You sell goats?

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Is that like the missionary position?

So Elm is a rent boy.

In a missionary position he'd be more of an active rent boy than a passive one, provided he went for the orifficer's vacant place.

I think the personal trainer would be the passive one in the position, whom'd be providing the vacant place. Capiche?

Metaphorically of course. All I am saying is the officer has a better position, hence why I thought Chaz was going for it.

afgavinstan wrote:

Today we had a toddler be violently sick in the Kids A-Z aisle. Luckily I wasn't first on the scene, so I didn't clean it. Yep. Be jealous.

When I worked in a supermarket as a teen we had an old guy whose catheter bag burst as he was riding around the store on his mobility scooter, leaving a trail of yellowy piss behind him like a geriatric, motorised slug. I saw him cruising down the toilet roll aisle spraying piss everywhere and immediately (and wisely) told my manager I was taking my break, lest I end up following him around the shop with a mop and bucket.

I like the subtle dot matrix there.

@SublimeEnvy

Holy crap! That's horrific! Glad you're better now. Can't believe you'd still go near a horse now...

EDIT: Actually, fuck that. It's extremely patronising of me to tell people halfway across the world what they should or shouldn't be doing.

Wookie, I wish you the best of luck - if you want to chat about other options, you know where I am.

google wrote:

EDIT: Actually, fuck that. It's extremely patronising of me to tell people halfway across the world what they should or shouldn't be doing. Wookie, I wish you the best of luck - if you want to chat about other options, you know where I am.

Thank you, I appreciate it. You know I didnt think you're being patronising and I do welcome opinions as sometimes it's hard to see all angles from inside your own situation.

No idea why you're not going for the officers job wookie, I figured it'd have the same if not better benefits & moar cash & responsibility. I am confused and had to ask as I thought that's what you'd been after this past year or so, not the officers job per se but something that had associated challenges, commitment & rewards. Not to say the trainer's role doesn't provide these but the other certainly starts you off a rung higher on the ladder. Hope the application you've made goes well of course.

Ass for you Dante. Seriously though, I miss the community spotlight. Yous were getting a regular set of posters (some from redrum) on the blogs and in the comments. I much preferred the old site dynamic which they never explored properly, because the forum half of the community was abstracted away for years.

Yup. They lost both sets, and replaced it with Facebook. It's really odd. Future clearly decided that it was all about social media, and the any in house stuff wasn't worth bothering with. Well congratulations, that worked.

Out of interest, is there any way to get advertising cash on Facebook? Because that's the most obvious loss to me from a business point of view if you can't.

There was, if you had an admin account, the ability to view the latest blogs, which helped me a lot. I'm not quite sure why this wasn't available to everyone. Still, it was fun whilst it lasted.

LesterUnlimited wrote:

Seeing as there's quite a few freelancers here, I used this website to get me a graphic designer for a trading logo and a great job he did too. So, I guess you could register and see if there's anywork worth bidding for.

Fuck sake. That place really needs a new logo. I'll do it for nothing. Do I win the contract?

google wrote:

Surely entering the RAF as an entry level PTI would be a step-backwards from being a fully qualified private PT?

Not really, because he doesn't lose any qualifications.  He'll get paid a fair old whack more than his current gym job, and after 18-24 months of finding his feet and getting used to it, he'll be tasked with specialising in various areas.  He'll get paid through a bunch of outdoorsy adventurous training qualifications he'd otherwise have to pay for himself, and the stuff he'll have access to through the military is a noticeable head and shoulders above what the civilian world gets.  The service'll happily sponsor him to Olympic level in any sports he wants to continue competing in, and cover a lot of training, time off etc as long as he's willing to give back by training other people at his station.

In terms of future advancement, we train PTIs in rehabilitation of injuries and part-time physio degrees, and train some of them as parachute jump instructors.  Plus, once he's done a couple of years, he's eligible for a commission to go into the policy side of health/sport/training/etc in the military if he wants to do something more academic in the training world.

The PTIs at my last station included qualified mountaineers, kitesurfing instructors, ice-climbing instructors, MTB trail leaders, dive masters, rugby referees, a guy who'd been most of the way up Everest with work, parachuting instructors and one of the rehab guys.  All the training's free, and to me if he's stuck in a rut that sounds like a great way to spend a few years rather than putting up with crap management and a bunch of Essex women doing Zumba classes.

He's only required to sign up for a couple of years, you can leave with no question before you qualify, and even after qualifying you generally only have to work a bit of notice while they sort out a replacement if you're doing something important (for a pilot that's currently a ridiculous 12 months, for most trades like PTI it'll be 12 weeks max), so there's not a lot of risk in it.

There are a bunch of dead-end jobs in the military that I'd never recommend over their civilian counterparts, but the PTI/Phys Ed Officer one isn't in that bracket.