Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]
Discussion
p1stonhead said:
exelero said:
No1: Why do always the useless pieces of s
ts are the ones that get promoted?
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Depends how much they 'network' and lick the arses of those above. Its not what you know its who you know.ts are the ones that get promoted?.
exelero said:
There is actually 2 questions
Why do always the useless pieces of sts are the ones that get promoted?
Management are still hoping to find something they are good at. If you are good at what you do they want you to keep doing it. Also if you are a techy and good at what you do there tends to be an assumption that it is your vocation and you are neither capable of nor interested in doing anything better. The notion that you are good at what you do simply because you worked your socks off in the hope of getting promoted and would work equally hard at the next job up doesn't occur to them. Mutter mutter rant rant etc etcWhy do always the useless pieces of s
ts are the ones that get promoted?exelero said:
No1: Why do always the useless pieces of sts are the ones that get promoted?
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Because the ones doing the promoting are of the same type, and like promotes like - after all, they wouldn't want to promote someone who would then show how crap they themselves are at their job ts are the ones that get promoted?.
PostHeads123 said:
How people cope with more than 1 baby, I have 1 baby 14months now, never sleeps throw the night, been ill a lot in and out of hospital, pushed me and the misses to breaking point.
I want to know this too. 1 baby, 8 months old, very healthy and sleeps well at night but still takes up 100% of our time and attention... So I can only imagine how much harder it is for you 
I don't know how you'd get through the first couple of months (while they learn day/night) with a second baby - it was an absolute nightmare! I honestly had no idea you could survive on 2 hours sleep a night for 2 months, but apparently you can
One thing I will say, though... We've got a few friends with similarly-aged babies, and the range of personalities is huge.
At one end of the scale you have our baby who is in the 99.9th centile for length/weight - so is very heavy to carry around. Also he already has 6 teeth and more coming, is standing, crawling at light speed, climbing the furniture, shouts for "MAMA/DADA" if we're not being entertaining enough, etc. And although he sleeps well at night, he hardly naps so daytime is quite hard going. And he's breast-fed so still requires quite regular small feeds and is always glued to his mum.
At the other end of the scale, we have a friend with a baby the same age who is 45th centile, not even rolling over yet, formula fed (one giant bottle get him through the night - about 4 times the volume of milk that ours gets in a single feed!)... Every time we see him he's just lying asleep in his pram or parents arms. When they change him, he just lies there and lets them do their business - ours has a hissy fit because "DAD I HAVE THINGS TO DO WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME LIE ON A MAT LIKE A BABY??"
I wouldn't change ours for anything... But I can't help feeling that their baby experience has been so much more relaxing and easy-going than ours
Edited by a on Friday 16th June 12:22
droopsnoot said:
Aren't most drum kits on rubber mats, to stop them all moving away due to vibration?
Not quite. Drum kits tend to just move a bit under their own steam when they aren't on a particularly grippy surface (i.e not carpet) due to the fact you're basically sitting there kicking and hitting them repeatedly.Most drummers I know seem to own some rug of unknown age and origin which their kit goes on. The friction of the carpet keeps everything in one place.
schmunk said:
a said:
At one end of the scale you have our baby who is in the 99.9th centile for length/weight - so is very heavy to carry around.
Pffffft - you wait until you need to carry an ill 9 year old up to bed...TR4man said:
What happened to the WW1 cemeteries in France and Belgium during WW2?
Were they still tended by what is now called the Commonwealth War Graves Commision, or did the local population look after them? Did both sides respect the cemeteries and try to avoid bombing and fighting in them?
Yes.Were they still tended by what is now called the Commonwealth War Graves Commision, or did the local population look after them? Did both sides respect the cemeteries and try to avoid bombing and fighting in them?
They were very well cared for and the caretakers recieved no grief from the germans.
Even know of a case where a drunk german soldier wee'd on a ww1 british grave and was shot for it!
fomb said:
droopsnoot said:
Aren't most drum kits on rubber mats, to stop them all moving away due to vibration?
Not quite. Drum kits tend to just move a bit under their own steam when they aren't on a particularly grippy surface (i.e not carpet) due to the fact you're basically sitting there kicking and hitting them repeatedly.Most drummers I know seem to own some rug of unknown age and origin which their kit goes on. The friction of the carpet keeps everything in one place.
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