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- imbecile-3
I'm looking at a car in Chio... CarFax says the oil was never changed from 19,XXX miles to 90,XXX miles, no maintenance occurred at all in 10 years... according to the fox.
- pango3
At the gun range today.
Finger crossed I don't shoot my eyes out.- https://i.imgur.com/…
Always hated that cat.pango - bb guns?Gnash
- From Hello Kitty to Bye Bye KittyKrassy
- Real bullets. Metal or lead? One of those.pango
- oh, the holes look so wee.Gnash
- Those were shot gun shells.pango
- Also tried .44 revolvers. Fuck! those are beasts! My keyboard worrior wrist couldn't handle it.pango
- hahaGnash
- 9 lives?notype
- Crap. I better head back to finish the rest of 8.pango
- https://i.imgur.com/…
- shellie1
I just picked up my phone from service after 5 long days to fix my screen and there are dark spots where my swipe will just not work right and I use swipe text. Angry face.
- docpoz-2
- Gardener12
I picked up a load of new (actually quite old) mugs for 20p
each at the car boot this morning, and yes of course I bought
records too but these were really nice and most were better
than many of the ones were already had.
all clean and ready for tea
a hole cuppa
ONE FM
for your tea
fave of them all, an original heat reactive mug
Linda Lusardi with cold water
Linda Lusardi with hot water
mmm, Vaseline marketing mug, niiice
Thatcher Out! of coffee probably
you can't beat a bit of bully
printed 3 years before the '82 World Cup
come on England, get the teas in!
yer oblig Royal mug
shaped like a boobie, with a hole at the nipple,
double the hilarity as you pour scalding tea into your lap- boob is for pouring cream / milk, no?imbecile
- ahhhh, could be - maybe I need a pair?Gardener
- hahaa I love these. not sure about the last one, it looks like a bongsted
- all winners! nice findkingsteven
- I like how you posted the Vaseline® mug right after the Page 3 Linda Lusardi mug!fooler
- my friends dad had the boob mug proudly displayed on their mantel when I was a kid.fooler
- España 82 mascot. Made me nostalgic!SoulFly
- Better than what you already had? Yikes. ;)monospaced
- amazing find.utopian
- Wantnotype
- You're amazing at digging for the good finds, props.garbage
- Lolpango
- Cash in the Attic gold :) Bulls Eye mug, priceless item.mrAtor
- is buying mugs a Sign Your Getting Old?Bennn
- no, just needing more teaGardener
- boob pic removed! :Dimbecile
- Gardener0
here are 2 more I forgot yesterday
I'd not seen this royal one before, and I've seen a few
CB was the internet of it's day
- Ace. I used to muck about with CB back in medieval times. There's a little town near where I grew up called Wetwang, on the CB it was China Town.MrT
- 10-37: Lucifer our lordsarahfailin
- dasohr0
paging UAN - read a post of yours. you write a german I understand. vo wo bisch?
- SimonFFM5
Today, the printing house called and I hold the first copy of my new book in my hands. Wow. What a feeling. The rest of the copies are finished also and will get delivered with a large truck in a few weeks. I need to make space of those. Almost 3 tons of paper.
- drgs-2
Is it correct to say
"whom are you kidding"
?- not if you're wearing an ascot, at the time.Gnash
- haha gnashmonospaced
- "Whom do you jest?"i_monk
- Either there is a rule for the this or there isntdrgs
- Whom is grammatically correct, but not used because ascotGnash
- in general -- If you can replace the word with “he”’ or “’she,” use who. If you can replace it with “him” or “her,” use whomGnash
- the ascot exceptiondrgs
- grammatically correct. whom is the object, who is the subject. in this case, you (subject) are kidding someone (object)sarahfailin
- Gardener1
all sides of the Vaseline mug
the sorry state of affairs before yesterdays fresh mug invasion,
and yes that's where we keep the gin
that's probably enough mugs, for now...
- Am I the only one that drinks tea from a glass with no handle?shapesalad
- No. But if I suggested that back in Yorkshire I'd get lynched.MrT
- hmm, seemed to have forgotten a few uses for vaseline. someone should write them.sarahfailin
- sarahfailin0
It's my first time in Germany! You mean to tell me people only drink pilsners and lagers out here??
I had this apple wine in frankfurt. It has a sour taste, so they offer to water it down for you for the same price.
Bread is good.
- Are the people friendly or do they just stare?robotron3k
- Get into the Weiss BeerPhanLo
- I live in Frankfurt. I always get confused with your female name, Sarah, so I did not recognize you on Saturday...SimonFFM
- Apfelwein is delicious. In doses, of course.jagara
- Mit 'ne Bretzel, of course.jagara
- I just got in on Monday afternoon. Heading to Amsterdam tomorrow but I'll be back through Frankfurt next weekend. What's good to do here?sarahfailin
- Do you mean August 18/19 by next weekend? Frankfurt is good to escape from. For sightseeing climb the dome.SimonFFM
- SimonFFM-1
Cleaning my storage space. Today I threw away publications with photos I took, many Playboy mags, Men's Healths, TRIP magazines and so on. Now, my vinyl has to go, too. Funny, these are the maxis I had kept:
Hey you - The Rock Steady Crew
Pete Bardens - In Dreams
Out of the ordinary - Play it again
Felix - Don't you want me
Taylor Dayne - Prove your love
The Meltdown Mixes - Lunatic Asylum A.L.S.O. (2x12")
Lunatic Asylum - A.L.S.O. (Original Maxi)
Tokyo Ghetto Pussy - Everybody on the Floor
Sunbeam - Outside world
Cherrymoon Trax I - House of House
Moby - Go
F.O.C. Friends of Carlotta - Fingerfoc
Pure White - 4am (Breakbeat Luckyspin Records)
Faithless - God is a DJ
The Cure - Boys don't cry
Bonzai Trance - West Coast Connection - I want you
Alphawezen - Gai soleil
Roman Flügel - Geht's noch?
David Morales - Needin U
Be young, be foolish - Brett (Whitelabel)
The O.T. Quartet - Hold that sucker down
Jam & Spoon - Hands on Yello
Prolekult - Jones & Stephenson First Rebirth Remixes
Westbam - Sonic Empire
Unit 4 Bodyclub Remixes - Tiefschwarz
Kitsuné - 2LP
Alter Ego - Rocker
Mu - Paris Hilton
Nalin & Kane - Beachball
Daft Punk - Around the World
Lionel Richie - Hello
Mandingo - A Rhythm Divine
Faithless Insomnia
BBE - Seven Days and one week
Winx - Don't Laugh (Josh Wink)
Alien Radio - Slam (2LP)
Stardust - Music sounds better with you(P.S. Space for 200 books already... I need another 1,000...).
- I hope to God you donated those playboys to young boys in the neighborhood. This is essentially for good development.robotron3k
- What robo said. Just leave them in the bushes in a local park. That is the age-old way to discover porn magazines.microkorg
- Maaku3
I think I ranted about this before but they keep testing my patience.
I made a mockup of a dashboard that could hold a couple of icons distributed across the layout (left side nav bar, header, etc...). It is similar to the new Gmail look and feel.
They never said how many icons they needed, and don't know how many there will be in total. But every 4-5 weeks I am asked to come up with additional icons for more features.That system isn't scalable at all, and the UI looks ridiculous.
Instead of consulting these decisions with me they just took my initial layout and have used it as a template for all their ideas, turning the app into a fucking Frankenstein.They really don't give a flying fuck about making a user-centered app, they just want to please the business department.
- pango2
Just got called in to kill spiders...
I hope this is not my only purpose.
- Bennn1
I was at the Smashing Pumpkins show last evening, really a great show, it was amazing. But we had to deal with drunk dudes that wasn't watching the show at all and kept bumping me and talking loud, I grabed one of them and told him firmly to stop, almost got into a fight, they finally leaved the place way before the end of the show...
I'm so tired of people. Why are people paying almost 200$ for a ticket to go see a band they dont care for? I heard one of them saying "I know a few songs" ... That show was for real fans that know all the songs, not just the 3 most popular ones! It was a 3 hours long show ffs! They didnt care about the show and were there to drink and talk and have fun... go to a fuckin bar!
- 200 dollars for a concert?!?! Benn you balling!pango
- it was 170$ to be preciseBennn
- 170!?!? Balling!!!pango
- Whats the cost of tickets where you live?Bennn
- I paid £80 to see Aphex Twin, Flying Lotus, Run the Jewels and various others at Field Day in London the other year.Ianbolton
- A festival can't compare to one band show...Bennn
- Probably free tickets from a contest or work or whatever. It cheapens the experience.i_monk
- i think you should go to a opera instead.oey
- just stay home and listen to the albums! spend 170 on wine and French cheeses. have a 100% better quality experience.shapesalad
- How did concert costs get so ridiculous? Esp for a band that hasn't released a popular album in decades.yuekit
- The drunk dudes having fun are doing it right! Rock and roll should be exactly that -- Free of any rules & social norms!chukkaphob
- This post belongs here: https://www.qbn.com/…chukkaphob
- Also, what @shapesalad said! +1chukkaphob
- 200$!? Good gawd man, no band is worth thatfuturefood
- I would not pay to smash some pumpkins.robthelad
- lol at "real fans". bennn, telling people how to spend their money again. will the fuckwittery never end!? :Dimbecile
- please. Define grabbedCALLES
- I'm thinking about going to ACL just for that: drink, talk and have fun...with music in the background.Maaku
- and you complain about adobe's prices!!mugwart
- I've never paid more than 80 for a concert. That includes concerts for Bjork, tool, radiohead, nin.pango
- And I go concerts for free most of the time. Cuz only suckers pay for concerts!! woot woot!!pango
- lol@mugwart XDPonyBoy
- 200 bucks for seeing billy corgan?ernexbcn
- https://pbs.twimg.co…PonyBoy
- ^ fucking lolernexbcn
- mg330
Pro tip: Don't blast a camera flash an inch away from your eyes even with the diffuser attached. Everything I look at right now is purple.
- NBQ00-5
Hi QBNrs
I'm new here and I wanted to start my first post with saying how shocked I am about the low wages in the creative industry fields in the UK & London.
I was considering a move to London and I just can't believe what I'm seeing. Senior graphic designers & art directors avg yearly salaries are about £30K-40K. Even if it was £50K I find it low for senior and well experienced creatives.
It's just incredible. How did it ever get so low there?
How do designers, motion designers and creatives survive in London?
I know you could get flat mates but seriously I have no desire to live with flatmates all my life. And even if you lived with flatmates all you can pretty much save up at the end of the month is like £200 (after taxes, living expenses, rent, etc). That's like nothing.
Please tell me if I'm missing something.
- why did you pick NBQ00 as your handle on here?chukkaphob
- Does it matter? It's reverse of QBN. I can easily remember and I wasn't really into spending hours to come up with something original.NBQ00
- if this is your attitude & approach in the design field as well, maybe you just answered your own question why you can't find a decent paying gigchukkaphob
- It's because all the marketing people spend the budgets on cocaine.PhanLo
- What attitude & approach please? What does it have to do with the low wages in London?NBQ00
- London wages are shit in relation to living costs across the board, unless you can provide immediate substantial returns on what your employer pays youFax_Benson
- Eg finance / propertyFax_Benson
- It's incredible. I don't think I want to move there anymore. It's a great city but damn how can they pay so low? It's London/ UK FFS, not a 3rd world country.NBQ00
- Probably lots of art school grads, who cant get off the island saturate the market. NYC pays jr. Designers better.robotron3k
- I learned it's not just in creative fields but pretty much across most if not all job sectors. From someone: https://imgur.com/a/…NBQ00
- Take it as a sign not to move to London. Frankly, I don't see the appeal.monNom
- Out of interest how much would you expect to make?PhanLo
- Work remotely from somewhere with cheap living costs in Europe = what will happen anyway after Brexit. Ad agency marketing/account folks will just outsource...shapesalad
- ...to all those EU freelances - that make up a lot of London's creative employees - who return to EU and undercut the rate of Ldn based freelancers.shapesalad
- *Freelancersshapesalad
- I saw a senior motion designer job, central london, integral to their business, need to be a pro at all softwares, creative lead etc.. £35k pashapesalad
- freelancing will get you more but of course you need the contacts and a steady flowernexbcn
- This is ridiculous. They expect you to be a rocket scientist and a design superstar, know all tools, do 2d, 3d, creative & art direction and only make £30k/£40KNBQ00
- Fuck London if you're not on a good wage or have a super cool job that justifies living there. Just to do an average paid slog, fuck that!microkorg
- a lot of redundancy coming up anyway when UK crashes out of the EU and design/ad agencies fold after clients flee...shapesalad
- Your new to UK? To understand this you need to look into the heart of the English engine - corrupt and subservial. We pay for the system that cages us.mugwart
- ^ deep man! Don't like it - great either leave and find a better place (pls let us know where!) or fight it!mugwart
- Where did you get those figures from? I'm a senior freelance motion designer and if I'm working 24/7 earn a modest amount more than the salary's you mentioned.graphiconions
- If you can't get word of mouth gigs, there is an absolute tsunami of recruitment spammers on linkdin begging to get you work (not a good £ but still better)graphiconions
- London is a buzzing place. a shit ton of creative stuff going on. tons of galleries / shows / seminars / lots of other creative stuff to get involved.graphiconions
- If you work 24/7 in London and only make a tiny bit more than £35-£40K avg senior-level salary that's a bad life to me. Unless you really love your job so muchNBQ00
- You're basically just a slave for the studios, work your ass off, have no life at all and can barely get by. Of course it's better than no job but still.NBQ00
- I guess fuck London. It's shit weather there most of the time anyway.NBQ00
- 1st note.sted
- Did I offend anyone with my post here? Why the downvotes? I thought most here agree that London is paying like shit and expensive as fuck.NBQ00
- Don't mind the up/downvotes, users with several accounts need to have some fun...dmay
- i lived there between 2005 - 2008 and worked as a graphic designer making 25k in the first year. 30k in the last. I was not that experienced and shared a housed_gitale
- with 3 others. I had a really good time mainly because of my colleagues and work atmosphere.d_gitale
- I recently had a look online and the jobs for seniors pay marginally higher than I got as a middlewight 10 years ago. its crazy.d_gitale
- Welcome to the QBN. Here’s some downvotes.maquito
- LOL I didn't say 'tiny' bit more. than £30- £40k... I said 'modest'. I was being modest. I earn more than enough to get by. Don't slave my ass off unless...graphiconions
- ... I'm really feeling the job. But hey that's me. Can do attitude. Lots of really cool work going on here, Lots of positive & talented folk...graphiconions
- ... perhaps you are better off staying where you are. lolgraphiconions
- Here's some real figures for. As a freelancer. Mid-Senior weight ( through Agency ) 60k - 70k / year. ( sans Agency ) 65 - 100k / year. If you were to work...graphiconions
- ... the full 261 working days per year, which is rare... but means more free time and even still, easily eclipses your basic internet searches.graphiconions
- dasohr4
the troll is real in the qoob
- Maaku5
Just overheard the manager of a Dev team say he didn't care how the UI looked like.
It's glad to see how they value my skills and craft in this company. Time to search for a new job, I'm done.
- I'm glad*Maaku
- you're not done; THEY're done! ;-)Krassy
- it could be just frustration on his part. Could be just having a bad day. Could be just pissed that his developer couldn't figure something out...exador1
- I've been there, and before you get pissed and quit, take the time to chat with that manager. let him know what you're feeling/thinking.exador1
- you never really know... he could just have been in a pissy mood or something...exador1
- let him know YOU care..the company cares, the customers care, and the rest of the management cares... ask how you can help. ask how you can make his life easierexador1
- you could turn a potential adversary into a potential ally, with the right phrasing, and the right approach.exador1
- the UX is JUST as important as the code the runs the whole app. YOU know why...explain it to him, and offer to help him out...exador1
- Do you have any context as to why he doesn't 'care'? Perhaps your UI won't work / doesn't expand well or maybe he's dealing w/some technical backend shit...PonyBoy
- ... that hasn't a thing to do w/your UI and therefore he could give 2 fucks about it (at the moment). 'Overhearing' is far different than being a part of...PonyBoy
- ... the actual conversation. I want CONTEXT, DAMNIT!!! :)
BTW... Don't be a quitter (or a whiner)... its' unbecoming. <3PonyBoy - I thought it was a good thing, creative freedomdrgs
- freedom, my thought also. put some set faces in the next releaseuan
- I've talked to 3 managers severals time about my role and eagerness to help. But I have also heard bad things about management that now make sense.Maaku
- It seems the next 2 persons under the CTO have a monopoly on how things are done.Maaku
- Managers are the only ones that get bonuses at the end of the year based on performance. It only makes sense to say yes to everything business asks for.Maaku
- On the other side, Business doesn't care how things are done as long as you make it happen.Maaku
- You need to take risks to lay the ground for bonuses.sted
- change all the ui to look like windows 95. fugly.shapesalad
- ^ stay late one night to implement the update to all the dev/source/deployed files. then leave your resignation letter on managers desk.shapesalad
- ^ hahahaMaaku
