…I read bad poetry into your machine…
Posted on 19th September 2007 by Gloria
Andy and I just had a very funny experience.
I received a text from him saying “I’m at home but can’t see your keys anywhere. Also…how did you get to work without them?” So I sent one back, very confused, saying “What? My keys aren’t there because I’ve got them here. Which is how I got to work. In the car. With the car keys. I don’t understand.”
So Andy rang me to explain that he’d got a message, which he’d assumed was from me, saying something along the lines of “Hi gorgeous [which is how I usually start my messages] I’ve left my keys at home and can’t get into the car.” So, heroically, Andy rushed home from work early to save me, only for me to tell him that the text wasn’t from me.
So now he’s trying to contact the poor locked-out person who mistakenly texted him (about 2 hours ago…), so they can contact someone who might actually be able to help.
The lesson for us all, I think - phone people instead of texting. That way, you know you’re onto the right person!
Laura
September 19th, 2007
4:35 pm
I’ve only just realised who Gloria is….it’s SIAN!!! love it.
Kate
September 19th, 2007
4:39 pm
WHAT???!!! Gloria and Sian the SAME person???
Nope, I just don’t believe it.
(Gloria I have emailed you)
Craig
September 19th, 2007
4:53 pm
oh dear! Laura how have you never worked that out!! You know you could have clicked on the tab entitled ‘Gloria’ in the authors part and it actually says Sian Hoyland on it!!!!!!!
Laura
September 19th, 2007
4:56 pm
Oh well I didn’t know did I!!! I know now !
Andy
September 19th, 2007
7:04 pm
Gloria got in there with this story before I could write it up! I never got hold of the mystery texter though…
I was going to tell you about a couple of people I saw running the other day. It was on my way home from work. There was a woman all dressed up in running gear with a head band on and everything. And she was running. Well. It was more like walking but with a running kind of motion. And next to her was a bloke. He was in jeans and a t-shirt. And he was smoking. And he had a can of lager in his hand. At first I thought it was just a case of the bloke overtaking the jogger. But then, as I sat in traffic, the scene unfolded. The guy smoking a fag was actually the woman’s motivator. He was there to spur her along. What an inspiration! An overweight guy, smoking and drinking and able to walk faster than you… The woman looked shattered.
Pete
September 19th, 2007
10:21 pm
ohhh…I’ve just added the Firefox in line spell checker thing! No more miss spelt posts from me (it is saying that ’spelt’ in incorrect, but doesn’t give any good alternatives! How on earth do you spell it?!?!?).
Well done to both Sian and Andy. I think we can all agree that they are both two ever every funny stories. I had an interesting thing happen the other day. It was in our placement group. One of the girls in my group went to sit on one of those office chairs with wheels. As she went to sit on it, it rolled out from underneath her and she fell straight on the floor. Now that was funny (because she wasn’t hurt…as long as it doesn’t hurt it is allowed to be funny). However, that wasn’t the really funny bit. The other 3 people in my group deliberately made sure that we didn’t laugh at her, because we were been kind and trying not to make her feel any more embarrassed than she already must have done. So we stayed straight faced and tried to appear genuinely concerned. But then, unexpectedly, the girl who fell started laughing at herself, and wondered why we seemed to be so miserable and not joining in! I tell you! You just can’t win with women. If we had have laughed, no doubt she would have said we were insensitive and mean. But because we didn’t laugh we were miserable! What is a man to do?
Gloria
September 20th, 2007
6:46 am
Oh, Pete. Your posts just aren’t the same without the spelling mistakes…
Mat
September 20th, 2007
11:45 am
Pete, I had an argument with an American once who claimed that spelt wasn’t a word, that there was only spelled, so it would be mis-spelled. Maybe she was right after all?
Jonny Evans
September 20th, 2007
1:21 pm
Yeah,
Spelt is slang apparently. It’s slang - but I find it quite effective.
Craig
September 20th, 2007
1:45 pm
actually its a type of wheat
Mat
September 20th, 2007
2:55 pm
So’s your face. :p
Craig
September 20th, 2007
4:51 pm
Hey I was trying to help you, so if you ever met this American again you could say actually there is a word called spelt but im just not using it in the right context.
And that they should add it to their dictionary as it doesnt come up in English(US) but it does under English(UK)…
Andy
September 20th, 2007
11:15 pm
I feel there may be a bit of tension building round the blog at the moment. And I don’t like it.
So - everyone just relax.
And while you’re relaxing - I have a story from school. Some of the kids in my class went out for extra literacy support today. They were writing sentences about shops and the teacher who was with them said “So then children, what can you buy from a butchers?” and one of the children replied “butches of flowers.”
It’s not the best but I hope it made you smile. I have to say I haven’t had much amunition for amusing stories yet this year. I suppose I have time! I’ll keep you posted.
Oooh - another one… This one isn’t first hand either but from a different class in school. They are doing similis and metaphors at the moment and the class were sharing their own ideas. One girl put her hand up and said “Miss (referring to the other male teacher at my school!), you could have ’strong and windy like a salami’”. The teacher was a little puzzled by this and asked for further clarification. “You know, with all the big waves and wind and floods… that’s got to be strong.”
Andy
September 20th, 2007
11:20 pm
Also - I should say it wasn’t really herioc… more a handy excuse to leave school early!
Jonny Evans
September 21st, 2007
8:11 am
Hehe…
Kids are funny - cos they’re so stoopid!
Oh… I’ve seen another toy today that I want. Carolyn just got a job - so does that mean I can buy it now our income has doubled?
It’s an iTouch by apple. I normally hate touch screen things (cos they are rubbish - like my phone) but I had a play and it’s great.
Mat
September 21st, 2007
8:45 am
Andy, I’M RELAXED!!!!!!!!!!!
Jonny is that the touch screen iPod? They’re very nice aren’t they?
Craig, I’m sorry I wasn’t being serious. I had just been watching Scrubs the night before and Elliott kept saying it to everything anyone else said, I was in a mischevious mood, and it seemed to fit!
Pete
September 21st, 2007
9:31 am
Ive just had the most pointless meeting. It was a teleconference with everyone studying the same block as me in different locations around the HYMS patch. But it ended up just been a debate between a Cardiologist and a Population health doctor, who were sat in with us. The Cardiologyst said that reducing salt consumption has no effect on health. The population health doctor said that statistically, over the whole population it has a huge effect. You can, I am sure, imagine the excitement the rest of us felt during this. So we didn’t get anything discussed that we were actually supposed to, so I’ve got to go and look it all up myself instead. What is even more annoying is that the totally pointless meeting started at a totally stupid time! 8.30!!!! Students should only just be getting to bed by 8.30! And then they couldn’t do the sensible thing of holding the meeting at the uni which is near where we all live. They insisted on doing it in one of the hospital rooms.
Susie
September 21st, 2007
12:56 pm
I came downstairs this morning and found a big case (as in to carry musical equipment) in the lounge with this on it: “delirious. stu. left”. Now, as I live with people that go to CCK, a massive famous South Coast church where stuart townend, paul oakley and phatfish go, i’m inlclined to think it really is Delirious’ bass player’s case in our house!
Mat
September 21st, 2007
2:36 pm
I wonder what the ‘left’ bit means?
Jonny Evans
September 21st, 2007
3:13 pm
Why have you not stolen it…
I could always use a new bass!
Matt… yes it’s the touch screen iPod. Carolyn saw thru my plan to “buy her the iPod” as a present for getting a job… haha
Gutted
Pete
September 21st, 2007
3:53 pm
Sorry Susie…the bass player is called John Thatcher. The guitarist is called Stu G, and the drummer is Stewart Smith, so its probably one of theres.
Pete
September 21st, 2007
5:05 pm
Just re read my last message. What I forgot to say is that if it really does belong to delirious then that is very cool, even if its not the one you thought it was!
Andy
September 21st, 2007
6:03 pm
Are you sure the full stops were in those places? Are sure it didn’t say “Deli. Rious. Stuleft.”?
Which, as we all know, is Latin for Eternal Salvation In This Box… It’s why the Bible has the nickname, amongst the well schooled, Delirioustuleft.
Andy
September 21st, 2007
6:03 pm
Er… Sorry… I just re-read my comment and realised it was just weird. I was going for humour but I think I missed. Sorry. I’ll get my coat.
Craig
September 21st, 2007
6:35 pm
Dont worry matt I was joking about as well…I think Andy and the others just read our posts wrong
Andy
September 21st, 2007
6:43 pm
Ha!
Andy
September 21st, 2007
6:53 pm
You mean they’re in French?
Craig
September 21st, 2007
7:02 pm
something like that…
Andy
September 21st, 2007
8:45 pm
I found a new fun thing at school today… Hoylands - you know how we like stretching? Well… it’s kinda like that. You all know how satisfying a good old stretch can be? Well… try bouncing… it’s great. At school we have little things we do to get the children to listen to us - like clap out a beat and they repeat it back then fold their arms, or I wiggle my fingers and everyone else wiggles back.
Bouncing is my new slightly lively way of doing that. The idea is really to settle them down so it doesn’t work too well but it’s fun! I just start bouncing. And when they see me do it they get out of their seats push them under the table and then start bouncing on the spot. When I stop, they stop! It’s great. Everybody bounces. And everyone is happy.
It’s like listening to Hanginaround… it’s impossible not to smile when you’re bouncing.
Craig
September 21st, 2007
9:43 pm
I used to have firefox a year or so ago and thought it was alright and at the time the only thing it had over IE was the tabbing…Then when i installed vista i just went with the new version of IE which i thought was alright, anyways i reinstalled it a few weeks ago. It so much more stable than IE but in particular i love the add ons you can get. There are some gooduns obviously you guys are already using foxy tunes, I have downloaded others but the other one that stood out was Cooliris its actually really useful and quite clever, I have also downloaded something else though i dont know what its called which changes the rendering in firefox, between firefox and IE so if anything doesnt work under firefox it will switch to IE…It works so well you can actually go to the microsoft update site and use it
Andy
September 22nd, 2007
8:28 am
Is it the IETab one? It’s useful.
I still use Firefox but on my terrible PC (not yet using Vista either) you can’t really tell the difference between Firefox and IE 7. I used Cooliris for a while but found I didn’t really need it. Most useful plugin I have is Firebug.
When I get a shiny new PC with Vista on it I will still use Firefox. Mainly because I prefer the icon.
Right… Geeky comments over!
Pete
September 23rd, 2007
2:01 pm
Scott Mills from Radio 1 came to the uni club last night, so I had to go and do some photos during the evening and during the interview of him for the student magazine. Journalism is rubbish, spent so so long waiting around. It also doesn’t help that I really don’t buy into the celebrity culture thing (with the exception of Dr K), so it didn’t excite me at all to meet him. Ive got to do the same again for the twins off big brother on Wednesday…oh joy. It worries me that people care so much about pointless celebrity’s like them.
Pete
September 23rd, 2007
4:40 pm
Craig, I just added the IETab, its very good. Really useful-my university email is a webbased version of MS Outlook, so I can now tell it to always open that in the IE version, which works better than it does with firefox as its a microsoft web client
Laura
September 24th, 2007
12:32 pm
Pete you are sooooo ungrateful, do u realise what I’d give to just hang with the celebs!!! HA! Don’t worry I’m only joking about the ungratefullness not the celebs tho. Don’t worry Pete you” take a photo of a real celeb one day, although Scott Mills is ace.
Mat
September 24th, 2007
12:34 pm
Craig/Pete/Andy,
I’ve installed IETab and I can choose to go to any of my bookmarked sites by right clicking on the bookmark then choosing, but how do I set it up so I can choose to open them in IE all the time. I have the same issue as Pete does with my work webmail being an MS web client.
Gloria
September 24th, 2007
12:35 pm
Oh my gosh, you really should set up little area where you boys can all go and be geeky so the rest of us don’t have to endure it.
Andy - I thought your comment about Stu from Delirious’ guitar case was very funny. Weird, but funny.
Carolyn - may I be the first (on the blog) to congratulate you on getting a job. I can’t believe no-one else has said it yet. How rude they all are. What’s the job?
Jonny Evans
September 24th, 2007
12:43 pm
Heya Gloria
We don’t have internet access at home yet - I’m sure Caloryn won’t mind me responding on her behalf (I’ll pass on your congrats!)
Erm… pants… I should really know what the job is!
She works for Oldham 6 form college and she’ll be going around schools mentoring and helping GCSE kids and chatting with them about further and higher education… and also doing other stuff with A Level kids too.
I don’t really know… there’s more to it than that tho!
Mat
September 24th, 2007
2:35 pm
JOnny, are you as busy as me today in work? PS - it’s your turn!
Pete
September 24th, 2007
3:26 pm
Matt-if you open the page you want to work in IE all the time, then go TOOLS->IE TAB OPTIONS -> Sites Filter (make sure the ‘Enable sites filter’ box is ticked). Then at the bottom of the box there should be a URL entry form with the URL of the current page in. Press the ADD button and it should do it.
Gloria-how rude. We are not geeks, we are improving the world around us by modifying the user interface we use. Better user interface = better surfing experience = happier people = more fulfilling and productive life. WWJD? Use Firefox with extensions-obviously.
Pete
September 24th, 2007
3:40 pm
I have just borrowed O, the first album by Damien Rice off a mate. Ive got the second album, but never heard the first. I am very impressed. Just thought you might like to know.
Also-Ive been in health and safety training all day. The guy running it came out with some great jokes. One of my particular fav’s was along the lines of ‘I always wash my hands after going to the toilet-or at least I did today because my finger went through the paper’. It may have been one of those ‘been there moments’, but I found it very funny and thought it was worth sharing
Kate
September 24th, 2007
4:18 pm
I also have a funny story but I’m thinking maybe it actually isn’t that funny - especially because the protagonist is a button…
Anyhoo, hearing about Carolyn’s job made me think of something a guy said to me the other day. I was talking about my last job as Widening Participation Co-Ordinator (for Peninsula Medical School, far superior to HYMS of course…) and he said:
‘So you went from widening participation to participating in widening?’
Nicely put I thought.
Kate
September 24th, 2007
4:20 pm
Oooo, I’ve just seen the justgiving link for Neil and me - thanks Andy!!!
Pete
September 24th, 2007
6:00 pm
I like that quote very much. Medical humor is great. Non of this HYMS bashing tho please- according to the latest stats we are the 5th rated medical school in the country right now
Andy
September 24th, 2007
6:03 pm
Also Mat - In my browser I have a Firefox icon down in the bottom right hand corner. If I left click on it it switches the rendering engine but if I right click on it it brings up the IETab options.
Pete - we’re geeks. Well. I am. Jonny is. Your hero is Karl Kennedy off Neighbours, you know some html, take pictures for fun and ENJOY looking like an American tourist in Whitby. You’re a geek.
The jury is still out on Mat and Craig…
Craig
September 24th, 2007
6:11 pm
nah you guys just got in before me, i was going to say the same as you andy about the icon on the bottom right, some of us have had a busy day at work! and unfortunately due to the work i do and its classification, i dont openly have access to the internet which is poo
Andy
September 24th, 2007
6:14 pm
The jury wasn’t out on you knowing the answer… just the being a geek thing. Also - you’ll notice my comment was only made 8 minutes before yours. And by so noticing you may also notice the time is out by an hour. When do the clocks change? Is it worth me changing the clock on the blog or will I just have to change it back again in a few weeks?
Kate
September 24th, 2007
7:21 pm
OK, Pete - HYMS is a good medical school but you’ve gotta admit, it doesn’t have anywhere near as amusing an acronym as PMS…
Pete
September 25th, 2007
12:06 am
With photography, the difference between been a geek and been really really cool is when you get to take really cool photos. So far, Ive done the wedding of the year (J+C’s), BBC, and Dr K, to name but a few I think all these are definitively in the cool rather than geek category.
Kate-I did think about making the PMS comment. However, as a male, I usually find it best to leave jokes about that kind of issue to the girls, they are often not well received when made by men.
Andy
September 25th, 2007
12:35 am
Sorry Pete - you’re wrong - taking cool photos can’t stop you being a geek. It’s like designing cool websites can’t stop you being a geek… the guy who designed this is probably a geek.
Mat
September 25th, 2007
8:43 am
Kate, in my old team everyone’s posts were normally acronymised, so the Senior Marketing Officer was an SMO, etc. However, we recently recruited a new post which nobody has used the acronym for because his job title is Principal Events Development Officer.
Andy, Lucy always tells me I’m a geek, so I probably am.
Kate
September 25th, 2007
12:33 pm
Good one Mat - I have a friend who is Head of S&M at the University of Plymouth. Sounds like quite an intreguing role until you discover it stands for Systems and Middlewear and he’s just another geek…
And on the subject of geeks I mentioned to one of my friends the other day that Neil (who works in IT) had a work polo shirt to wear - she replied ‘Yeah, they always have to give work polo shirts to IT boys - it stops them wearing their Red Dwarf T-shirts to work…’
Mat
September 25th, 2007
1:13 pm
Ha! That made me giggle about the Red Dwarf T-shirts. It’s funny cos it’s true!
Pete
September 25th, 2007
1:43 pm
Andy, I like that website! Can mine look like that please? I am sure it wouldnt take a Genious Geek like yourself to do it
Pete
September 25th, 2007
1:44 pm
*like yourself to long to do
Andy
September 25th, 2007
6:12 pm
No Pete - Mat’s already asked if his website can look like that… and it appears I’m not as genius as I thought…
Pete
September 25th, 2007
6:53 pm
you are talking rubbish, of course you could do that! You are just saving your best material for when you get the call up from apple. My last comment was made while on hospital computers, hence I didn’t have the in line spell checker so I made a few mistakes!
Gloria
September 26th, 2007
7:50 am
I just looked at the Iain Archer website and nearly said “Woah” out loud. That is the BEST website in the world!
Sorry beb, but it’s better than any of yours. No offense.
Pete
September 26th, 2007
2:55 pm
So Gloria-now who is the geek?
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