iainrcz Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 9 minutes ago, Neil clark said: Seems expensive.... If by that you mean slow. Then yes. mrbenn, Neil clark and Supernaut 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 I am doing my NHS nursey job from the office. This is normally where it all happens anyway. I didn't want to work from home as home is shit, the bandwidth is super shit, ben and Mrs PBK work from home and suck up all the bandwidth. I have nowhere confidential to work from at home. I am working on my own in an office that normally holds about 50 staff. I am rarely disturbed. Just had a phonecall from our 'organisational' team leader to say t hat I cannot work in the office from tomorrow on and can only work from home. Why? I ask. I explain the issues. They are heard sympathetically. They are swept aside as the 'big bosses' have decreed that the place be emptied of all staff and the place virtually sterilised. Well, that will make it all better won't it. The first person to walk into the building will undo all the good work*. My work mobile data use is being bumped up hugely to compensate for the shitty home wifi. So, I'll be stuck at home in a shitty situation with no respite whatsoever. That will make it all bearable won't it. Thanks a bunch you wankers. My one and only escape, now fucked. puddlethumper, Coprolalia, brownnova and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 7 minutes ago, purplebargeken said: work mobile data use Should be free and unlimited, on the network provider, PM me if it's an issue. Go and work in the espace? paulplom and stonedagain 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camryv6 Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 10 minutes ago, purplebargeken said: I am doing my NHS nursey job from the office. This is normally where it all happens anyway. I didn't want to work from home as home is shit, the bandwidth is super shit, ben and Mrs PBK work from home and suck up all the bandwidth. I have nowhere confidential to work from at home. I am working on my own in an office that normally holds about 50 staff. I am rarely disturbed. Just had a phonecall from our 'organisational' team leader to say t hat I cannot work in the office from tomorrow on and can only work from home. Why? I ask. I explain the issues. They are heard sympathetically. They are swept aside as the 'big bosses' have decreed that the place be emptied of all staff and the place virtually sterilised. Well, that will make it all better won't it. The first person to walk into the building will undo all the good work*. My work mobile data use is being bumped up hugely to compensate for the shitty home wifi. So, I'll be stuck at home in a shitty situation with no respite whatsoever. That will make it all bearable won't it. Thanks a bunch you wankers. My one and only escape, now fucked. If it is mobile data, could you work from a park, or your car somewhere quiet ? eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 I live in lovely Edmonton, the capitol of stupid shouty noisy people. No such thing as quiet here sadly. This is one of the reasons I would like to fuck off somewhere a bit more French. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 9 minutes ago, purplebargeken said: I live in French. No time like the present then, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 There is. Not yet divorced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 6 hours ago, Mally said: I've just broke a tooth. Right at the back, been filled years ago and a peice has broken off the side. Not hurting, so hope for the best. Not a lot of dentistry being done at the moment. If it is painful you could try your local dental hospital. They are very good if you can't get a dentists appointment. Here you turn up at about 07:00 and everyone is seen in turn. Pays to be early. Mally 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mally Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Thanks, I'll wait until it hurts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainagain Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 On 5/18/2020 at 7:49 PM, eddyramrod said: I've just been over on Open Forum - I know, I really shouldn't, it boils my piss far too often - and seen someone use the "word" outwith in a post; not once but twice! WTF is outwith? It seems to have been used as a replacement for outside, in both cases. What was wrong with outside? Is that not a perfectly good well-established easily-understood English word? Show me who invented outwith. I'll show you a red stain on the wall where his head used to be. It is in the dictionary: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/dictionary.cambridge.org/amp/english/outwith It appears to have originated in Middle English but then it fell out of favour apart from in Scotland and Ireland. Christine 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 You're not cheering me up here... myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busmansholiday Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 "Two time" really, really fucks me off. It's either "two times" (because it's plural) or "twice" you twats on TV.... xtriple and myglaren 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainagain Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 1 minute ago, eddyramrod said: You're not cheering me up here... Personally I think we should bring back old words. Overmorrow is a great word. It means the day after tomorrow. My favourite though is defenestration, I’ll let you look up the definition. I love the fact we actually have a word for this. myglaren, LightBulbFun, chodweaver and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juular Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 5 minutes ago, rainagain said: It is in the dictionary: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/dictionary.cambridge.org/amp/english/outwith It appears to have originated in Middle English but then it fell out of favour apart from in Scotland and Ireland. I always thought it was an old Scottish thing. At work I hear it 10 times a day, I'm sure I've used it too but I don't think about it because it is so common here. I've known people from South of the border to ask what it means, which threw me a bit. I suppose they just don't hear it much outwith Scotland. ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 If it's a Scottish "thing" that will at least explain why I hear it all the time on the BBC, and especially when a politician is involved. ETA: I didn't really need an explanation of it, what I really needed and still do, is total extermination of it! myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 I could be wrong but my understanding is that it’s used to refer to people more than things, so a person could be from out with Scotland, but a car would be made outside Scotland, if tat makes sense. Certainly how my old Glaswegian buddies seemed to use it, but they could just have been yanking my chain (again). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Where's CMS206, Professor of SCTSH Vernackular Fuckery at the University of Paisley, when you need him...? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 15 hours ago, rainagain said: My favourite though is defenestration, I’ll let you look up the definition. I love the fact we actually have a word for this. One of my daughter's favourites, along with exsanguination. To put our minds at ease, we can now purchase a USB dongle that will stop 5G infecting us with the coronavirus. Magic Gadget chodweaver 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 13 minutes ago, myglaren said: ....we can now purchase a USB dongle that will stop 5G infecting us with the coronavirus..... ...and instead infect our computers with something else. LightBulbFun, myglaren, leanycan and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Saw a brown Vauxhall Nova for breaking on a North Wales cars for sale site... why the grump? Because he had already stripped it and says it’s too far gone to sell whole... I will own another brown Nova one day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Just now, brownnova said: Saw a brown Vauxhall Nova for breaking on a North Wales cars for sale site... why the grump? Because he had already stripped it and says it’s too far gone to sell whole... I will own another brown Nova one day... Buy a white one and smear horse poo on it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 1 hour ago, New POD said: .... smear horse poo on it ? I'm sure I can supply some.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Don’t leave yourself short of it mind - make sure you have some to put on corner apex’s to keep bikers on their toes ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Earrings Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Fell out with the other half recently as I had apparently "not told her anything" about an impending purchase on here which she has managed to veto. However, whilst I am in the dog house I am planning on trying to reattempt at selling the idea of this purchase to her again and not fall out with her. FFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacquer Peel Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 On 5/19/2020 at 5:54 PM, purplebargeken said: I live in lovely Edmonton, the capitol of stupid shouty noisy people. No such thing as quiet here sadly. This is one of the reasons I would like to fuck off somewhere a bit more French. Err you might be replacing one loud set of people with another set of loud people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juular Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 9 hours ago, Lacquer Peel said: Err you might be replacing one loud set of people with another set of loud people. Travelling around Europe I was always surprised how quiet French and German towns were, especially at night. Yes they converse loudly and shout across the street a lot - and Frenchies lean on their horns during the day, but comparatively it was peaceful. Coming back home was like an alternate universe. Everyone here has to be obnoxiously thick and loud. Pounding music in every single car, pounding music from flats and houses, hundreds of barking dogs, shouting arguments from half the places you walk past. I've lived in some right shitholes and then some much nicer places. What surprised me was how much worse the "nicer" places are for obnoxious noise pollution. ProgRocker, Jerzy Woking, chodweaver and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 Finally came to a head with my upstairs neighbours last night. They had wound her kids up till they were screaming in hysterics and begging them to stop what ever they were doing. Her, her dad, mother, brother, boyfriend etc were all there. Shouting shut the fuck up man you winging little cunts etc. Twins of 7 and a boy of 5. This went on for an hour before I finally snapped. After screaming up at them to stop abusing their kids I rang the police. As I was on the phone to the call handler her brother stormed in through my front door. I grabbed him by the throat with one hand and marched him out trying to get his eyes to pop while I was trying to get my point across on the phone. The police turned up 10 minutes later and were great. The've passed it on to the relevant authorities and diffused the situation. They must have been upstairs over an hour. The police told me the boyfriend was still soberish (not long finished work) otherwise the kids would have been removed.I've had death threats and stuff since but it's water off a ducks back to me. Won't be the first time I've been in jail..I'm sitting here on the bog typing this and she's still shouting and swearing at them. Unbelievable.I've got a proper starting pistol and ammo in the drawer in case they start again tonight. It should frighten them if nowt else.Sent from my SM-G975F using Tapatalk flat4alfa, dave j, Floatylight and 5 others 2 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 1 minute ago, paulplom said: I've got a proper starting pistol and ammo in the drawer in case they start again tonight. It should frighten them if nowt else Just no. Good work calling the police. If children are being abused now, call them again. Craig the Princess, paulplom, myglaren and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 I will ring. Upstairs will get sick before I do.Sent from my SM-G975F using Tapatalk ProgRocker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty_vw_man Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 I am trying to move house. We have finally got to the point of exchange. We had agreed everything required is in place, and tomorrow the solicitors will do their funky thing and exchange, then complete in 2 weeks time. Except now apparently everything is no longer in place, but no one can tell me whats not, and whats gone missing since earlier in the week when everything was in place. Apparently we are 90% certain of completion tomorrow, but no one can tell me what the last 10% is that would tip us over the line. I find it baffling - I was this vague at my job things would fall down and people would die. Why is the housing market and the buying and selling of houses so needlessly complicated and stressful, and more importantly why does no one seem to want to take any responsibility for making it happen! purplebargeken, Craig the Princess and Jerzy Woking 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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