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[DeanElderberry]

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! Gerbils beautiful gerbils!

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all furry!

! ❤AI and Scientists❤

less furry !

All women welcome

well behaved male visitors from the Staunch Ally are welcome in the stableyard but not across the threshold of the main building

ooops. posted too soon

there ye go

You don’t we are blood sisters now xx

That is SO funny! Thank you xx

Thank you for being so lovely, everyone. I texted my BFF and she was lovely so I said she is always so positive about me.

She replied that she doesn't really like very many people, so her belief in me must be true. I feel so cherished today.

Going back to the job interview, I have only had one interview that resulted in a job offer. Most of the questions were the usual anodyne ones that prevented me from making a mark but then I was asked to imagine a box:
Q. How big is the box?
A. About 30cm cubed.
Q. What is it made of?
A. It is made of dark oak and all the joints are perfect double dovetails.
Q. Does it have a lid?
A. Yes,it has a hinged lid with two brass butterfly hinges and a hasp fastening.
Q. Does the box have a lining?
A. Yes, it is lined with Burgundy velvet.
Q. Is there anything in the box?
A. Apart from the severed human head?

Never looked back.

That's brilliant. And macabre.

I'm probably going to be asked to tell them about a time when I had to deal with something unexpected.
Which of the five times* someone didn't come into work because they'd died would you like to know about?

Only two at the same firm, but weirdly exactly three months apart. No one was murdered. All were completely unexpected. No, I wasn't anywhere near any of them.

On second thoughts maybe I should tell them about the time I was running a kids' competition and the company who had all the equipment sent it to my office the day before the event. I wasn't at the office because I was at the venue and had to arrange a last minute and very expensive courier.

@Boiledbeetle in the event of a third edition i have a poem hope it is not considered too awful

i wrote it down after a real experience in TKMAX staring at a shoe rack for size three to four women's shoes, last summer

Inspired by Bowie the laughing gnome.

I was shopping in the high street
when I heard two boys behind me
Laughing away

They said ha ha he he
Do you think these shoes will really suit me

Two gay boys, standing right over me
All dressed up as girls
Painted fingers and curls,
boobs and crop tops
But feet of men
about a size ten

They said ha ha he he
I’m a little girl and you cant diss me.

So i carried on looking
at the shoes set out before me
Nothing to say
thinking go away

and they said ha ha he he
we’re your local trans just acknowledge we

They got louder and shriller
And made a right old girly show
Wanting all to know especially me

And i said

Ha ha he he, I’m your local TERF
and you cant capture me.

Banned 👏

Good luck Myrtle! you are not alone, you are standing on the shoulders of giants -
and beetles, and puffins, and androids, and magpies, and 16-17th century French philosophers and.... gosh I hope it's a big room!😄

JanesLittleGirl - I never thought the words 'severed human head' could be so uproariously funny😂😂😂

Giants?
Do you mean that big wombat?

Wombat?

Oh.
THAT wombat.

...

"My Lord, I had forgot the wombat"

Perfectly normal interview picture, apart from the octopus.

Perhaps it's the business's logo.

Shades of mortgage consultations with Lloyds after it took over C&G - black horses everywhere.

Either that or AI is having a steampunk/Jules Verne moment.

Yes, that wombat, good work inky.

I'm now very curious exactly what position @JanesLittleGirl was interviewing for. They were probably scared not to offer it to her.

Let's hope it wasn't 'hairdresser'.

** Logo...yes, many energy companies definitely seem to have billing systems and 'customer services' departments requiring a gothic turn of imagination. Octopus energy does seem woefully lacking in that regard versus its more traditionally named rivals so far.

Either that or AI is having a steampunk/Jules Verne moment.

that's the default setting isn't it?

One of my tasks at the moment is to evaluate how well AI generates images. I really wish the images here could be submitted. I can imagine my responses:

Too many fingers
Too many arms
Giant wombats - unless the prompt asks for a giant wombat, it should be wombat-sized.
Female animals and women are rarely generated, even when prompted.

I hope you get an interview question on that subject, Myrtle. Not just an expert, but a very experienced expert!

And if anyone mentioned giant wombats in an interview, I'd give them the job on the spot. Ditto capybara, gerbils or tunnocks.

There's a thread today - I'm not on it so can't easily find it - in which the OP is generating AI images from peoples usernames. Some of them are quite nice, I've not looked hard at the hands though.

I'm not sure the AIs would recognise mine as being a (modified) swamp dragon

We are old hands at that at the Bluestocking Arms. Generating one person's username image is fair enough, but the AI has trouble when there are two or more characters or creatures in the same image. It is possible to spend many hours trying to tweak what the AI has done into an approximation of what you're asking for. Then even if it gets close, it likes to add monstrous forms, fires burning all over the place, pneumatic females that haven't been asked for, nightmare hybrids, multiple (for example) hedgehogs or clones, extra characters such as rabbits that nobody wants.

it's a tough job, but we try our best!

It's this thread

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5259482-aibu-to-make-you-laugh-on-a-cold-january-day?page=16

Some of them are hilarious.

I wonder what AI would make of an Evil Wolef Genius too, @ErrolTheDragon.

No luck on that thread.

And when I tried, the generator said "I'll do you an image" and promptly hung up.

I know for a fact that at some point a kind Bluestockinger got AI to make some very acceptable images from my name, but like a fool I didn't save them.

Some very cute images on that thread.

Interview went well though my immediate thought was I've blown it. Asked me how my experience suited me for the role and I waffled on about rubbish for a bit.

But I knew my stuff, had a great answer for what I would have done with hindsight and how I would manage a particular style of project.

I'm now in cringe mode as I thought I didn't actually answer a particular question and wandered onto something else, but that's how my brain works. 😳

My DH said he thought I had done well, based on what I told him.

Shortlisting by mid February so I won't hear for a few more weeks. Next interview (if I get one) end of February.

Currently drinking large G&T.

Prosecco on ice for later.