[Malcolm Armsteen]

In the sixties I worked summers in a mental hospital laundry...

By hecky wotsit I could tell some stories...

[lambswool]

In the sixties I worked summers in a mental hospital laundry...

By hecky wotsit I could tell some stories...

That’s reminded me of something an inmate said to my friend, a nurse in a psychiatric hospital:-

“You should have been here yesterday, Nurse. It was like a madhouse.”

[Yug]

I'd rather stay here with all the mad men
Than perish with the sad men roaming free
Yes I'd rather play here with all the mad men
'Cause I'm quite content they're all as sane as me

[Bones McCoy]

About a million people have said it before me, but there really is a difference between doing a shit job when you have reason to believe that it’s just for now and doing a shit job which you suspect will be but one of a number of shit jobs stretching away into forever.

I've done many shit jobs over the years but only once have I been able to tell a boss to shove their shit job. I suspect that had the divine Ms B had the desire, she could have told Ronald McDonald where to stick his happy meal and not suffered.

Jarvis Cocker put it rather well:

If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah

[Bones McCoy]

You'll never live like common people
You'll never do what ever common people do
Never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view
And then dance, and drink, and screw
Because there's nothing else to do
Oh!

He continued; then mooned Michael Jackson.

[Tubby Isaacs]

As Sunder Katwala says, this is Sir Humphrey "courageous" from Badenoch. Is she running for Leader of the Opposition or a job with Paul Marshall? Actually, it might be the latter she ends up doing anyway. There are enough Jenrick-Cleverly supporters to knock her out of 2nd place.

[davidjay]

XformerlyTwitter has the views Tory members will go for but its users are about thirty years too young.

[Andy McDandy]

Musk's become a shorthand for them - one of those young tech people with all the answers. Bit like if 30 years ago you asked people to name an entrepreneur, they'd say Richard Branson.

[mattomac]

I like how the tweet was cut short at “turn off”.

It’s probably what I would do.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Musk's become a shorthand for them - one of those young tech people with all the answers. Bit like if 30 years ago you asked people to name an entrepreneur, they'd say Richard Branson.

Lots of Branson is marketing, of course, but I think he is actually pretty smart. When Virgin Trains started, he headhunted Chris Green, who had run Network South East and would have got the top job at BR if it had continued. Branson's businesses have done lots of different things successfully. There's a track record of success in lots of different industries, so I could see that more than Musk.

[Youngian]

Virgin Records was innovative providing music other labels weren't interested in. But most of his enterprises are carpet bagging in existing markets with a fresh coat of paint and sexier barkers.

[davidjay]

Branson was a prototype Farage, the son of well to do parents pretending to be the little guy up against unfair competition

[Tubby Isaacs]

Virgin Records was innovative providing music other labels weren't interested in. But most of his enterprises are carpet bagging in existing markets with a fresh coat of paint and sexier barkers.

You don’t sustain airlines or banks on the back of air balloon stunts and scantily dressed women alone.

[Youngian]

I've flown, drunk cola and had a bank account without Mr Branson's patronage. But I might not of had Gong albums or heard Tubula Bells.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I've flown, drunk cola and had a bank account without Mr Branson's patronage. But I might not of had Gong albums or heard Tubula Bells.

Unsure of meaning...

[Andy McDandy]

Meaning that Virgin records did have some impact in putting artistes like Mike Oldfield out there (when other record labels wouldn't touch them); but that many of Branson's other ventures haven't really brought anything new to attention.

[davidjay]

One of Branson's cleverer stunts was to sell the business but they kept the name, so he was still getting free advertising.

He also owes a debt to John Lydon. The Pistols gave his hippy record label a boost and John got him to start Virgin Front Line.

[Youngian]

Shades of corporate Japan's keiretsu model in which a network of companies shelter under the same brand but not necessarily related businesses. The Yamaha name famed for making motorcycles and musical instruments for eg.

[mattomac]

You could say Virgin was better than Avanti, then again you’d have to be truly impressive to be that shit.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I didn't at all like the Virgin Train I went to the Lake District on, but they did run far more services and carry far more passengers, which was good for the Treasury as well as Branson. Unfortunately, Osborne got greedy, rail companies got hubristic in their bids, and the whole thing collapsed.