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- pango0
Continuing the sinking ship saga...
2 month after I left my job. one of the account manager who deals with 4% of the clients resigned.
that's 5 people in total in 2 months time that I know of.
there were few people who left several months before me as well.ohhhhh shiiieeeet
- spl33nidoru19
Haven't participated here in a while but reading BusterBoy's post above made me feel like writing an update on one of my past blog posts.
Just tried to look it up and I might have written but never actually posted it haha!
Anyway, I went through 2017 and 2018 without invoicing one single job. Was going through hell with a bad rep (film) in 2016 despite huge opportunities, producing mediocre work leading me to nothing good to show to step things up.
Ended up moving back to my parents, lost a huge deal of confidence in my abilities, started borrowing from gracious friends to try and get anything started, was seriously considering either a radical change of professional path or suicide due to the absolute lack of accomplishment and gratification I was finding myself in.It eventually got so bad that it became sort of funny to me, how desperately stuck I was. Then it didn't matter anymore to send a 10th email to past (satisfied) clients who had either not answered the previous 9 or had politely declined, I was actually curious to see how many things I could do without result.
Anyway, at some point I stopped counting on others and started counting on myself, then put together a few ideas to help a friend out with no money in sight to make them happen, but writing that stuff felt pretty good, good enough to reach out to some more people.
Eventually you hit the right person at the right time with not much to show but enough that they connect and hit you back, then things get rolling a bit, and before you know it here comes the domino effect.I'm very aware of how short that domino effect might turn out to be, but getting things started really is a matter of endurance and keeping the faith through thick and thin. Putting pride aside, and taking a step back to look at things from a more neutral place rather than emotionally or through what others might think.
And even though it's a big cliché, things can go from very shitty to pretty damn good anytime so don't give up.
- +1fadein11
- thats great advice dude, and i feel better having read it :)exador1
- solid post.inteliboy
- Things really did a 180 over a month. Reach out to new people, help friends, tell whoever's work you like that you do, find likeminded peeps, they're out there!spl33nidoru
- Persistence, not perfection. Nice post.aslip
- Awesome! I'm a huge proponent of "Thoughts are things!"robotron3k
- thanks for postingFax_Benson
- i think the 'helping friends' thing can often be underappreciated...exador1
- sometimes we get (rightly so) so wound up in our own troubles and issues we overlook that we could help someone out...exador1
- and often, when helping others, we can find solutions to our own troubles, or learn new ways to improve our own situations...exador1
- +++pr2
- i like the text very much. but who can remove this mouse....api
- No it isn't a big cliché, it is your life :)
It's a great thing that you have the courage to share this with us.sted
- ApeRobot1
300.000 people plan to storm Area 51
- https://www.theregis…ApeRobot
- Thousands of flat earthers fly AROUND the globe daily.Ianbolton
- More like 100 idiots, and 299,900 people who just think it's funny to RSVP.monospaced
- what mono saidBennn
- I love how they plan to meet at the alien tourist attraction, and THEN decide on how to enter.monospaced
- An alien escapee is going to help them to get indrgs
- Have they forgotten how radioactive a lot of that area still is? last guy to get in died 2 years later (cancer).fadein11
- ^all the more reason they should go!futurefood
- You need 50k moms with a 7-seater minivan to get them theremekk
- in all seriousness, all "area 51" has to do to stop them is close and lock the doorsmonospaced
- or am I missing something?monospaced
- Nairn0
I've forgotten the password to my password file.
- drgs3
Got bored, hooked up a mouse to my mobile phone through usb-c (if you have an Android it works straight away, cursor is tiny though) + Chromecast screen to my TV. Only thing missing is a keyboard
Discuss
- Yes, you're bored ;)OBBTKN
- Have you managed to find a keyboard yet? See it through to it's natural conclusion. Alexa, play Queen.
Don't. Stop. Me. Now.DRIFTMONKEY - Can it play Crysis?Nairn
- Gardener0
Northampton has ridiculously strict laws on dropping
cigarette ends in the street,I would have thought getting
fined £375 for it would stop it happening but it doesn't!- easy money for the local councilGardener
- Wait, your paper prints out named details of local misdemenours?Nairn
- public shaming isn't that uncommon. I just found a public listing of a ticket I received in 2015imbecile
- I redacted it to protect the guiltyGardener
- Increase the fine to £1000. Fuck selfish idiots who drop litter. Their brains are too small to think beyond 1 chess move. Check mate.shapesalad
- https://www.verywell…shapesalad
- lol Check mate!pango
- they have their 15 minutes of fame by appearing in a newspaper (and the newspaper has some news). odd world.SimonFFM
- The fines are too high but the law is fantastic. Smokers continually shit on everyone around them and then wonder why laws are passed against them.CyBrainX
- The one that bugs me most is people stubbing fags out on the top of bins.. then just leaving them there. 'You made half the effort right .. what went wrong?'Nairn
- Peg the fine to their income.i_monk
- or just peg them.Nairn
- and name them Peg.CyBrainX
- jagara3
Just had a discussion with an American about the mandatory five to six weeks vacation we get in Denmark. He thought it was "ridiculous" and we could learn something from Americans who "kick a lot of ass" (meaning who have to work constantly, which is the meaning of life, obvi).
Lol. Jealousy in disguise. You'd love to 2,5X your vacation.
- they/we've been trained to think working long hour and contently busy = path to success in life.pango
- in Denmark, the quality of the free education and health care is substandard: They are way down on the PISA [Programme for International Student Assessment]...imbecile
- educational rankings, have the lowest life expectancy in the region, and the highest rates of death from cancer.imbecile
- And there is broad consensus that the economic model of a public sector and welfare state on this scale is unsustainable.imbecile
- https://www.independ…imbecile
- vacations is lifeBennn
- I don't need my Gov telling me when it's time to take a break or how long a break for that matter - but if you require that much hand-holding then so be it :)PonyBoy
- My vacation is 5 weeks and that is standard in the professional world. We aren’t required to take it, but it isn’t as low as you’re assuming it is.monospaced
- @ponyboy Danes don't have to take vacations either, it's just mandatory for the employer to offer them.jagara
- Was recently in Denmark, they seemed a lot happier than folk in Britain, their society is just better I suppose.PhanLo
- Denmark has got that invisible hand of facism, inventory of all citizens, control of immigrants, but it's a tiny ass place, you do need long vacations to escaperobotron3k
- I am confused robo. You say it like those are all bad things but then salivate over them as long as it’s trump pushing for itscruffics
- America is fucked. In my first year of working full time after uni I was give 5 holidays that was including paid sick leave. I also didn’t get...scruffics
- Health insurance until I finished my first 6 monthsscruffics
- US and A = 2nd world country on par with China and Russia, only slightly better. The sooner mexicans take over, the better for alldrgs
- People can live or work however they want.Hayoth
- I love idiots like drgs that beg for 3 world conditions while raising their commi flag.Hayoth
- The irony about commies is that they broke free from their ideology, while the Americans are stuck in a position where they need to continuedrgs
- pushing their own ideology with a proud face, keep pretending its the best. The happiest countries are those which do not need to prove anything to anyone.drgs
- The Nordics are very utilitarian in this respect, they pick some parts here and there which work, and disregard the labelsdrgs
- But for an American it is the worst sin in the world to admit that he would rather have 5 weeks of vacation, because "socialism"drgs
- The good news is US and A is 10 years behind Europe in everything, and eventually all the goods which we have will eventually be adopted in USdrgs
- They just need to accept it their own way, by slowly eating shit for years and "kicking ass", for some made-up reasons which make them Americandrgs
- Yes, U.S. sucks, everywhere is better. Total shithole. lol BYE.HijoDMaite
- I have 30 working days of holidays per year, not including city/country holidaysernexbcn
- regarding mandatory or not, some countries do enforce, precisely to avoid employers to force employees to not take holidays based on work load or delivery...ernexbcn
- ...excuses, so if there's an inspection and they find employees that have not taken their holidays the company can be finedernexbcn
- Lol. DOKAY this story happened.cannonball1978
- I just checked their PISA ranking. They are 17th among 70 countries. Not "Way down on the PISA" article is full of fake info.Beeswax
- Lolz hijo!!PonyBoy
- Work yourselves to death neglect your health and your family you’ll die with the most toys but you’ll still die having lived an empty and pointless life._niko
- Even your idiot president takes 15 weeks vacation a year while the rest of you slave away lol_niko
- Jeez. Didn't expect this post to be considered this polemic...jagara
- 4.5 work hours a day, 3 months holiday is the near futureneverscared
- Canuck here. 6 weeks vacation...exador1
- @exador1 Hi five :Djagara
- @jagara you implied that America isn't absolute #1 at everything so of course you're going to get a big reaction.zarkonite
- @jagara, you implied that 5 weeks of vacation is 2.5x what Americans receive. It's simply not true, which is why you're getting reactions like this.monospaced
- My company offers more vacation as standard to all employees, and has for decades, without any qualifications. In the United States.monospaced
- 6 weeks plus trailing or preceding days on long weekends, plus a 2 week shutdown over the holidays, ask how much I usually take...ben_
- We shut down 2 weeks for xmas—and I get 6 weeks paid on top of that—plus I work from home most of the time stoned off my balls—I'm always on vacation—'MERICA!!PonyBoy
- We shut down for two weeks at Christmas and also a full week for 4th of July. Every three day weekend is extended. We can flex hours any way we like.monospaced
- Unlimited sick days. 4 floating holidays. Work from anywhere I want. Not Denmark.monospaced
- its typically better to pay higher wages with less benefits and let employees decide what they value. wether it be unpaid time off or or earning more.deathboy
- mandatory time off restricts peoples pay who may not take advantage of that benrfit, or have no means to take advantage of it.deathboy
- and sad thing is its averaged out and hedged in companies best interest being mandatory that they find a formula that benefits their bottom linedeathboy
- packaged and sold as a "great benefit" when the truth is a higher wage and letting you decide is far better.deathboy
- have to track back to why benefits is offered vs higher pay. its not like benefits isn't calculated into employee cost.deathboy
- its a easy sell when business learn they can keep more money get more tax deductions and pay employees lessdeathboy
- Higher wages will NEVER make up for time off. Time off is not some bottom line perk to maintain bottom line. I sometimes wonder if yuh ever had a job dB.monospaced
- neither view is 100% valid... bottom line is an employee and their boss should determine their value and agree upon compensation w/OUT the Gov's help.PonyBoy
- Mono makes a good point, lots of American companies have great HR policies. It's an open market and you gotta seek out the conditions you want.zarkonite
- Nairn2
Firstly: I admit it, I Googled my name. I've not done so in years. So fuck, you've got to every once in a while, surely?
Anyway, apparently I have an IMDB entry, for two films I helped out on a few years ago.
I'm on fucking IMDB. I'm literally world-famous.
- ( 'literally' used in the contemporary, non-literal, fashion )Nairn
- pfff
im on imdb as well.pango - Congrats! Your biography is missing though.raf
- Just don't, raf. Don't.Nairn
- My name is too commondrgs
- hey pango - can we become imbd hard-on bros?Nairn
- I've never met anyone called Too CommonFax_Benson
- @fax we got this guy "not sure" toorenderedred
- Meh. Same so.robotron3k
- skhm krrkm ahahaha
https://www.imdb.com…sted - aren't you famous if you show up in Google??formed
- Either way... popcorn time!raf
- woot! i'm the fourth result when googled!
right after 3 cement companies! lolpango - problem is: if you google yourself, you get different results than other users because google knows what pages you visitSimonFFM
- Can I have your autograph.freedom
- I'm there too.freedom
- WHAT DO I NEED CEMENT COMPANIES FOR?!?!?! LOLpango
- @simon - that depends upon how you have your browser set up :)Nairn
- autoflavour0
want to see the impact your web browsing has on the planet (like the world isn't depressing enough as it is) ..
install this
- Maaku0
You guys were right about Vegas. Unless you're rich or have things to do out in the desert, it gets old pretty quickly. I don't regret it, it's a once in a lifetime experience to see what the fuss is all about. I had fun and came back super broke.
- Yup.robotron3k
- you did it and now know you don't have to do it again.capn_ron
- ^ Check that one off the listMaaku
- Maaku2
I checked out at 11:00 and my flight was at 5:00, so I sat down on my ipad for a couple of hours and made this
based on this
- with my*Maaku
- ipad for 3d? what app?pango
- This one: https://sculptura.ap…
There's also Forger, but I haven't had the time to learn that one yet.Maaku
- robotron3k5
Things are getting weird in this office I'm working at... I sit in a bay of 4 cubicles and a new woman started working across from me. She's young, very attractive and built. Typically I just say hello every morning and keep to myself - I do that esp. If they are attractive.
So now there is this nerdy dude that sits behind her and his job is to help her onboard and set up her system. They had small talk about wine on her first day, he's chatting her up, she's being nice and on her second day there is a 3 foot purple office Teddy Bear floating around and he put it in her desk, writes some welcome note on it and gives her a bottle of wine as a gift. Puts it between the bears legs like a phallus lol
So over the course of weeks now, he keeps putting notes on the bear for her. Stupid puns, the bear asking for hugs, wanting "honey glazed donuts" she even leaves town and he writes something to the effect of the bear missing her... Pfft. Something like that... she's been somewhat of a sport about it but last Friday I saw her eyes roll a bit. Eek it's starting.
Now 4 weeks later, this guy is not stopping, printing out messages on 8.5x11 paper and pinning to a 3 foot stuffed purple bear in the desk right next to me for this girl to react too. Literally daily. It's not my role to tell this nerdy dude about chicks but she just left for a meeting and he printed out another note about how the bear was sad because it's not in a meeting with her...
OMG this is getting good.
- when he leaves, print out your own note but make it extra creepy and rapey!_niko
- haha, I like the last line
And yes, do what _niko said, DOOO EET!Nairn - Just prints out your opinion on women and stick it on the bear :P that will do itpango
- I think we're all a bit nerdy if we're into design in general. How old is that nerd?Maaku
- I like that idea, I could put leather harness on the bear with the note that says he's switched teams!robotron3k
- Haha Pango, "The bear thinks you have a nice rack."robotron3k
- The dude is like 50, bald "Woody Allen type....robotron3k
- bear wants to mate!ernexbcn
- hostile work environment!see_bee
- someone should throw the bear awayimbecile
- Man I want to kick it across the room...robotron3k
- That last line of your first paragraph... gold.ben_
- put bear on his desk and printout a note: "Fuck off Nerd"shapesalad
- Put a "FRIEND ZONE" panda on his desk.monospaced
- Photograph him putting the notes on bear on her desk. email anonymously photos to HR and say there is a case of sexual harassment in its infinity.shapesalad
- Lol mono!!! Brilliant.robotron3k
- Now the girl doesn't come back to her desk any longer....robotron3k
- you him whats his QBN username. surely he is one of usCALLES
- Aks him whats*CALLES
- persistence wins the game.umbee54
- ^that sounds like harassmentpango
- Haha Calles...robotron3k
- If it is one of us, the circumstantial evidence points overwhelmingly to roboFax_Benson
- I forgot to add "asking for a friend" above...robotron3k
- so are you doing the friend zone thing or what?monospaced
- wow that's so cringey. He must be an incel.NBQ00
- two options 1) Invest in a bulletproof vest and wait for the rejection. 2) become his best mate and hope he warns younecromation
- i like stories that you can picture so well!SimonFFM
- Have a word with the guy. Say to him you've noticed he's made friends with her. Ask him about her....microkorg
- .. and tell him you think she's hot and you're thinking of making a move so thought you'd ask his advice seeing as he's friends with her.microkorg
- Or tell him you think he's hot, seduce him and make him your bitch. When the woman he likes sees that he's taken she'll jump on it. Everybody wins!deadsperm
- Hahaha, damn I'm dying to take a pic of the purple bear w/the note but it would be on Reddit in seconds... I think he put her office shawl on it!!!robotron3k
- Pics robo :) nobody will share ;)pedromendez
- Lolol, the 3-foot purple Teddy bear is wearing a T-shirt of the multi-million dollar software we make, so tempted...robotron3k
- i think you should give him his own bear and shower it with attentionimbecile
- ..and cum.Nairn
- definitely the second part...imbecile
- Damn he did it again, another note. This one says, "SPB. Lonely and affectionate. ISO belly and foot rubs." She is ignoring this one but it creepy af.robotron3k
- He mentioned yesterday that because it's a bear you could not complain to HR about harrasment.... Hmmm.robotron3k
- Loooool please make picsNBQ00
- bring in more bears. find a discount store and make a fucking sceneimbecile
- mg330
This is such a stupid question and point of confusion but I'll ask anyways.
My office just moved a few weeks ago into temporary WeWork space while a new office is built out. They have free iced green tea here all day, which I'm now drinking all day long and probably never filling up my water bottle.
So... since it's primarily water, and the recommendations per day are X liters of water... does drinking tea all day still suffice for getting that amount of water?
- Water requirements =
any liquid - any diuretic effectNairn - Water requirements are just about acknowledging thirst and always having something on hand to quench it.
Let your bladder be your guide.Nairn - webmd says "The diuretic effect does not offset hydration" https://www.webmd.co…imbecile
- Here's the thing with green tea: if — assuming you're also exercising — you're looking to burn fat, green tea is excellent for that.Continuity
- yep, definitely drinking it for that reason, healthier skin, etc.mg33
- i more meant booze or espresso or filthy-strong tea where it comes to diuretics. Point being, enjoy drinking.
'hicNairn - no warning for caffeinated beverages but they do say avoid alcoholimbecile
- i drink 2-3 liters of green tea almost every day in 500ml batches. BUT i make that tea using filters proper lemonand stuff, i can't drink these fake things :Dsted
- I'm afraid that they put shit into these composite drinks like sugar substitute... which leads straight to diabetes, also what Continuity saidsted
- I've read it's nearly impossible to overconsume green tea and that as far as we know health benefits continue to go up the more you consume.nb
- But if it has any other ingredients than pure green tea, you would want to regulate your consumption.nb
- That's great nb because I'm averaging a couple gallons of it each day. :Dmg33
- You know, bourbon is about 50% water...monNom
- http://i.imgur.com/X…pango
- Taiwan High mountain Organic expensive Oolong tea - once you try, there's no going back...shapesalad
- there are different types of caffeine molecules, those in green tea and 'more calm' than the artificial crap they put in coke a cole lah.shapesalad
- One thing to note about green tea - it really stains your teeth in the long run compared to black tea / coffee.shapesalad
- I'm in a WeWork too, there's free beer. I'm including that for sure.MrT
- @nairn if you wait until you're thirsty you waited too long. You have STAY hydrated, not wait until your body is below par and asking for water.zarkonite
- and green tea has no effect on weight loss: https://nccih.nih.go…zarkonite
- "Green tea extracts haven’t been shown to produce a meaningful weight loss in overweight or obese adults. They also haven’t been shown to help people maintainzarkonite
- a weight loss."zarkonite
- Water requirements =
- cbass994
My dad (76 years old) and I were at a PGA golf tournament a few weeks ago. I asked him to take a picture of me, he was having trouble because his screen was so dim and he couldn't see it very well, he tries to save battery on his phone because its an older version iPhone, and it was super sunny out.
So, he thinks he's taking a picture...the next day, he emails me telling me that when he though he was taking the picture, he actually bought $23k of bitcoin off the Coinbase app!!!
He had no idea how he did it. I couldn't stop laughing when he told me this. He ended up transfering half back into his savings and letting the other coin roll..I would of put it all back..so risky.
- a camera app that buys bitcoins......pango
- casually drops 23k.. lolautoflavour
- your dad must have some spare cash haha, nicepedromendez
- it was his whole savings account.cbass99
- wtflvl_13
- There's about 10 steps for buying that and that includes entering a 2FA code I don't think its possible. Maybe someone hacked his account?Beeswax
- Pango is using google translate ahgaha
why did the had Coinbase installed?sted - What's most impressive about this is that your 76 yo dad is bitcoining!microkorg
- At what price?drgs
- Beeswax, actually, it's like 2 buttons and you can trade on Coinbase. Drgs, I think at 11k.cbass99
- As life goes online, and we all get older - imagine when you're 80 and you endup closing all your bank accounts, uploading all your porn to your family sharedshapesalad
- photo album, and using all your savings to invest in moon mining - when all you wanted to dow as check the weather app for that day....shapesalad
- i dont think this is/should be possible :)api
- HijoDMaite2
Just went from iPhone 7plus to the iPhone Xr
It’s too fucking skinny
Every app is making renter passwords
I miss my home button
The notch is dumb af
I don’t know what I’m doing
I purposely bought yellow one lol
I miss the home screenThat’s is all.
- you get used to it... everytime I goto use someone's non-X iphone I feel all clumsy / confused cuz all the new stuff is missingPonyBoy
- No worries, Apple will have a new model out later this year that you can upgrade to that will not work any better.utopian
- I've been holding off... still on a 6s. maybe next year will eventually upgrade.inteliboy
- Ok I love it now. I can reach across with my thumb easily. Easier to grip too.HijoDMaite
- Nairn6
Was about to send off a revised client file, then realised it was only 9 minutes since they emailed their feedback. I'll wait for an hour before re-sending.
I'm too fucking brilliant and quick at this shit for my own good.
- I do that but then forget to send itFax_Benson
- Not all heroes wear capes @Nairn.
Make 'em wait.
*thumbsup*ideaist - ;DNairn
- Sandbagging is a good designer's secret weapon.DRIFTMONKEY
- An hour? Thats a client. Wait a fn day.cannonball1978
- Ha. I usually let it sit for a bit too.dbloc
- Don't want to impress them.freedom
- Schedule the email so you don't forget.zarkonite
- ya schedule that stuff.pango
- I compromised and sent it out after 45 minutes. @Freedom - I don't need to try and impress, I've worked with them for over a decade.Nairn
- This is why agencies are endangered and clients are bringing the work inhouse.i_monk
- we do this in-house toomonospaced
- There's another side to this to - said client has high artistic aspirations for his business. If I'd sent it back quick, even if perfect, he'd felt...Nairn
- ...nngh - "he'd've felt" even - that I'd not given it due consideration and thought and found things wanting.and sent it back with amends.Nairn
- Little did he realise I'd already done something similar for another client, and have more extensive guidelines drawn out for his brand than he knows about :)Nairn
- Maaku3
"We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us."
Been expecting them since Kony 2012, what happened to these so-called powerful nerds?
- I got one of those Kony 2012 kits, just to have, because they put so much time into designing it. I never opened it.monospaced
- sigh.....pango
- ^ Try putting it on Ebay, just to see.Maaku
- I kinda knew it might be one of those things worth selling one day. It was such a spectacle that went nowhere ;)monospaced
- https://www.youtube.…imbecile
- https://www.ebay.com…imbecile
- Fuck Anonymous!utopian
- They falsely accused so many innocent people over the years they lost all credibility.utopian
- I think they went on to produce the Fyre festivalPonyBoy
- Haha Pony!robotron3k
- https://youtu.be/k1F…cannonball1978
- They’re all watching Dark on Netflix. Too busy to save the world from the opression of Big Pharma and Capitalist cunts.maquito
- they are "storming area 51" :)renderedred
- mg333
I’ve misplaced or lost a silver ring I wear on my right hand, that is incredibly special to me. My sister had it on when she died in 1995; since I got it in the week following her funeral there hasn’t been a single day I’ve not worn it. I have enough anxiety as it is but this is freaking me out. Thought I was going to have a panic stack last night. If is incredibly special to me, possibly more than my wedding ring.
And the oddity of it is, if either that ring or my wedding ring are off, they’re both off. It’s unlikely that I wold just take one off, and I’m worried it slipped off somewhere and that it’s lost. Can’t even retrace my steps because when I noticed it missing it was 8:30pm and I can’t figure out if and where I ever took both rings of in the 3-5 hours before that.
And I keep fidgeting for it on my hand and I’m so distracted by it not being there.
- It's not lost, it's there.robotron3k
- The most frustrating part is that I don’t make mistakes like this. I’m meticulous in where I keep them and when I take them off.mg33
- buy a metal detector and retrace your last 24 hours since you saw it lost.shapesalad
- ^
my partner lost a valuable watch that was given to her by a family member - she 'secreted it somewhere secureyl at home'. I suggested we buy a detectorNairn - think about what you did, washed dishes so took it off, put in cupboard so wouldn't fall into sink? did something you don't usually do that equal'd dirty hands?prophetone
- let it go. the memory of your sister is what you value. buy a new ring in her name and throw it in the middle of a lake, so you never forget where it is.uan
- Found it! It was in between my daughter’s top sheet and bottom sheet at the foot of her bed. Must have slipped off when I was changing her sheets.mg33
- Do Uans lake thing anyway, i liked that - its a good idea. Go uan! Nice job finding it too :)pedromendez
- I had anxiety reading this.shellie
- misplaced, it should be localcanoe
- Cheers on the happy ending!garbage
- Nairn1
Just walked back from The Shop, which is along one of North London's busiest roads - especially at this time in the evening.
I hear a bird squawking and to my right, in the middle of the dual carriageway plops this small bird followed very quickly after by a hawk of some kind. My first thought was that the first bird was a hawkling and the second was its mother, but no, it very quickly becomes evident that one is dinner for the other.
The smaller bird spirals around on the road as the hawk quickly dives down and then flys straight up as a car drives over its prey. I cringe and think fuck! The Hawk swoops down again for another shot, but again has to evade another car that drives over the smaller bird. At this point I'm wondering how completely unlucky this little fucker is.
The hawk swoops one more time, grabs its prey and then flies pretty much straight into the side of a van that's flying past in the inner lane.
Prey flits around in circles for portions of a second as the hawk tries one more go - and then from God only knows where gains the strength to fly off the road and into foliage, chased closely by the hawk that's now quite lost its dinner to a bush.
This probably all took like 8 seconds as a ginger fuckwit gesticulated wildly and over-dramatically from the pavement as he watched on and mentally flitted from "What can I do?" to "it's nature, let it take it's course" to "that hawk's going to get smashed.. what can I do?".
Itw as all quite impressive.
As I walked past the bush, a magpie's going fucking spastic, even more dramatic than I. The pussy.
- No way. What was it? Sparrowhawk? Kestrel?Fax_Benson
- Not sure what it was - it was plainly coloured. Looking at Google now, perhaps a Kestrel. I coudla sworn Kestrels had more blue on them? Female?Nairn
- I remember seeing a hawk eating a pigeon alive once. It had eaten loads of it's back away and I could see the pigeons insides. the pigeon looked up at me, butPhanLo
- there wasn't anything I could do. What a way to go.PhanLo
- I didn't stress in my poorly-related tale here how amazed I was when both the hawk and its prey were completely unfazed by having twatted into the side of a vanNairn
- I have been thinking for years that road networks are probably one of the biggest fuckers-over of natural environment. The entire country's fractured.Nairn
- I once broke a much-loved Le Creuset skillet putting a pigeon out of its misery after I'd watched a cat gnaw its face.
Iron shatters dramatically.Nairn - Fucking useless cat.Nairn
- beautiful in it's own wayFax_Benson
- itsFax_Benson
- Saw a seagull feasting on a pigeon, right in the middle of financial area near Chancery Lane. Metaphoric.shapesalad
- There's a book in that..Nairn
- You can't puss up your life in 8 seconds... unless you're on acidcanoe