Calling all Scots!!!

[kirsten187]

I didnae ken that's where they were from!

[BruTak]

Well, technically, the Broons and Oor Wullie live in the fictional town of Auchenshoogle.

But it's basically a mishmash of Glasgow and Dundee anyway.

[kirsten187]

That's the name! I couldn't remember and was attempting to do so without the aid of Google. Thank you

[dipsofjazz]

D.C.Thomson, the publishers, are a Dundee company, and have buildings all over the city. The building where the Broons and Oor Wullie are compiled is just up the road from where I am. You can see it here It's the building with Dennis the Menace, Desparate Dan and Oor Wullie on the sides.
We even have city centre statues of Desperate Dan and Minnie the Minx

[kirsten187]

So have you ever stolen Wullie's bucket?

[dipsofjazz]

So have you ever stolen Wullie's bucket?

I joined lots and lots of people this summer doing the Oor Wullie Bucket Trail. There were statues of Wullie sitting on his bucket situated all over the city and beyond.It was a great success, and the whole town was talking about it. The statues were auctioned off and made a great amount of money for charity.

[kirsten187]

I really wish I'd known about that!

[kirsten187]

How is everyone this Friday evening? How's the snow where you are?

[BruTak]

I'm fine, thanks.

No snow where I am today, but I live two streets away from the Clyde so it has to be snowing quite heavily for it to show.

We'd a couple of brief flurries yesterday, but nothing came of it.

[kirsten187]

It was similar in Edinburgh (the parts I saw, anyway!). There was some last night when I woke up at 4am. I went back to sleep and it was gone a few hours later.

[BruTak]

I really hope I get either a callback from Amazon, or another job, soon.

Being unemployed these days is no fun at all. Long gone are the days when the Job Centre (I'm old enough to remember when it was the DSS) just left you in peace, and you didn't have some wee nosey woman sticking her beak into everything an anything.

This whole Universal Credit thing that's been rolled out seems to be specifically designed to be so overcomplicated that people will be so discouraged by it, that they won't bother applying in the first place. And even if you do apply, it seems deliberately designed to trip people up, so that they get Sanctioned for "not looking for work hard enough" or whatever, which means Westminster can say "Hey look! Unemployment is down!"

[kirsten187]

I've been at the Job Centre on 2 separate occasions. One time was after I was made redundant in 2007 for about 3 months. The 2nd time was in 2008 for 6 months after my contract job ended.

I hated it both times.

[BruTak]

Oh, the amount of hoops you have to jump through these days is unbelievable.

I've probably said in the past, but at some point in the last ten years or so, the Job Centre has become less and less about helping you find work, and more and more about getting you off benefits by any means fair or foul.

[BruTak]

Well, I'm happy to report that despite the Earth shattering events of yesterday, the world hasn't ended.

Or maybe it did and nobody noticed...

[kirsten187]

Maybe we've been moved to an alternate reality or a holodeck without us knowing?