…when someone completely mis-reads something and makes themselves look like a complete fool, then tries to blame it on being up at 0300 to start work at 0400…
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Working from a different office today - one which employed somebody to print and display emails and any information which came through about events - professional and social. They always made the case for the importance and value of said noticeboards and were the first to shout that they needed to be expanded to incorporate more information. They were militant poster worshippers.
So I’m sat facing this massive noticeboard of wall planners, various posters and countless emails. But I look closer and notice that everything stops in March. Nothing has been updated.
And, weirdly, the world hasn’t actually ended.
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Today, I will be mostly LOLing that the advert for Deputy OC JLs only lists the Child protection course as ‘desirable’, rather than ‘Essential’ 
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Don’t apply. The Dep OC JL job is cursed. It’s like being the Hogwarts Defence against the Dark Arts teacher.
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You can’t leave it there, more detail please haha
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Well there was one guy, ex regular Raf Regiment Sqn Ldr or Wing Commander, but got him as the Dep OC. (This was years ago now.)
He was an utter idiot. Treated everyone with contempt, we were manning the gate on camp, and he would only put NCOs on the guard roster as it wasn’t a job for officers. Whereas normally we all take it in turns to spend down shifts manning the gate, one of the SNCOs went home early because of him, because he kept putting staff playing enemy on guard, so they got like no sleep and when the rest of the commissioned officers agreed to do guard (As we always did) he wouldn’t. We were all knackered from day one because of other issues, and he was the only guy who didn’t do a single night shift (it’s sleeping guard btw).
We then always have to arrange for another unit to cover guard on the night of grad dinner, so that everyone can go to the dinner at Honington, his job was to sweet talk the other unit on base to cover that night for us, but he did such a bad job they flat out refused, and it took one of the other officers a lot of time to make up for it and talk them back around.
We then had a meet and greet with the Air Cmdre, as is common at Test, but he took over the running of the whole thing and carefully choreographed which staff she could meet, (the ones he liked) and the rest of us were told to be invisible in the Sgts Mess and got reamed if we were seen by her. He then took over the spiel he gave to her despite the fact he’d only been with us a few months, and only managed to attend one training weekend before test. So was talking utter rubbish.
He was the worst, but others just don’t last, they never lasted more than a year and were usually totally ineffectual.
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Any chance of a name by PM?
There was an article in the DT yesterday which intimated that the 2 weeks after the clocks go back there are more accidents on the road as people get caught out. What on earth by?
You do have to wonder, nowadays.
I think the only clock that I have that doesn’t change itself is the Oven… so that stays on Z all year round 
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This isn’t new. I’d heard it before so tried to find the article you mentioned…
The Times ran the story back in 2011 as well, and other outlets have across multiple years - and that’s just from the first few results of one search phrase.
I’ve not seen it before. it cited “research” over the last 5 years and something in Nov/Dec 2019.
Doesn’t matter when it was reported though, it’s still nuts.
Seems to me that there’s an element of correlation/causation. Darker, colder, wetter, etc.
The clock change emphasises the change of conditions causing the spike.
Nah, don’t get it. It’s been getting darker since the Summer Solstice and will continue until the Winter Solstice when the process reverses. The clocks “go back” every year and if people haven’t caught up with this and it affects their driving that much perhaps they shouldn’t be driving when it’s dark.
People seem to drive more erratically when it’s wet and cold, regardless of what time of the year it is.
The PM ending the chat with a return to the first three part slogan. 7 months in and we’re back to the start, It’s like Doc Brown turning up at the end of the film and telling us we need to go Back to the Future!
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Forgetting to change stations I unfortunately heard Jeremy Vinekyle today and apparently the first thing people will do coming out the Welsh lockdown will be go to the pub, not catch up with families or the like. It makes you laugh that there is a surprise now we’re back in lockdown and or restrictions when this is the message on national radio and the half wits do it.
It does seem people have been shopping for medals given the amount of traffic on the road the last 3 days, going into and out of towns and retail parks. I was in B&Q on Sunday for some paint and binned the idea when the queues went round the shop, much easier on Monday at 0715 going to work.
Cheers for topping my bonus up its greatly appreciated
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Ha - Homebase Coventry on Sunday on way back from Cosford; no queues at all. 
Mrs J can now paint our bedroom when I’m at work. 
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Dead to me.
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Managed to get my No1s re-ranked in short time so that would be available for me to wear on Sunday, that was clearly far to ambitious of me!
Back in the cupboard for ~ 6 Months
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Recieving a Warning Order complete with tracked changes