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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I think I might be feeling marginally better today, but it's a very thin margin

Maybe it's just that the symptoms have rearranged themselves on the scale of severity, so I actually feel just as wretched but in a different way

[NickFitz]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Rain-F...hard+rain+fell

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Honour-Betr.../dp/184832748X

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sniper-East.../dp/1781590044

Added to the list

Some delivery person just started hammering on the front door, so I dragged myself out of bed, threw some clothes on, and shambled down - only to find that the young lady from the ground floor back was already there

It was the big box of, I think, some kind of ready-mixed protein shakes that the bloke in the first floor back gets delivered most weeks. Though if he's that concerned about health and fitness, perhaps he should reconsider standing out in the back yard or on the front step smoking a fag at odd hours in the middle of winter

[original PM]

Well its festive jumper and cheap buffet time today

Although as you would expect the expected faces of senior management are making sure no one has too much fun.

Do you think people are born like that or they work real hard to be a complete asshat?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Currently watching "Colombiana" with Zoe Saldana.

Colombiana (2011) - IMDb

Found the 2nd copy of that this morning.

It was in one of the many piles around the gas fire.

I'm sure there must be another one hiding somewhere, just teasing me a bit, like.

Do you think people are born like that or they work real hard to be a complete asshat?

It's genetic.

Baa! Humbug!

Ewan the Purple Dream Sheep | Dunelm

It's pissing down again.

[NickFitz]

It's been quite sunny here, but it's starting to cloud over now. The rain should arrive overnight, apparently

My temperature seems to have come down a degree or so; now somewhere around 100 to 101°F

Nectarine for lunch, as my appetite still isn't what could be

And Amazon are quoting Monday for the delivery of a few gift cards. I would have thought slinging three of their own brand gift cards into a cardboard envelope and dropping it off at one of their own lockers would take a day or two at most, even at this time of year

Though I've noticed they're a bit more cautious with delivery dates lately, thereby often giving the impression of delivering a day or so earlier than promised

[DoctorStrangelove]

There's a thing on the BBC news site about the joy of working in Amazon Swansea.

It must be said that the drones that get off the bus in the mornings seem full of the same sort of excitement that I suffer from.

Staff at Amazon's Swansea warehouse 'treated like robots' - BBC News

[GreenMirror]

There's a thing on the BBC news site about the joy of working in Amazon Swansea.

It must be said that the drones that get off the bus in the mornings seem full of the same sort of excitement that I suffer from.

Staff at Amazon's Swansea warehouse 'treated like robots' - BBC News

They will be happy when they are replaced with actual robots.

[NickFitz]

The robots are probably treated better, as they're more expensive to replace if they break down

[original PM]

Indeed - you can just chop up the humans and put them in the garbage disposal

Robots need to be disposed of properly - and woe betide you if you try and take them to the council dump without the correct paperwork.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Indeed - you can just chop up the humans and put them in the garbage disposal

Robots need to be disposed of properly - and woe betide you if you try and take them to the council dump without the correct paperwork.

Quite.

Them WEE Directives are really fierce.


Just had my arm down next door's drain to remove the accumulated crap left by the building feckwhits who plainly lacked the intelligence to cover the grid to stop the drain filling up.

Of course the real question is why I was doing it rather than the owners.