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Lol, it's one of many tricks to get telemarketers to hang up and not bother you again. The latter part doesn't usually work, but quite easy to get them to hang up

Good, and not just for the money aspect. A drastic change of job role is understandable from the recruiters perspective - long term unemployment is not. Regardless of actual reasons for being unemployed for a long period of time, it's ridiculously difficult to try and explain.

Probably just fished out the extra chunks :)

A recent one of mine is "chillax" - dunno how this got into usage by anyone above the age of 10 lol. I also dislike it when people say "I'll give 150%" - hmmm, how is that possible? Lol, so what words or phrases do you dislike?

An awful lot of people are finding it very tough at the moment. The poster above mentioned that a lot of church members seem to be suffering career wise, that's not due to being a part of the church but a part of the world. Everyone is feeling the effects of the current recession. Your lack of success at the moment is unlikely to be attributed to lack of skills or worthlessness. At the moment there is so much competition for each job that your resume has to REALLY stand out from the rest for them to even finish reading it. Not to mention that empoyers don't want someone who is going to move on as soon as the recession shows signs of ending, in other words you may be considered to be overqualified for some jobs - they won't necessarily tell you this in your feedback. A one page document (your CV/resume) and even a half hour or an hour interview on top of that is not really a brilliant way of deciding which candidate is best for the job, a lot of assumptions are involved. So don't take it personally and don't give up!

Hmmm, so the dictionary def isn't good enough for them then? 1. A woman claiming or popularly believed to possess magical powers and practice sorcery. I've been through wookey hole a few times, to this day I've not come across a live witch in there, haha. It's a great attraction for the kids though, if anyone ever visits Somerset in the UK, I highly recommend it.

I think that while this is simple and may not seem worth doing, it could prove very useful to you... nothing better than hard evidence to back yourself up with, otherwise it could be your word against his, which rarely goes down well. Even a basic webcam attached to your computer, pointing out the window directly on the yard that leads to your door and set to automatically record on any motion. A security (PIR) light on the front of the house would also be useful for this (and other reasons) at night. If you feel it's necessary you may want to take this a step further as well and do the back of the house and elsewhere.

I also believe that the church doesn't allow those who have chosen to leave the church (officially) and then chose to return to become bishops or higher. Can anyone shed any light on this?

I remember the first time I went into a chatroom, I was about 11 or 12. Anyway, I'm sure you'll all remember what it's like trying to pick up the lingo i.e. what does LOL mean? I saw someone ask ASL and another person reply 15/f/OH and in my young mind at the time I guessed the F to stand for 'from', so it'd be 15 from Ohio. I had no idea people really cared what gender they were talking to, I thought people only went in there to chat about sport/the weather/whats on TV (innocence eh?). Anyway later on some guy asked me a/s/l so I replied 12/f/UK and he started a private chat with me. He was quite shocked when 10 minutes later I told him I was male. He wasn't very impressed lol and at that point I realised F actually meant female.

I've wondered this myself. Once again personal circumstances are not taken into account, everyone in that situation is tarred with the same brush.

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I do prefer forums nowadays for that type of stuff, simply because forums aren't designed for chatting in real time. People can look over the conversation 24 hours later and add their own thoughts. You aren't completely stuck with the advice of whoever happens to be online at the time who could very likely be wrong. Plus, unless the channels are very popular, it's likely everyone in there is actually idle, which is a little annoying.

Ouch... a genuine mistake, but no less embarassing lol. I don't understand why she held it against you though, it wasn't something you did on purpose. Having read a few scenarios of bad dates, I have wondered that a lot - I'd rather be with someone who was able to laugh off genuine mistakes, providing they don't keep reoccuring, as that is what I would do. But then that's just my own mentality, which is often very different to those around me

Hahaha, you were probably driving down country lanes. Yes, unfortunately we have a rather umm, 'interesting' road map across the UK. Yet strangely a lot of the country lanes where it's difficult to squeeze two cars past each other are at national speed limit, i.e. 60 MPH

But of course. What did you think the bumper was for?

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When we get American missionaries here who have a British driving license, the first thing they always say is how polite British drivers are compared to American drivers e.g. we thank each other for letting us out and we give way even when not required to. I've been to American once, which just happened to be New York. I wouldn't dream of ever trying to drive in that state. I think people have their hand on their horn for about 60% of their journey, they use it for everything. I even witnessed a police officer shout at a car to "use his horn, that is what it's for" when the guy in front of him wasn't moving very fast. In the UK, your horn is for emergencies in order to warn someone i.e. a pedestrian steps out in front of you, not as a sign of your annoyance (even though occasionally that will happen).

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Further to this, I don't know how many of you have heard of Welcome to the 419 Eater . What is known as the Nigerian scam is also called the 419 scam (due to a section of Nigerian law) and 419eater basically encourages people to reply to these 419 e-mails and "scam bait" them along without actually allowing them to scam you. Eventually they will catch on that you are mocking them, but there are two purposes to this: 1. It's really fun what you can make them do at the prospect of them receiving your money and 2. The more time they spend thinking they can scam you, the less time they spend trying to scam someone else who is more gullible. So, if anyone has some spare time on their hands and wants a laugh, go for it. Incidently, don't use your real e-mail address or name. Next time you receive a 419 scam e-mail, register a new e-mail address and reply to it from there. The scammer won't notice the change in e-mail address as he sends the e-mail to so many people he won't remember who will have received it. I've done it a couple of times in the past :)

that's quite ironic

You mean there isn't really £1,000,000 waiting for me in a large overseas bank? Dr David Kabila actually sent me a picture of himself as well, which must be proof that he is well meaning! He is also the son of the president, and he chose to e-mail me! I guess I'd better go and retract my handing in of my notice to my employer and cancel the 4 month holiday to hawaii

That is true. You are legally allowed that information here under the freedom of information act anyway. With few exceptions, you are allowed to see what data any company or organisation holds about you.

It's been a long time since I opened up mIRC or anything like it. I used to use it years ago, but if I chose to use an IRC program today for whatever reason, it'd be an open source one, which mIRC unfortunately isn't (it's not even really freeware, though a lot of people use it like it is). The only IRC commands I remember are /kline and /kill ... they just happened to be the ones I used the most

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