According to something I read during the week, fashion trends for this year are due to include long skirts and crimped hair ( Read more... )

Someone at work pointed me at this. I've watched it about five times in the last couple of days, while showing it to other people, and it still cracks me up every time. You don't have to know anything about orthopaedic sugeons or anaesthetists to get the joke, although it is slightly enhanced by knowing that a patient presenting with asystole would ( Read more... )

The comments suggest that she's offended quite a few "vegetarians" (smug evangelicals tend to use it as a noun, rather than an adjective, which has long since been my own preference), but I thought this was one of the funniest, truest things I've read in ages...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/17/vegetarians-meat-free-mondays- ( Read more... )

So, I'm currently letting the last lot of Directions - 'Rose Red' pink - wash out so that I can dye my hair Fire Red again. This means my hair is, temporarily, not a million miles away from the colour I was born with  - NB not my 'natural' colour, as  I take the view that the aforementioned Fire Red is my natural colour ;)

I also wore a purple  ( Read more... )

Having been brought up in a Daily Mail reading household, I reckon this - 'The Daily Mail dictionary' - is hilarious. I particularly recommend 'vegetarianism' and the entire 'G' section, but the whole thing is worth a read:

http://www.angrymob.uponnothing.co.uk/daily-mail-dictionary

So, I have a co-worker who is a bit of a prat. I guess he can't help it, and I tend to have slightly more patience with him than do the other two people in my little sub-team. Unfortunately, he has fallen out pretty badly with both the other members of his little sub-team, one of whom came into our office this morning to steal biscuits and ( Read more... )

There have been a few quite good April Fools today ( Read more... )

I had my five-week review at work today. I scored fine on all recorded criteria, except the one that shouldn't really be on my job description as I may not have to do any statistical analysis-type stuff before my three month probation period expires ( Read more... )

It's been a good day ( Read more... )

Two amusing things:

1 - The induction package on the staff intranet invited me to click through to info on the Freedom of Information Act...and then gave me an Error 404 Page Not Found. ;)

2 - King's College London wants your BRAAINS! No, seriously. See:http://www.