Your rants here.

rick_chasey

Pufftmw wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

How very badly written too.

You're too harsh*...

Que?

G/f invited ex to stay, not me.

That better be for a 3some.

Pufftmw

Bleagh! Hell no...

rick_chasey

Life's confusing when you grow up isn't it?

suzyb

argh chuffing snow. 32.75 miles without any trouble, turn into the scheme and I barely manage to get into the street, then when I do I have to dig a path to get the car into the lock up.

:evil: :evil: :evil:

jds_1981

Only a minor rant

Checking out at chainreaction. Pop-up window saying "Todays special offer, gift vouchers". Okay I think, "Do you want to add to your basket? Yes/No". Go on then, let's see where this is going.

New shopping basket now has £20 of gift vouchers in, costing.....


£20.


Awesome.

redvee

redvee wrote:

The tube in my bike has just gone down I've been home 4 1/2 hours.

Same tube went down tonight on the way home. It looks like the tube has a bad section which failed on friday and again tonight Michelin Airstop in it's place now. I'm debating wether to repair the old tube.

redvee

suzyb wrote:

argh chuffing snow. 32.75 miles without any trouble, turn into the scheme and I barely manage to get into the street, then when I do I have to dig a path to get the car into the lock up.

:evil: :evil: :evil:

You didn't drive the snowplough to work then ?

Mr Sworld

suzyb wrote:

argh chuffing snow. 32.75 miles without any trouble, turn into the scheme and I barely manage to get into the street, then when I do I have to dig a path to get the car into the lock up.

:evil: :evil: :evil:

GTFU!

Bring on the snow... I'm spending NY in the Lakes and looking forward to wild camping on top of a mountatin!

suzyb

Mr Sworld wrote:

suzyb wrote:

argh chuffing snow. 32.75 miles without any trouble, turn into the scheme and I barely manage to get into the street, then when I do I have to dig a path to get the car into the lock up.

:evil: :evil: :evil:

GTFU!

Bring on the snow... I'm spending NY in the Lakes and looking forward to wild camping on top of a mountatin!

It's a different story when you have to drive to work in it.

Torvid

Think of all that upperbody cardio your getting, you'll be sprinting like Greiple
.

SimonAH

Partly at Opodo for being carp (ha! My autocorrect gave me Poison for Opodo) and partly at myself for not checking my flight confirmation carefully.

I am in terminal 1 at LHR at 5:15 in the a.m. (after driving two and a half hours to get here) to find that the cheap day-return I booked to Zurich has been booked as out, 12 Jan 2012 and back 26 Jan.

Just had to shell out another three hundred clams for a full price fare.

Rhymes with DUCK DUCK DUCK DUCK 'KING DUCK.

Topaxci

Whatever next, Ninjas in cars now!!

Maybe my fault for putting a bit too much reliance on being able to see car headlights when I check over my shoulder for a lane change. But it was pitch black at 6:30 and really wasn't expecting.
But hell I got a scare this morning after checking for a lane change on the downhill approach to a roundabout. Saw nothing and began to move only to have a black micra with no lights come past within an inch.
They went the other way at the roundabout to carry on thier stealthy mission.
Lesson learnt - very nearly the very hard way.

kevess

It's probably been said many times but -

Is Addison Lee the byword for absolute sh1te drivers? Had a really close call at the Lambeth Bridge junction on the Embankment this morning, my only reaction was "Addison f*ck*ng Lee!!!!"

Whenever I see that sticker on the back of a black Galaxy I take avoiding action.

Mr Sworld

Topaxci wrote:

Whatever next, Ninjas in cars now!!

Maybe my fault for putting a bit too much reliance on being able to see car headlights when I check over my shoulder for a lane change. But it was pitch black at 6:30 and really wasn't expecting.
But hell I got a scare this morning after checking for a lane change on the downhill approach to a roundabout. Saw nothing and began to move only to have a black micra with no lights come past within an inch.
They went the other way at the roundabout to carry on thier stealthy mission.
Lesson learnt - very nearly the very hard way.

As Friedrich Nietzsche said That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

notsoblue

KevEss wrote:

It's probably been said many times but -

Is Addison Lee the byword for absolute sh1te drivers? Had a really close call at the Lambeth Bridge junction on the Embankment this morning, my only reaction was "Addison f*ck*ng Lee!!!!"

Whenever I see that sticker on the back of a black Galaxy I take avoiding action.

Avoiding action?! Your profile pic would be disappointed...

suzyb

Now I know why I've been feeling like I'm getting a draft all afternoon. I am getting a draft. There is a vent of some sort in the ceiling above my desk so everytime the wind blows I feel it.

No wonder I'm always so cold in the office

Kieran_Burns

suzyb wrote:

Now I know why I've been feeling like I'm getting a draft all afternoon. I am getting a draft. There is a vent of some sort in the ceiling above my desk so everytime the wind blows I feel it.

No wonder I'm always so cold in the office

My Mum once complained about the Aircon in her office as it was causing a draft. After weeks of reviews and management meetings she was informed that it was "not a draft, but a movement of air"

and it was left at that.

rjsterry

Kieran_Burns wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Now I know why I've been feeling like I'm getting a draft all afternoon. I am getting a draft. There is a vent of some sort in the ceiling above my desk so everytime the wind blows I feel it.

No wonder I'm always so cold in the office

My Mum once complained about the Aircon in her office as it was causing a draft. After weeks of reviews and management meetings she was informed that it was "not a draft, but a movement of air"

and it was left at that.

TBF, it's difficult to ventilate an office without having a draft somewhere, it's just a question of locating the vent so that nobody feels it - so your Mum needed to move her chair.

EKE_38BPM

suzyb wrote:

Now I know why I've been feeling like I'm getting a draft all afternoon. I am getting a draft. There is a vent of some sort in the ceiling above my desk so everytime the wind blows I feel it.

No wonder I'm always so cold in the office

Suzy, you are female and in an office. The temperature will never be right!

I used to know a heating engineer who got frequent call-outs from a predominately female office always complaining that it was too hot in summer and too cold in winter. Eventually he got so fed up that he made a big show of moving the desk of the office manager away from a pillar so that he could drill a mount for a thermostat. He then ran a cable up the pillar and surrounded it with trunking to hide the cable and replaced the desk. The cable went up into the false ceiling and he made a big show of running the cable across the ceiling to the air conditioning unit and spent a while 'connecting' the cable to the ACU. He did this during office hours so that they could all see him 'working'. When the 'installation' was complete, he spoke to the office manager and explained that he had fitted an over-ride thermostat that she could control from her desk. She now had total control of the temperature of the office.

The call-outs stopped. The women in the office were happy that they could control the temperature. What they didn't know is that the thermostat wasn't connected in any way to the ACU.
It was all for show. They felt that they had control and that was enough.

DonDaddyD

^^Brilliant^^

suzyb

EKE_38BPM wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Now I know why I've been feeling like I'm getting a draft all afternoon. I am getting a draft. There is a vent of some sort in the ceiling above my desk so everytime the wind blows I feel it.

No wonder I'm always so cold in the office

Suzy, you are female and in an office. The temperature will never be right!

It actually has been this winter. Now the woman who always opened the windows has left. But not today with the icy wind blowing

nvm only 20 more minutes to put up with it for the week

veronese68

suzyb wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Now I know why I've been feeling like I'm getting a draft all afternoon. I am getting a draft. There is a vent of some sort in the ceiling above my desk so everytime the wind blows I feel it.

No wonder I'm always so cold in the office

Suzy, you are female and in an office. The temperature will never be right!

It actually has been this winter. Now the woman who always opened the windows has left. But not today with the icy wind blowing

nvm only 20 more minutes to put up with it for the week

Suzy, read this and be thankful you don't have an Italian mother:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15987082
It's all completely true. Had me in tears of laughter. Luckily I have an English father and have lived here since I was 2 so don't suffer these afflictions too much.

EKE_38BPM

Veronese68 wrote:

suzyb wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Now I know why I've been feeling like I'm getting a draft all afternoon. I am getting a draft. There is a vent of some sort in the ceiling above my desk so everytime the wind blows I feel it.

No wonder I'm always so cold in the office

Suzy, you are female and in an office. The temperature will never be right!

It actually has been this winter. Now the woman who always opened the windows has left. But not today with the icy wind blowing

nvm only 20 more minutes to put up with it for the week

Suzy, read this and be thankful you don't have an Italian mother:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15987082
It's all completely true. Had me in tears of laughter. Luckily I have an English father and have lived here since I was 2 so don't suffer these afflictions too much.

I think it all started going wrong for the Romans when they started wearing socks with their sandals!

suzyb

Gran fell again a day after getting out of hospital

This time they think she might have broken her hip though. Not good at all

rjsterry

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

suzyb wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Now I know why I've been feeling like I'm getting a draft all afternoon. I am getting a draft. There is a vent of some sort in the ceiling above my desk so everytime the wind blows I feel it.

No wonder I'm always so cold in the office

Suzy, you are female and in an office. The temperature will never be right!

It actually has been this winter. Now the woman who always opened the windows has left. But not today with the icy wind blowing

nvm only 20 more minutes to put up with it for the week

Suzy, read this and be thankful you don't have an Italian mother:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15987082
It's all completely true. Had me in tears of laughter. Luckily I have an English father and have lived here since I was 2 so don't suffer these afflictions too much.

I think it all started going wrong for the Romans when they started wearing socks with their sandals!

Although, arguably, those posted to Hadrian's Wall, started the Tyneside fashion for climatically inappropriate footwear.

nich

The stupid roadworks at London Bridge.

Going down into Tooley St. is like a bloody mountain bike course with peds thrown in for fun.

I don't really dislike it that much, but whoever designed the layout is an ass. The barriers that you have to cycle between seem to get closer and closer each day.

asprilla

Fecking continental inner tubes.

Puncture on the way home. No problem, just change the tube and away we go. Except the frigging valve core just keeps coming out ever time I take the pump off. 30 minutes of shivering in Kingston and I eventually had to call the Mrs and get her to pick me up.

Feck. That's the first time I've had to do that and it's shameful.

Ben6899

1. Bloody new age hippy wankers who think it's okay to just merrily step out in front of traffic. Because they're saving the world, you know. They're pretty much infallible, you know.

2. Charity Muggers. But even more so, the fuck1ng idiots who give them "business". If you want to donate to charity, then have a look online and find one which has beliefs you can identify with. Or perhaps a charity close to your heart. Don't just fuck1ng choose the first one that manages to mug you while you're out buying lunch.

3. Self-service checkouts. Lots of folk without jobs at the moment. W@nkers using self-service checkouts are not helping this. If we all agreed to snub the automated option and instead make a small sacrifice by queuing, then Sainsburys et al might get the message. That is, of course, if you don't mind paying to support folk who can't find work.

rick_chasey

Ben6899 wrote:

3. Self-service checkouts. Lots of folk without jobs at the moment. W@nkers using self-service checkouts are not helping this. If we all agreed to snub the automated option and instead make a small sacrifice by queuing, then Sainsburys et al might get the message. That is, of course, if you don't mind paying to support folk who can't find work.

More importantly, don't offend me by putting a machine that barks orders at me.

But yes, that too.

dhope

Rick Chasey wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

3. Self-service checkouts. Lots of folk without jobs at the moment. W@nkers using self-service checkouts are not helping this. If we all agreed to snub the automated option and instead make a small sacrifice by queuing, then Sainsburys et al might get the message. That is, of course, if you don't mind paying to support folk who can't find work.

More importantly, don't offend me by putting a machine that barks orders at me.

But yes, that too.

Couldn't agree less. No point creating jobs for no reason. Self service tills are generally crap but ditching them in favour of employing people simply because otherwise they wouldn't be employed is entirely the wrong reason for ditching them.
Create jobs for people making things, fixing things, not people to continue mundane jobs like scanning my shopping.