[chrysostom]

What really gets me is that 'memes' themselves aren't something that these people will have been exposed to. They don't get the significance of the image itself, they only relate to the content - and find it funny. I hate it

[Bonanzoid]

I'm new to the whole meme thing too, so I can't claim to know the significance of the images either, but I cannot stand the sudden explosion of uni memes all over my Facebook. Some are ok, some are just so smug, eg;

[chrysostom]

It's kind of the point - internet memes as images are part of internet subculture, and grew organically from threads like ones on here. It would be like if everyone started using 'Kit Kat or Twix' or from the show 'I've just eaten an entire bag of toffos'. They're indicative of jokes which forum users use to represent specific points. The content might be homourous or correct, but 80% of the usage is not. They're just using something that they have no idea about as a 'lollathon'.

Insight for search backs me up

[a-moron]

I have no idea what any of this stuff means but I do like a good graph.

Pie charts are better but only because it contains the word pie. It would have absolutely no place in representing your point but...Pie. What a great word.

[bmstinton93]

I've gotta admit the uni memes are making me laugh, especially the ones from my uni.

[bmstinton93]

I've gotta admit the uni memes are making me laugh, especially the ones from my uni.

[foot-loose]

*chokes on his pepsi max*

"Kit Kat or Twix" is NOT a fecking "meme". It's a valid and important question which still attracts the wrong answer far too often.


FRED!

[Boboff]

who is this pepsi chap to which you refer?

[foot-loose]

Hah. I see what you did there.

[Bonanzoid]

Watching Match of the Day 2 and after debating the Suarez handshake debacle Colin Murray made a comment about how modern day footballers are viewed negatively, almost forcing Phil Neville to agree. What a ridiculous statement. Yes, some footballers act like twats, but these men are paid horrendous amounts and are absolutely adored by their own fans. I hate some of the self pity in the game.

[MK Chris]

Footballers are viewed negatively though. Premier League ones at least. And when you look at the number of footballers who behave like twats in comparison to other sports (Tiger Woods notwithstanding), it's not hard to see why.

[chrysostom]

Surely it's just because it makes for more interesting news (to the readers of mass media) when they're twats - and the English press are notorious for picking up on scandal. Would anyone be interested if a bowls star was acting like a twat?

Jenson Button is a bit of a twat in real life I've heard, and frequents strip clubs (I think I read that he got thrown out for touching the girls one time?) - 'Behaving like a twat' is a common by-product of being young and having a LOT of money & fame. The England Rugby team were in a lot of trouble over their celebrations with a dwarf (am I getting that right?), and there was the whole Freddie Flintoff thing - which covers 3 of England's main sports.

In individual sports your PR and advice is a lot better than when in a team sport (as well as your upbringing) - as your brand is solely reliant on your actions. In an individual sport like Tennis, you'll have a coaching team (or just a coach) working with just you from a very young age constantly advising you and on the whole you're probably more likely to be from a well off background. You usually juggle sport and academia and show a lot of dedication by doing so.

With football, the sport has been not only a point aspiration for many of the players - but a way out of poorer backgrounds (usually with poor education), in a way which most popular sports don't offer (due to it's commercialism). These individuals are likely to have been taken from working class areas and will have a 'lad' mentality. They'll also have been revered for their skills from a young age while striving to be better than their team mates, giving them a large ego.

[MK Chris]

Surely it's just because it makes for more interesting news (to the readers of mass media) when they're twats - and the English press are notorious for picking up on scandal.

Incidentally, I am currently reading Flat Earth News, by Nick Davies (one of the main journalists who has investigated the phone hacking scandal) about the state of modern journalism and I think it's a really important, if depressing, read.

Jenson Button is a bit of a twat in real life I've heard, and frequents strip clubs (I think I read that he got thrown out for touching the girls one time?)

I've heard completely the opposite and the people I know who've met him (Zoot included). I do think he's grown up a lot since he first started in F1, so that could be old stories you're getting that impression from.

[chrysostom]

Admittedly I don't follow much of F1 so this will have been all I've really heard of him.

David Coulthard is a grumpy bastard though. I know this first hand.

[DevilsDuck]

being back at work! 500 emails and nobody has done anything for a month!

[dimtimjim]

nobody has done anything for a month!

yeah, but you've been ill, don't be so hard on yourself.

[DevilsDuck]

Yeah, the more I have worked through the more I have found that has been done...my team are awsome

[dimtimjim]

I just handed my notice in.... (1 week)

Was moved 'team' in the office last week, had a run in with my new manager this morning. Not staying to work for her any longer - she can stick her deadline up her *.

Luckily, in my trade I have a fairly unique skill-set which raises me above most of my job-roll competitors and makes me highly employable. On this basis, I don't have to tolerate someone speaking to me like that.

[Yudster]

Good on you. Didn't you have another offer anyway?

[dimtimjim]

Yeah, I turned it down. They expected me to welch on my current contract and wanted me mid-Jan, which would have involved burning bridges here - so i told 'em to stick it and get there second choice - a whole TWO WEEKS earlier than I could start.

Common courtesy is one of my highest rated human attributes - I don't have time for those who don't shame that view.

[chrysostom]

Just out of interest, what is your job role/skill set? (if it's anything engineering/oil & gas based, i'm going to bombard you with requests)

[Boboff]

gigalo.......

Good on you tim.

Make sure you drop her in the shit from a great height while your about it.

[dimtimjim]

To be honest Bob, feedback I've had since suggests she is already being monitored by 'the management' for piss-poor man management.

I said to HR, if my actions here lead to an improvement of life for others in this office, even after my departure - then that can only be a good thing.

[Boboff]

Well stick around for her Job then!

Did I tell you about the time when just after I took on a new business, we were down in the factory and one of the few supervisors who stayed on, kept coming and asking me all kinds of daft questions, so I tried the " Listen you need to bring me solutions, not problems" anyway, she picked up her bag and coat and left........

Some people are just so precious!

[dimtimjim]

Some people are just so precious!

Now, now. Although I understand the dig... To site a suitable comparison you'd need to employ someone based on one skill-set, then move them into a job they don't know how to do, and don't want to do. THEN be rude to them.

I'm not leaving to protect my preciousness (?) but more as a 'final straw' thing. And it wasn't even her rudeness which was the issue, more the point she was trying to make.

I know its not normal to work 140 miles away from where you live, but I was employed here for my abilities - not my locality. In return for being away from my family all week to help someone else achieve their goals, I expect a little understanding back.

yesterday, i left work after doing the 7.5 hours I am contracted to do. Apparently, this is not acceptable and 'not her problem' if I have to get up at 04:30 on a monday to ensure being at work on time (09:00).

So, she can stick it up her arse, as far as i'm concerned.