Tag 'advice'
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Dating online, does it work and what do men go for?
Posted by anonymous over 2 years ago
Last active over 2 years ago
18 responses
Okay. I’m posting anonymously as I couldn’t face the flak I may get asking for online dating advice…. but I’m hoping you’ll give better tips than a self-help manual/Cosmo ever could. I tried online dating on and off for a few months, but it doesn’t seem to be working. I find it...
Role play: should I or shouldn't I?
Posted by anonymous over 2 years ago
Last active over 2 years ago
12 responses
Ha – bet you got excited then. No, I’m talking about role play of the job interview variety. I’ve got one on Monday (for a press officer job), and it includes a 45min role play, followed by a 45 min interview. I’m breaking out in a cold sweat just writing about it. Has anyone had expe...
Does anyone know exactly where Hangman's Hill is?
Posted by polarbear over 2 years ago
Last active over 2 years ago
16 responses
I grew up in north London and me and my friends would often drive out into Epping Forest to a road known as Hangman’s Hill. It’s one of those spooky places that although the road looks like it runs downwards, if you take the handbrake off the car you actually roll up! Legend has it, a man was hung from t...
Any advice about Brixton?
Posted by cutta over 2 years ago
Last active about 1 year ago
15 responses
I’m thinking of moving to Brixton in a couple of months. Any tips or advice would be gratefully received – the best places to look for flat, good or bad neighbourhoods, where’s best for transport, local amenities or things to do, that sort of thing. Knowing if there are any particularly good (or ra...
premiumEek! I'm going for a tattoo! Anybody got any advice?
Posted by pottytime over 2 years ago
Last active over 2 years ago
14 responses
I’m finally going for it after a lot of vaccillation. It’ll be a black scorpion on my left upper arm. Anybody want to give their four penn’orth?
Does anyone know about worms and wormeries?
Posted by archetype over 3 years ago
Last active over 2 years ago
14 responses
As a good greenish type I’m considering getting a bucket-sized wormery to keep in the kitchen in my flat (eeuh perhaps, but I have no outside space) Just after some advice to see if it’s really feasible… Firstly I’m worried that on my own I don’t eat enough at home each week to provide ...
If you were turning 16 what words of wisdom would you want to hear?
Posted by KungFuLuLu over 2 years ago
tipped with 1K
Last active 9 months ago
80 responses
My little sister’s turning 16 shortly and I’d like to supply her with the accumulated wisdom of the ages and sages. Things like ‘never put anything into your mouth that hasn’t been peeled or boiled first’; ‘crying doesn’t work with all authority figures’ etc etc. If...
premiumWhy should FCLers never, NEVER, use Londinium estate agency?
Posted by savannah over 2 years ago
Last active over 2 years ago
47 responses
I shall tell you why. Because they are useless, incompetent, toads. At times I think we can be a little harsh on the estate agency profession (note: a little) but these people are truly human turds… I moved house all of 2 months ago and in that time I was without furniture for 1 week (when it showed up it t...
Fantastic freelance
Posted by cigarette_sigh over 3 years ago
Last active over 2 years ago
8 responses
I’m looking to do more freelancing outside of the arse numbingly boring field of finance – I’ve written about music, film and general cultural excitements. Does anyone know of any publications that are looking for freelances or fun to write for? I am doing the usual letters and emails but some insi...
Where can I get decent career advice/tests?
Posted by ellie over 2 years ago
Last active over 2 years ago
0 responses
I think this was posted a few months ago, but only saw a couple of replies and I’m getting really, really desperate. Have been in my current job for years, while I love some aspects of it am beginning to feel as if I’m in a spin-off from the film Brazil, I am in a world where I keep spotting bureaucra...
How do I get kudos?
Posted by iSleepDiagonal over 3 years ago
Last active over 3 years ago
18 responses
Hello. Not really sure where else to post this (should we have a “misc” section – you could put all your nice adminny type announcements in there, for example) – but I’m currently looking forlornly at a kudos that’s barely in double figures. I can see people with several hundred o...
IT advice, pliss
Asked by UncleGeorge about 1 year ago for 3 kudos
Best answer by SuckMonster
Last active 9 months ago
24 responses
I parted company with a firm some years ago. Annoyingly, they have kept my work email active. As some of my more useless acquaintances and business contacts are still emailing me there, its proving to be a bit of a problem. These emails – personal and business – are never forwarded to me. Instead, they a...
Can you share a piece of advice you swear by?
Asked by CarmenM about 1 year ago for 25 kudos
Best answer by Beagleskin
Last active 5 months ago
170 responses
I’ve just been given a delightful paperback entitled Good Old-Fashioned Advice by Michael Powell (ISBN 1861058675). Listed therein is rather interesting albeit quaint advice on the way of the world and how one might best thrive and survive in it. For example: ‘Do not tickle your baby’s feet; it wi...
Top tips for Borough Market...
Asked by BeavisSchmeavis about 1 year ago for 1 kudos
Best answer by flippy
Last active 11 months ago
5 responses
My fella and I are going to Borough market tomorrow to buy shitloads of nice food and then cook all of it so we don’t have to go out and be ripped off with a mediocre set menu. But what I wanna know is truthfully how early I need to be there (I really need a lie in) and what time it closes. And any other top t...
Flatmate and/or advice needed
Asked by Mellie 10 months ago for 1 kudos
Last active 10 months ago
1 response
I am currently threatened with double rent and having to pay the other half of the deposit. I have a lovely double room going in my flat (Stoke Newington N16) – signed up to gumtree, moveflat.com and a couple of Polish websites. Anyone got any other recommendations? Preferably where you don’t have to pay...
