I’m running on empty at the moment - new job leads to lack of brainage. On the plus side, I now get to fight it out, Eagle V Dockers for the next 6 months! Ahhh inter office rivalry. I can’t comment on work too much obviously, but let me just say, that I have seriously heard some of the most stupid people tonight when I was listening to calls. Word to the wise - don’t switch off your antivirus software when downloading with limewire; Don’t muck around with the MDF if you live in a block of flats in an attempt to do your own telephone wiring, and DON’T threaten to beat up telephone technicians.

Secondly, last night there was fire, but not in my flat. The neighbours below decided to have a BBQ with those smokey coals thingies. The BBQ caught fire, and I had smoke billowing upwards into MY unit; into MY flat; setting off MY smoke alarm. Stupid people. Next time they want portuguese chicken, they should go to Nandos.

Now, I use facebook, good to keep up with old friends and workmates, and less emo than myspaz. That being said, I am using the Ignore function to ignore many invitations, and the numbers of invites I get are dropping by the dozen every day. I found a 12 step fuck you about facebook, so I thought I would post it here. If I knew who wrote it, I’d say thanks.

To get you into the mood of this post. Here is some foamy, watch it - think Foamy.

THE 12 FUCK YOUS OF FACEBOOK!

Fuck You Number ONE

OK PEOPLE STOP POSTING GOODNIGHTS ON FACEBOOK. ITS NOT LIKE FACEBOOK IS UR FUCKING HUSBAND OR WIFE TO SAY GOOD NIGHT DUMBASS.

Fuck You number TWO

There is NO SUCH THING as a FACEBOOK Tracker.
It does NOT exist. So quit posting stupid bulletins like
“OH-MY-GOD this WORKS!!!”
No, it doesnt.

Fuck You number THREE

To the people who have like 25,000 friends;
Are you fucking serious?
You’re stupid.
Go play in traffic

Fuck you number FOUR

Don’t ever post pictures and say:
“OMG, I’m so ugly”
because if you were, you wouldn’t post them.
If you do you’re a fucking moron.

Fuck you number FIVE

NOBODY cares about threats over the internet,
so don’t try to act hardcore with the keyboard.
Fighting online is like racing in the Special Olympics;
Even if you win, you’re still retarded

Fuck you number SIX

Quit crying because you’re not on someones ‘Top 8′.
Who cares?!?
IT’S FACEBOOK!!!
If you really cared that much, you would
pick up the damn phone!

Fuck you number SEVEN

Who really cares if I don’t accept you as a friend?
MOVE ON!!!
Don’t send me another request or message asking
“What’s up with you not adding me?”
I don’t want you as a friend, that’s what’s up,
Asshole.

Fuck you number EIGHT

6th graders who have FACEBOOK and look like sluts,
and act like whores;
Go somewhere else because nobody wants you here.
And Parents -
Quit blaming FACEBOOK for your kid being a hooker,
she was a whore before FACEBOOK,
and she’d be a whore without it!
What does that say about your parenting skills?
Think about it!

Fuck you number NINE

If you open a MESSAGE OR SPAM and it says something like repost this in 100 seconds or a ghost will rape you tonight, or some dead bitch is going to rape your mom - quit being dumb

Fuck you number TEN

FACEBOOK was created to keep up with friends.
Quit trying to check up on your dumbass ex!!
Come on, now, people, its called stalking…you might as well be sitting in front of their house with binoculars.

Fuck you number ELEVEN

People who send you a million fucking application invites. Like fuck off I don’t want to be part of your goddamned zombie army or join your gay hockey fantasy pool. Lay the fuck off!!

And finally….

Fuck you number TWELVE

Stop Making groups saying facebook will shut down in 20 days if a million people don’t join. LIKE HOLY FUCK, GET A LIFE

Last week, J started tapdancing, and she convinced me to sign up for Bollywood Dancing lessons. So I turned up to the dance studio with J in tow and wandered past the spanish dancers upstairs and signed up.

We wandered back down to the dance studio at the back, where they had just finished the beginners class. Apparently I had signed up for the Elementary class. So we stand there in our tracky dax and barefeet, looking at these skinny chicks, and a philippina woman stood next to us smiling away and nodding excitedly. Yes, I was here and I was going to be bollywooding it up. For a change, I was going to be learning something new, that required physical coordination. This is good, since all I do at work is think, at least this way, I get to concentrate on my body instead.

After warm up we started on the hip shakes and turning on the spot. Thank goodness I have a sense of rhythm, it’s been about 15 yrs since I last danced. I used to go ballroom dancing every Wednesday night at some studio in the city, and then go to the pub for some beer afterwards. It was fun, but this was something different. I remembered a couple of steps like the kick ball change, whilst .. we had to pretend we were holding oars and swooping down as we twirled around in a circle.

Then came the flicking bugs off our shoulder steps as we squatted and then half raised up, wriggled our bums, took a step to the right, scoop down, bend up, left foot across.. hands around into your standard prayer pose, jump left, and slight back.. anyways you get the picture. I had no idea that squats in gym could be used as a dance step, but there you have it. I do believe I recall asking J, “was this the class for dummies?” as the others cruised through the steps flicking bugs, scooping, and using their oars.

So Thurs and Friday I hobbled around feeling like an old woman as the backs of my thighs screamed at me like a baby. No aches and pains for the rest of the weekend, thank goodness. So I go for another class on Wednesday, to review what I think I have forgotten, and to learn more of this horrible dance that some are doing for some kind of soiree. Lucky them.

I have included below a youtube bollywood dance from some group somewhere, the music is similar to what we have to dance to. PS: thanks for the lovely positive comments about the site change

Read the rest of this entry »

Of course, I must draw attention to his use of Youtube, and there are further posts from John “Eyebrows” Howard.

Read the rest of this entry »

Who could this prize go to? Might be the customer who rang up to abuse us for a faulty telephone line, or me. One of my team got angry at me because I asked him not to do something. Now I am caught between a rock and a hard place. I must act as a result of a conversation I had tonight, because I am his boss. Kind of sucks.

Lets go back to the customer. Customer told me that we were directly responsible for his phone line failing. We debated back and forth about the infrastructure that we use for communications in Australia. He questioned everything, and I ended up needing to explain a few facts about monopoly networks, FTTN, G9, ACCC, and the TIO. Whilst nothing was achieved from the debate from my point of view, the customer was educated about the telecommunications industry, and understood that he would have to wait up to 48 hours for the fault with his telephone service to be rectified.

Anyways.. trolling through the internet, I found some amusing comics online about Call Centres. Like the one below:

Maybe I should pass on that tip to our managers If you have ever worked in a call centre, you probably could relate.

There are times, when we want to slap around the people we work with, in Call centres that are large, we have the advantage of we can wander around and sit further away from the idiots we dislike. Not like this team below - the team leader is the dude with the three computer screens.

The real story behind call centres… I am really a well trained and nicely groomed Screech owl.

 

• FTTN: Fibre to the Node
• G9: Group of 9 - consortium of nine telecommunications companies (i work for one of the G9 members)
• ACCC: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
• TIO: Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman

Second life is all the rage at the moment. Starting a couple of years ago, there are people now who have income derived from buying and selling things in a made up e-world.

I was driving home from my flat back to my parent’s house and I heard Robbie Buck talking about this huge tragedy. No one knew how many casualties there were, and there was no official comment from the government yet. Then he announced it. ABC Island on Second life had been hacked, and bombed.

I started laughing my ass off. It reminded me of one of my favourite youtube clips.

So these are the pics that the ABC took, before and after the Virtual terrorism took place.

I want to know, what kind of anti terrorism legislation is there that will apprehend these deviants!

Classic stuff. This is why i love the internet.

My boy and I like watching documentaries together, however this time, we have started finding some really bad movies online. However the Leprechaun dude would be one that was on Channel 7 tonight. Leprachaun 4: Space Marines.

What the hell was this crap movie about! A killer leprechaun in space? What the?

To top it off, there were others that were made befoer this one, which is rated the worst one out of all of them.So the Youtube movie tonight, is about King solomon mines, think of the precursor to Indianna Jones. I will attached it for you below. Should always be interesting watch the originals, which has some very nice singing.

And this is something we watched last night. Voyage to the planet of Prehistoric Women. Women wearing clamshell bikinis who worship a Pteradactyl. They end up worshipping something else.

Link to the full movie is here and below is a small sample of what to expect, via Youtube!

Gotye. aka Wally De Bracker

Awesome artist, writes some amazing music, and recently I discovered this particular video on Youtube for one of his recently released albums back in 2006. This particular song is a tad emo, but has a bit of meaning for me and some others I know who are going through some interesting times.

Despite the fact that I have MM, it’s still confusing. I sometimes catch myself thinking about the past, and what I could have done to change things. However, with my reality check friends ensuring I don’t get too emo, I tend to just ignore the fact that after a few months of achieving a whole set of goals for myself personally, I am needing to take a break. Re-assess where I am at with life and set some new goals.

Mind you, I have someone at work who needs alot of attention, and I worry about him.

You must watch these.

 

I found these videos when doing my usual YouTube surfing. What I also learnt, was how install the WordPress plugin to enable me to add these into my blog. I attach a link to learn here, for those who wish to know, and one on my Extra’s bar incase I forget the right syntax.