Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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surrey_commuter said:
I had assumed they were doing it as a joke/charity to help team bonding and alleviate the boredom.JimD666 said:
I was listening to one of the T20 world cup group games, and the Aussie commenters were putting the blame solely on AFL guys. It may of been just trying to blame someone, anyone else for a whole populations poor choices but still....Pross said:
I think it is Aussies generally, it has become a fashion statement in Welsh rugby (especially at youth level) due to copying some of the fine examples of the Aussie team. There has been a documentary on BBC Wales following the Ospreys and Scarlets academies and probably half the players have mullets. Not that I can criticise having had a bit of one myself in my teenage years.JimD666 said:The Aussie Football League has a lot to answer for in relation to mullets.
As to your own personal shame.....unless your teenage years were only a couple of years ago you can probably just chalk it up to experience and move on
I can confirm that it is a thing amongst English school rugby players too. I'm tempted to tell them that it looked ridiculous in the 80s too, but most of them are big enough to knock my lights out, so I haven't.0 -
Thing with the Aussies, if you think they're joking, they probably aren't and vice versa. Think it comes from living upside down. 😉surrey_commuter said:
I had assumed they were doing it as a joke/charity to help team bonding and alleviate the boredom.JimD666 said:
I was listening to one of the T20 world cup group games, and the Aussie commenters were putting the blame solely on AFL guys. It may of been just trying to blame someone, anyone else for a whole populations poor choices but still....Pross said:
I think it is Aussies generally, it has become a fashion statement in Welsh rugby (especially at youth level) due to copying some of the fine examples of the Aussie team. There has been a documentary on BBC Wales following the Ospreys and Scarlets academies and probably half the players have mullets. Not that I can criticise having had a bit of one myself in my teenage years.JimD666 said:The Aussie Football League has a lot to answer for in relation to mullets.
As to your own personal shame.....unless your teenage years were only a couple of years ago you can probably just chalk it up to experience and move on0 -
Mullets are all the rage among the under 30s at our rugby clubWilier Izoard XP0
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I thought mullets on rugby players was some attempt to look like a nutter and psych out the opposition.
Or do the knocks to the head make them believe three hairstyles on a single head is a good look?0 -
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
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He looks like an alien trying to blend in and learn about our culture.pinno said:
Took them at least 30 years to get to earth, though.0 -
Maisie Adam has gone double mullet, front and back. I suppose she has to have something that's funny, being a 'comedian'.
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The BBC going all in on the self-congratulatory 100 years stuff.0
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Insured my car last week. Insurance to start beginning of November, now getting emails asking would I recommend this insurance. How would I know it’s as good as it says it is till I try and make a claim.1
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Worse yet, leave a 98% positive review with 2% constructive criticism and it gets rejected. I now automatically delete all requests for reviews.webboo said:Insured my car last week. Insurance to start beginning of November, now getting emails asking would I recommend this insurance. How would I know it’s as good as it says it is till I try and make a claim.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Worked my nuts off with a potential big client - multiple phone calls, video calls, you name it.
Eventually got him to agree to meet face-to-face - this matters as I find it much harder to read the room on a video call and this guy is not the most communicative. I'm twice as good in person (or half as good on video).
Can't make the time agreed, no problem, re-arranged for another time.
Only that's the day of the train strikes. His diary is a nightmare, so it's back to a video call, FFS.0 -
why wouldn't you stay in Town for the night?rick_chasey said:Worked my nuts off with a potential big client - multiple phone calls, video calls, you name it.
Eventually got him to agree to meet face-to-face - this matters as I find it much harder to read the room on a video call and this guy is not the most communicative. I'm twice as good in person (or half as good on video).
Can't make the time agreed, no problem, re-arranged for another time.
Only that's the day of the train strikes. His diary is a nightmare, so it's back to a video call, FFS.0 -
Client can’t get in eithersurrey_commuter said:
why wouldn't you stay in Town for the night?rick_chasey said:Worked my nuts off with a potential big client - multiple phone calls, video calls, you name it.
Eventually got him to agree to meet face-to-face - this matters as I find it much harder to read the room on a video call and this guy is not the most communicative. I'm twice as good in person (or half as good on video).
Can't make the time agreed, no problem, re-arranged for another time.
Only that's the day of the train strikes. His diary is a nightmare, so it's back to a video call, FFS.0 -
I was going to say the same although I remember RC mentioning his recent bad news so maybe doesn’t feel ready to stay away from the wife for the night yet. As a one off I would have driven if the client as the potential to be a good one.0
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How do you measure your ratio between in person and forum posting?rick_chasey said:I'm twice as good in person (or half as good on video).
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Good question.TheBigBean said:
How do you measure your ratio between in person and forum posting?rick_chasey said:I'm twice as good in person (or half as good on video).
For work I can look at conversion rates and they’re double in person.0 -
Anyway a nice real world example of loss of productivity due to poor and unreliable infrastructure0
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Ah fuck, I've bought tickets to the rouleur event on 3rd of November. Now can't get in or back for that either, plus another 3 client meetings cancelled.0
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The way I see it you have 3 choices - 1. move house, 2. move jobs or 3. start driving. I'm not saying you should have to do any of these (and starting driving is clearly nonsensical when we are supposed to be making 'greener' choice) but otherwise you're going to be annoyed permanently as I don't see the situation with your rail journies improving any time soon.0
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How about the government sorts the f*cking problem out, rather than just having the entire system on strike for 10% of the time?
I ummed and aahed about that rouleur event for years, given how expensive it was. Finally decided to go for it when I saw Boonen and Cancellara on the line up.
I'm gutted, really am. I was so looking forward to that.
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Of course they should but it's not going to happen any time soon so you are destined for long term annoyance. Is it really not possible to drive for one day so that you can get to enjoy something you've waited so long for? I was going to suggest driving to somewhere on the northern fringes and then using the Tube or London Overground but that's the day they are all striking isn't it? Can you switch the tickets to the event of the 4th instead?rick_chasey said:How about the government sorts the f*cking problem out, rather than just having the entire system on strike for 10% of the time?
I ummed and aahed about that rouleur event for years, given how expensive it was. Finally decided to go for it when I saw Boonen and Cancellara on the line up.
I'm gutted, really am. I was so looking forward to that.0 -
You have 4 options as I see it.rick_chasey said:How about the government sorts the f*cking problem out, rather than just having the entire system on strike for 10% of the time?
1. Wait on the government resolving transport issues.
2. Resolve your own personal transport issues.
3. Accept the issues for what they are.
4. Moan incessantly.
Which is the most likely outcome? 😉The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Lads, don't be pricks. This is something I've been looking forward to for months.
I don't need your advice. Else I'd have posted it in an advice section.
Try this with your wife sometime, when she's complaining, ask her if she wants sympathy or a solution.0 -
Come on here if you want a solution.rick_chasey said:
Try this with your wife sometime, when she's complaining, ask her if she wants sympathy or a solution.
Ask your girlfriends if you want sympathy.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.3 -
Which is why we are trying to offer you solutions. What use is sympathy?rick_chasey said:Lads, don't be pricks. This is something I've been looking forward to for months.
I don't need your advice. Else I'd have posted it in an advice section.
Try this with your wife sometime, when she's complaining, ask her if she wants sympathy or a solution.
I got really lucky a couple of weeks ago when the steam railway journey I'd arranged for my wife's 50th fell a day after one national rail strike and two days before another. The previous journey they had run had to be postponed, obviously the trip itself isn't affected by the rail strikes but it runs on public tracks that were affected. I'd have been seriously p!ssed off as I had a nice hotel booked and any re-arranged date wouldn't have been on her birthday or even close to it so would have ruined the trip completely with there being no way to overcome the problem. You at least seem to have an option on paper to drive even if it would be a major hassle with more cost.0 -
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Make the effort to drive to where he is?rick_chasey said:
Client can’t get in eithersurrey_commuter said:
why wouldn't you stay in Town for the night?rick_chasey said:Worked my nuts off with a potential big client - multiple phone calls, video calls, you name it.
Eventually got him to agree to meet face-to-face - this matters as I find it much harder to read the room on a video call and this guy is not the most communicative. I'm twice as good in person (or half as good on video).
Can't make the time agreed, no problem, re-arranged for another time.
Only that's the day of the train strikes. His diary is a nightmare, so it's back to a video call, FFS.0
