General plea

A couple of times recently people have made either very image-intensive posts, or included items which are not 100% office friendly.

I'd never tell or even try to tell you what you can or cannot post up on LJ; there's too much of the libertarian battling away with the puritan side of my soul to make me even think about the possibility. And anyway, if I didn't generally like the stuff people post, they wouldn't be on my friends list.

But.

I would appreciate it if people could hide some of the more graphic intensive entries behind LJ cuts, please.

Pretty please.

I ask simply because I like to read my LJ at work and what I am happy reading and what colleagues are happy having on a computer screen in the office doesn't always dovetail with the precision I'd like. Betraying my roots as a child of the 60's I'd just like to remind you that there are a lot of squares out there.

Man.

Thanks very much, and please don't be rude in my comments box ;-)

Added later: I've just noticed that one of the posts has disappeared entirely. If that is on account of this post, although I hope it wasn't, please don't misunderstand; I'm not worried about or offended by the content, I'm just concerned about people in the office who may be.

Hence the request for LJ-cuts.

General plea

A couple of times recently people have made either very image-intensive posts, or included items which are not 100% office friendly.

I'd never tell or even try to tell you what you can or cannot post up on LJ; there's too much of the libertarian battling away with the puritan side of my soul to make me even think about the possibility. And anyway, if I didn't generally like the stuff people post, they wouldn't be on my friends list.

But.

I would appreciate it if people could hide some of the more graphic intensive entries behind LJ cuts, please.

Pretty please.

I ask simply because I like to read my LJ at work and what I am happy reading and what colleagues are happy having on a computer screen in the office doesn't always dovetail with the precision I'd like. Betraying my roots as a child of the 60's I'd just like to remind you that there are a lot of squares out there.

Man.

Thanks very much, and please don't be rude in my comments box ;-)

Added later: I've just noticed that one of the posts has disappeared entirely. If that is on account of this post, although I hope it wasn't, please don't misunderstand; I'm not worried about or offended by the content, I'm just concerned about people in the office who may be.

Hence the request for LJ-cuts.

iT arE a BabOOn

One of the joys* of this job is the propensity for new and shinier idiots to appear on the scene just as things have settled down from last time.

I have on my desk, a printed copy of a poorly scanned letter which is essentially a two page sentence written in something approximating to English (it is too recognisable to be Tok Pisin; it's clearly not a pidgin, but it may be a creole. My favoured explanation, however, is illiteracy overlying dialect.) and displaying a calligraphic talent that would make my six year old niece wince in shame.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Yet another alumnus of the Great British Education System ™** has been moved to put wax crayon to cardboard and "write" to his/her/its MP complaining about…

…Actually, we aren't entirely clear about the subject of his/her/its rage. Certainly the words, rent, council tax, and rates appear with alarming regularity, together with one that may or may not read "rhubarb".

This enraged correspondent is from Haringey. I think that pretty much says it all.



*Italicised because I do not know how to do funky dropcaps in LJ to illustrate sarcasm or irony.

**Which is, of course not great, educational or a system. But, dammit, it is British.

iT arE a BabOOn

One of the joys* of this job is the propensity for new and shinier idiots to appear on the scene just as things have settled down from last time.

I have on my desk, a printed copy of a poorly scanned letter which is essentially a two page sentence written in something approximating to English (it is too recognisable to be Tok Pisin; it's clearly not a pidgin, but it may be a creole. My favoured explanation, however, is illiteracy overlying dialect.) and displaying a calligraphic talent that would make my six year old niece wince in shame.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Yet another alumnus of the Great British Education System ™** has been moved to put wax crayon to cardboard and "write" to his/her/its MP complaining about…

…Actually, we aren't entirely clear about the subject of his/her/its rage. Certainly the words, rent, council tax, and rates appear with alarming regularity, together with one that may or may not read "rhubarb".

This enraged correspondent is from Haringey. I think that pretty much says it all.



*Italicised because I do not know how to do funky dropcaps in LJ to illustrate sarcasm or irony.

**Which is, of course not great, educational or a system. But, dammit, it is British.