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What have you done recently that is just way below the acceptable threshold of stupidity as you see it?

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have done something at work that I would have bawled out a user fr doing, viz i have initialised my entire OSX partition. sorry this is computery, but it is also INTENSELY FUCKING STUPID. FUCK! Luckily there was only some mp3s and a bunch of perl stuff on there, cos I still do serious work in 9.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm. Well bothering to get out of bed this morning now seems pretty fucking stupid.

― Emma, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was at a meeting regarding a potential job last night. I was comnpletely exhausted, and feeling pretty unwell. I'd met the guy before, and he'd given me a couple of videos to watch. It was only when he asked me what I thought of them that I realised that the writing I'm doing now had stressed me to such a point that I'd completely neglected to watch them. I was so spaced that for ten seconds or so I just sat there going "oh... erm.... I... can't answer that", wondering how to bluff my way out, before explaining, in stuttering terms, that my video player is "broken" and spieling out a load of crap about my flatmate taking the working video, etc. etc. So now I look hugely unprofessional AND an obvious and stupid LIAR.

I think that qualifies, don't you?

― Mark C, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Due to PMT I have just burst into tears in a meeting (in glass box meeting room, I curse open plan offices) with deputy editor. We were talking about important long term stuff, but there was nothing there to warrant me crying. At all. I said all this, but the more I tried to stop the worse it got. I feel like such a bloody prat and now everybody else must think I've been sacked.

(Although I've just been bought a chocolate bar by deputy editor "to do whatever weird girl shit your body needs")

― Anna, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well at least you're not being patronised then, eh, Anna!

― Emma, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Spent hours trying to make MP3's. I think I've done it now. But, it's a nice sunny day, I should've gone for a walk.

― jel --, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Left the lid off the kettle after turning it on this morning.This is pretty indicative of the majority of my actions so far this week, i.e. half arsed.

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh come on Emma, you wouldn't mind be patronised a bit for free chocolate. Just keep the wrapper after as proof of a crass, sexist manager if you ever need to.

― Pete, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been working on a new database at work for about 7 months. It was a labour of love. I've just deleted it, and can't restore the file either. I should be really really pissed off, but I'm not. I suspect that's because I've decided to migrate to FileMaker so I can persuade my boss to get me a Mac.

― Nathan Barley, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i just removed my headphones. now my boss thinks that this gives her free rein to witter on to me about how she thinks she's allergic to her trousers and how the pubs in Hammersmith are so nice and how isn't Delicatessen the film with les troglodytes in it. will be putting the headphones back on as soon as there's 0.002 seconds of silence from her...

― katie, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I AM STILL MAD AT MYSELF. Calm me down someone.

[d.boyle, this will not work FMPro is ace at the cross-platform thing]

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

To be honest I think I deserved being patronised for that one. I'm really pissed off with myself. Although the chocolate was his inarticulate way of saying it didn't really matter. And it was a Galaxy...

― Anna, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Katie I can't help but imagine you turning around in your chair and visibly typing that as she stands directly over your shoulder rambling on and on.

― Bitsuh, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Right now I think it's booking an appointment to look at a house tonight whilst I am in such a wrecked physical state of coughing and spluttering.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

N (B? huh? what's going on??) itsuh, when she is wittering on to me i DO carry on typing but it has NO EFFECT. i have tried to blank her/show my disinterest in SOOO many different ways, none of them have ever worked. even focussing my eyes just behind her head's had no effect. i am starting to think that she is some kind of alien.

― katie, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

STart loving her back - she'll soon want to get rid of all your annoying attention.

― Pete, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When gathering money to purchase our condo, I didn't roll over my 401 (k)s into IRAs before withdrawing the money. This has decreased our income tax return by something on the order of $1000. GRRRR.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Forgetting to pay off my 1-YR interest free credit on my stereo before I went to France. This means my £300 stereo magically costs £500 fucksticks. Totally my own fault, I was busy paying real bills etc and totally forgot the deadline for pay-off. Remembered this morning when statement arrived.

Starry - koff on the landlord and then threaten plague unless we get the house. (If it's good).

― Tom, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Good idea! I'm heading off NOW! Okay I am not actually due to meet Lixi for 35 minutes but I cannot stand the office any longer, I will communicate with THE SECRET METHODS hem hem tonight if its any good. *cross fingers*

― Sarah, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

By the way Ktee I was not insinuating that your attention is generally annoying (lovely chap, all that) just that it might work in this awkward office scenario.

― Pete, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At this point today, probably giving Burnweed anything marginally more than the time of day.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Buying two pairs of jeans in 5 days (and they're almost identical) the second pair were bought because I didn't want to leave the shop empty handed, but they are lovely, then today I bought the 24 hour party people soundtrack just because I saw it, I've got just about everything on it all ready. ALso I have been doing my usual trick and thinking too much, for me this is a bad thing, I'm better at just bimbling along and taking life as it comes, I start thinking, things go wrong.

― chris, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris is there a Jon Carter remix of a Happy Mondays track on it? I hear it in the dark reaches of my Paddys Day memory bank and remember someone screaming something about the Happy Mondays.

The stupidest thing I did this week was when I agreed to go out to a shite club on Thursday cos "IT'S THE LAST WEEK OF COLLEGE WE CAN GO OUT". Jesus I'll have to make an excuse of "washing my hair" proportions.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Indeed there is Ronan, he's remixed 24 hour party people itself, I look forward to listening to it when I get back from my work leaving do, which I am not particularly looking forward to.

― chris, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

See Saramago thread.

― Graham, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's all computers and money, innit?

Filled in an online job application today - spent a good 75 minutes working on it, condensing 15 years' of further education/job experience into their tiny HTML boxes, and labouring over every word in the Additional Information section. Attempted to print the thing before submitting only for the PC to hang - went into Print Preview and was faced with an infinitely incrementing page counter (Page 1 of 160...161...162). In some desperation, tried to cut and paste the more verbose stuff into Word - only to be greeted with the blue screen of death. Lost it all. Whether this is merely my stupidity or the special kind of conflated idiocy you get when combining my working methods with Windows ME and a flaky web-page, I'm not sure.

I had a good scream, anyway.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mike, if it helps, that's EXACTLY what happened to me. It wasn't the BBC, was it?

(and, on a happier note, I finally got a phone call from the BBC today telling me they did want me to come in for interview! Hurrah!)

Alan, are you still miserable? Just think what might have happened if you tried to do plumbing without the water switched off because you thought "no worries, it'll just spurt for second or two while I reconnect"...

― Mark C, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I bimbled today, and didn't think, and I'm much happier. Ronan, the remix is ok, but it ghas a really horrible changed vocal in there that spoils it somewhat. The Marshall Jefferson track is fantastic though

― chris, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah...he generally tends to rip stuff up completely and thus his remixes are really top drawer. His I am the Resurrection was the only good thing on the Stone Roses remix album. Just took the "down down you bring me down", no thanks to the rest, and it worked well. Shame about that remix though, if anyone could do it I'd have thought Carter could. I was toying with the idea of getting that soundtrack but I think my 20 euro voucher will stay in my room for a while longer.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark C: Yes! It was the BBC! Oh well, I don't think we can be applying for the same job, unless they're keeping the animated fun quotient of my prospective post quiet until the interview stage.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ronan, it sounds very much like the original, which is what I found a bit disappointing, if you're going to do a remix, rip the fucker to shreds.

― chris, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

too much to talk about. i always do stoopid stuff.

― di, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned -- Burnweed is back? What's the story? (No pun intended...)

― Nicole, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh god! Just go over to ILM and search any of the last couple of days' threads about Schizo Fun Addict -- it's him, it's his band, he got into a semi-spam frenzy. Goddamn. ET shared a story or two about him privately.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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