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Tedious memories of training at school flooding back. Interview training. Job application training. Decision making training. Team leader training. First aid training.
Speed reading training. Lifeguard training. Fuck me....next time I feel bored with my job I should just think about school.

Every Wednesday. Half a day of "skills training" and half a day of sport or volunteering with local charities. At least you could get away with bunking off for a smoke in the afternoon.

I was just being a pedant about 'training' Vs 'trainings'.

They may have had more than one type of training. It depends on if you are using it as a countable or non countable noun. Both are acceptable in different contexts.

co texts.

I think you'll find it's cuntexts.

I was just being a pedant about 'training' vs 'trainings'

Yeah, horrible word. Almost as bad as "learnings"

Fortunately going to a comp in an ex-industrial town we didn't get any training at school so didn't have to go through that kind of thing.

from Twitter:

The Home Office has confirmed that its use of a Chinook heavy-lift utility helicopter to transport Suella Braverman was necessary because she is a massive weapon

Nooooooo! The plural is 'training'. Unless you're a septic.

i think all this proves my point

I'm reading this thinking it sounds quite fun. And possibly even useful.

I'm reading this thinking it sounds quite fun. And possibly even useful.

Did me good. But I hated every minute of it. I'd love to go back and do GCSEs and A Levels again as an adult. I think I'd love it!

nerd

well that brings back memories

Fireworks as weapons this weekend. What the fcuk is going on..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-63535473

It's obviously not good but it's nothing that hasn't been happening for years and years.

Been going on for a few weeks as well.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63469698

#CSB incoming...

I was in Cusco for Xmas eve once and everyone in the central square was setting off fireworks. Quite a few people were also throwing them. One land near a security guard's foot, he did a quick eyes right/left, picked it up and hurled it back towards whoever threw it.

They made it all look so playful.

When I was living in Limehouse, the kids would treat the big rockets as shoulder mounted missiles to fire at the DLR trains. Had to have words a few times as they were firing them straight over the boats, and many of us had gas cylinders on deck.

Firework rocket penetration power vs. gas cylinder seems like something Mythbusters should have done.

We have our fair share of fireworks going off where I live, huge store on Barking Road, open all year round and caters for every religious occasion. But the senseless behaviour of lobbing fireworks at people or cars we don’t have, saying that.. Stratford ain’t that far away.

Even getting lighter gas cans to explode is a challenge. The nozzle melts first which is quite dramatic but not explosive. Shame.

I used to play five-a-side at Bacons College near Canada Water on Mondays after work. We learnt after the first year that the two weeks before Nov. 5th were better just skipped because of the rate at which fireworks were launched onto the pitches.

A few years back we were having a pint at the Chesham with some kids at the end of the road launching fireworks down the road at us. I didn't particularly mind, quite nice to be so close to the display.

In a similar #CSB I was in Uppsala for a new year's once and the whole city seemed to congregate on a big hill and shoot fireworks all over the place and lob them back and forth to each other. I thought it was awesome, some of my friends were scared, looking back my friends probably had the right feeling.

Someone I was at school with had massive scar tissue on his thigh as the result of some joker having popped a lit firework into his trouser pocket.