Your rants here.

Mr Sworld

Much more fun... 8)

nation

It has been suggested, and the building services guy probably has one, but nobody wants to stick their neck out as the person who OK'd the crowbarring open of a cabinet. Especially because we'd then have to find somewhere else secure to move the contents.

Blacktemplar

To the fcucking mentalist driving the bin lorry along Duntreath Avenue this morning - you deserve beating with sticks. Preferably with nails driven through the end.

In what world is crawling along behind me for 100 yards before deciding you've had enough, accelerating past me then putting the bl00dy wagon almost onto 2 wheels as you screech into an opening on the left, even remotely sane? Mind you, it must have shaved, what - 3 seconds off your time?

I have never seen a lorry that big broadslide, and don't ever want to see one cut across my bows that close again.

Unfortunately too angry/late to be bothered hunting you down and dispatching you like the diseased mad dog that you are.

(Or at least getting your number plate so I could report you to the Cooncil.....)

Grrrrr :evil:

Blacktemplar

CiB wrote:

Bother bother bother. Here's some free advice for you all. Don't open one of those ridiculous little plastic bottles of 'bio-yoghurt', then wander off to make a cup of tea, then come back & spot the yoghurt out of the corner of your eye on the kitchen table and give it a good shake prior to drinking. It needs the lid to be in place for that. As someone said last week in a different context, I now resemble a plasterer's radio. Cobblers.

Full bottle of tomato sauce - kitchen looked like a scene from a Tarantino movie :oops:

the_fuggler

To the chap in the Alfa this afternoon, just because a parked car is blocking your side of the road doesn't mean you can have all of mine, just because you feel like it....

Twisterboy

My rant for today....

Coming back again on the cycle path from work and yet again the Travellers who stay on the site behind the cycle path let their dogs roam the cycle path, two greyhounds and two Jack Russells, the greyhounds were ok but the Jack Russels started to bark and bear their teeth as if to bite.

This is the second time this has happended to me and other cyclists, so needless to say I've raised this with my MP, I only dread if a wee kid were to be bitten by these dogs or fall off as at the moment it is the school holidays in Edinburgh at the moment.

David

redvee

Ladybirds impacting under your tongue at 20+mph isn't nice as they taste horrible.

mroli

To the kid on the embankment last night sat on the back seat of the car shining a torch/laser pen into slow cyclist's eyes - I can pretty much cycle as fast as your Dad's car at a push along that patch of road and although you didn't shine it at me, I WILL cycle up to you and tell you to pack it in.

To your Dad. Yes, I do think it was dangerous, no he was not shining it at the floor and as I said, it would be on his conscience if someone got hurt as a consequence. Your wife had the good grace to look shame faced, if you had been my dad and a cyclist had pointed out my behaviour to you, I would have been dragged out the car, made to apologise and would never have dared to what your kid was doing again.

FFS.

bdave262000

mroli wrote:

To the kid on the embankment last night sat on the back seat of the car shining a torch/laser pen into slow cyclist's eyes - I can pretty much cycle as fast as your Dad's car at a push along that patch of road and although you didn't shine it at me, I WILL cycle up to you and tell you to pack it in.

To your Dad. Yes, I do think it was dangerous, no he was not shining it at the floor and as I said, it would be on his conscience if someone got hurt as a consequence. Your wife had the good grace to look shame faced, if you had been my dad and a cyclist had pointed out my behaviour to you, I would have been dragged out the car, made to apologise and would never have dared to what your kid was doing again.

FFS.

Agreed, I don't understand this "my kid can't do no wrong" attitude. No wonder they have no respect for adults when their own parents pander to them and back them up even when they are wrong. Back in my day it would have been an apology and a good beating round the back of the legs with a wooden coat hanger.

Ahh the good old days

king_jeffers

redvee wrote:

Ladybirds impacting under your tongue at 20+mph isn't nice as they taste horrible.

Delicious!

My rant for today is another one aimed at... me :oops:

Pulled bike up at work this morning, chained up, went to the gym, came back only to be told I hadn't actually chained my bike to the stand... Thankfully a nice guy at work had a spare lock and in my absence secured correctly. Could have been a lot worse, not sure what I was thinking. Combination of hard ride (SCR) and tiredness :roll:

Still no wind on the commute this morning and I get to ride home! Yay!

suzyb

I can't really express just how angry I am at this on a public forum.

We pass data from our website to our client's internal system. To do that and for it to work the data has to be correct, so the client sends us a spreadsheet with the necessary values.

The spreadsheet has data missing however. One cell will have a value, then there will be some below it without any value for that column, then another filled in and so on. Any normal person is going to assume that the blank cells inherit the value from the one above. But no, it is a completely different value that goes in these blank cells, a value that isn't mentioned anywhere in the spreadsheet.

That in itself is frustrating but what is really angering me is the email from my boss saying "this has happened in the past and you/we should have picked it up".

1. After all the problems we've had with this, and the fixes and changes applied to try and solve it I'm supposed to remember one specific issue that happened months ago

2. WE SHOULDN'T BE GIVEN A SPREADSHEET WITH HALF THE DATA MISSING

Ben6899

suzyb wrote:

I can't really express just how angry I am at this on a public forum.

We pass data from our website to our client's internal system. To do that and for it to work the data has to be correct, so the client sends us a spreadsheet with the necessary values.

The spreadsheet has data missing however. One cell will have a value, then there will be some below it without any value for that column, then another filled in and so on. Any normal person is going to assume that the blank cells inherit the value from the one above. But no, it is a completely different value that goes in these blank cells, a value that isn't mentioned anywhere in the spreadsheet.

That in itself is frustrating but what is really angering me is the email from my boss saying "this has happened in the past and you/we should have picked it up".

1. After all the problems we've had with this, and the fixes and changes applied to try and solve it I'm supposed to remember one specific issue that happened months ago

2. WE SHOULDN'T BE GIVEN A SPREADSHEET WITH HALF THE DATA MISSING

I make note of things like this so I can rectify them next time around. Clients aren't perfect and these types of problems happen a lot. One for the "lessons learned" section of your DAP, I suspect.

suzyb

Ben6899 wrote:

suzyb wrote:

I can't really express just how angry I am at this on a public forum.

We pass data from our website to our client's internal system. To do that and for it to work the data has to be correct, so the client sends us a spreadsheet with the necessary values.

The spreadsheet has data missing however. One cell will have a value, then there will be some below it without any value for that column, then another filled in and so on. Any normal person is going to assume that the blank cells inherit the value from the one above. But no, it is a completely different value that goes in these blank cells, a value that isn't mentioned anywhere in the spreadsheet.

That in itself is frustrating but what is really angering me is the email from my boss saying "this has happened in the past and you/we should have picked it up".

1. After all the problems we've had with this, and the fixes and changes applied to try and solve it I'm supposed to remember one specific issue that happened months ago

2. WE SHOULDN'T BE GIVEN A SPREADSHEET WITH HALF THE DATA MISSING

I make note of things like this so I can rectify them next time around. Clients aren't perfect and these types of problems happen a lot. One for the "lessons learned" section of your DAP, I suspect.

I didn't post for people to point out my failings. I posted so everyone would agree with me :evil:

Ben6899

I'm afraid life doesn't work like that. And it was meant as constructive criticism. Bosses love to see a bit of self-initiative and pro-activeness. And for good reason.

Kieran_Burns

Ben6899 wrote:

I'm afraid life doesn't work like that. And it was meant as constructive criticism. Bosses love to see a bit of self-initiative and pro-activeness. And for good reason.

Life doesn't

The rant section does.

suzyb

Ben6899 wrote:

Bosses love to see a bit of self-initiative and pro-activeness. And for good reason.

You need to come work where I work tbh. You'll soon find out self-initiative and pro-activeness (usually) only results in twice the work load.

mudcow007

not reallya rant but....just had a huuuge aircon unit installed in my office as its getting way to warm, but i hadnt warned our resident electrician so the powercables havent been set up

so i'm sweating my love spuds off whilst there is a lovely brand spanking new chiller on the wall looking at me

dammit

CiB

mudcow007 wrote:

not reallya rant but....just had a huuuge aircon unit installed in my office as its getting way to warm, but i hadnt warned our resident electrician so the powercables havent been set up

so i'm sweating my love spuds off whilst there is a lovely brand spanking new chiller on the wall looking at me

dammit

Come on man. Hook it up to your back wheel and cycle yourself to coolsville.

Suzyb. That's users for you. I learnt years ago that any assumption you might make is probably going to be wrong so you may as well make yourself look like a halfwit by asking the question up front, rather than making yourself look like a complete t!t by finishing it all off but getting it wrong.

CiB

suzyb wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

Bosses love to see a bit of self-initiative and pro-activeness. And for good reason.

You need to come work where I work tbh. You'll soon find out self-initiative and pro-activeness (usually) only results in twice the work load.

Judging by the amount of time you spend posting on here then we can assume that you're distinctly lacking in the former and that has resulted in v little of the latter. Probably.

It's a joke. We love you really... Come back

suzyb

CiB wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

Bosses love to see a bit of self-initiative and pro-activeness. And for good reason.

You need to come work where I work tbh. You'll soon find out self-initiative and pro-activeness (usually) only results in twice the work load.

Judging by the amount of time you spend posting on here then we can assume that you're distinctly lacking in the former and that has resulted in v little of the latter. Probably.

It's a joke. We love you really... Come back

Your right I do lack in the former

But if you think I post on here a lot then you should have seen how much I've posted on other forums when I wasn't working.

SimonAH

Summer holiday - ergo have to put the MiniAH into daycare during the week.

Daycare starts at 9:30, I need to be in the office for 8:30 as I'm holding the fort over other colleague holidays.

Therefore have to take the car to work with the blighter. Work for an hour. Take the blighter to daycare. Return to work and finish day (MrsAH collects the mini in the afternoon)

Therefore have missed all the stunning weather without one single commute in two weeks. And the sun has brought out a veritable smorgasbord of targets.

It Is Not Fair.

sketchley

SimonAH wrote:

Summer holiday - ergo have to put the MiniAH into daycare during the week.

Daycare starts at 9:30, I need to be in the office for 8:30 as I'm holding the fort over other colleague holidays.

Therefore have to take the car to work with the blighter. Work for an hour. Take the blighter to daycare. Return to work and finish day (MrsAH collects the mini in the afternoon)

Therefore have missed all the stunning weather without one single commute in two weeks. And the sun has brought out a veritable smorgasbord of targets.

It Is Not Fair.

redvee

Riding along the cyclepath this afternoon I espy a couple of kids up ahead, thinking they've got a problem with one of their bikes I slow preparing to offer my skills at making a simple problem much worse. When I get to within 6 feet I don't see no bikes but a group of 6 teenagers, can't call them schoolkids as they're on holiday, sat on the cycle side of the path chatting and no doubt consuming nicotine and alcohol.

Mr Sworld

redvee wrote:

Riding along the cyclepath this afternoon I espy a couple of kids up ahead, thinking they've got a problem with one of their bikes I slow preparing to offer my skills at making a simple problem much worse. When I get to within 6 feet I don't see no bikes but a group of 6 teenagers, can't call them schoolkids as they're on holiday, sat on the cycle side of the path chatting and no doubt consuming nicotine and alcohol.

Worst rant ever....

notsoblue

Mr Sworld wrote:

redvee wrote:

Riding along the cyclepath this afternoon I espy a couple of kids up ahead, thinking they've got a problem with one of their bikes I slow preparing to offer my skills at making a simple problem much worse. When I get to within 6 feet I don't see no bikes but a group of 6 teenagers, can't call them schoolkids as they're on holiday, sat on the cycle side of the path chatting and no doubt consuming nicotine and alcohol.

Worst rant ever....

+1

What was the rant about? Youth in general?

asprilla

I've just injured myself. With the kitchen extractor fan.

Ow. My shoulder hurts a lot.

Mr Sworld

Asprilla wrote:

I've just injured myself. With the kitchen extractor fan.

Ow. My shoulder hurts a lot.

Close but Redvee is still winning... ;-)

itboffin

@SimonAH I have a child seat going spare, yours if you want it ..?

SimonAH

Ah Redvee, iTB, you are so right but at seven she's a little too large for a kid's seat, but at the same time too slow on her Islabike to make riding together for that distance a.viable option. 'tis an arse.

ddraver

^ One of those tag along things where they pedal as well? Saw a woman and her child do this through kensington when I was a Lahndaner...