why do forms have to be so long and tedious?

Oh dear!
You ok?
How's the job hunting?
If I was rich I'd quite happily pay someone to do forms for me - one of my nightmares!

The form is for a new contract job. I am meeting the person from the agency tommorow and as it is for a non teaching position in a school on a contract basis the paperwork will be endless I guess. Anyway they are hiring 20 people so I should at least have a chance of getting the position. Don't yet know the duration or pay rate and all I know is that the school is in London and will start this summer sometime.
Anyway form is completed and signed, all I need now is to make copies of my documents for the person tommorow. This is using up a lot of my expensive printer ink!
I also had a long form for a school position a few montrhs back, only schools require forms no other organisation requires more than a CV and job interview!

why do forms have to be so long and tedious?

I have my fingers crossed.
Good luck, let me know how it goes

I misread that as "why do forums have to be so long and tedious?". Should obviously get out more...

Good luck with the application.

I bought a large piece of fabulous shiny paper today to stick squarely on my wall to brighten the place up. Is this something other people do?

I've done it in the past

I bought a large piece of fabulous shiny paper today to stick squarely on my wall to brighten the place up. Is this something other people do?

I bought a large piece of fabulous shiny paper today to stick squarely on my wall to brighten the place up. Is this something other people do?

How come when web sites have unreadable wiggly writing for you to copy to make sure you are not a bot the customer service replies clearly come from a bot?

I've copied out such writing wrongly on more than one occasion. I once got shut out of a website for a period of time for failing at this task three times in a row...

Ah - it all becomes clear now - barry is a bot!

Ah - it all becomes clear now - barry is a bot!

And here he is! clari-bot

Fantastic!

Getting worried. Been tortured by G5 Sinfonia for months now, only to find that DS1 is now playing it all summer holidays for his G5 flute and when I called Howarths to enquire about second-hand bassoons they put me on hold to the sound of Sinfonia! Now was that a sign to "step away from the bassoon purchase" or "go for it"?

Fantastic!

I really want a French horn

This is my first day off caffeine. I am weaning myself off by drinking fizzy water and then I'll wean myself off that too. My alcohol comsuption has gone down dramatically but my alcohol loving sister is down next week so that will not be a good week!

So expect a more foul MNW that spouts even more gobbledygook due to lack of concentration.



Traitors should hand over their bassoons to those in need i.e. Babboon Boy!

You know MNW flying around on caffeine and bringing yourself down on Alcohol isn't really that good for you... sounds like you have become rather good at it

Take care not to give yourself a rebound headache - bad news.

I've come off it and stayed off it for six months, only to start again which is rather pathetic! - at myself! I may also decide to go on a diet at some point (may) so I need to cut things out one at a time rather than all at once. So caffeine, booze, start exercise and finally food...sigh.

It sounds though that your sister is even better at consuming Alcohol though than you are (something not to be proud of)

Nothing wrong with fizzy water... a girl has got to have some pleasures

Look after yourself (from someone who has made the same mistake as you in this department).

Traitors should hand over their bassoons to those in need i.e. Babboon Boy!

The 10 Commandments of the Bassoon

1.Thou shalt play well, or thou shall be hit with thy own Bassoon.
2.Thou shalt play IN TUNE and with the correct embouchure
3.Thou must worketh on scales at least thrice a fortnight.
4.Thou must constantly increase their range from a low Bb to a HIGH D
5.One must immerse thyself in the art of Bassoonery.
6.One must be friends with a French Horn player, for Bassoons and French Horns have been friends since the beginning of time.
7.Thou must tryeth to get along with trombonists. They have been known to come to your aid in your time of greatest need.
8.One must appreciate the sound of an oboe.
9.If an individual calleth your Bassoon an oboe, you are legally entitled to curse at the person and hit them with the bell of your Bassoon.
10.Thou shalt make reeds constantly, and complain about the tribulations of making reeds.

It isn't my bassoon, it belongs to the music service...and anyway I still want to keep learning bassoon! Also, I found this on the internet:

See number 6?! Actually, I've seen several versions of this with slightly different rules, one of which was 'the low Bb shalt be thy favourite note on the instrument'.
Anyway, off you go and tell your son to learn top D

It's when people refer to my Cor Anglais as an Oboe I really object!!! Then say like an Oboe, but bigger -look this one has laid an egg and has it's own drinking straw!

Given a bassoon looks like a bunch of fire-wood - Oh but I forgot that's why the Italians called them Faggotti - no offense meant it is a wonderful sound, and the Rite of Spring just would not be the Rite of Spring without the Bassoon Solo at the start!

Sometimes it's better to say nothing and be thought an idiot than to speak and remove all doubt

Bassoon solo from 'Rite of Spring' : ' I'm not an English Horn, I'm not an English Horn, it's far too high for me, I'm not an English Horn. No. '

Bassoon solo from 'Rite of Spring' : ' I'm not an English Horn, I'm not an English Horn, it's far too high for me, I'm not an English Horn. No. '

Hehe....I'll be singing that every time I near it for now on.

Like the tune from Schubert's 8th.

"This is the symphony, that Schubert wrote and never finished..."

Or the allemande from the Bach Partita for solo flute:

A purple cow is in the field, a purple cow is in the field...

Oh

bye Celeste

..and the Bach fugue subject (one of the '48, but I forget which one offhand)

John Sebastien Bach sat upon a tack, but he soon got up-again --- with a howl!

Has she left??

I couldn't (on a quick look 6 pages back) find the pedants' thread, so am posting it here ...

Deregistered I'm afraid, muzikalbadger

Have texted her just now : she's OK, which is good news