Your rants here.

rjsterry

suzyb wrote:

Mr client..you do realise the longer you take to get me the information I need to proceed with your website, the less chance there is for it to be finished by your deadline.

Not in IT, but sounds very familiar. Clients eh?

asprilla

rjsterry wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Mr client..you do realise the longer you take to get me the information I need to proceed with your website, the less chance there is for it to be finished by your deadline.

Not in IT, but sounds very familiar. Clients eh?

I'm working on a massive site / service project. Business case has so far taken 18 months to be ratified and we'll be expected to deliver in 6 months.

Guess who will get the blame when it's late.

rjsterry

Asprilla wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Mr client..you do realise the longer you take to get me the information I need to proceed with your website, the less chance there is for it to be finished by your deadline.

Not in IT, but sounds very familiar. Clients eh?

I'm working on a massive site / service project. Business case has so far taken 18 months to be ratified and we'll be expected to deliver in 6 months.

Guess who will get the blame when it's late.

Pretty standard through out the world.

coshgirl66

To the pathetic Asian wide boys in their chavmobile who came up behind me in the bus lane in Garratt Lane SW17 this morning and accused me of wobbling around all over the place and getting in their way, and then proceeded to follow me for the next mile and a half shouting abuse before finally swerving into me and forcing me onto the pavement. 1) I was riding in a perfectly straight line, hardly likely to wobble after almost 40 years of practice 2) WTF were you doing speeding in the bus lane and almost running me over and 3) You must have very small penises to go with your tiny brains and not to mention fat arses to hassle a 40 something woman on a bike for half an hour. Get a life losers :evil:

nich

To the chap at Moorgate this morning on a shiny Charge Plug.

Nice one for jumping a red light at speed and swerving passed a few peds, one of whom you would have hit if he hadn't have taken evasive action.

He muttered a few choice words at you which I also really really really felt like passing onto you at the next set of lights, but you jumped those too.

Agent57

Grrr, the forum has been rent asunder, and now I've got to check two different places rather than just one. Pain in the arse.

gbsahne001

Agent57 wrote:

Grrr, the forum has been rent asunder, and now I've got to check two different places rather than just one. Pain in the ars*.

ismn't that what the "whats new" button is for at the front page?

Agent57

gbsahne wrote:

Agent57 wrote:

Grrr, the forum has been rent asunder, and now I've got to check two different places rather than just one. Pain in the ars*.

ismn't that what the "whats new" button is for at the front page?

No, not really. That shows new posts across all the forums, rather than the one (now two) I normally want to check. In turn, that means scanning through more irrelevant and uninteresting threads than necessary.

If it could be fixed to show "new posts in the commuting general and commuting chat forums", then yeah, it'd work to an extent. However, there's still the problem that it only shows new posts "since the last visit", which in turn shows fewer recent threads, and I may not have read all the new posts on my previous visit.

nich

Sweating :oops:

I don't mind sweating during and right after exercise, but it seems to take me ages to stop sweating!

I get into the office after an hours commute, sort the bike out, sit for a few mins, have a 10 min shower and get dry and into my work clothes.

Then as soon as I sit down I start to sweat again, and it takes another 5-10 mins till it's stopped :x :x :x :x

Agent57

Maybe you need to dry yourself less vigorously.

asprilla

Bleedin' Councils.

The A308 had a perm cycle lane marked with a solid line that is in service from 8am and yet it's contsantly full of parked vehicles. I've complained to Richmond Council and they say they are cyrrencly investigating 'whether they can enforce it or it it is the job of TFL'. In other words they are currently investigating 'who they can pass the buck to'.

I'm advocating a eunoch only emplyment policy for councils as theis appears to be the only way to stop them spending all day sitting around scratching their balls.

Can anyone remember what they call the roads that are controlled by TFL as opposed to the local council?

Kieran_Burns

nich wrote:

Sweating :oops:

I don't mind sweating during and right after exercise, but it seems to take me ages to stop sweating!

I get into the office after an hours commute, sort the bike out, sit for a few mins, have a 10 min shower and get dry and into my work clothes.

Then as soon as I sit down I start to sweat again, and it takes another 5-10 mins till it's stopped :x :x :x :x

Being in the Server support team means I can go and stand in front of the Aircon units until I cool down 8)

I do suffer the same though - some days it takes ages to cool down

Libraio

Long time lurker first time poster, what better way to start then with a rant.
To the overweight, middle aged guys passing me yesterday on the cyclelane through the dunes between Kijkduin and Duindorp; if I'm riding rather slowly without a hemet because I just pootling you're not smart, funny, helpfull at all if you shout at me 'You forgot your helmet!". You're just very anoying! And instead of yelling to everybody to move, fit a bl##dy bell to your bike, I'ts way better than shouting at everybody.

It was pretty nice weather though...

rjsterry

And we were led to believe the Netherlands was some kind of cycling nirvana - sounds just like London.

Specialized Needs

Asprilla wrote:

Bleedin' Councils.

The A308 had a perm cycle lane marked with a solid line that is in service from 8am and yet it's contsantly full of parked vehicles. I've complained to Richmond Council and they say they are cyrrencly investigating 'whether they can enforce it or it it is the job of TFL'. In other words they are currently investigating 'who they can pass the buck to'.

I'm advocating a eunoch only emplyment policy for councils as theis appears to be the only way to stop them spending all day sitting around scratching their balls.

Can anyone remember what they call the roads that are controlled by TFL as opposed to the local council?

Might you be able to find out who is responsible by going to fillthathole.org.uk? IIRC they are able to distinguish who is responsible for a stretch of road, so if you go through the reporting process, then the site may indicate who is responsible for that stretch (a few months since I did it, so excuse me if things have changed on that site).

Of course, that assumes enforcement of such matters falls to the same authority as repairing.

Libraio

@rjsterry: It is cycling heaven, except on nice Sunday afternoons when everybody decides to cycle somewhere and disregard the rules for some reason.

itsbruce

Kieran_Burns wrote:

nich wrote:

Sweating :oops:


Being in the Server support team means I can go and stand in front of the Aircon units until I cool down 8)

Does somebody else hold your corner while you're taking a break?

asprilla

Specialized Needs wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

Bleedin' Councils.

The A308 had a perm cycle lane marked with a solid line that is in service from 8am and yet it's contsantly full of parked vehicles. I've complained to Richmond Council and they say they are cyrrencly investigating 'whether they can enforce it or it it is the job of TFL'. In other words they are currently investigating 'who they can pass the buck to'.

I'm advocating a eunoch only emplyment policy for councils as theis appears to be the only way to stop them spending all day sitting around scratching their balls.

Can anyone remember what they call the roads that are controlled by TFL as opposed to the local council?

Might you be able to find out who is responsible by going to fillthathole.org.uk? IIRC they are able to distinguish who is responsible for a stretch of road, so if you go through the reporting process, then the site may indicate who is responsible for that stretch (a few months since I did it, so excuse me if things have changed on that site).

Of course, that assumes enforcement of such matters falls to the same authority as repairing.

I rang the enforcement team from whom the council cycling team said they were awaiting a response as part of their investigations. It took them about 30 seconds to tell me that it was nothing to do with them. They were parking enforcement and could only deal with parking bays, and yellow lines.

So how comes the council have been waiting three weeks for a response.........

rjsterry

To the halfwitted woman in the blue hatchback who raced me from the lights by the Cricketers PH in Mitcham, just so you could swing left in front of me into your block of flats just past Baron Grove: just because you put your indicator on, doesn't make it alright to carve me up. And racing me? On my bike? Just how inadequate are you?

nich

A rant at myself for being a wuss. It's torrential rain this morning and I shall get the train in me thinks :oops:

gbsahne001

another smidsy moment last night; luckily for me the jedi powers had kicked in and I was expecting the car to try and left hook me.

Went to have words with the driver and the police officer behind the wheel was most apologetic

Kieran_Burns

I. Need. To. Move. East.

waddlie

Picked up shiny new bike yesterday.

It's persisted down ever since and despite it having full length mudguards I don't want to get it wet just yet.

Dammit.

lost_in_thought

Have Maxima, have shoes, will travel.

Not today though, really didn't feel like it.

DonDaddyD

There are no suitable locking or changing facilities at my place of work.

They have a staff of 4000 and 2 yes 2 tyre racks, you know the ones where you fit your wheel into and should the wind blow it'll bend your wheel.

Feckers.

rjsterry

Ah, the price of a bigger wage packet . I'm presuming you're a bit 'only cyclist in the village' over there. How is the commute BTW?

HVRNR

New to this forum so I thought I should start by having a good old moan!

Rant No 1

What is it with white van men that they think its effing hilarious to deliberately swerve and drive through a puddle to soak me to the skin as they passed me by this morning in Farnborough. Bloody Chavs! :x :x

Rant No 2

I travel part in by SW Trains from Farnborough and there are a limited no of bike racks on the trains which is all well and good if it were'nt for those bloody lazy Brompton users who can't be arsed to fold up their bikes, and therefore take up valubale bike rack space for those of us who choose to ride a proper bike! :evil: :evil:

I feel much better now!

northstar

rjsterry wrote:

To the halfwitted woman in the blue hatchback who raced me from the lights by the Cricketers PH in Mitcham, just so you could swing left in front of me into your block of flats just past Baron Grove: just because you put your indicator on, doesn't make it alright to carve me up. And racing me? On my bike? Just how inadequate are you?

I'm suprised she had room to race, it always seems like a car park along that road

On that subject someone in a jaguar (lol) raced me to some lights at the Ham Gate junction, considering I was on my MTB he must be really inadequate.

W1

Right, I'm done with it now.

ALL coach drivers are cretins. A National company that provides Express services employs only the most toe-chewing, knuckle dragging, mouth breathing, gormless morons that they scrape out of the village idiots reject pile.

FFS, you're supposed to be a professional driver. That's your job, that's what you do. Take some pride, do it properly.

You were so busy blasting your horn at me (I still don't know why) that you nearly rear ended the car in front that stopped for the ped crossing.

rjsterry

I get regularly buzzed by a Brighton-bound NE coach near Mitcham, They NEVER leave enough room when passing.