beeswax Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 I know it's a radical departure guys, and apologies to D. McCoy, but we're working towards a better world here.
russdev Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 oh dear there's no turning back.... so possible words for new version of do they know it's Christmas time... turn the iron on do they know what unwrinkled shirts are.... oh dear.... Can see it Lenny henry going "please help us there are people out there who have never seen an ironing board" right as tony would say i'll get my coat
Gatt Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 I dont iron - in fact i deliberately buy clothes that DONT need ironing!
beeswax Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 well here's a funny thing Gatt, I've always wanted a linen suit, and a few weeks ago I saw one in a sale and bought it. It's still hanging in the closet, covered in plastic. I've a real dilema going on here.
Alcoholiday Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 I think this thread has been hijacked by the iron mongers! :? I've been lurking for awhile after an introduction from Gatt, thanks buddy because this place has been a god send. Anyway, I thought I'd better introduce myself. My name's Dave and I'm a manager for an IT company where one of my roles is the support of several local primary schools. Before finding this site I was getting some weird and wonderful problems and I had a total lack of support, but thankfully this place has sorted things out for me. Anyway I will no doubt be posting a bit in the future and so I'll apologise in advance!
GrumbleDook Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 Welcome Dave ... don't worry about the obsessions that some members have ... just be happy that we have a release from the stresses of the job. I am looking at setting up a new domain though ... http://www.ironinganonymous.org.uk ... just in case
Espada Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 Hi all, I'm Mark and I am currently in a weird position as being a teacher but also a techie as well. I kind of inherited the techie partt as I have more experience using computers, running networks, etc... than anybody else in the school. Mark
MkII Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 Interesting Mark! [and welcome BTW ] So did you have any instructional experience before? A local tech came from a training backgroud and got moved into teaching a few lessons a week. You could say that for us all about the experience bit ...personally teaching is really not what I want to do - I enjoy helping out in lessons, it's just the preperation I know I hate!
russdev Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 welcome all But maybe we should ban words ironing on the forum Russell
Espada Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 Interesting Mark! [and welcome BTW ] So did you have any instructional experience before? A local tech came from a training backgroud and got moved into teaching a few lessons a week. You could say that for us all about the experience bit ...personally teaching is really not what I want to do - I enjoy helping out in lessons, it's just the preperation I know I hate! Well I have been using computers now for 23 years and made a deliberate move into teaching so I am fully qualified as a teacher. It just so happened that with staff "moving on" I ended up helping out on the network side - as much for my own sanity as anything else.
john Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 Back to Ironing I don't do it, a magic fairy does it for me, I put dirty things in a wicker basket and they magically re-appear in the wardrobe all clean and ironed Its brill!
beeswax Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 Half time in the world cup final. Did you hear John Motson describe the France player Makelele as "being like an iron smoothing out the creases of the French defence." ? There's secret society of ironers, that Dan Brown is writing about in his sequel to the Da Vinci Code.
contink Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 Erm... can't help but think I unleashed a monster here... but wouldn't it be worth splitting this "iron" thing into a different thread so people can continue to introduce themselves without peer pressure forcing those with ironing skills to keep quiet for fear or reprisals.. ... or something...
Gatt Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 I think this thread has been hijacked by the iron mongers! :? I've been lurking for awhile after an introduction from Gatt, thanks buddy because this place has been a god send. Anyway, I thought I'd better introduce myself. My name's Dave and I'm a manager for an IT company where one of my roles is the support of several local primary schools. Before finding this site I was getting some weird and wonderful problems and I had a total lack of support, but thankfully this place has sorted things out for me. Anyway I will no doubt be posting a bit in the future and so I'll apologise in advance! Welcome aboard Dave
Alcoholiday Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 Welcome aboard Dave Cheers Craig. Btw, sent you an email yesterday, just wondered if you received it?
Gatt Posted July 10, 2006 Posted July 10, 2006 Welcome aboard Dave Cheers Craig. Btw, sent you an email yesterday, just wondered if you received it? Yeah i got it - sorry to hear u cant make it
ChrisC Posted July 10, 2006 Posted July 10, 2006 So, he's doing some early morning ironing, we knew you couldn't hide it! Chris
Needsleep Posted July 12, 2006 Posted July 12, 2006 now i have come out from the shadows i'll make a (bordeline) formal introduction ICT Technician at a Middle School in West Sussex approx 600 pupils & 70 staff still finding my way in the world of education IT support, (love Edugeek as a resource) having started my IT career in industry. main duties here; fixing, repairing, sourcing anything with wires and a current & introducing (or trying to) some structure and procedure into the "organic/need driven" systems i inherited 'bout me... Ian 24 passions: IT (no need to closet my geek-ness here), Anarchy Online, getting to the top of large rocks (mountain climbing), Music (listening to not creating), a few other things and parenthesis (in case you hadn't noticed, teehee) A forum lurker by nature but hope to contribute where i can, if i can.
NetworkGeezer Posted July 12, 2006 Posted July 12, 2006 Welcome aboard Ian. Is 24 your age or the number of hours you stay awake?
Needsleep Posted July 12, 2006 Posted July 12, 2006 hehe, thanks for the welcome it's my age but does, rather too often, double as the amount of hrs i have been up. Which, in turn, makes me feel about twice as old!
ChrisC Posted July 12, 2006 Posted July 12, 2006 Or his favourite TV show? Off topic about tv shows, if you have digital/cable/sky/whatever and get bravo, watch it from midnight, they run [adult swim] which has funny cartoons and robot chicken, which is hilarious claymation made by seth green! Just thought I'd share that. Chris
tominyork Posted July 12, 2006 Posted July 12, 2006 Hello! My name is Tom, i'm 19 and I'm an IT/Network Manager for a York Maths and Computing College. We have nearly 1400 students, 150(ish) staff, 490 pcs/laptops, 80 IWBs and 20something Macs. Server side we have 3 curriculum DCs and 1 admin DC, Firewall server and Caching server, and OSX server as well as our Exchange server. For t'internet stuff we have 2 web servers - 1 running the school website and 1 running the VLE, Wiki and Blog. We have (reeeealy bad/slow/unstable) broadband provided by our LEA which costs a fortune. The network is managed by my myself plus a team consisting of a senior technician, IT/digital media technician and an IT technician. Ooohh.. and the important stuff... we have a kettle, coffee machine, well stocked biscuit tin and a fridge in the office, with plenty of comfy chairs !
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