Where is the ticky box for 'I don't have a job and I'm sitting in a grim stupor absorbing the consoling rays of daytime television, waiting for my parents to come to their senses and kick my worthless carcass into the gutter'?
JUMP Street is an 80s American cop show starring Johnny Depp. PeterDeluise plays Penhall, who is truly lovely, and in one episode walks around a gym locker room with his towel up round his nipples. The Jump Street squad are an elite group of undercover cops who go into high schools and the like and, er, spy on kids. But in a good way! And generally what happens is they get close to the criminal and they say "oh, I'm a cop", and then the criminal is really pleased because he's a good kid at heart, and then Reveals All and it ends fairly happily.
Is there a whole convention of undercover-adults-suddenly-looking-like-kids? Because I never understood it when Nancy Drew went undercover in a high school at the age of twenty-something and nobody noticed!
It's a plot point in the first episode. Johnny Depp isn't taken seriously as a real cop because he has a baby face, so he's reassigned with the other baby faced cops.
Plus, I do actually look about sixteen while I am 24, so that helps to suspend the disbelief.
I selected the option of I have a job but it's ending soon because..I sort of have a job that's ending soon..in the sense that the end of my placement beckons.
In real job terms, I have yet to be officially overthrown from my dictatorship and must email soon to find out if I have or have not. Everyone please vote for your favourite benevolent dictator to remain in power. or you will all be hung upside down in a scorpion pit :cough: I promise more amusing stories of student vs computer ineptness!
I will come live with you when I graduate. assuming that I end up working in Manchester and/or Lanc.
I am amused that I will actually be closer to one of the people who ticked the "safer and happier" option. Also, I suppose the benefit of JS coming out later is that you'll be back by then so we can watch it.
Where I ticked 'found ad,' I lied. What I actually did was wander into a bookshop, spend money I couldn't afford, realise guiltily that it was about time I got a job, and asked if they had any going.
I possibly lied when I said 'YOU CAN'T STOP ME' as well. I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm not going to work in someone else's bookshop for the rest of my life, but I have no idea what it is I'm going to do other than eventually open my own shop and become Bernard Black.
Working on the assumption that UK shoe sizes are the same as Australian ones.
Also, there needed to be an option that was "I have a job that I love, but I'm not going to be here forever for the simple reason that most of the people I love live on the other side of the country... also, I hope to go back to uni for post-graduate study one day."
Yes, I think they are. According to the conversion charts, anyway.
Yeah, I hadn't really thought of that option! I forgot about the location/moving to be with other people thing. And several people are returning to education, or planning to.
Hm. I feel we can defeat them. We have their lollipops. I'm more worried that Clare is secretly pretending to allow all her flist to come and live with her and is then going to lock the door and point at us with mockery through the window ys. I suppose then we might band together and create a force for good in the world and fight crime. But I'd rather have somewhere to live ys.
I hadn't even thought of that! I am not that cruel. Actually, it's just that I'm not that organised, but the outcome is the same, so what does it matter?
Which was the secondhand bookshop that you took us to last November? (the one with the Dalek?) stellanova expressed an interest in going, but I could remember a) what it was called or, b) where it was (I am so useful). And she doesn't have a 'net connection this weekend so I said I'd ask you and then text her.
Marchpane! It's on Cecil Court, at the National Portrait Gallery end of Charing Cross. She might also be interested (if she isn't already) in Ripping Yarns, which is cheaper but still has a good stock. Ripping Yarns is just about opposite the Highgate tube stop.
Argh! I need to tick both 'I have a job that I never want to leave' and 'I am a student AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME STOP', or, more accurately, 'I have a job that I don't want to leave but I want to be a student more so I am plotting my departure and feeling really guilty about it cos they like me and I said I'd be here for at least a couple of years at the interview but I LIED.' *guilt*
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Date: 2005-07-22 04:31 am (UTC)I did the feet thing though.
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Date: 2005-07-22 06:31 am (UTC)Also no 'When I get my house you're going to stay snug and comfortable in yours!'
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Date: 2005-07-22 04:40 am (UTC)JUMP Street is an 80s American cop show starring Johnny Depp. PeterDeluise plays Penhall, who is truly lovely, and in one episode walks around a gym locker room with his towel up round his nipples. The Jump Street squad are an elite group of undercover cops who go into high schools and the like and, er, spy on kids. But in a good way! And generally what happens is they get close to the criminal and they say "oh, I'm a cop", and then the criminal is really pleased because he's a good kid at heart, and then Reveals All and it ends fairly happily.
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Date: 2005-07-22 06:42 am (UTC)Plus, I do actually look about sixteen while I am 24, so that helps to suspend the disbelief.
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Date: 2005-07-22 04:44 am (UTC)In real job terms, I have yet to be officially overthrown from my dictatorship and must email soon to find out if I have or have not. Everyone please vote for your favourite benevolent dictator to remain in power.
or you will all be hung upside down in a scorpion pit :cough:I promise more amusing stories of student vs computer ineptness!I will come live with you when I graduate. assuming that I end up working in Manchester and/or Lanc.
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Date: 2005-07-22 05:14 am (UTC)Indeed. If I had any means of dvd playing, I would make strong hints about bringing 21 jump with you to prague. Heh.
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Date: 2005-07-22 05:03 am (UTC)I possibly lied when I said 'YOU CAN'T STOP ME' as well. I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm not going to work in someone else's bookshop for the rest of my life, but I have no idea what it is I'm going to do other than eventually open my own shop and become Bernard Black.
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Date: 2005-07-22 05:50 am (UTC)Also, there needed to be an option that was "I have a job that I love, but I'm not going to be here forever for the simple reason that most of the people I love live on the other side of the country... also, I hope to go back to uni for post-graduate study one day."
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Date: 2005-07-22 06:53 am (UTC)Yeah, I hadn't really thought of that option! I forgot about the location/moving to be with other people thing. And several people are returning to education, or planning to.
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Date: 2005-07-22 06:32 am (UTC)::worries::
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