It was always going to be hard for an Englshman to side with either Germany or Argentina considering the footballing history between those two nations and England, but when it came down to it thedacs had to back the Germans.
Primarily because the World Cup always suffers as a spectacle if the hosts are knocked out too early. Germany's win on penalties was deserved, if only because they showed a tad more attacking spirit during the second half and extra time, while the Argentines were a bit negtive.
Not playing Messi, a player capable of forcing a decisive change in a game due to his willingness to take a player on, was probably a mistake by the Argentine coach (Although it should be noted that Pekerman was forced into using one of is three subs to replace his injured keeper) and cost them dear when Germany equalised and took the initiative.
That's not to take away from the Germans of course, who kept on fighting in front of their home crowd and eventually wrested control of the game from the Argentines. For a team who were written off before the tournament by everyone, including their own fans, they showed that they're more than capable of living up to the great traditions and results of German teams past. Lahm and Ballack in particular has been extemely impressive during the tournament.
As always the Germans were efficeincy personified during the penalty shoot out and, in Jens Lehman, they knew they had a fantastic keeper with a history of penalty saves.
While it was hard luck on Argentina, it was the right result for the World Cup.
Let's hope England will still be in the mix for a possible final with the Germans...
Friday, June 30
Thursday, June 29
Jogo bonito is bollocks
Something that most football fans knew anyway, but probably news to the many 'fans' who have jumped on the bandwagon in the last few years since the World Cup has mushroomed.
"Jogo bonito was invented by a sports brand," smirked Roberto Carlos, reliably the most indiscreet member of Brazil's squad. "You can't blame us for that. Brazilian football is intelligent and winning, with great champions - that's what we have always been. When you start talking about the beautiful game, that's more about selling things."
Nike's high-profile World Cup marketing campaign has become an irritant to Brazil. Whenever they do not play beautifully the press taunts them with the phrase joga bonito - play beautiful - as featured on the company's billboards.
After the Ghana win this irritation appeared to reach a tipping point. "Why does Brazil have to play beautifully and the others don't?" said the coach Carlos Alberto Parreira. "If we can, we do. We are not against it, we appreciate it. But much more than playing beautifully we want to be world champions."
link
See? That's what it's all about - winning. Mind you, Brazil have only themselves to blame for encouraging the tossers at Nike.
"Jogo bonito was invented by a sports brand," smirked Roberto Carlos, reliably the most indiscreet member of Brazil's squad. "You can't blame us for that. Brazilian football is intelligent and winning, with great champions - that's what we have always been. When you start talking about the beautiful game, that's more about selling things."
Nike's high-profile World Cup marketing campaign has become an irritant to Brazil. Whenever they do not play beautifully the press taunts them with the phrase joga bonito - play beautiful - as featured on the company's billboards.
After the Ghana win this irritation appeared to reach a tipping point. "Why does Brazil have to play beautifully and the others don't?" said the coach Carlos Alberto Parreira. "If we can, we do. We are not against it, we appreciate it. But much more than playing beautifully we want to be world champions."
link
See? That's what it's all about - winning. Mind you, Brazil have only themselves to blame for encouraging the tossers at Nike.
anti-soccer rant US-stylee
Why soccer sucks is a funny, ignorant, close to the bone and swear-tastic rant against football by some US bloggers with a serious anti-political correctness slant (Which is fair enough).
The dacs left a comment 'cos we're fucking great...
The dacs left a comment 'cos we're fucking great...
Wednesday, June 28
Garden
Note the new addition of a cane teepee for some donated runner beans.Unsurprisingly, one of them has already withered and died away.
The sweetcorn and brocolli are coming along mighty fine though
Wednesdays Waste
Recycling Waste = 5.4 kg
Landfill Waste = 6.8 kg
Composting Waste = 1.5 kg
+ crap loads of glass bottles and jars that I couldn't be arsed to weigh
We have now recorded five weeks of waste data so it might be instructive to calculate a very rough yearly figure based on those records.
We'll add the five weeks together...
Recycled Waste = 20.7 kg
Landfill Waste = 36.2 kg
Composting Waste = 7.5 kg
Then multiply the figures by 10 for a 50 week figure, which will pass for a yearly amount of waste. We've got a two week holiday to Lanzarote in August (Yaaaaaaaaaay!) so we can afford to have a two week gap in the yearly figure. And i'm sure the world can survive the carbon emissions from our one flight in donkeys years too.
Annual
Recycled Waste = 207 kg
Landfill Waste= 362 kg
Composting Waste = 75kg
That's not too bad I guess, especially considering that each UK household produces over 1 tonne of rubbish annually
yet we've managed, as a three person household, to cut ours to 644 kg per year with roughly a third going directly to recycling plants, a further 11% going into composting and about 56% going to landfill.
Landfill Waste = 6.8 kg
Composting Waste = 1.5 kg
+ crap loads of glass bottles and jars that I couldn't be arsed to weigh
We have now recorded five weeks of waste data so it might be instructive to calculate a very rough yearly figure based on those records.
We'll add the five weeks together...
Recycled Waste = 20.7 kg
Landfill Waste = 36.2 kg
Composting Waste = 7.5 kg
Then multiply the figures by 10 for a 50 week figure, which will pass for a yearly amount of waste. We've got a two week holiday to Lanzarote in August (Yaaaaaaaaaay!) so we can afford to have a two week gap in the yearly figure. And i'm sure the world can survive the carbon emissions from our one flight in donkeys years too.
Annual
Recycled Waste = 207 kg
Landfill Waste= 362 kg
Composting Waste = 75kg
That's not too bad I guess, especially considering that each UK household produces over 1 tonne of rubbish annually
yet we've managed, as a three person household, to cut ours to 644 kg per year with roughly a third going directly to recycling plants, a further 11% going into composting and about 56% going to landfill.
Tuesday, June 27
Ronaldo becomes World Cup top scorer
Monday, June 19
Labour to lose next election
Ok, so such a sentiment has been popular currency for a while now out in the real world, but the thought seems to have only just occurred to the Government.
Michael Wills, Labour MP for Swindon North and a close aide of Chancellor Gordon Brown, has said, "The trouble with the current approach is that we will go out of power and we will go out of power for 15 years."
He's quite right of course, as more and more of the voting pubic have grown tired of the incompetece, ineptitude, arrogance and hopeless behaivour of a stale Labour Government.
Wills continued with, "We have got good messages and we are delivering on public services so why is it they don't listen any more? It is because they don't trust us. Iraq is an important part of that. The presidential style of the prime minister - which brought us great dividends in the early years and now we are seeing the mirror image of that - is also part of it."
Iraq is something to do with it I suppose, although for the general public it isn't as big a deal for them as it is for some lefties. Rather it's the incompetence of the Government in their handling of domestic issues that has led to Labour slipping down the opinion polls, propelled by the sleazy shortcomings of David Blunkett, Charles Clarke, Mr Ruth Kelly, Patricia Hewitt, et al and their institutional inability to produce the goods with all the money they're pouring into the state.
So no, the public don't really trust the Government and nor do they have much reason to. But they haven't turned against Tony Blair completely, mainly because he is still a great talker (Or con artist according to your taste) who gives the impression of leading, while the alternative in Gordon Brown is just too awful to contemplate. An arrogant, charmless Scot with a fuckwitted facial tick is not who the English want leading them and unfortunately for Brown and Labour, Englishness and its separateness from Scotland and Wales is an issue looming ever larger on the radar of the public conciousness.
David Cameron should be licking his little tiny lips in anticipation.
Michael Wills, Labour MP for Swindon North and a close aide of Chancellor Gordon Brown, has said, "The trouble with the current approach is that we will go out of power and we will go out of power for 15 years."
He's quite right of course, as more and more of the voting pubic have grown tired of the incompetece, ineptitude, arrogance and hopeless behaivour of a stale Labour Government.
Wills continued with, "We have got good messages and we are delivering on public services so why is it they don't listen any more? It is because they don't trust us. Iraq is an important part of that. The presidential style of the prime minister - which brought us great dividends in the early years and now we are seeing the mirror image of that - is also part of it."
Iraq is something to do with it I suppose, although for the general public it isn't as big a deal for them as it is for some lefties. Rather it's the incompetence of the Government in their handling of domestic issues that has led to Labour slipping down the opinion polls, propelled by the sleazy shortcomings of David Blunkett, Charles Clarke, Mr Ruth Kelly, Patricia Hewitt, et al and their institutional inability to produce the goods with all the money they're pouring into the state.
So no, the public don't really trust the Government and nor do they have much reason to. But they haven't turned against Tony Blair completely, mainly because he is still a great talker (Or con artist according to your taste) who gives the impression of leading, while the alternative in Gordon Brown is just too awful to contemplate. An arrogant, charmless Scot with a fuckwitted facial tick is not who the English want leading them and unfortunately for Brown and Labour, Englishness and its separateness from Scotland and Wales is an issue looming ever larger on the radar of the public conciousness.
David Cameron should be licking his little tiny lips in anticipation.
When will I see you again
thedacs hosted a barbeque yesterday which was very , very tasty, although this morning it has decided to repeat itself upon D's bowels and spluttering sphincter.
No one else appears to have been affected by the squits.
Well, no one else who ate thedacs meat anyway, across Britain is an entirely different matter and i'm sure that the nations toilets have suffered a real pounding this morning.
Saturday, June 17
How good are Argentina?
Pretty damn good if yesterday's game against Serbia & Montenegro is anything to go by.
Thursday, June 15
Phew!
Crouch finally hit the target and Stevie G fired in a thunderbolt.
Rooney was a catalyst although he didn't do too much, whereas Lennon was exactly what was needed.
Changes need to be made to the starting line-up though if England are to progress through the knockout stages and, maybe, win the World Cup.
Rooney was a catalyst although he didn't do too much, whereas Lennon was exactly what was needed.
Changes need to be made to the starting line-up though if England are to progress through the knockout stages and, maybe, win the World Cup.
Oh dear
It's not a disaster of course, but England are looking a bit shit.
Trinidad & Tobago are playing well, but it seems that England aren't exactly pushing them.
Lampard is pretty anonimous, Crouch couldn't hit a barn door, Beckham thinks he's John Elway when he is in fact a right sided midfielder, Owen doesn't look fit, Robinson is so fat he can't leap more than two inches off the ground and Sven is, of course, rather clueless.
John Terry is our saviour at the moment with that goal line clearance.
Everyone is, let's face it, itching for Rooney to come on so that someone can run at the T & T defence, instead of the usual long diagonal balls splayed out from our own half that are gobbled up by defenders.
I do so hope that England can do what they haven't done in the last 7 World Cup games and score in the second half.
Trinidad & Tobago are playing well, but it seems that England aren't exactly pushing them.
Lampard is pretty anonimous, Crouch couldn't hit a barn door, Beckham thinks he's John Elway when he is in fact a right sided midfielder, Owen doesn't look fit, Robinson is so fat he can't leap more than two inches off the ground and Sven is, of course, rather clueless.
John Terry is our saviour at the moment with that goal line clearance.
Everyone is, let's face it, itching for Rooney to come on so that someone can run at the T & T defence, instead of the usual long diagonal balls splayed out from our own half that are gobbled up by defenders.
I do so hope that England can do what they haven't done in the last 7 World Cup games and score in the second half.
Wednesday, June 14
Energy-saving ratings for homes
A new wheeze by the Government named the 'Energy Performance Certificate' is to be introduced as a compulsory part of the Home Information Packs which house sellers must provide during a sale.
The whole shebang doesn't come into force until next year (Although the idea has been knocking around for a while yet, while expensive for the home seller who must shell out roughly a grand for the all-encompassing survey, will save each buyer from having to purchase a survey for each property they show an interest in.
While that is a long overdue process, especially for hard up first-time buyers, it is also a fair one and with the new Energy Performance Certificate tacked on, could actually become a process for large-scale change.
Not on its own of course, but allied to the increasing willingness and interest of individuals to take upon themselves the responsibility for energy conservation and production (As well as the new technologies centred on microgeneration), it could well help raise awareness by appealing to that aspect which will always stimulate action. Money.
Who wants to spend the most money they will ever spend in their entire life on something that pisses out more money literally through the walls? I certainly don't. I want to know that the house i'm buying (Hahaha as if that will ever come to happen for the dacs) isn't going to be wasteful, in the same way that you wouldn't buy a car that pissed out oil.
I want to spend my money on domestic wind turbines, CHP boilers, Pv Panels and Ground Source Heat Pumps. We do all we can with those energy saving initiatives that don't cost us anything (Recycling etc) but can't be doing with paying out for surveys on top of the cost of a house, when the seller can take that hit themselves.
The Government has actually done something (And it is only something when you consider how little else they've done) decent for the environment and for the British public.
An Englishman's home is his castle as they say, it should also be his own power station.
The whole shebang doesn't come into force until next year (Although the idea has been knocking around for a while yet, while expensive for the home seller who must shell out roughly a grand for the all-encompassing survey, will save each buyer from having to purchase a survey for each property they show an interest in.
While that is a long overdue process, especially for hard up first-time buyers, it is also a fair one and with the new Energy Performance Certificate tacked on, could actually become a process for large-scale change.
Not on its own of course, but allied to the increasing willingness and interest of individuals to take upon themselves the responsibility for energy conservation and production (As well as the new technologies centred on microgeneration), it could well help raise awareness by appealing to that aspect which will always stimulate action. Money.
Who wants to spend the most money they will ever spend in their entire life on something that pisses out more money literally through the walls? I certainly don't. I want to know that the house i'm buying (Hahaha as if that will ever come to happen for the dacs) isn't going to be wasteful, in the same way that you wouldn't buy a car that pissed out oil.
I want to spend my money on domestic wind turbines, CHP boilers, Pv Panels and Ground Source Heat Pumps. We do all we can with those energy saving initiatives that don't cost us anything (Recycling etc) but can't be doing with paying out for surveys on top of the cost of a house, when the seller can take that hit themselves.
The Government has actually done something (And it is only something when you consider how little else they've done) decent for the environment and for the British public.
An Englishman's home is his castle as they say, it should also be his own power station.
Germany vs Poland about to kick off
No, not outside the stadium, although there has been plenty of speculation that the two opposing sets of fans will fight pitched battles against each other. In fact, it wasn't so long ago that hundreds of them did.
But the two football teams are about to play each other in what represents the first big clash between nations with emnity running through them. It won't please the Guardinista's and the likes of Denis McShane who deplore any reference to or recall of the Second World War, but the history between these two neighbours can't be ignored.
It certainly won't be by the Germans or the Polish.
Poland need a result in this match to stay in the World Cup after they lost to Ecuduor in the opening match, and the Germans of course, will be intent on showing they're still the dominant force.
Hopefully it's gonna be an end to end cracker with plenty of action and bitterness...
But the two football teams are about to play each other in what represents the first big clash between nations with emnity running through them. It won't please the Guardinista's and the likes of Denis McShane who deplore any reference to or recall of the Second World War, but the history between these two neighbours can't be ignored.
It certainly won't be by the Germans or the Polish.
Poland need a result in this match to stay in the World Cup after they lost to Ecuduor in the opening match, and the Germans of course, will be intent on showing they're still the dominant force.
Hopefully it's gonna be an end to end cracker with plenty of action and bitterness...
Can't even read my own blog
Keep on getting a "Can't find server" page whenever I try to view it.
Not missing much though let's face it..
Not missing much though let's face it..
Tuesday, June 13
Internet doing my nut in!
Internet connection is getting on my tits. Almost every link or page I want to visit throws up " Can't Find Server" or some fucking thing called Error Related Matches.
FUCK OFF!!!
FUCK OFF!!!
Lucked out
Seems I lucked out by spending the early evening playing Need For Speed: Most Wanted with C & A instead of watching, by all accounts, the most tedious game of the World Cup so far.
Not that I was ever excited by the prospect of France vs Switzerland anyway.
Much more fun to be had smashing up cop cars while the bastards chase after our souped-up motor...
Not that I was ever excited by the prospect of France vs Switzerland anyway.
Much more fun to be had smashing up cop cars while the bastards chase after our souped-up motor...
Monday, June 12
I'm worried for England
The first half of Italy vs Ghana has just finished, with the Italians one up thanks to a wonder strike from Pirlo, the quality of the play, not to mention the excitement, in this game (Alongside the two matches earlier where the Czechs destroyed the US of A with some fantastic goals and the Aussies fought back wonderfully against the Japanese) has left me feling slightly more disheartened about Englands chances of winning the World Cup.
It was bad enough when my hopes and dreams foundered a bit on our display against Paraguay and the groan-inducing substitutions made by Eriksson (Again!) but having watched three games where the pace, skill and attacking verve have put us to shame, leaves me despondant.
Nevermind, tomorrow is another day, England are top of the group and they'll push on now.
Just need to score a fucking goal in the second half at some point during this tournament...
It was bad enough when my hopes and dreams foundered a bit on our display against Paraguay and the groan-inducing substitutions made by Eriksson (Again!) but having watched three games where the pace, skill and attacking verve have put us to shame, leaves me despondant.
Nevermind, tomorrow is another day, England are top of the group and they'll push on now.
Just need to score a fucking goal in the second half at some point during this tournament...
Australia 2-1 up
Told you it would be a cracking game. Australia were 1-0 down until the 84th minute when Everton's Tim Cahill scored the equaliser and then, a minute before the full 90, he only goes and gets another!
No goals scored in the World Cup for Australia EVER.....and then two turn up at once. Class.
FUCK! It's 3-1. Aloisi scores a cracker.
Australia win their first ever World Cup game as well.
Who the fuck are Brazil eh?!
Australia to win the group.
No goals scored in the World Cup for Australia EVER.....and then two turn up at once. Class.
FUCK! It's 3-1. Aloisi scores a cracker.
Australia win their first ever World Cup game as well.
Who the fuck are Brazil eh?!
Australia to win the group.
World Cup
I'm sitting here watching Australia vs Japan (I have a feeling it will turn out to be a cracking game) and not yet once posted on the World Cup. I tried on the opening night but blogger.com was being a tempremental shit and the weekend was just too busy.
England won their first match against Paraguay of course, although as usual it wasn't a great game (It never is with England) and I was thankful that we held on for the victory. Ok, so Paraguay never really threatened to score but then again, in the second half certainly, neither did England and that's a worry.
In the past 11 tournament matches England haven't scored in the second half (If my memory of what John 'Useless old cunt' Motson was babbling during the commentary is correct), which brings up dreadful memories of the dismal surrender to Brazil in 2002 when England didn't even have a shot on goal in the entire second half.
That can only be, well in my mind anyway, down to Eriksson and his woeful tactics - get an early lead and sit back, ever deeper, absorbing the onslaught - and his baffling subtitutions - Owen Hargreaves making his first appearance. If England carry on in that vein, then we won't last longr than the second round or Quarter Finals at best, when we run up against the stronger teams with the ability to break down stubborn defences.
We looked weak going forward too, with only a few long range Lampard and Gerrard shots (Which mostly ended up in Row Z) to accompany Beckhams flukey opener. Let's hope Owen was injured (Although only ever so slightly of course) as the alternative, substituted after 56 mins for Downing (Who looked pretty amateurish with his punt it past the defender and sprint as fast as you can style of play) for tactical reasons can only lead most England fans to despair.
Nevermind though, the boy Rooney looks like he might be making the return of the prodigal son to the England starting XI and it doesn't come a moment too soon after watching the match against Paraguay. Unless he re-breaks his foot in the first tackle of course.
The talk is that he could be back in time for Thursday's game against Trinidad & Tobago, who actually did us a favour by playing so brilliantly with 10 men against Sweden and holding out for a draw. While it was a fantastic display (And celebrated as if they had won the final itself by the players) it will hopefully play to our advantage when the two sides meet in a few days.
Playing with ten men is always pretty exhausting (Arf, sounds dirty!) and to recreate that performance again only days later is a big ask for the T & T players. They may reach the same heights against England but I doubt it and can see them losing. While most England supporters will be demanding a display that blows Trinidad & Tobago completely away as they did Jamaica in a friendly last week, the reality will probably be a 2-0 or 3-1 victory.
OOOOOHHHHHH and the Japanese almost opened the scoring with a shot that flashed just wide of the post. It's a good, open game so far with both teams looking to attack at every opportunity. Come on Japan!
FUCK!!! Just sorting out my links and the Japanese score! It's a bit controversial but looked good to me, seemed the Japanese player was buffeted into the Aussie keeper which allowed the ball to float over them all into the back of the net.
England won their first match against Paraguay of course, although as usual it wasn't a great game (It never is with England) and I was thankful that we held on for the victory. Ok, so Paraguay never really threatened to score but then again, in the second half certainly, neither did England and that's a worry.
In the past 11 tournament matches England haven't scored in the second half (If my memory of what John 'Useless old cunt' Motson was babbling during the commentary is correct), which brings up dreadful memories of the dismal surrender to Brazil in 2002 when England didn't even have a shot on goal in the entire second half.
That can only be, well in my mind anyway, down to Eriksson and his woeful tactics - get an early lead and sit back, ever deeper, absorbing the onslaught - and his baffling subtitutions - Owen Hargreaves making his first appearance. If England carry on in that vein, then we won't last longr than the second round or Quarter Finals at best, when we run up against the stronger teams with the ability to break down stubborn defences.
We looked weak going forward too, with only a few long range Lampard and Gerrard shots (Which mostly ended up in Row Z) to accompany Beckhams flukey opener. Let's hope Owen was injured (Although only ever so slightly of course) as the alternative, substituted after 56 mins for Downing (Who looked pretty amateurish with his punt it past the defender and sprint as fast as you can style of play) for tactical reasons can only lead most England fans to despair.
Nevermind though, the boy Rooney looks like he might be making the return of the prodigal son to the England starting XI and it doesn't come a moment too soon after watching the match against Paraguay. Unless he re-breaks his foot in the first tackle of course.
The talk is that he could be back in time for Thursday's game against Trinidad & Tobago, who actually did us a favour by playing so brilliantly with 10 men against Sweden and holding out for a draw. While it was a fantastic display (And celebrated as if they had won the final itself by the players) it will hopefully play to our advantage when the two sides meet in a few days.
Playing with ten men is always pretty exhausting (Arf, sounds dirty!) and to recreate that performance again only days later is a big ask for the T & T players. They may reach the same heights against England but I doubt it and can see them losing. While most England supporters will be demanding a display that blows Trinidad & Tobago completely away as they did Jamaica in a friendly last week, the reality will probably be a 2-0 or 3-1 victory.
OOOOOHHHHHH and the Japanese almost opened the scoring with a shot that flashed just wide of the post. It's a good, open game so far with both teams looking to attack at every opportunity. Come on Japan!
FUCK!!! Just sorting out my links and the Japanese score! It's a bit controversial but looked good to me, seemed the Japanese player was buffeted into the Aussie keeper which allowed the ball to float over them all into the back of the net.
Wednesday, June 7
Waste weighing
This weeks waste stats are:
Recyclable material = 4 kg
Landfill waste = 8.1 kg
Compost = 1.5 kg
Plus a wheelie bin full of mowed grass.
Recyclable material = 4 kg
Landfill waste = 8.1 kg
Compost = 1.5 kg
Plus a wheelie bin full of mowed grass.
Monday, June 5
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
Yes I know! World Environment Day! How it slipped my mind again this year i'll never know, but hopefully i'll still have time to walk down to the local independent retailer of Fairtrade goods and purchase a recycable 'Happy World Environment Day' card for all the local, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural kids.Anyway, enough of the sub-standard attempts at humour, let's crack on with the point of this post. The Guardian ran an article today with some top tips for World Environment Day on how to save the planet from home, and the warm feeling of smugness that follows realising we already fulfill almost all of them spread across me as rapidly as the warm dampness of weak urine spreads across the crotch of the typical Guardianista whenever some rotten racist waves the St Georges Cross.
Thedacs already:
- Turn off the lights, as well as turning off plug sockets when we're out or asleep, including those used for mobile phone chargers
- Recycle and compost. We even pay £15 a year for a garden waste bin so it all gets taken somewhere cool and groovy.
- Use the car as little as possible or walk and cycle.
- Have an insulated home and, where the level of craftsmanship used to build this house has been substandard (Very common in MK I must add in my experiences), we take additional measures to insulate further. Bless you Sausage Dog draught excluder!
- Use rechargeable batteries
HBS...
...Didn't go to the meeting. Had to look after A all day and besides, I didn't want to go.
Without C here to give me strength I didn't feel able to attend a meeting called by HBS (For what purpose i'm obviously no closer to knowing) nor able to cope with being quizzed by two senior, senior management cunts i've never even met.
Maybe I bottled it but fuck it, those bastards pushed me down into a place I didn't like (Nor did I like the effect it has had on me) and i'm not really sure that i've entirely got over it. C will probably moan at me later for letting those still working there down, but I felt sick at the thought of going, sick at the thought of a long, lonely bus journey there, sick at the thought of sitting there when I no longer work for the fuckers.
Either way, I no longer have to worry about it.
Without C here to give me strength I didn't feel able to attend a meeting called by HBS (For what purpose i'm obviously no closer to knowing) nor able to cope with being quizzed by two senior, senior management cunts i've never even met.
Maybe I bottled it but fuck it, those bastards pushed me down into a place I didn't like (Nor did I like the effect it has had on me) and i'm not really sure that i've entirely got over it. C will probably moan at me later for letting those still working there down, but I felt sick at the thought of going, sick at the thought of a long, lonely bus journey there, sick at the thought of sitting there when I no longer work for the fuckers.
Either way, I no longer have to worry about it.
Thursday, June 1
HBS II
More developments regarding HBShite as a small article based upon the email I sent to a reporter appeared in the local press.
It wasn't a particuarly great article and only focused on one part of the story, although that's to be expected really, but the fact that HBS have 'stongly refuted' any claims regarding staff retention hasn't gone down too well with some of my former co-workers still toiling under the incompetence of HBS management.
So much so, that L has emailed me asking for details of how to contact the press anonymously so that they can lay into HBS, back up my claims regarding the company and basically add their fuel to the fire. I do so hope that L goes through with it, as the accusation will not only be more powerful coming on the back of mine, but also as it's coming from within.
It wasn't a particuarly great article and only focused on one part of the story, although that's to be expected really, but the fact that HBS have 'stongly refuted' any claims regarding staff retention hasn't gone down too well with some of my former co-workers still toiling under the incompetence of HBS management.
So much so, that L has emailed me asking for details of how to contact the press anonymously so that they can lay into HBS, back up my claims regarding the company and basically add their fuel to the fire. I do so hope that L goes through with it, as the accusation will not only be more powerful coming on the back of mine, but also as it's coming from within.
Euston Manifesto Launch
It was the official launch of Euston Manifesto the other night, so it's an ideal opportunity to re-run this
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