The Night Mail

[Northmoor]

3 hours ago, Tony_S said:

The vice principal responsible for HR and his HR advisor every single time questioned me about the medical evidence. Their reasoning being I didn’t look “ill”. 

Lucky for them they didn't substitute "ill" with "disabled", or they would have been looking at a breach of employment law that would likely (and rightly, IMO) have cost their employer a decent six-figure sum.  Funnily enough though, the one organisation that is allowed to question whether you are disabled, is HM Government, but then because of the effort some absolute oxygen thieves put into avoiding employment, people with real, life-impacting disabilities are assumed to be fraudsters unless they can prove otherwise.

[bbishop]

Drunk!

[polybear]

5 hours ago, Tony_S said:

I am not generally a malicious person, I am sure some people would accuse me of liberal, “wokeish” leanings but I really came away with an intense dislike of the HR vice principal. Aditi said it isn’t worth still despising him and I should let it go but I do check local obituaries to see if he had passed away with something unpleasant.  I do think if I have got to my age and I only really have one person I have come across that I think has no redeeming feature I have done quite well. 

 

Bear most definitely does bear a grudge (there's several on my list) - I wish I could "let go" but unfortunately I can't.  I'd also love to hear news of something very unfortunate  fortunate having happened to them - ideally slowly and painfully.  On a bad day I'm not that generous though and can get really bitter and vindictive....

 

3 hours ago, pH said:

A torn back muscle is even more fun.

 

A certain Bear busted his spine (T4) in a fall - that was way back in 1991; the one thing I really, really recall for several weeks afterwards is that sneezing is A Very, Very Bad Idea indeed.......

 

1 hour ago, Northmoor said:

Funnily enough though, the one organisation that is allowed to question whether you are disabled, is HM Government, but then because of the effort some absolute oxygen thieves put into avoiding employment, people with real, life-impacting disabilities are assumed to be fraudsters unless they can prove otherwise.

 

Bear's Buddy over the road had his right arm smashed good & proper by a German Motorcyclist jumping a red light in Paris; as a result that arm is nottalotta good at all.  He'd most certainly be entitled to Benefits but quite some years ago he got so p1ssed off with all the hoops they were making him jump thru' he told them to poke the lot of it as he'd had enough of the lot of them.  The thing that makes me really angry is that after fighting his insurance company for Compo (he won in the end) the Benefits people then made him pay back something like £30K he'd received in some Benefits as they were means-tested (presumably the Compo payout effectively means he had that sum of money in his account from the day of the accident onwards).  In fact he didn't pay it back - his Solicitors deducted the money from the Compo before he received what was left.

He has enough to live on but certainly isn't in a position to go splashin' the cash.

[Dave Hunt]

1 hour ago, bbishop said:

Drunk!

 

Is that an accusation or a confession Bill?

 

Dave

[Winslow Boy]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

 

Bear most definitely does bear a grudge (there's several on my list) - I wish I could "let go" but unfortunately I can't.  I'd also love to hear news of something very unfortunate  fortunate having happened to them - ideally slowly and painfully.  On a bad day I'm not that generous though and can get really bitter and vindictive....

 

 

A certain Bear busted his spine (T4) in a fall - that was way back in 1991; the one thing I really, really recall for several weeks afterwards is that sneezing is A Very, Very Bad Idea indeed.......

 

 

Bear's Buddy over the road had his right arm smashed good & proper by a German Motorcyclist jumping a red light in Paris; as a result that arm is nottalotta good at all.  He'd most certainly be entitled to Benefits but quite some years ago he got so p1ssed off with all the hoops they were making him jump thru' he told them to poke the lot of it as he'd had enough of the lot of them.  The thing that makes me really angry is that after fighting his insurance company for Compo (he won in the end) the Benefits people then made him pay back something like £30K he'd received in some Benefits as they were means-tested (presumably the Compo payout effectively means he had that sum of money in his account from the day of the accident onwards).  In fact he didn't pay it back - his Solicitors deducted the money from the Compo before he received what was left.

He has enough to live on but certainly isn't in a position to go splashin' the cash.

 

The state does like to get its hands on its citizens money however when it comes to giving it back it seems to be awfully reluctant making you jump through all sort of hoops as if you were guilty of something.

Edited January 26, 2023 by Winslow Boy

[J. S. Bach]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

 ...snip... Bear most definitely does bear a grudge (there's several on my list) - I wish I could "let go" but unfortunately I can't.  I'd also love to hear news of something very unfortunate  fortunate having happened to them - ideally slowly and painfully.  On a bad day I'm not that generous though and can get really bitter and vindictive.... ...snip...

I prefer to hope that "they" get stuck in non-moving traffic on the interstate on a very, very hot day, the car's ac not working, and "they" suddenly get a violent case of projectile vomit AND explosive diarrhea! Oh and maybe the seatbelt gets jammed and will not release!!

[jamie92208]

7 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

Is that an accusation or a confession Bill?

 

Dave

Can I offer my services as an expert witness. I became one, in relation to drunkeness, when I took my oath of office.  His speech was slurred, hisceyes were glazed andvhe was unsteady on uis feet, he wasxin fact drunk your worships.

 

Having remembered  that immortal phrase from 1973, where did I put my pen down.

 

Jamie

[New Haven Neil]

2 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

he wasxin fact drunk your worships.

 

Ah, here it is '....he was concerned with alcohol, your Worships'.  Always made me smile.....'concerned'.  LOL

[Dave Hunt]

I have never been drunk in my life yer ‘onner. I’ve been merry, giddy, a bit pi**ed, unstable on my pins, happy as a newt, had slight speech problems and once or twice fallen over but never, ever have I been drunk. Honest.

 

Dave

[Compound2632]

4 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

His speech was slurred, hisceyes were glazed andvhe was unsteady on uis feet, he wasxin fact drunk your worships.

 

I've been putting Jamie's erratic typing down to a mismatch between the size of his digits and the size of the keys on his device but perhaps I have been mistaken all along...

[BoD]

Jamie:  He was as drunk as a Judge.

Judge:  You mean drunk as a Lord.

Jamie:  Yes, sorry m’ lord.

[Tony_S]

30 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

I've been putting Jamie's erratic typing down to a mismatch between the size of his digits and the size of the keys on his device but perhaps I have been mistaken all along...

I just assumed like yesterdays “two socks of chicken feed” it was the Crabtree format keyboard. 

[iL Dottore]

34 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

I've been putting Jamie's erratic typing down to a mismatch between the size of his digits and the size of the keys on his device but perhaps I have been mistaken all along...

Explains a lot….

[Gwiwer]

Good consternoon officeable

I’m not half as thunk as you drink I am

And the drunker I stand here the longer I get

Who?  Me?  Shloshed? I should shay sho

 

🤣

[iL Dottore]

1 minute ago, Gwiwer said:

Good consternoon officeable

I’m not half as thunk as you drink I am

And the drunker I stand here the longer I get

Who?  Me?  Shloshed? I should shay sho

 

🤣

Statement, confession or boast?

[jjb1970]

Wasn't the code phrase always 'tired and emotional'?

[Gwiwer]

Just now, iL Dottore said:

Statement, confession or boast?

Yes 

 

Welcome to Dry-day Frinks 

[SM42]

And now my back's gone

 

Doing well this week

 

Andy

[Oldddudders]

17 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

Yes 

 

Welcome to Dry-day Frinks 

Thanks for reminding me. Now pouring a Merlot. I have promised Sherry tuna carbonara for lunch, and one does not need to be totally sober to make a fair job of that!

 

Edit : Sherry demanded a Merlot, too......

 

 

Edited January 27, 2023 by Oldddudders

[bbishop]

A convivial evening with friends consuming about five pints.  Got up to leave and I was all over the place, but coherent and brain working fine.  I was escorted to the bus stop then caught the 126 to Grove Park station.  So it was either walk over a mile or catch the estate bus.  My mobile phone advised when the next 273 was due and I calculated it was even stevens.  Actually the bus passed me 100 yards before it turned right and I turned left.  So brain still working and walking ok as well.  All a bit weird.  Bill

[polybear]

41 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

 I have promised Sherry tuna carbonara for lunch, and one does not need to be totally sober to make a fair job of that!

 

Don't forget the cream......

[Gwiwer]

For anyone it may concern ….. 

 

[Oldddudders]

Grove Park. Ah, not bliss! I spent two years there as ASM in the mid-70s. A hotbed of industrial unrest, with drivers (who we didn't manage) and Downham Estate carriage cleaning ladies, who we did. When I arrived the SM, from north of Elstree, was at war with both groups. Within six months he had cleared his desk and gone. Relations improved slowly. Character-forming, at best. 

[SM42]

Next disaster 

 

The vacuum cleaner has abruptly stopped working and started issuing smoke instead. 

 

Really isn't my week

 

Andy

[Tony_S]

2 minutes ago, SM42 said:

Next disaster 

 

The vacuum cleaner has abruptly stopped working and started issuing smoke instead. 

 

Really isn't my week

 

Andy

At least your poorly back isn’t emitting smoke yet.