Ruining something beautiful... and making money rant

Redhog14

What good stuff has been ruined for you on regular basis...

I have always enjoyed a good pipe band ( I know not to everyones' taste) I work in Edinburgh but all these gobshite pipers out there playing badly and getting dumbass tourists to give them money.... :twisted:

So from X Factor destroying good songs to Carlos Tevez wasting time, talent and other peoples money get it off your chest before the weekend!

LeicesterLad

Me doing my A-levels, Deciding not to go uni, but worked quite hard at school, now earn about 17k per annum, (peanuts), nobhead i used to know leaves school at 16, with 2 GCSE's, Uncle says no worries lad, heres a job at my carpentry firm, pays 40k a year, oh and by the way im giving up in 2 years, then the business is yours. (few years ago now, but people who don't deserve to land on their feet, but do, really ruins life for me).

Redhog14

LeicesterLad
Ouch I sense that stings you more than a bit... he will fcuk it up somewhere along the line rest assured. Justfagetaboutit.

prawny

LeicesterLad wrote:

Me doing my A-levels, Deciding not to go uni, but worked quite hard at school, now earn about 17k per annum, (peanuts), nobhead i used to know leaves school at 16, with 2 GCSE's, Uncle says no worries lad, heres a job at my carpentry firm, pays 40k a year, oh and by the way im giving up in 2 years, then the business is yours. (few years ago now, but people who don't deserve to land on their feet, but do, really ruins life for me).

I did that. You'll catch up, seriously.

Left school after my A-levels couldn't get a decent job so had to work through a load of toss. Doing Ok now, but the pace and size of the pay rises is picking up. I've doubled my salary in the last 3 years. 4 years ago I was married with a house and earning a fair bit less than you are.

Garry H

Redhog14 wrote:

What good stuff has been ruined for you on regular basis...

I have always enjoyed a good pipe band ( I know not to everyones' taste) I work in Edinburgh but all these gobshite pipers out there playing badly and getting dumbass tourists to give them money.... :twisted:

So from X Factor destroying good songs to Carlos Tevez wasting time, talent and other peoples money get it off your chest before the weekend!

Like the blind one that stands on the Royal Mile? Dear god man, he's awful. I'm all for equal opportunities, but...

beverick

Amongst others....

1) A local bridlepath was tarmac'ed a couple of years ago, it was one of the best MTB tracks around. You may as well be on the pavement now.

2) Muller Youghurts. They're the same price as they were last year but they're now 20%smaller, you can't get the lid off in one and they seem to have a strange gelatanous texture.

3) Tetlely's bitter is now brewed by either Camerons or Marston's breweries under contract to Carlsberg whilst the Leeds brewery, once the largest brewery of its type in the world now stands derelict awaiting demolision. Similarly Boddington's is brewed under license either in Wales or by Boddington's former arch enemy at their Hyde brewery.

Bob

Pross

The Millenium Stadium. It's a fantastic sports ground but with the old National Stadium you only had a capacity of 40,000ish which meant tickets were like gold dust and went to regular rugby supporters. We now have a capacity of 73,000 and it is filled up by people there to try to get on TV. Up and down to the bar all match, hardly watching the game and when they do they haven't got a clue what is happening :x

beverick

Pross wrote:

The Millenium Stadium. It's a fantastic sports ground but with the old National Stadium you only had a capacity of 40,000ish which meant tickets were like gold dust and went to regular rugby supporters. We now have a capacity of 73,000 and it is filled up by people there to try to get on TV. Up and down to the bar all match, hardly watching the game and when they do they haven't got a clue what is happening :x

Ditto Lansdown Road (although the old stadium was a bit of a dump!).

LeicesterLad

prawny wrote:

LeicesterLad wrote:

Me doing my A-levels, Deciding not to go uni, but worked quite hard at school, now earn about 17k per annum, (peanuts), nobhead i used to know leaves school at 16, with 2 GCSE's, Uncle says no worries lad, heres a job at my carpentry firm, pays 40k a year, oh and by the way im giving up in 2 years, then the business is yours. (few years ago now, but people who don't deserve to land on their feet, but do, really ruins life for me).

I did that. You'll catch up, seriously.

Left school after my A-levels couldn't get a decent job so had to work through a load of toss. Doing Ok now, but the pace and size of the pay rises is picking up. I've doubled my salary in the last 3 years. 4 years ago I was married with a house and earning a fair bit less than you are.

Glad to hear it, although i have been messing things up for myself, renting with the missus for the last 4 years which is dead money, the chances of me buying a house in my lifetime is now next to zero (no savings, as required for the 90% deposit now needed before the banks even consider giving a sh*t) and its not the best time to start looking for new jobs either, A)there are not any, there are brighter people than me currently in the dole que.

Think the Lotto is my last hope to be honest...

As you can tell, im feeling cheery today

RoadyForever

Computers, don't get my wrong I do really like working in IT. But some 3rd party IT companies do p1ss me off when they break my stuff.

Take today, I was planning on taking the day off and going for a nice cycle (a luxury of working for yourself). But Noooo the email provider has screwed up and now order confirmations (we're taking about a fair turnover here) arn't being sent out to clients. Getting there now, but it has been way more hassle than it should have been. This is the second major failure in as many weeks.

DavidBelcher

beverick wrote:

3) Tetlely's bitter is now brewed by either Camerons or Marston's breweries under contract to Carlsberg whilst the Leeds brewery, once the largest brewery of its type in the world now stands derelict awaiting demolision.

Carlsberg Tetley did a similar hatchet job on Ansells Mild (a boozing staple of my late teens/early 20s) when they stopped brewing it in Burton. It was never the same beer again, in my opinion.

David

prawny

LeicesterLad wrote:

prawny wrote:

LeicesterLad wrote:

Me doing my A-levels, Deciding not to go uni, but worked quite hard at school, now earn about 17k per annum, (peanuts), nobhead i used to know leaves school at 16, with 2 GCSE's, Uncle says no worries lad, heres a job at my carpentry firm, pays 40k a year, oh and by the way im giving up in 2 years, then the business is yours. (few years ago now, but people who don't deserve to land on their feet, but do, really ruins life for me).

I did that. You'll catch up, seriously.

Left school after my A-levels couldn't get a decent job so had to work through a load of toss. Doing Ok now, but the pace and size of the pay rises is picking up. I've doubled my salary in the last 3 years. 4 years ago I was married with a house and earning a fair bit less than you are.

Glad to hear it, although i have been messing things up for myself, renting with the missus for the last 4 years which is dead money, the chances of me buying a house in my lifetime is now next to zero (no savings, as required for the 90% deposit now needed before the banks even consider giving a sh*t) and its not the best time to start looking for new jobs either, A)there are not any, there are brighter people than me currently in the dole que.

Think the Lotto is my last hope to be honest...

As you can tell, im feeling cheery today

If it makes you feel a bit better I haven't changed employers for 6 years, I just keep pestering them for chances, working well so far!

DavidJB

LeicesterLad wrote:

Me doing my A-levels, Deciding not to go uni, but worked quite hard at school, now earn about 17k per annum, (peanuts), nobhead i used to know leaves school at 16, with 2 GCSE's, Uncle says no worries lad, heres a job at my carpentry firm, pays 40k a year, oh and by the way im giving up in 2 years, then the business is yours. (few years ago now, but people who don't deserve to land on their feet, but do, really ruins life for me).

Just keep plugging away. I left school with only GCSE's and I am now a Java Developer making decent money ... had to start in the helpdesk and work my way up for 4 years to get here!

stigofthedump

Went to Stockport with a college friend in 1983 and had a pint of Boddingtons. Brewed at the Strangeways brewery - just fantastic.

These days it comes on a can from Tesco, brewed who knows where.

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour,
but heaven knows i'm miserable now.

The Smiths

BTW LiecesterLad, don't dwell on the past, go and post some more rock Lyrics

woodnut

Bonfire night, it's sh it nowadays. When we were kids you built you went progging and built your own fire, bought a few bangers from the newsagents and nearly blew your arms off.
Sooooo commercialised & over organised nowadays

bearfraser

Had a pint of "Guiness" in the states:- it was P$%^!!!!!!

greenphotos

Some footballer in the news this week, dunno his name, hate the sport, but remember it said he earned £250k per week.

PER BL))DY WEEK!


#goestobanghead

CrackFox

Antipodean Cadbury Dairy Milk. A crude and cruel simalacrum.

thegreatdivide

Cycling Plus

verylonglegs

Radio 5. Was never beautiful but now ruined by the likes of Robbie Savage on the sports shows and things like discussion about strictly come dancing and the death of Micheal Jackson.

shockedsoshocked

LeicesterLad wrote:

Me doing my A-levels, Deciding not to go uni, but worked quite hard at school, now earn about 17k per annum, (peanuts), nobhead i used to know leaves school at 16, with 2 GCSE's, Uncle says no worries lad, heres a job at my carpentry firm, pays 40k a year, oh and by the way im giving up in 2 years, then the business is yours. (few years ago now, but people who don't deserve to land on their feet, but do, really ruins life for me).

Welcome to Middlesbrough.

Stone Glider

Had a pint of Boddington's last night. First time for me and it was strange. A totally dead taste with a faint caramel flavour..... had to have a second to be certain

The history of brewing in the last forty years seems to be a story of taking a good product cheapening the ingredients and ruining it Whilst pushing the price into the stratosphere.

stigofthedump

Robbie Savage has been the making of 606

DavidBelcher

Stone Glider wrote:

Had a pint of Boddington's last night. First time for me and it was strange. A totally dead taste with a faint caramel flavour..... had to have a second to be certain

The history of brewing in the last forty years seems to be a story of taking a good product cheapening the ingredients and ruining it Whilst pushing the price into the stratosphere.

Not had any Boddies for a few years. It went through a phase of being over-promoted and bland then seemed to recover a bit in the mid/late 90s with a good hoppy flavour to it. This, of course, was in the days before Whitbread gave up on such things completely and got obsessed with running coffee shops etc. instead.

Draught Bass is another once-excellent bitter that slowly seems to be disappearing off the radar. Thankfully, by and large, it's only the national brands that that this is happening to. Had a couple of pints of Everards Tiger last night for the first time in ages, which was as good as ever. Yum yum.

David

DavidBelcher

stigofthedump wrote:

Went to Stockport with a college friend in 1983 and had a pint of Boddingtons. Brewed at the Strangeways brewery - just fantastic.

These days it comes on a can from Tesco, brewed who knows where.

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour,
but heaven knows i'm miserable now.

The Smiths

BTW LiecesterLad, don't dwell on the past, go and post some more rock Lyrics

I think the canned stuff is brewed at InBev's South Wales fizz factory off the M4, along with Stella and all the other usual suspects.

Surely if in Stockport you should be drinking Robinsons instead? Now that still is a damn good drink (and their Old Tom even more so, not that you can put many of those away without falling over).

David

Blacktemplar

beverick wrote:

Pross wrote:

The Millenium Stadium. It's a fantastic sports ground but with the old National Stadium you only had a capacity of 40,000ish which meant tickets were like gold dust and went to regular rugby supporters. We now have a capacity of 73,000 and it is filled up by people there to try to get on TV. Up and down to the bar all match, hardly watching the game and when they do they haven't got a clue what is happening :x

Ditto Lansdown Road (although the old stadium was a bit of a dump!).

Ditto Murrayfield. Mind you it's not usually more than half full anyway......

verylonglegs

stigofthedump wrote:

Robbie Savage has been the making of 606

Savage makes Talksport seem cerebral, all I heard him say for two weeks to people he disagreed with was pretty much 'I've played the game and you haven't so I'm right.' He gets turned off now as soon as I hear his voice.

iainment

Major sporting events with exhibitionists in fancy dress and/or face paint in the crowd.

And Mexican waves.

Pross

iainment wrote:

Major sporting events with exhibitionists in fancy dress and/or face paint in the crowd.

And Mexican waves.

To right, it all adds to that Millenium Stadium misery!

Pross

woodnut wrote:

Bonfire night, it's sh it nowadays. When we were kids you built you went progging and built your own fire, bought a few bangers from the newsagents and nearly blew your arms off.
Sooooo commercialised & over organised nowadays

Yep, and all displays used to be on the same night. You would also never see fireworks outside November so they were much more of a treat even though the quality was nothing like it is now.

GiantMike

Forums: They used to be good fun but now they're full of c0cks ranting off at the first opportunity.

Oh, hang on.