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I could certainly do that, but it wouldn't be personal experience. Oh actually! It could be! Just occurred to me that I know people with an IT shop!

That comment makes perfect sense, and there are certainly not any weird errors, although it probably could have used a few more commas.

I like how your comment to me practically encouraging me, who is wary, to read this while offering someone else is excited to read it a word of caution.........

Okay, since you sent it to me...>:| and because I just your my review to my new roommate...who wants to read it...we have agreed that, we will read it together, but in separate rooms, as per the instruction you described asking the reader to be alone.

I'm letting you know that you are personally at fault for anything that happens to me. :| I'm scared even knowing that I've agreed to read it.

WHY.

*cough* article on wireless headsets *cough* research and review *cough* :) the public is speaking hehe

I fell in love with Construction from the off-set, which is why I never got wealthy. I'd make money, spend it on Con., make money, spend it on Con., so on and so forth. I've got a great POH though!

Runecrafting is ridiculously easy now. Runespan made it so that you can get vast quantities of RC XP without leaving an area, nor putting up gp, in a very short space in time. So yes, I'm as depressed about it as you are. I quite miss those ZMI runs. I know that I could still do them, but it feels inefficient and wrong, now that Runespan is here.

Awww, I wish that we'd known about you at Dungeoneering. We specialized in just having fun doing it, regardless of level. We'd have picked you up. Though whether you'd want us is the big question. We took forever over a dungeon!

I can assure you that no partially deaf person could work in a Job Centre here. We wouldn't be able to hear the claimants! Consider their position, I'm shocked, but not surprised that nepotism reigns there.

Everything is about quotas these days. I encountered that time and time again in education. My project was government funded and the bureaucracy went up accordingly. Everything that we sought to achieve could turn on its head at the whim of a politician.

I thoroughly suspect that you are right too.

Yes, elephants are indeed considered to be a symbol of good fortune. Thanks for stopping by!

steeper than a mules face

It beggers the question, is social mobility a realism in the UK? Economically I think not, however, until the election of this new fangled Thatcherite coalition, at least we had the opportunity to better ourselves through education, unfortunately the nations youth do not appear to have the same opportunities. I have to disagree with Ember to some extent, many job centre staff are not well educated- I've worked with them, and they are not. Nepotism reigns supreme in many government offices, it's not about what you know, but who can tell you that a vacancy has arisen. Despite the banners on letterheads stating that they are equal opportunity employers, or that they are positive about disability, many vacancies go unadvertised and are consequently filled by friends of employees or relatives.

I also suspect that these kinds of practices meet the current government's agenda. Why would they employ individuals who would challenge and critique the status quo, when they can employ a bunch of jobsworth conformists, who will willingly, albeit in some cases through ignorance, ensure that things remain exactly the same.

Nice stats!

A lot of 99s as well. I had a real thing about trying to keep my stats as level as possible. My Construction has been close to 99 for months! I'm quite proud of the fact that, after all this time, I never did manage to get one. LOL

I thought it was the Mushroom Guy too, but it turns out that Tom Green precedes him.

Yes, I laughed for ages after I realized the Hurricane Horse Man was from Reddit. :)

I loved his reddit post on that, because the image initially turned up on reddit a few days before his own post. What's best about it is that he had the horse head on hand to be able to even do that XD

I think it originally became a meme because of the mushroom guy. I remember the first time I saw that too! LOL

2uesday - Thank you very much. Before I ever signed on for any length of time, I thought that those depressed by the act of signing on were just being snobbish. It was beneath them, undignified and all the rest.

But then you do it and you're patronized into submission. You're treated with suspicion or derision, either a criminal or a child. Every effort is placed into reducing your self-esteem, right at the point when you need the confidence boost.

The bad ones corrupt your view of the good ones too. Some of those who see me really seem to care, but you're left with so much suspicion of them too. Are they playing good cop to their colleague's bad cop?

It's a scary place to be and certainly no environment for the vulnerable.

Ember - From what I've gathered, middle class in the US and Britain are slightly different things. It's the class to which all Americans aspire (give or take the 1%), whereas here you will die in the class that you're born ('and that's a class of our own, my love' Libertines moment).

'The rich write the news for the middle class to turn them against the poor'. I've heard that before and thought it was clever then. Unfortunately also ridiculously and frighteningly true, at least before the internet became the great news leveler.

Here in Britain, we were promised help 'from the cradle to the grave' with the forming of the welfare state. The Tories never wanted it in the first place, which is why Churchill had to be voted out, immediately after WWII, in order to get it. Every time they're in power, they erode the benefits a little more. This time, they've attacked the whole system with a sledgehammer.