Guest MattP Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 Textbook I know my audience and what they want to hear. Serious point I'm actually ****ed by the looks of it. Certainly be no Vegas for the foreseeable future.
21st Century Fox Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 I know my audience and what they want to hear. Serious point I'm actually ****ed by the looks of it. Certainly be no Vegas for the foreseeable future. You work freelance as well don't you? I know the feeling, I had a dry patch last year, it was a grit the teeth and keep yourself busy sort of period, luckily it picked up. I'm sure yours will too, there's always that one job that just somehow manages to open the floodgates.
Guest MattP Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 You work freelance as well don't you? I know the feeling, I had a dry patch last year, it was a grit the teeth and keep yourself busy sort of period, luckily it picked up. I'm sure yours will too, there's always that one job that just somehow manages to open the floodgates. Yeah run gambling referral websites, problem is people just don't have that disposable income to lose anymore. It's certainly never going to get back to the level of 3-4 years back. I'm qualified in ACCA so I've got that to fall back in if I have too. If it picks up it does, if it doesn't I'll try something else, I've been skint and worked for minimum wage before in the past so it wouldn't be new to me. That's why I make sure I enjoy the good times, they don't generally last forever.
lavrentis Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 I've just been scanning the forum trying to find more and they're bloody everywhere. I quite like this one: ... It wasn't really that pretentious, me and finnegan we're talking about Japan and I had my Japanese class at 3pm so thought it was fitting to say it. If I'd have said I am so cultured and amazing because I take a Japanese class you might have a point
James. Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 ... It wasn't really that pretentious, me and finnegan we're talking about Japan and I had my Japanese class at 3pm so thought it was fitting to say it. If I'd have said I am so cultured and amazing because I take a Japanese class you might have a point It wasn't pretentious, it was a humblebrag. "Look at me I'm doing Japanese classes" / "Ha, I really should get a life" Like 21st Century Fox says we all do them, I really liked yours.
Guest BlueBrett Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 People who go to great lengths to point out that they are 'working class' and seem to want to wear it as a badge of honour that somehow identifies them as more 'real', deserving or praiseworthy than others.
lavrentis Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 It wasn't pretentious, it was a humblebrag. "Look at me I'm doing Japanese classes" / "Ha, I really should get a life" Like 21st Century Fox says we all do them, I really liked yours. Hum. It wasn't meant that way, it was an honest dig at myself that my interest in Japanese culture might come across as sad.
21st Century Fox Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 Yeah I hijacked this thread a bit with humblebrags.
Guest MattP Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 ... It wasn't really that pretentious, me and finnegan we're talking about Japan and I had my Japanese class at 3pm so thought it was fitting to say it. If I'd have said I am so cultured and amazing because I take a Japanese class you might have a point If you had said that last sentence I'd have lapped it up. And taking Japanese is pretty awesome tbh.
Bellend Sebastian Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 People who go to great lengths to point out that they are 'working class' and seem to want to wear it as a badge of honour that somehow identifies them as more 'real', deserving or praiseworthy than others. I agree, it's bollocks. Mind you, in my time on here I've claimed intellectual, moral, class, physical and genetic superiority over everyone else and that's got me nowhere either
MooseBreath Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 Try having thousands of friends on facebook, humblebrags everywhere. If I only I wasn't so damn popular.
Parafox Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 Pretentious doctors who talk to me like I'm a child are really starting to get to me. It's usually surgeons that are the culprits! I think that's more likely to be patronising doctors. There's LOADS of them
Parafox Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 I know my audience and what they want to hear. Serious point I'm actually ****ed by the looks of it. Certainly be no Vegas for the foreseeable future. Do you want the address of your nearest DWP Benefits office?
cambridgefox Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 I really envy you living in Salisbury , you probably meet so many ordinary but enlightened and spiritual people Whereas out here in Tinseltown I have to constantly meet and listen to self absorbed pop and film stars who constantly want me to promote their latest film , book or song . Is that the sort of thing ? i always thought it said Sainsburys!
Guest MattP Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 Do you want the address of your nearest DWP Benefits office? I'll be jumping off the high cross long before that.
21st Century Fox Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 i always thought it said Sainsburys! How dare you!!! Sainsbury's doesn't have a henge made from stone!!! Does it?... I don't think..... I'll wikipedia it.
Saxondale Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 Creative people likely to suffer from pretentiousness ARTISTIC people are prone to being full of shit, according to a new study. Research by the Institute for Studies found a link between creativity and being a jumped-up tosser with a stupid scarf. Professor Henry Brubaker said: “Writers, artists, musicians and even the people who make adverts for ****ing bath products, they all have a psychological flaw that makes them think they’re really, really amazing. “If you look at pictures of Virginia Woolf mooning around with her toff mates, you can tell she reckons she’s pretty deep. “‘I’m the shit’, she’s thinking, ‘because I’ve just written a book about a boring day trip’. Whatever, I bet she’d have been hopeless with a puncture repair kit. “And Salvador Dali. That moustache. What a twat.†Brubaker believes that artistic pretentiousness is also a tool for avoiding domestic chores. He said: “Picasso consistently refused to put the bins out, making up lame excuses about how he was too busy creating Cubism. “Yet he always had plenty of time for shagging.â€
Guest Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 "Brubaker believes that artistic pretentiousness is also a tool for avoiding domestic chores." that sounds like me.
Captain... Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 "Brubaker believes that artistic pretentiousness is also a tool for avoiding domestic chores." that sounds like me. A tool for avoiding domestic chores?
Phube Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 May I start with the word Chocolatier. If anyone here is a chocolatier please explain yourself. I'm not one, but what do you suggest a person who makes chocolates is called? It's just a job name, like brewer, pilot, radiographer...
MooseBreath Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 I'm not one, but what do you suggest a person who makes chocolates is called? It's just a job name, like brewer, pilot, radiographer... Chocolate maker
AoWW Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 It was bad, fortunately it was early morning though so I could get a table and some space. I usually upgrade to Premium economy for the US, not as good as first or business but well worth the extra few hundred quid. I'm trying to justify upping to first on the way to New Zealand in March. If you're smart about it you should be able to score yourself a free upgrade anyway.
Guest Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 Chocolate maker it's French - I guess that could make it pretentious - it's the normal way to form the name of a job. I know several chocolatiers - they are often patissier as well.
Daggers Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 Chocolate maker This is a thread about being pretentious, not just listing off the machines you are allowed to use at work.
TrentFox Posted 24 October 2012 Posted 24 October 2012 I'm not one, but what do you suggest a person who makes chocolates is called? It's just a job name, like brewer, pilot, radiographer... Chocolate maker Excellent ! Then maybe ...... brewer = 'pint maker'; radiographer = 'failed doctor'; pilot = 'stewardess shagger' ??
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