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...in the world of TL UberDrama.
The folks at UberSite think they have the ultimate handle on snide and cutting bollocks. Some of the feuds and bombshells there are legendary, to the point that even people like Maddox - surely the closest thing we have to the leader of the internet - found themselves getting involved and weighing in with their 2cp. However, I put it to the world that for the biggest hotbed of undercurrents, ignorance, absent-minded and even casual nastiness on the planet, turn your eye towards the city of Bath and it's Live Roleplay society. Enough email to make Bill Gates blush, an IC meal boycotted by some, a game boycotted by others, at least one (if not two) LJs closed on a permanent basis, and at the end of the day, nothing changes: Aristocrats at the top, prolitariat at the bottom, and...no, I'll leave that there. It's correct as it stands.
Thank God the roleplay's off the page, eh?
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My pick for Mayweather-Hatton was correct in broad terms, even if the manner in which it went down was slightly off. To be honest, if Floyd hadn't been on fire all night, I'd have said it must have been quite embarrassing for Ricky to have actually got stopped by Captain Cotton Bud, but by all reports it was a masterclass. YouTube is so very useful to those of us who have better things to do than stay up until ten to five, and while the whole fight isn't up yet, I've seen enough of Hatton getting cut to ribbons to know it wasn't the most even of contests. Undoubtedly Ricky didn't lose it, but he did run into probably the only guy in the world at his weight who (on his A-game) could beat him, and who brought just that. Roll on De La Hoya in London - if I were Ricky I'd beat ODH, drop back down to light welter and clean up, then retire.
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My first job in customer service leads me to believe that when (if) I'm lucky enough to grow old disgracefully, I'm going to be a bloody nightmare. If I'm this embarrassed at how crap some people are now in how little they care about what they're peddling to the ignorant, how jaded and cynical am I going to be in fifty years time?
Moreover, it throws the behaviour of so many other shops into sharp relief. There appears to be almost nowhere that I go to on a regular basis where I receive the level of service on demand that I would really love to be able to provide to the customers that wander over to my window, but keep utterly failing to demonstrate. Waitrose and Marks & Spencer are possibly the only two, and M&S only gets there on the basis of it's wine clerks. If I can see I need to work harder, why can't they?
The one saving grace is that in the future, I know I won't turn into the really annoying sixty year old in the tie and tweed hat that rants about how it was so much better in his day.
It sucked donkey balls back then as well.
The folks at UberSite think they have the ultimate handle on snide and cutting bollocks. Some of the feuds and bombshells there are legendary, to the point that even people like Maddox - surely the closest thing we have to the leader of the internet - found themselves getting involved and weighing in with their 2cp. However, I put it to the world that for the biggest hotbed of undercurrents, ignorance, absent-minded and even casual nastiness on the planet, turn your eye towards the city of Bath and it's Live Roleplay society. Enough email to make Bill Gates blush, an IC meal boycotted by some, a game boycotted by others, at least one (if not two) LJs closed on a permanent basis, and at the end of the day, nothing changes: Aristocrats at the top, prolitariat at the bottom, and...no, I'll leave that there. It's correct as it stands.
Thank God the roleplay's off the page, eh?
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My pick for Mayweather-Hatton was correct in broad terms, even if the manner in which it went down was slightly off. To be honest, if Floyd hadn't been on fire all night, I'd have said it must have been quite embarrassing for Ricky to have actually got stopped by Captain Cotton Bud, but by all reports it was a masterclass. YouTube is so very useful to those of us who have better things to do than stay up until ten to five, and while the whole fight isn't up yet, I've seen enough of Hatton getting cut to ribbons to know it wasn't the most even of contests. Undoubtedly Ricky didn't lose it, but he did run into probably the only guy in the world at his weight who (on his A-game) could beat him, and who brought just that. Roll on De La Hoya in London - if I were Ricky I'd beat ODH, drop back down to light welter and clean up, then retire.
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My first job in customer service leads me to believe that when (if) I'm lucky enough to grow old disgracefully, I'm going to be a bloody nightmare. If I'm this embarrassed at how crap some people are now in how little they care about what they're peddling to the ignorant, how jaded and cynical am I going to be in fifty years time?
Moreover, it throws the behaviour of so many other shops into sharp relief. There appears to be almost nowhere that I go to on a regular basis where I receive the level of service on demand that I would really love to be able to provide to the customers that wander over to my window, but keep utterly failing to demonstrate. Waitrose and Marks & Spencer are possibly the only two, and M&S only gets there on the basis of it's wine clerks. If I can see I need to work harder, why can't they?
The one saving grace is that in the future, I know I won't turn into the really annoying sixty year old in the tie and tweed hat that rants about how it was so much better in his day.
It sucked donkey balls back then as well.
