Filed under: A Bit Of Inspiration, Attitude & Aptitude, Brand Suicide, Culture, Perspective
Yes it’s Monday.
Another long week ahead in your cubicle.
Doing work no one needs and no one appreciates.
On the production line of meaningless acts.
It’s bad isn’t it?
Really, really bad.
Worse, I am now back from my trip.
And probably/hopefully won’t be traveling anywhere for at least a few weeks.
So this blog will be back to it’s regular, daily destruction of your hope and happiness.
Well, if it’s all getting to much for you, you can at least be happy you’re not this bloke …
I get London can be busy.
I get London transport can be expensive.
But I will never get why an adult thinks this is a good idea.
Do they aspire to being Evel Knievel and this is their first step?
Do they dream of being a giant and this is how they bring their fantasy to life?
Do they hope that they can be the UK version of Officer Poncherello from CHiPS but prefer the urban pavements of Shoreditch to the freeways of LA?
I have no idea what is their rationale for it but I can tell you that when I saw him, I suddenly felt having a midlife crisis that involves affairs and buying sport cars didn’t look so stupid after all.
Look, I’m all for immaturity but this is tragic.
He should be eternally grateful that I decided to blur out his face … because frankly, it would be less embarrassing being seen coming off the back of a sheep than this.
Your monday suddenly isn’t so bad now is it?
You’re welcome.
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This post contains so many terrible way s to end my weekend. Thank you Rob. It was still good to see you last week.
Comment by Bazza April 15, 2019 @ 6:18 amGood for me to pay more like. Ha.
Comment by Rob April 15, 2019 @ 8:56 amthere is no fucking way you paid campbell. you might have handed over the credit card but its going to the fucking rga finance department.
Comment by andy@cynic April 15, 2019 @ 2:57 pmFacts FTW.
Comment by DH April 15, 2019 @ 4:11 pmI’m guessing you pre-wrote this because I’m sure you told me you were back in the US this week.
Comment by Bazza April 15, 2019 @ 6:19 amYes. More time here than London.
Comment by George April 15, 2019 @ 6:59 amChicago. For the day … sorry environment.
Comment by Rob April 15, 2019 @ 8:57 amWelcome back Rob.
Comment by Pete April 15, 2019 @ 6:41 amAre those scooters still a big thing in England? They seem so 90s.
What am I talking about. We have them all over Calofornia except they’re motorized and you can rent them like city bicycles through an app.
Comment by Pete April 15, 2019 @ 6:43 amBirds. Also known as the most dangerous mm ode of transport since the Boeing 737.
Comment by George April 15, 2019 @ 6:58 amBirds are horrific … but then in California, everyone is so high on legal marijuana that if they crash, they don’t hurt themselves.
Comment by Rob April 15, 2019 @ 9:02 ambirds are insurance companies best fucking friend. charge sky high premiums and then dont pay out because its always the pricks fault.
Comment by andy@cynic April 15, 2019 @ 2:56 pm“Do they hope that they can be the UK version of Officer Poncherello from CHiPS but prefer the urban pavements of Shoreditch to the freeways of LA?”
Mean, but very amusing. It is good to have you back Robert.
Comment by Lee Hill April 15, 2019 @ 7:18 amI saw a woman on the train today on a scooter going up and down the carriages while talking on the phone to someone. It was the worst throwback to 80’s yuppies I’ve ever seen.
Comment by Rob April 15, 2019 @ 9:03 amBritish eccentricity?
Comment by Lee Hill April 15, 2019 @ 9:42 amAre you saying that you didn’t photograph her? You photograph everybody.
Comment by John April 15, 2019 @ 10:33 amlets hope the cops confiscated his fucking phone for 25 years.
Comment by andy@cynic April 15, 2019 @ 2:55 pmHe has so many iPhones that if they steal one, he’ll have another 2 hidden somewhere. Or he’ll have them flown in on his wifi drone.
Comment by DH April 15, 2019 @ 4:10 pmcongratulations campbell. you managed to collate everyfuckingthing i hate to start my monday. prick.
Comment by andy@cynic April 15, 2019 @ 2:54 pmShame on you for shaming this dude. Read:
> Critics who treat *adult* as a term of approval, instead of as a merely > descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being > grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the > suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and > adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, > healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But then into middle > life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of > really arrested development: When I was ten I read fairy tales in secret > and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am > fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, > including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. > —C.S. Lewis, On Three Ways of Writing for Children >
On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 1:16 AM The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!] wrote:
> Robert posted: “Yes it’s Monday. Another long week ahead in your cubicle. > Doing work no one needs and no one appreciates. On the production line of > meaningless acts. It’s bad isn’t it? Really, really bad. Worse, I am now > back from my trip. And probab” >
Comment by John Khalil April 15, 2019 @ 5:00 pmyou dont know campbell do you. if you did you would know hes a fucking immature twat. you on the other hand are just a twat who uses > for no fucking reason and comes across as mary fucking whitehouse. campbell didnt shame the twat, he did the moment he rode a fucking scooter on the tube. fuck off you self righteous tit. theres a lot for campbell to be ashamed of, this is not one of them.
Comment by andy@cynic April 15, 2019 @ 9:38 pmSomething tells me John Khalil is scooter child.
Comment by DH April 15, 2019 @ 9:52 pmTo paraphrase Mr C. S. Lewis:
> Critics who treat “adults on scooters” as a term of approval instead of as a merely > descriptive term, are kidding themselves.
Also, C. S. Lewis wrote terrible english.
Comment by Bazza April 15, 2019 @ 10:50 pm