for Excel, Pivot Tables etc.
And if your job description doesn't PERFECTLY match the one you're applying for, you have to bend your previous job title (and keyword stuff accordingly) or you'll be rejected out of hand by the ATS before a human ever looks at your CV.
Instead of sending off a CV and cover letter to a real person who reads it, you now have a convoluted process that requires you to game the system just to get in front of a real person.
I've got through my career without lying on my CV.
But it's also the case that almost all the jobs I've got have been through personal reference/word of mouth, where they look at the CV after, not before.
Indeed. It is now utterly impossible to get through the ATS (automated tracking system) without gaming the system. There are now legions of consultants and CV re-writers who are paid top dollar to do this on your behalf. Essentially it's a form of SEO, and is also most necessary at the start of your career (when you're applying without a reputation in the industry or a senior job title).
I don't envy anyone starting out their careers now. Between the ridiculously convoluted ATS + HR screening rounds + competency tests (and random 'gamified' personality tests') plus 'video interviews' where the questions are pre-written and you have to record yourself giving the answer, it sucks to be a grad these days. Then when you finally get a job, there's no-one to mentor you because senior management is always WFH.
I think this is only true at junior and mid level. When I hired seniors and leads we only ever had a handful of applicants because the requirements were to have had 7+ years experience for seniors and 10+ for lead/principal, the talent team would screen CVs manually.
I think companies have to use ATS though because the last time I advertised for "Junior Investment Analyst" or "Associate Data Analyst" we got about 800 applications for the first and almost 2000 for the second. I picked a sample at random and 9/10 applicants shouldn't have bothered, had no relevant experience or skills and had no supporting reports/material to show they could do the role without that. I'm sure if I looked at more it would have been more like 99/100.
People just don't have the self control not to apply for jobs they aren't suitable for and it means automation is very important. You can just use ChatGPT to make an ATS compliant CV and keep the original one for referrals.
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
I've been writing an LLM job applicant scanner recently. For a small favour I can bias it in your direction. Though you might need to gloss over working for Gove. Even LLM system prompts have limits.
Olaf Scholz is still refusing to send Germany’s long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine, despite the US allowing Kyiv limited use of its Atacms missiles for strikes in Russia.
The German chancellor told a press conference at the G20 summit in Brazil on Monday that it was only possible for Ukraine to use Taurus missiles if “we take joint responsibility for target control”.
“That is something that I cannot be responsible for, and don’t want to be responsible for,” Mr Scholz explained.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit a little earlier today seeking basic details on how the federal government would carry out a program to deport millions of people from the US, which President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to begin on “day one” of his new administration.
As part of the federal action, the ACLU demanded to be given information about the government’s current relationships with, for example, private airlines, ground transportation facilities and other elements that would be involved in arranging deportation flights for undocumented people. The lawsuit was first reported by the Washington Post this afternoon.
When this story first broke, I didn't think it was particularly big. Big banks have a surprising number of economists, and they don't all work in the economics department. (There's a lot of microeconomics in most firms operations: we do a huge amount of work on price elasticity of demand, for example.)
However, as time as gone on, I've gotten more and more sceptical of her answers. If she was working as an economist, even in the customer complaints department, then fine. But if she was working in a different role - like supervising staff, then it's another matter altogether. One is her telling the truth ("I was an economist at Halifax"), even if she may have allowed people to come to the wrong conclusions. The other is a lie.
If she lied, then she should not be Chancellor of the Exchequer. Like with Presidents and Prime Ministers, our public servants need to consistently demonstrate the highest standards of honesty. And if she has show to have not, then SKS needs to let her go.
Political leaders having to resign for lying?
There won't be many left, and the few who do survive the cull will be insufferable prigs.
Right, because that's exactly what you'd be saying were this a Tory.
No, as I have stated many times, I never call for people to resign or to be sacked. My only exception is Leicester City managers.
In my many post you won't see me calling for Tory resignations either.
I am very tolerant of old tweets and social media too.
Absolute bollocks
Remind me of when I have called for a resignation or sacking. Not even Truss or Johnson, or Welby.
It really is a slightly peculiar principle of mine. I think failing politicians should be sacked by the electorate.
Olaf Scholz is still refusing to send Germany’s long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine, despite the US allowing Kyiv limited use of its Atacms missiles for strikes in Russia.
The German chancellor told a press conference at the G20 summit in Brazil on Monday that it was only possible for Ukraine to use Taurus missiles if “we take joint responsibility for target control”.
“That is something that I cannot be responsible for, and don’t want to be responsible for,” Mr Scholz explained.
If I were a defence procurement chief in on of Russia’s neighbours after this war I think I’d be putting a premium on getting hold of weaponry that the maker’s country can’t block on a whim.
Olaf Scholz is still refusing to send Germany’s long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine, despite the US allowing Kyiv limited use of its Atacms missiles for strikes in Russia.
The German chancellor told a press conference at the G20 summit in Brazil on Monday that it was only possible for Ukraine to use Taurus missiles if “we take joint responsibility for target control”.
“That is something that I cannot be responsible for, and don’t want to be responsible for,” Mr Scholz explained.
If I were a defence procurement chief in on of Russia’s neighbours after this war I think I’d be putting a premium on getting hold of weaponry that the maker’s country can’t block on a whim.
Interesting (and pleasing) that the Green Party leader has said that if he wins on Sunday he will allow the weapons to be sent to Ukraine.
The suggestion by Michael Crick that she should resign is laughable. Focus pullers in the film business have been 'borrowing' ads forever so they could get a break working as a cameraman. Some I know have become super successful. It would be a bit harsh asking Ridley Scotts DOP to resign after lighting 'Gladiator' because he exaggerated his part in a Renault commercial
Shocking news that the entertainment industry is full of liars and bullshitters....
CV embellishment nowadays though is an inevitable consequence of shitty HR practices.
The sort of practices that demand 4 years of experience for an entry level job, or 10 years of a skill that didn't exist 5 years ago.
Plus the fact that it's all run through AI now before it ever reaches a human being, means you have to keyword stuff a CV like an old-timey SEO optimised web-page. I'm good with Spreadsheets, Microsoft Excel, Tables, Functions, Charts, Cell Editing, VBA scripting for Excel, Pivot Tables etc.
And if your job description doesn't PERFECTLY match the one you're applying for, you have to bend your previous job title (and keyword stuff accordingly) or you'll be rejected out of hand by the ATS before a human ever looks at your CV.
Instead of sending off a CV and cover letter to a real person who reads it, you now have a convoluted process that requires you to game the system just to get in front of a real person.
I've got through my career without lying on my CV.
But it's also the case that almost all the jobs I've got have been through personal reference/word of mouth, where they look at the CV after, not before.
Indeed. It is now utterly impossible to get through the ATS (automated tracking system) without gaming the system. There are now legions of consultants and CV re-writers who are paid top dollar to do this on your behalf. Essentially it's a form of SEO, and is also most necessary at the start of your career (when you're applying without a reputation in the industry or a senior job title).
I don't envy anyone starting out their careers now. Between the ridiculously convoluted ATS + HR screening rounds + competency tests (and random 'gamified' personality tests') plus 'video interviews' where the questions are pre-written and you have to record yourself giving the answer, it sucks to be a grad these days. Then when you finally get a job, there's no-one to mentor you because senior management is always WFH.
I think this is only true at junior and mid level. When I hired seniors and leads we only ever had a handful of applicants because the requirements were to have had 7+ years experience for seniors and 10+ for lead/principal, the talent team would screen CVs manually.
I think companies have to use ATS though because the last time I advertised for "Junior Investment Analyst" or "Associate Data Analyst" we got about 800 applications for the first and almost 2000 for the second. I picked a sample at random and 9/10 applicants shouldn't have bothered, had no relevant experience or skills and had no supporting reports/material to show they could do the role without that. I'm sure if I looked at more it would have been more like 99/100.
People just don't have the self control not to apply for jobs they aren't suitable for and it means automation is very important. You can just use ChatGPT to make an ATS compliant CV and keep the original one for referrals.
Unfortunately for me - I need to fill in a spreadsheet for every applicant detailing why they didn't match the job criteria. Since the rise of the LLM's we've gone from maybe ~6 applicants for a post to 60+. Of which 5-6 are the original decent applicant style.
Luckily my LLM 'scan this applicant' script now spits out a spreadsheet detailing why 90% of the applicants fail. It's great use of time and money. In a way.
The suggestion by Michael Crick that she should resign is laughable. Focus pullers in the film business have been 'borrowing' ads forever so they could get a break working as a cameraman. Some I know have become super successful. It would be a bit harsh asking Ridley Scotts DOP to resign after lighting 'Gladiator' because he exaggerated his part in a Renault commercial
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
Admirable
Not really to be honest. Just the nature of the various businesss I have been in. In my main line of work there are perhaps 60 or 70 people in Europe doing the job I do. WIth that small a pool, everything tends to be based on reputation and personal interactions.
The suggestion by Michael Crick that she should resign is laughable. Focus pullers in the film business have been 'borrowing' ads forever so they could get a break working as a cameraman. Some I know have become super successful. It would be a bit harsh asking Ridley Scotts DOP to resign after lighting 'Gladiator' because he exaggerated his part in a Renault commercial
Olaf Scholz is still refusing to send Germany’s long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine, despite the US allowing Kyiv limited use of its Atacms missiles for strikes in Russia.
The German chancellor told a press conference at the G20 summit in Brazil on Monday that it was only possible for Ukraine to use Taurus missiles if “we take joint responsibility for target control”.
“That is something that I cannot be responsible for, and don’t want to be responsible for,” Mr Scholz explained.
It seems Herr Scholz doesn't like difficult decisions. Perhaps he's in the wrong job?
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
Admirable
For 50 years I've scratched a living on the outer fringes of publishing and have been, in no particular order, printer, publisher, photographer, designer, writer, editor, web designer and delivery boy. If any of these roles had demanded a CV it would have confirmed the fact that I was qualified for none of them.
Has anyone ever asked about your degree?
I’ve also gone my entire life without anyone ever inquiring about my degree, university, results etc
It was a 2:2 in Philosophy from UCL, and I was damn lucky to get that given my contemptuous attitude to my own course
I suspect that this is partly why you have such a low opinion of what University offers and their chances of being in existence in 10 years time.
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
It's not what you know, it's who you know, eh? 😉
Its what you know and who you know. Not many survive for long doing the job. When you screw up it tends to be big time. You don't recover from screwups as everyone knows.
Olaf Scholz is still refusing to send Germany’s long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine, despite the US allowing Kyiv limited use of its Atacms missiles for strikes in Russia.
The German chancellor told a press conference at the G20 summit in Brazil on Monday that it was only possible for Ukraine to use Taurus missiles if “we take joint responsibility for target control”.
“That is something that I cannot be responsible for, and don’t want to be responsible for,” Mr Scholz explained.
It seems Herr Scholz doesn't like difficult decisions. Perhaps he's in the wrong job?
Perhaps he's in a different job to the one on his CV.
“It is not expected, however, that any charges will be brought before 2027/28, and that time frame could be extended.”
Hardly surprising given that I'm aware of court cases being scheduled for 2026...
So this is just a consequence of our knackered legal system? It’s quite shocking. Especially the “may he extended” bit. So they might get round to arresting people in the mid 2040s by which time they’ll all be dead. How convenient
Anyone with a brain could have identified 4 suspects yonks ago. The police were told the names of 2 by Mr Justice Fraser in 2019. It is now 5 years later and the police have managed to identify another 2. Wow!
There is no intention of holding anyone accountable for this - no matter what the Report says - just as there hasn't been for pretty much every serious scandal inflicted or prolonged by the state or one of its many bodies over the last few decades.
Delay, delay, delay - until everyone is dead or bored. That's the British state's MO. Enjoy reading the Report instead.
There’s been absolutely nothing so far. Nothing beyond what we had already heard. And where is Grusch? Where is all the good stuff? I can’t believe people are still being sucked in by this.
No idea how he comes to that conclusion given that about 70% of all farms will fall under the rules as they are worth more than £1 million. Of course perhaps he is thinking that farming will be so badly damaged that few will be worth that much in a few years.
The Telegraph has a series of photos from the G20 meeting in Rio and one of them is of security at the meeting. I have to ask, in the picture below, what the hell is the guy carrying? He is holding it like it is a gun with his finger on the trigger but it doesn't look like any weapon I have seen before.
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
Admirable
For 50 years I've scratched a living on the outer fringes of publishing and have been, in no particular order, printer, publisher, photographer, designer, writer, editor, web designer and delivery boy. If any of these roles had demanded a CV it would have confirmed the fact that I was qualified for none of them.
Has anyone ever asked about your degree?
I’ve also gone my entire life without anyone ever inquiring about my degree, university, results etc
It was a 2:2 in Philosophy from UCL, and I was damn lucky to get that given my contemptuous attitude to my own course
On topic, poor form from Reeves but it was 14 years ago and she's been reselected and elected four times since, presumably on the basis of her performance as MP (and the colour of her rosette).
Having been found out now, she will take a hit on her trustworthiness, and assuming the reports are correct, that's her fault. But it's not particularly relevant to her role as Chancellor. It probably wasn't all that relevant to her selection prior to 2010: in my experience, a candidate's ability the speak, network and give the right policy and local answers matter a lot more than their past work record. I know Labour's selection process is more convoluted (ludicrously so) than other parties but I expect the same essential dynamics still apply.
The Telegraph has a series of photos from the G20 meeting in Rio and one of them is of security at the meeting. I have to ask, in the picture below, what the hell is the guy carrying? He is holding it like it is a gun with his finger on the trigger but it doesn't look like any weapon I have seen before.
That has been debunked on the basis of DEFRA's own figures, which show about 2/3rds of all farms affected.
It would be interesting to see the figures if the withdrawal of relief only applied to property bought within the last 10 or 15 years. That sort of grandfathering could have avoided most of the controversy. The trouble is it would then be perceived as unfair vis a vis BPR.
Also interesting to see what it does to behaviour. Farmers really don’t like to retire - they tend to keep hold of the farm and work it until they’re too frail to go on. I know the neighbour to my vineyard is still waiting for his uncle to hand over the family farm, and that’s also holding back innovation - he tends to veto any newfangled ideas. Will we see more lifetime transfers?
On topic, poor form from Reeves but it was 14 years ago and she's been reselected and elected four times since, presumably on the basis of her performance as MP (and the colour of her rosette).
Having been found out now, she will take a hit on her trustworthiness, and assuming the reports are correct, that's her fault. But it's not particularly relevant to her role as Chancellor. It probably wasn't all that relevant to her selection prior to 2010: in my experience, a candidate's ability the speak, network and give the right policy and local answers matter a lot more than their past work record. I know Labour's selection process is more convoluted (ludicrously so) than other parties but I expect the same essential dynamics still apply.
Why did she feel the need to fib anyway? Her actual CV is pretty good: Oxford PPE, LSE economics, Bank of England, then a huge UK bank. The embellishment is unnecessary.
A quarter of 18 - 25 year olds have exaggerated their CV.
Bit of a crap shoot employing them isn't it?
My CV stated that I'd played for the Cambridge University First Bridge Team. Which was both (a) true, and (b) deeply misleading.
It was the very last duplicate pairs match of the Cambridgeshire League, and (perhaps unsurprisingly) the Cambridge University First Team was miles ahead of everyone else. I was good friends with Tom Townsend (then the England Under 21 Bridge team captain), and he said "we're a man short, come along and play."
So I did. I played for Cambridge University First Bridge Team, and my partner was Tom Townsend.
It was a lot of fun, and I got to put it on my CV. If anyone asked, I told them the truth about what happened. But it was also - I suppose - enormously misleading, because I am a very average bridge player.
How to mes change! My grandfather was sent down from Christchurch for taking £2,000 off the Dean at the bridge table
Admittedly this was in the 20s..
We’re still in the 20s.
The Dean of Christchurch wouldn't be worth 2k today. Autres temps, autres mœurs as they used to say in the 1920s.
Olaf Scholz is still refusing to send Germany’s long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine, despite the US allowing Kyiv limited use of its Atacms missiles for strikes in Russia.
The German chancellor told a press conference at the G20 summit in Brazil on Monday that it was only possible for Ukraine to use Taurus missiles if “we take joint responsibility for target control”.
“That is something that I cannot be responsible for, and don’t want to be responsible for,” Mr Scholz explained.
If I were a defence procurement chief in on of Russia’s neighbours after this war I think I’d be putting a premium on getting hold of weaponry that the maker’s country can’t block on a whim.
I've heard it said that in the South Korean weapons contracts they block only one country for resale/gifting to.
Which s why Poland is going all in on the South Korean weapons.
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
Admirable
For 50 years I've scratched a living on the outer fringes of publishing and have been, in no particular order, printer, publisher, photographer, designer, writer, editor, web designer and delivery boy. If any of these roles had demanded a CV it would have confirmed the fact that I was qualified for none of them.
Has anyone ever asked about your degree?
I’ve also gone my entire life without anyone ever inquiring about my degree, university, results etc
It was a 2:2 in Philosophy from UCL, and I was damn lucky to get that given my contemptuous attitude to my own course
I had a job lined up after uni as a paper trader with Mitsubishi. The minimum requirement was a 2:1. My Desmond meant I got blown out. The real kicker was Welsh Liberal Democrat royalty Professor Barry Jones saw me after the results were out and explained I was on the cusp of a 2:1 and the result had gone to the board but although Barry fought my corner Professor Roy Jones, the Head of the Politics Department was adamant I was a 2:2.
That has been debunked on the basis of DEFRA's own figures, which show about 2/3rds of all farms affected.
It would be interesting to see the figures if the withdrawal of relief only applied to property bought within the last 10 or 15 years. That sort of grandfathering could have avoided most of the controversy. The trouble is it would then be perceived as unfair vis a vis BPR.
Also interesting to see what it does to behaviour. Farmers really don’t like to retire - they tend to keep hold of the farm and work it until they’re too frail to go on. I know the neighbour to my vineyard is still waiting for his uncle to hand over the family farm, and that’s also holding back innovation - he tends to veto any newfangled ideas. Will we see more lifetime transfers?
Indeed. I think the addition of grandfathering would have made this an entirely different matter. It would still have caught Clarkson of course so he would still moan but the generational farmers would have been safe.
From the Thatcher auction linked above. I've looked up all the words and, no, still no idea.
Gombeen man = shady businessman wanting to be bribed by Heath, who has a whacking headache after drinking the koolaid poitin of talks with the Nationalists (and by implication the IRA), at Sunningdale, Berks. (Civil Service College),. which makes it 1973, I think. Or is that too early for Mrs T?
While Mrs T, Rev Paisley and someone I don't recognise - Mr Hume of the SDLP, or Mr Cosgrove the Taoiseach? - look on in consternation.
Edit: cxould be Barbara Castle.
Who is the cartoonist? It looks a bit like Cummings, but it's a bit too intelligent for him.
I think it *is* Cummings.
The portrayal of the Nationalist side isn't very sympathetic, though that is down to the newspaper. It was certainly usual. I remember seeing a cartoon at the time of bombings in England and it showed IRA pilots of Heinkel-like bombers raining down their payload on London etc while Wilson or more probably Callaghan looked up futilely. Edit: the visual approach to the Republicans was similar.
Cummings was a dreadful cartoonist. He owed his prominence and longevity to a chance remark from Churchill to Beaverbrook praising one of his cartoons. It cemented his position with his employer.
The reason I wasn't sure it was Cummings is that he would often write on them the name of the person or thing he was depicting as the drawings were so bad it was generally difficult to recognise them otherwise. This isn't the case here, and the idea is much more convoluted than he normally attempted. The point is however obscure, and unfunny, which was fairly typical.
He really does not rate very highly amongst cartoonists despite having occupied a prominent position at The Express for decades.
Edit: Ah, I see he wrote 'Sunningdale Hooch' on the side of the jar, which is a giveaway. The cartoon is competely incomprehensible without this (and merely poor with it.)
I've had a look for the Luftwaffe-type cartoon but no luck. Perhaps not regarded as canonical today ...
The Telegraph has a series of photos from the G20 meeting in Rio and one of them is of security at the meeting. I have to ask, in the picture below, what the hell is the guy carrying? He is holding it like it is a gun with his finger on the trigger but it doesn't look like any weapon I have seen before.
That has been debunked on the basis of DEFRA's own figures, which show about 2/3rds of all farms affected.
It would be interesting to see the figures if the withdrawal of relief only applied to property bought within the last 10 or 15 years. That sort of grandfathering could have avoided most of the controversy. The trouble is it would then be perceived as unfair vis a vis BPR.
Also interesting to see what it does to behaviour. Farmers really don’t like to retire - they tend to keep hold of the farm and work it until they’re too frail to go on. I know the neighbour to my vineyard is still waiting for his uncle to hand over the family farm, and that’s also holding back innovation - he tends to veto any newfangled ideas. Will we see more lifetime transfers?
Also: does it take into account the normal allowances, and the RNRB (x 2 for a couple = £1m in itself)? That's effectively 350K for the farmhouse alone.
If that was the case then why is the government retaining the 5p temporary fuel duty cut which costs 10x more than removing the exemption will raise. If you believe this then I've got a bridge you might be interested in.
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
Admirable
Not really to be honest. Just the nature of the various businesss I have been in. In my main line of work there are perhaps 60 or 70 people in Europe doing the job I do. WIth that small a pool, everything tends to be based on reputation and personal interactions.
“It is not expected, however, that any charges will be brought before 2027/28, and that time frame could be extended.”
Hardly surprising given that I'm aware of court cases being scheduled for 2026...
So this is just a consequence of our knackered legal system? It’s quite shocking. Especially the “may he extended” bit. So they might get round to arresting people in the mid 2040s by which time they’ll all be dead. How convenient
Anyone with a brain could have identified 4 suspects yonks ago. The police were told the names of 2 by Mr Justice Fraser in 2019. It is now 5 years later and the police have managed to identify another 2. Wow!
There is no intention of holding anyone accountable for this - no matter what the Report says - just as there hasn't been for pretty much every serious scandal inflicted or prolonged by the state or one of its many bodies over the last few decades.
Delay, delay, delay - until everyone is dead or bored. That's the British state's MO. Enjoy reading the Report instead.
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
It's not what you know, it's who you know, eh? 😉
Its what you know and who you know. Not many survive for long doing the job. When you screw up it tends to be big time. You don't recover from screwups as everyone knows.
I was joking, but it really does look like you ARE a professional hitman.
From the Thatcher auction linked above. I've looked up all the words and, no, still no idea.
Gombeen man = shady businessman wanting to be bribed by Heath, who has a whacking headache after drinking the koolaid poitin of talks with the Nationalists (and by implication the IRA), at Sunningdale, Berks. (Civil Service College),. which makes it 1973, I think. Or is that too early for Mrs T?
While Mrs T, Rev Paisley and someone I don't recognise - Mr Hume of the SDLP, or Mr Cosgrove the Taoiseach? - look on in consternation.
Edit: cxould be Barbara Castle.
Who is the cartoonist? It looks a bit like Cummings, but it's a bit too intelligent for him.
I think it *is* Cummings.
The portrayal of the Nationalist side isn't very sympathetic, though that is down to the newspaper. It was certainly usual. I remember seeing a cartoon at the time of bombings in England and it showed IRA pilots of Heinkel-like bombers raining down their payload on London etc while Wilson or more probably Callaghan looked up futilely. Edit: the visual approach to the Republicans was similar.
Cummings was a dreadful cartoonist. He owed his prominence and longevity to a chance remark from Churchill to Beaverbrook praising one of his cartoons. It cemented his position with his employer.
The reason I wasn't sure it was Cummings is that he would often write on them the name of the person or thing he was depicting as the drawings were so bad it was generally difficult to recognise them otherwise. This isn't the case here, and the idea is much more convoluted than he normally attempted. The point is however obscure, and unfunny, which was fairly typical.
He really does not rate very highly amongst cartoonists despite having occupied a prominent position at The Express for decades.
Edit: Ah, I see he wrote 'Sunningdale Hooch' on the side of the jar, which is a giveaway. The cartoon is competely incomprehensible without this (and merely poor with it.)
I've had a look for the Luftwaffe-type cartoon but no luck. Perhaps not regarded as canonical today ...
He really does feature very lightly in anthologies of great cartoons and cartoonists.
His work looks even more embarrassing now than it did at the time.
Edit: I see now that he wrote the letters I.R.A. on the parody Republican, so this is indeed a fairly typical Cummings effort.
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
It's not what you know, it's who you know, eh? 😉
Its what you know and who you know. Not many survive for long doing the job. When you screw up it tends to be big time. You don't recover from screwups as everyone knows.
I was joking, but it really does look like you ARE a professional hitman.
“It is not expected, however, that any charges will be brought before 2027/28, and that time frame could be extended.”
FOUR??!!! I could name 44 without trying too hard or scratching below the surface.
You start with the Investigation Team - do all the heads and some of the more outlandish investigators. Then you do all the heads of legal, IT, and HR. You certainly do all the CEOs and Chairpeople. Gareth Jenkins is a slam dunk - he has virtually confessed - and Vennells of course.
The number implicated probably exceeds a thousand but I'd settle for 44. I suspect however that if Sporting Index were offering a spread on the market the opening price would be about 4-6, and it won't be settled while I am alive, if ever.
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
It's not what you know, it's who you know, eh? 😉
Its what you know and who you know. Not many survive for long doing the job. When you screw up it tends to be big time. You don't recover from screwups as everyone knows.
I was joking, but it really does look like you ARE a professional hitman.
LOL. I was arrested for spying about 30 years ago in Tunisia. 3 days in a Tunisian Jail then deported.
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
It's not what you know, it's who you know, eh? 😉
Its what you know and who you know. Not many survive for long doing the job. When you screw up it tends to be big time. You don't recover from screwups as everyone knows.
I was joking, but it really does look like you ARE a professional hitman.
LOL. I was arrested for spying about 30 years ago in Tunisia. 3 days in a Tunisian Jail then deported.
They never found the bodies
I know some oil people who had similar experiences in Egypt a few decades ago.
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
It's not what you know, it's who you know, eh? 😉
Its what you know and who you know. Not many survive for long doing the job. When you screw up it tends to be big time. You don't recover from screwups as everyone knows.
I was joking, but it really does look like you ARE a professional hitman.
LOL. I was arrested for spying about 30 years ago in Tunisia. 3 days in a Tunisian Jail then deported.
They never found the bodies
I know some oil people who had similar experiences in Egypt a few decades ago.
It was partly my fault for screwing up permits and mostly the fault of the company I was working for who, when contacted by the Tunisian police, denied all knowledge of me. Thanks guys.
The Tunisians were pretty decent. I think they could see from the very start it was a cockup rather than a conspiracy. But I would rather not repeat the experience of Tunisian jail.
Sadly the company in question did the same thing to a good friend of mine, a Frenchman, in Nigeria. He spent 3 months in a Nigerian jail and never worked again.
“It is not expected, however, that any charges will be brought before 2027/28, and that time frame could be extended.”
FOUR??!!! I could name 44 without trying too hard or scratching below the surface.
You start with the Investigation Team - do all the heads and some of the more outlandish investigators. Then you do all the heads of legal, IT, and HR. You certainly do all the CEOs and Chairpeople. Gareth Jenkins is a slam dunk - he has virtually confessed - and Vennells of course.
The number implicated probably exceeds a thousand but I'd settle for 44. I suspect however that if Sporting Index were offering a spread on the market the opening price would be about 4-6, and it won't be settled while I am alive, if ever.
I'm not even bothered about jailing them - just remove all their pensions...
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
Admirable
For 50 years I've scratched a living on the outer fringes of publishing and have been, in no particular order, printer, publisher, photographer, designer, writer, editor, web designer and delivery boy. If any of these roles had demanded a CV it would have confirmed the fact that I was qualified for none of them.
Has anyone ever asked about your degree?
I’ve also gone my entire life without anyone ever inquiring about my degree, university, results etc
It was a 2:2 in Philosophy from UCL, and I was damn lucky to get that given my contemptuous attitude to my own course
A quarter of 18 - 25 year olds have exaggerated their CV.
Bit of a crap shoot employing them isn't it?
My CV stated that I'd played for the Cambridge University First Bridge Team. Which was both (a) true, and (b) deeply misleading.
It was the very last duplicate pairs match of the Cambridgeshire League, and (perhaps unsurprisingly) the Cambridge University First Team was miles ahead of everyone else. I was good friends with Tom Townsend (then the England Under 21 Bridge team captain), and he said "we're a man short, come along and play."
So I did. I played for Cambridge University First Bridge Team, and my partner was Tom Townsend.
It was a lot of fun, and I got to put it on my CV. If anyone asked, I told them the truth about what happened. But it was also - I suppose - enormously misleading, because I am a very average bridge player.
I once got to play a tournament sitting opposite Zia Mahmood.
Didn't put it on a CV though. We didn't win...
[I am also an average (long retired) bridge player]
I remember Tom Townsend. Played with him a fair bit whilst at Cambridge.
I hope Europe is in a position to cope in case of a cold winter. We've been lucky to have had two mild ones in a row.
Storage is about 95% right now, which is a little bit above the five year average but not as good as last year. That said, in the last two winters, Europe hasn't even half emptied its storage, so there's a *lot* of redundancy in there, especially considering that there's quite a lot more LNG around than previously.
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
It's not what you know, it's who you know, eh? 😉
Its what you know and who you know. Not many survive for long doing the job. When you screw up it tends to be big time. You don't recover from screwups as everyone knows.
I was joking, but it really does look like you ARE a professional hitman.
LOL. I was arrested for spying about 30 years ago in Tunisia. 3 days in a Tunisian Jail then deported.
They never found the bodies
I know some oil people who had similar experiences in Egypt a few decades ago.
It was partly my fault for screwing up permits and mostly the fault of the company I was working for who, when contacted by the Tunisian police, denied all knowledge of me. Thanks guys.
The Tunisians were pretty decent. I think they could see from the very start it was a cockup rather than a conspiracy. But I would rather not repeat the experience of Tunisian jail.
Sadly the company in question did the same thing to a good friend of mine, a Frenchman, in Nigeria. He spent 3 months in a Nigerian jail and never worked again.
Poor guy, that must have been absolutely awful for him.
I hope Europe is in a position to cope in case of a cold winter. We've been lucky to have had two mild ones in a row.
An average winter would be bad enough. We forget what average is like. By now large tracts of Eastern Europe would often be snow covered back in the 70s and 80s.
But prices aren’t going back anywhere near 2022/3 even if it’s a frigid one.
“It is not expected, however, that any charges will be brought before 2027/28, and that time frame could be extended.”
FOUR??!!! I could name 44 without trying too hard or scratching below the surface.
You start with the Investigation Team - do all the heads and some of the more outlandish investigators. Then you do all the heads of legal, IT, and HR. You certainly do all the CEOs and Chairpeople. Gareth Jenkins is a slam dunk - he has virtually confessed - and Vennells of course.
The number implicated probably exceeds a thousand but I'd settle for 44. I suspect however that if Sporting Index were offering a spread on the market the opening price would be about 4-6, and it won't be settled while I am alive, if ever.
I'm not even bothered about jailing them - just remove all their pensions...
You would like to think so, especially for those whose pensions are calculated to include the bonuses paid out on bogus figures. Can't see it happening though.
If it really is going to be just four prosecutions (some time in the distant future) one wonders who it will be. Maybe Betfair really should run a market.
Gareth Jenkins would be sure to be one, since he has all but confessed.
Paula Vennells is a nice scapegoat, so I guess she's in.
The ridiculous Jarnail Singh is another condemned out of his own mouth, although his extreme stupidity may get him off.
John Scott, who ordered the shrerdding of incriminating evidence, would be another strong candidate.
Former CEO Tim Parker should be included, because he was the one who refrained from informing the Board of the damning advice from its solicitors, but he tends to be regarded as one of the Great And The Good, so he may swim through the net.
You don't really have to try too hard to find other strong candidates, but if it is only going to be four the bar is set very high indeed.
Having run a twitter vs Bluesky audit this evening, it seems that about 12% of my followed / followers have accounts that could be identified from name references in handle, display name or description.
Make of that what you will - the community is about 4400 both follower and following, and I have not checked overlap. It should be reasonably free of long dead accounts or spam as I have been pruning any "no activity for 6 months or more" accounts every year recently, and have an active blocking finger especially on soft porn ads.
My one comment would be that it should be worth grabbing the same handle if you can get it if you have a Twitter or other regular social media identity, even if just you put a single post on saying "I'm still on TWITTER, so there !" on it. Especially if you are common, and don't want eg JohnSmith892 .
Nigel Farage has already lost his simple name to a parody, and Lee Anderson will once again be LeeAndersonMP_ , should they create accounts.
For content, from Ill and Ancient, whom some may remember. With a list of books published this year in the Scots language.
illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social· 9h As we approach the festive season, I'm pulling together a list of books written in the Scots language published this year. There's about thirty of them by my reckoning. Are there any I have missed? (Image of list attached to his post, but I'm out of quota.)
I hope Mr Reed is not in central London tomorrow because if he goes anywhere near the thousands of farmers heading for the march in the capital he may find himself dumped in the Thames or being chased by a tractor
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
Admirable
For 50 years I've scratched a living on the outer fringes of publishing and have been, in no particular order, printer, publisher, photographer, designer, writer, editor, web designer and delivery boy. If any of these roles had demanded a CV it would have confirmed the fact that I was qualified for none of them.
Has anyone ever asked about your degree?
I’ve also gone my entire life without anyone ever inquiring about my degree, university, results etc
It was a 2:2 in Philosophy from UCL, and I was damn lucky to get that given my contemptuous attitude to my own course
I suspect that this is partly why you have such a low opinion of what University offers and their chances of being in existence in 10 years time.
Sadly, that is not true
I say sadly because - while I might spit venom at Woke Academe (deservedly) - I think universities at their best are wonderful things. Great for society, great for students going through them. I had a brilliant time at UCL - I grew socially and spiritually and had lots of sex and drugs. I just didn’t study much
However I can see the machine writing on the wall. The university model is already cracking and will soon collapse; most will go bust. Students will not take on all that debt for no jobs at the end, especially when they can be taught at home for pennies
Lord knows what will replace them, if anything. Turbulent times ahead
A quarter of 18 - 25 year olds have exaggerated their CV.
Bit of a crap shoot employing them isn't it?
My CV stated that I'd played for the Cambridge University First Bridge Team. Which was both (a) true, and (b) deeply misleading.
It was the very last duplicate pairs match of the Cambridgeshire League, and (perhaps unsurprisingly) the Cambridge University First Team was miles ahead of everyone else. I was good friends with Tom Townsend (then the England Under 21 Bridge team captain), and he said "we're a man short, come along and play."
So I did. I played for Cambridge University First Bridge Team, and my partner was Tom Townsend.
It was a lot of fun, and I got to put it on my CV. If anyone asked, I told them the truth about what happened. But it was also - I suppose - enormously misleading, because I am a very average bridge player.
How to mes change! My grandfather was sent down from Christchurch for taking £2,000 off the Dean at the bridge table
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
Admirable
For 50 years I've scratched a living on the outer fringes of publishing and have been, in no particular order, printer, publisher, photographer, designer, writer, editor, web designer and delivery boy. If any of these roles had demanded a CV it would have confirmed the fact that I was qualified for none of them.
Has anyone ever asked about your degree?
I’ve also gone my entire life without anyone ever inquiring about my degree, university, results etc
It was a 2:2 in Philosophy from UCL, and I was damn lucky to get that given my contemptuous attitude to my own course
What A Level grades did you get?
BBC
Economics, Medieval History, English
Not exactly dazzling but then UCL offered me a place if I got two E’s (that was their weird way back then) so I kind of coasted. I knew I’d get in so the tension drained away. Which made for a very pleasant end of sixth form and summer
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
Admirable
For 50 years I've scratched a living on the outer fringes of publishing and have been, in no particular order, printer, publisher, photographer, designer, writer, editor, web designer and delivery boy. If any of these roles had demanded a CV it would have confirmed the fact that I was qualified for none of them.
Has anyone ever asked about your degree?
I’ve also gone my entire life without anyone ever inquiring about my degree, university, results etc
It was a 2:2 in Philosophy from UCL, and I was damn lucky to get that given my contemptuous attitude to my own course
I suspect that this is partly why you have such a low opinion of what University offers and their chances of being in existence in 10 years time.
Sadly, that is not true
I say sadly because - while I might spit venom at Woke Academe (deservedly) - I think universities at their best are wonderful things. Great for society, great for students going through them. I had a brilliant time at UCL - I grew socially and spiritually and had lots of sex and drugs. I just didn’t study much
However I can see the machine writing on the wall. The university model is already cracking and will soon collapse; most will go bust. Students will not take on all that debt for no jobs at the end, especially when they can be taught at home for pennies
Lord knows what will replace them, if anything. Turbulent times ahead
Experience tells me that learning at home does not work. And an awful lot of jobs will require degrees. Let’s circle back in 10 years? I presume your 5th incarnation from now will still be around?
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
Admirable
For 50 years I've scratched a living on the outer fringes of publishing and have been, in no particular order, printer, publisher, photographer, designer, writer, editor, web designer and delivery boy. If any of these roles had demanded a CV it would have confirmed the fact that I was qualified for none of them.
Has anyone ever asked about your degree?
I’ve also gone my entire life without anyone ever inquiring about my degree, university, results etc
It was a 2:2 in Philosophy from UCL, and I was damn lucky to get that given my contemptuous attitude to my own course
I suspect that this is partly why you have such a low opinion of what University offers and their chances of being in existence in 10 years time.
Sadly, that is not true
I say sadly because - while I might spit venom at Woke Academe (deservedly) - I think universities at their best are wonderful things. Great for society, great for students going through them. I had a brilliant time at UCL - I grew socially and spiritually and had lots of sex and drugs. I just didn’t study much
However I can see the machine writing on the wall. The university model is already cracking and will soon collapse; most will go bust. Students will not take on all that debt for no jobs at the end, especially when they can be taught at home for pennies
Lord knows what will replace them, if anything. Turbulent times ahead
Experience tells me that learning at home does not work. And an awful lot of jobs will require degrees. Let’s circle back in 10 years? I presume your 5th incarnation from now will still be around?
Correction - an awful lot of jobs perceived to require a certain amount of thinking will use degrees as a convenient gate keeper to make recruitment relatively painless...
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
Admirable
For 50 years I've scratched a living on the outer fringes of publishing and have been, in no particular order, printer, publisher, photographer, designer, writer, editor, web designer and delivery boy. If any of these roles had demanded a CV it would have confirmed the fact that I was qualified for none of them.
Has anyone ever asked about your degree?
I’ve also gone my entire life without anyone ever inquiring about my degree, university, results etc
It was a 2:2 in Philosophy from UCL, and I was damn lucky to get that given my contemptuous attitude to my own course
What A Level grades did you get?
BBC
Economics, Medieval History, English
Not exactly dazzling but then UCL offered me a place if I got two E’s (that was their weird way back then) so I kind of coasted. I knew I’d get in so the tension drained away. Which made for a very pleasant end of sixth form and summer
Ah, youth
Had you also applied to Oxford or Cambridge? I had a three E offer to study Chemistry at Warwick, mainly so I would pick them as insurance for the Cambridge place. Sadly I didn’t shine at the Cambridge interview so Rubbish old Warwick it was…
Am I the only PBer who has never had to write a proper CV? Never done a job that required one. Never been asked to submit one
It would be quite colourful tho
1992: jail, mainly 1993: haven’t got a fucking clue 1994-2001: heroin 2002-2005: see 1993
Me. Every job I have ever got has been on the basis of personal recommendation. I do have a CV which I keep updated just in case but have never actually had to use it
Admirable
For 50 years I've scratched a living on the outer fringes of publishing and have been, in no particular order, printer, publisher, photographer, designer, writer, editor, web designer and delivery boy. If any of these roles had demanded a CV it would have confirmed the fact that I was qualified for none of them.
Has anyone ever asked about your degree?
I’ve also gone my entire life without anyone ever inquiring about my degree, university, results etc
It was a 2:2 in Philosophy from UCL, and I was damn lucky to get that given my contemptuous attitude to my own course
I suspect that this is partly why you have such a low opinion of what University offers and their chances of being in existence in 10 years time.
Sadly, that is not true
I say sadly because - while I might spit venom at Woke Academe (deservedly) - I think universities at their best are wonderful things. Great for society, great for students going through them. I had a brilliant time at UCL - I grew socially and spiritually and had lots of sex and drugs. I just didn’t study much
However I can see the machine writing on the wall. The university model is already cracking and will soon collapse; most will go bust. Students will not take on all that debt for no jobs at the end, especially when they can be taught at home for pennies
Lord knows what will replace them, if anything. Turbulent times ahead
Experience tells me that learning at home does not work. And an awful lot of jobs will require degrees. Let’s circle back in 10 years? I presume your 5th incarnation from now will still be around?
Bro, the jobs are going. They really ARE
Better to be prepared for the inevitable than to live in denial
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Admittedly this was in the 20s..
My place observed a tripartite distinction between promising, average and NBG. None of this 2:1 and 2:2 malarky.
The reason I wasn't sure it was Cummings is that he would often write on them the name of the person or thing he was depicting as the drawings were so bad it was generally difficult to recognise them otherwise. This isn't the case here, and the idea is much more convoluted than he normally attempted. The point is however obscure, and unfunny, which was fairly typical.
He really does not rate very highly amongst cartoonists despite having occupied a prominent position at The Express for decades.
Edit: Ah, I see he wrote 'Sunningdale Hooch' on the side of the jar, which is a giveaway. The cartoon is competely incomprehensible without this (and merely poor with it.)
I think companies have to use ATS though because the last time I advertised for "Junior Investment Analyst" or "Associate Data Analyst" we got about 800 applications for the first and almost 2000 for the second. I picked a sample at random and 9/10 applicants shouldn't have bothered, had no relevant experience or skills and had no supporting reports/material to show they could do the role without that. I'm sure if I looked at more it would have been more like 99/100.
People just don't have the self control not to apply for jobs they aren't suitable for and it means automation is very important. You can just use ChatGPT to make an ATS compliant CV and keep the original one for referrals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbXU1GbJW68
The German chancellor told a press conference at the G20 summit in Brazil on Monday that it was only possible for Ukraine to use Taurus missiles if “we take joint responsibility for target control”.
“That is something that I cannot be responsible for, and don’t want to be responsible for,” Mr Scholz explained.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgEGCoxb8hE
Using Asterisk on Linux... 2.2? Probably required somewhat lower spec hardware anyway.
As part of the federal action, the ACLU demanded to be given information about the government’s current relationships with, for example, private airlines, ground transportation facilities and other elements that would be involved in arranging deportation flights for undocumented people. The lawsuit was first reported by the Washington Post this afternoon.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/nov/18/donald-trump-brendan-carr-white-house-latest-live-us-politics-news
It really is a slightly peculiar principle of mine. I think failing politicians should be sacked by the electorate.
Luckily my LLM 'scan this applicant' script now spits out a spreadsheet detailing why 90% of the applicants fail. It's great use of time and money. In a way.
"The emerging threats subcomittee will examine the work of AARO".
https://x.com/ddeanjohnson/status/1857035943556898893
https://x.com/thomas_aeschi/status/1858602748360671495
https://x.com/damonimani/status/1856782964945809787
https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2416006/undersea-cable-between-lithuania-and-sweden-damaged-telia
The Government is asking rich estates and the most valuable farms to pay their fair share.
Small family farms will not be affected. Only about 500 estates a year will pay more under the new scheme than they do today.
https://x.com/SteveReedMP/status/1858613805737296378
There is no intention of holding anyone accountable for this - no matter what the Report says - just as there hasn't been for pretty much every serious scandal inflicted or prolonged by the state or one of its many bodies over the last few decades.
Delay, delay, delay - until everyone is dead or bored. That's the British state's MO. Enjoy reading the Report instead.
https://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2024/06/12/the-sicilian-solution/
https://youtu.be/BMNUsM_nsec?feature=shared
UCL 215
St Andrews 105
Having been found out now, she will take a hit on her trustworthiness, and assuming the reports are correct, that's her fault. But it's not particularly relevant to her role as Chancellor. It probably wasn't all that relevant to her selection prior to 2010: in my experience, a candidate's ability the speak, network and give the right policy and local answers matter a lot more than their past work record. I know Labour's selection process is more convoluted (ludicrously so) than other parties but I expect the same essential dynamics still apply.
Also interesting to see what it does to behaviour. Farmers really don’t like to retire - they tend to keep hold of the farm and work it until they’re too frail to go on. I know the neighbour to my vineyard is still waiting for his uncle to hand over the family farm, and that’s also holding back innovation - he tends to veto any newfangled ideas. Will we see more lifetime transfers?
Which s why Poland is going all in on the South Korean weapons.
I could have been a contender...
Looks like the cavalry has arrived..😏
600ft elevation. Notts.
His work looks even more embarrassing now than it did at the time.
Edit: I see now that he wrote the letters I.R.A. on the parody Republican, so this is indeed a fairly typical Cummings effort.
Someone to watch for the future.
You start with the Investigation Team - do all the heads and some of the more outlandish investigators. Then you do all the heads of legal, IT, and HR. You certainly do all the CEOs and Chairpeople. Gareth Jenkins is a slam dunk - he has virtually confessed - and Vennells of course.
The number implicated probably exceeds a thousand but I'd settle for 44. I suspect however that if Sporting Index were offering a spread on the market the opening price would be about 4-6, and it won't be settled while I am alive, if ever.
They never found the bodies
[Edit: Snow here too, but insufficient for skiing]
The Tunisians were pretty decent. I think they could see from the very start it was a cockup rather than a conspiracy. But I would rather not repeat the experience of Tunisian jail.
Sadly the company in question did the same thing to a good friend of mine, a Frenchman, in Nigeria. He spent 3 months in a Nigerian jail and never worked again.
Then again, Autumn began in July this year.
global warmingclimate changethe climate emergency (is this one still current?)
Actually, looking outside, it is snowing, a bit. Not settling, mind.
(Says Alexa)
Tended to lose at poker though.
But prices aren’t going back anywhere near 2022/3 even if it’s a frigid one.
If it really is going to be just four prosecutions (some time in the distant future) one wonders who it will be. Maybe Betfair really should run a market.
Gareth Jenkins would be sure to be one, since he has all but confessed.
Paula Vennells is a nice scapegoat, so I guess she's in.
The ridiculous Jarnail Singh is another condemned out of his own mouth, although his extreme stupidity may get him off.
John Scott, who ordered the shrerdding of incriminating evidence, would be another strong candidate.
Former CEO Tim Parker should be included, because he was the one who refrained from informing the Board of the damning advice from its solicitors, but he tends to be regarded as one of the Great And The Good, so he may swim through the net.
You don't really have to try too hard to find other strong candidates, but if it is only going to be four the bar is set very high indeed.
Winter is here.
Having run a twitter vs Bluesky audit this evening, it seems that about 12% of my followed / followers have accounts that could be identified from name references in handle, display name or description.
Make of that what you will - the community is about 4400 both follower and following, and I have not checked overlap. It should be reasonably free of long dead accounts or spam as I have been pruning any "no activity for 6 months or more" accounts every year recently, and have an active blocking finger especially on soft porn ads.
My one comment would be that it should be worth grabbing the same handle if you can get it if you have a Twitter or other regular social media identity, even if just you put a single post on saying "I'm still on TWITTER, so there !" on it. Especially if you are common, and don't want eg JohnSmith892 .
Nigel Farage has already lost his simple name to a parody, and Lee Anderson will once again be LeeAndersonMP_ , should they create accounts.
For content, from Ill and Ancient, whom some may remember. With a list of books published this year in the Scots language.
illandancient.bsky.social @illandancient.bsky.social·
9h As we approach the festive season, I'm pulling together a list of books written in the Scots language published this year.
There's about thirty of them by my reckoning. Are there any I have missed?
(Image of list attached to his post, but I'm out of quota.)
I say sadly because - while I might spit venom at Woke Academe (deservedly) - I think universities at their best are wonderful things. Great for society, great for students going through them. I had a brilliant time at UCL - I grew socially and spiritually and had lots of sex and drugs. I just didn’t study much
However I can see the machine writing on the wall. The university model is already cracking and will soon collapse; most will go bust. Students will not take on all that debt for no jobs at the end, especially when they can be taught at home for pennies
Lord knows what will replace them, if anything. Turbulent times ahead
You were not right
Economics, Medieval History, English
Not exactly dazzling but then UCL offered me a place if I got two E’s (that was their weird way back then) so I kind of coasted. I knew I’d get in so the tension drained away. Which made for a very pleasant end of sixth form and summer
Ah, youth
It was only for five hours, but you don't need that detail...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombeen_man
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2024/11/18/england-eps-deals-lure-talent-france-junior-kpoku-top-14/
Or you could just change your stupid selection rule, that no other sport follows.
Better to be prepared for the inevitable than to live in denial