Guest guest Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 Hi to all at . I've answered the introductory questions - make of me what you will! 1/ What is your name (or what do you like to be called)? Darkflower - it's much nicer than my real name. Got it due to the fact that most places I socialise, I'm usually the only Black person there. At a 'munch' someone introduced themself by commenting that I was not a 'typical English Rose' to which I replied 'Yes I am, I'm just a darker variety.' then someone nearby said 'She's a dark flower!' and the name stuck. The person who made the initial (stupid) comment is now a very good friend of mine but I never let him forget about it. 2/ How old are you (a rough idea will do)? 35 last Tuesday 3/ Do you know many vegans in real life? There used to be another vegan where I work but I hardly know any now. 4/ How long have you been a vegan, and how long vegetarian before that? I've been vegan for about 5 or 6 years. 5/ Why did you become vegetarian/vegan (if you are neither it would be useful to explain why you joined this list)? I was omnivorous before, but my main partner was vegetarian. I became allergic to milk & eggs, so to avoid cooking/shopping seperately we both became Vegan. === Questions about your area === 6/ Whereabouts do you live? East London - hopefully not the home to the 2012 Olympics 7/ How good a place is it for vegans? Now that the Pogo Cafe is due to open in Hackney, it's just about bearable. There's a road called Green Street in Forest Gate & it is both the best & the worst thing about this area; great for cheap and exotic fruit veg, spices & cloth, terrible for the congestion, noise & multiple animal carcass shops. === Questions for fun === 8/ Which is your favourite type of bean? Pinto! 9/ What is your favourite country, or region, to visit? Somerset especially Glastonbury, because it's a Vegan paradise and even the 'rough' looking people are super-friendly. Most places outside London are good. Canterbury for the great atmosphere & Brighton for the great gay/fetish scene. 10/ What types of film do you like? Top 3 films are Bladerunner, Wings of Desire and Harvey; basically any Fantasy film that makes me think and affects me. 11/ What was the last meal you ate? Homemade bean burgers, potato salad and twisty things I made with puff pastry & nutritional yeast 12/ Are you a morning, evening or night person? I'm an early morning person, happy to go to bed at 10pm if I can get up at 5am and watch cartoons. === Questions for dull administrative purposes === 13/ How did you find out about this list? Searched on under Vegan and U.K === Other comments === 14/ If there is anything else you want to add to the above please feel free to do so. Glad that there's a resource for U.K Vegans as (is the case with the whole web) things are usually aimed at, run by and of interest only to Americans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 On Aug 10, 2004, at 5:18 AM, darkfloweruk wrote: > Hi to all at . I've answered the introductory questions - > make of me what you will! > > 1/ What is your name (or what do you like to be called)? > > Darkflower - it's much nicer than my real name. Ahoy there Darkflower - welcome aboard. Have some rum and (vegan) dry biscuits. Paul (Sorry, I'm just going through a pirate phase at the moment) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 Thanks Paul for the welcome. Noticed on your profile that you've got despair.com as a cool link. That's one of my links too! Isn't it great! My boss has posters on his wall with motivational stuff on it (including an awful prayer for a Mercedes). I'd love to replace his junk with the demotivational posters instead. A girl can dream... Darkflower , Paul Russell <prussell@s...> wrote: > On Aug 10, 2004, at 5:18 AM, darkfloweruk wrote: > > > Hi to all at . I've answered the introductory questions - > > make of me what you will! > > > > 1/ What is your name (or what do you like to be called)? > > > > Darkflower - it's much nicer than my real name. > > Ahoy there Darkflower - welcome aboard. Have some rum and (vegan) dry > biscuits. > > Paul > > (Sorry, I'm just going through a pirate phase at the moment) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 On Aug 10, 2004, at 2:39 PM, darkfloweruk wrote: > > Noticed on your profile that you've got despair.com as a cool link. > That's one of my links too! Isn't it great! My boss has posters on > his wall with motivational stuff on it (including an awful prayer > for a Mercedes). I'd love to replace his junk with the > demotivational posters instead. A girl can dream... > > Yes,, despair.com is great - I can remember the first time I looked through one of their calendars I had tears rolling down my cheeks. I'd love to put a couple of their posters up at work - currently I'm a wage slave in the US and I don't think they'd go down too well here (and I'm not sure most of my co-workers would even get the joke either). Oh well, perhaps one day when I've founded Vegan Corp International I'll have them in the board room. Paul P.S. Given your sense of humour I would suggest you might also want to join Vegans Uncensored. Vegan UK is good - it's nice and civilised and helpful - but on VU it's a lot more unruly, and we have a lot of laughs and a few blazing rows for good measure - it's mostly UK vegans also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 Welcome Darkflower, nice to meet you. I just peeked at dispair.com, and it's depressing. I guess I didn't comform to not being someone special yet. Leo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 Paul Russell wrote: > > Yes,, despair.com is great - I can remember the first time I looked > through one of their calendars I had tears rolling down my cheeks. I'd > love to put a couple of their posters up at work - currently I'm a wage > slave in the US and I don't think they'd go down too well here (and I'm > not sure most of my co-workers would even get the joke either). Oh > well, perhaps one day when I've founded Vegan Corp International I'll > have them in the board room. > I've been tempted to replace the movitational posters with ones from despair.com and find out how long it took to notice ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 darkfloweruk wrote: > > 6/ Whereabouts do you live? > > East London - hopefully not the home to the 2012 Olympics > I couldn't agree more. It's a silly way to waste £100 per Londoner. Let some other nation spend money on pink elephants . Whereabouts in East London? I'm in Shoreditch, so not quite near enough Pogocafe for comfort (eating). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 Hi Ian Last year I copied an idea from despair.com at work; I stuck a peice of paper on the shredder with the words 'Employee Suggestions' on it. It took a few hours before someone noticed but it was fun whilst it lasted. , Ian McDonald <ian@m...> wrote: > > I've been tempted to replace the movitational posters with ones from > despair.com and find out how long it took to notice ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 darkfloweruk wrote: > > Hi Ian > > Last year I copied an idea from despair.com at work; I stuck a peice > of paper on the shredder with the words 'Employee Suggestions' on > it. It took a few hours before someone noticed but it was fun whilst > it lasted. What was the reaction when they finally did notice it? Or did it just disappear without comment? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 A couple of colleagues rolled their eyes and muttered things about me acting 'strange' again, but a few laughed and suggested that I remove it quickly before our boss saw it. Now I think of it, I could have put 'Requests for Leave' or 'Chances of promotion' on the shredder and it would have been just as true. , Ian McDonald <ian@m...> wrote: > > > darkfloweruk wrote: > > > > Hi Ian > > > > Last year I copied an idea from despair.com at work; I stuck a peice > > of paper on the shredder with the words 'Employee Suggestions' on > > it. It took a few hours before someone noticed but it was fun whilst > > it lasted. > > What was the reaction when they finally did notice it? Or did it just > disappear without comment? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 14, 2004 Report Share Posted August 14, 2004 LOL, Darkflower. Are there still bosses without sense of humour in the 21st century? Leo , " darkfloweruk " <poly.bi@n...> wrote: > A couple of colleagues rolled their eyes and muttered things about > me acting 'strange' again, but a few laughed and suggested that I > remove it quickly before our boss saw it. Now I think of it, I > could have put 'Requests for Leave' or 'Chances of promotion' on the > shredder and it would have been just as true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 14, 2004 Report Share Posted August 14, 2004 darkfloweruk wrote: > > A couple of colleagues rolled their eyes and muttered things about > me acting 'strange' again, but a few laughed and suggested that I > remove it quickly before our boss saw it. Now I think of it, I > could have put 'Requests for Leave' or 'Chances of promotion' on the > shredder and it would have been just as true. > Denying requests for leave is a nasty practice. I was in a company which decided, because they had a project on, they weren't going to accede to any until the end of the summer. At which point, of course, I got a job elsewhere. So everyone would have known it was you, then? The bosses wouldn't have been scratching their heads wondering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 14, 2004 Report Share Posted August 14, 2004 I don't think anyone was remotely surprised. I'm known by a few names in my office. I'm the Strange One, the Horny One, Photocopier queen, unofficial (and unpaid) I.T engineer and generally the one to blame if anything isn't 'right' e.g posters displayed upside-down or if a thrash metal CD is left in the music system that plays in reception with the volume set to 10. They may as well call me Loki and be done with it. I like working for a charity because I can see the direct positive effect it has for our clients, but management are so fixated with funding and statistics, that staff get ignored and as a result lots of staff leave. There is usually a day trip or Christmas do that's supposed to bring staff together, but it's always painfully embarrassing, forced and most everyone ends up drunk and getting into fights. It's not all bad, as I get to play 'spot who the boss tries to get off with' on those occassions. , Ian McDonald <ian@m...> wrote: > > > darkfloweruk wrote: > > > > A couple of colleagues rolled their eyes and muttered things about > > me acting 'strange' again, but a few laughed and suggested that I > > remove it quickly before our boss saw it. Now I think of it, I > > could have put 'Requests for Leave' or 'Chances of promotion' on the > > shredder and it would have been just as true. > > > > Denying requests for leave is a nasty practice. I was in a company which > decided, because they had a project on, they weren't going to accede to > any until the end of the summer. > > At which point, of course, I got a job elsewhere. > > So everyone would have known it was you, then? The bosses wouldn't have > been scratching their heads wondering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 15, 2004 Report Share Posted August 15, 2004 darkfloweruk wrote: > > I don't think anyone was remotely surprised. I'm known by a few > names in my office. I'm the Strange One, the Horny One, Photocopier > queen, unofficial (and unpaid) I.T engineer and generally the one to > blame if anything isn't 'right' e.g posters displayed upside-down or > if a thrash metal CD is left in the music system that plays in > reception with the volume set to 10. They may as well call me Loki > and be done with it. It sounds like calling you Loki would rather encourage you . What are the bosses like about it? > I like working for a charity because I can see the direct positive > effect it has for our clients, but management are so fixated with > funding and statistics, that staff get ignored and as a result lots > of staff leave. That's so true. From what I hear, not very many charities know how to treat their staff well - more likely, they expect them to put in lots of unpaid overtime out of commitment, for low pay. > There is usually a day trip or Christmas do that's > supposed to bring staff together, but it's always painfully > embarrassing, forced and most everyone ends up drunk and getting > into fights. It's not all bad, as I get to play 'spot who the boss > tries to get off with' on those occassions. Very wise. Never party at office parties. You miss all the blackmail opportunities that way ... . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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