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Yeah cheers. Think a nice long walk and a fag is in order, that usually helps

Posted

Work has been so stressful this past few weeks, I've been having palpitations and a chest so tight I can hardly breathe for days.

 

Keep telling myself that in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter, and there's no point in having a stroke over it, but of course the mind doesn't work that way.

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Resurfacing the road here; Again.

Fucking hell, they hadnt got round to re-painting the white lines since they were done last time, but here they are again.

Its the usual shit job of spraying piss-thin tar then dumping hundreds of tons of gravel, leveling it out a little and just fucking leaving it like that for the traffic to press the gravel down and push the excess into the ditch over the next six months. Motorcyclists fucking love it.

 

 

The half-assed job they do really, really annoys me, but what gives me the proper fucking rage is the whole "we have to spend the money on something...." attitude. Also, I obviously have no proof but I will eat my shoes if there isnt some backhanders going on between the surfacing company and the local authority.

 

Earlier this summer they "resufaced" the wee lane right in front of my house. It apparently cost about five grand to do not even 100 meters..... the bit they are re-doing this week is about 6 kilometers....... and the cunt of a mayor gets to trot out his standard reply to any request..."There is no money in the budget for that..." aye, thats because you have pissed it all away on utterly pointless road coverings you wanker.

So it's not just the UK then? Standard procedure here. Just had a section done in our village. The fact that the road was/is full of bumps and potholes didn't bother them; they just didn't bother and so it is now bumpier than ever but covered in stones.

 

I wonder if you spilt a load of stones from a truck and just let them, the council would soon be after you. But call it "resurfacing" and you can leave as many tons of crap on the road surface as you want.

Plus the windscreen companies love it as th 20mm stones they use here really cause a lot of damage.

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Interview tomorrow. Need a job but seriously can't get my head in the right space.

 

Might be because I am doing a sales project on a contract basis and it's not going that brilliantly this week and starting to get me down. I will be alright in the morning, just needed a moan.

 

Last interview I had was with a complete c*nt and it has sort of put me off them! Tomorrow's is a two hour job, video conference with two guys in Seattle and then a chat with a guy in the office. Fairly intense so need to get my head straightened up. Maybe I just need some kip.

 

Daughter is munting on about Christmas, wife is working late and son is moaning I haven't done dinner. Probably not helping my urge to lash out!

Is it with Clem Fandango and Danny Bear?

Posted

Resurfacing the road here; Again.

Fucking hell, they hadnt got round to re-painting the white lines since they were done last time, but here they are again.

Its the usual shit job of spraying piss-thin tar then dumping hundreds of tons of gravel, leveling it out a little and just fucking leaving it like that for the traffic to press the gravel down and push the excess into the ditch over the next six months. Motorcyclists fucking love it.

 

 

The half-assed job they do really, really annoys me, but what gives me the proper fucking rage is the whole "we have to spend the money on something...." attitude. Also, I obviously have no proof but I will eat my shoes if there isnt some backhanders going on between the surfacing company and the local authority.

 

Earlier this summer they "resufaced" the wee lane right in front of my house. It apparently cost about five grand to do not even 100 meters..... the bit they are re-doing this week is about 6 kilometers....... and the cunt of a mayor gets to trot out his standard reply to any request..."There is no money in the budget for that..." aye, thats because you have pissed it all away on utterly pointless road coverings you wanker.

 

There are many on here who rant, but few who can match the quality and ferocity of your arguments, Dave_numberz.

 

More power to your elbow, Sir.

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Interview tomorrow. Need a job but seriously can't get my head in the right space.

 

Might be because I am doing a sales project on a contract basis and it's not going that brilliantly this week and starting to get me down. I will be alright in the morning, just needed a moan.

 

Last interview I had was with a complete c*nt and it has sort of put me off them! Tomorrow's is a two hour job, video conference with two guys in Seattle and then a chat with a guy in the office. Fairly intense so need to get my head straightened up. Maybe I just need some kip.

 

Daughter is munting on about Christmas, wife is working late and son is moaning I haven't done dinner. Probably not helping my urge to lash out!

 

Good luck, chief!

Posted

The British gas "rewards" ad has just been on again, fuck off with your free cuddly toy,etc if you've made that much profit just drop the price of your gas!

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Sorry mate but 'Mystic Fucking Ken' just made me nearly puke laughing. 

 

Today was mostly made very irritating by wankers who appear utterly unable to comprehend what 'one way' actually fucking means.

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Sir, it is the year 2017 currently, NOT 1985, please adjust your calenders / Casio watch accordingly.

It's a 1996 model, so closer to 1985 than today. But yes, I take your point, this is not a W123 300d by any stretch of the imagination.

 

*walks off, muttering about 'progress'*

Posted

Streetshite got coated in a shitty film of crap this afternoon following cricket-wrecking torrential downpours in Notts.

 

The rain seemed to lift up all the loose mud and sand which lies around in the filthy, pot-holed, dark and creepy car park I dump the car in for work each afternoon (off Alfreton Road anyone who knows it - essentially a demolition site masquerading as a car park) and flung it at the exterior surfaces and windows of any vehicle belonging to the poor saps who parted with £2.40 for a day's quality* parking.

 

No amount of screenwash or frantic scrubbing of the windscreen rendered anything more than 5% visibility. Reminded me of the old days when there were no heater blowers in cars and you drove along with a 10p size worth of ice-free windscreen which you stuck your face to and relied upon for all round vision.

 

Essentially most of my drive home was like this:

 

dog-hanging-out-car-window-photoshop-bat.

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Posted

...Er, sorry, I meant

 

a) Aerfort Bhaile Átha Cliath.

 

b ) An aeroway station for aerobuses.

 

c) Nah, Luton Airport!

Luton...? I think I remember going there in 1999 to get to Abersheep...but still, no Dyce. ;-)

Posted

Is it with Clem Fandango and Danny Bear?

"You can shut the fuck up Clem Fandango! With your made up name!"

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To be honest, Talbot, the 1990's were about the years Merc's reliability and build quality plummeted quicker than a greased anvil lobbed off Beachy Head.

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Interview tomorrow. Need a job but seriously can't get my head in the right space.

 

Might be because I am doing a sales project on a contract basis and it's not going that brilliantly this week and starting to get me down. I will be alright in the morning, just needed a moan.

 

Last interview I had was with a complete c*nt and it has sort of put me off them! Tomorrow's is a two hour job, video conference with two guys in Seattle and then a chat with a guy in the office. Fairly intense so need to get my head straightened up. Maybe I just need some kip.

 

Daughter is munting on about Christmas, wife is working late and son is moaning I haven't done dinner. Probably not helping my urge to lash out!

 

Dude, hope you got your head on straight....... and it went well enough. Keep us posted.

 

As an aside - how old are the kids then? My treasure* (actually he really is at the moment) is already being shown the workload he has to undertake to earn his weekly allowance etc... and is helping with meal prep to a certain extent. If the kids are (I started at 5) old enough then can't they learn the age old lesson of - you're hungry - get off your butt and help get it (or other things done to leave you free) sorted then? Of course if they're toddlers then you can just tell me to FRO!

If teenagers - a decent horsewhip or liquid suspended over precious electronics would also act as incentive ;-)

 

Best of luck on the job front

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Puncture. Bugger, and indeed, damn! Went out to the KIA of much indiference to wander up to the shop and the back tyre is as flat as a witches tit. Good job I always wander round the cars before I get in or I'd have missed that and ruined a tyre. Had to take the Mazda instead which is not really a hardship apart from the fact I (currently) have to roll out on to the floor to exit yon heap which is no fun when:

A, it's raining.

B, when the dogs are in the car 'cos Chester jumps all over me the fat sod!

 

I wonder how long it'll be before I bother to get it fixed?

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I am now officially in my late 30s.

Happy birthday Wuv! Slippery slope to death from now on I'm afraid.

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The 1990's were about the years Merc's reliability and build quality plummeted quicker than a greased anvil lobbed off Beachy Head.

So an early imported W210 is not the *most* sensible purrrchase then...

 

hmmm.

 

Wanna buy a Merc?

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+ + +  SITREP  + + +  1201HRS ZULU  + + +  BLINGO LATEST  + + +

 

Took it to Tame Mechanic this morning.  Wouldn't let me drive it away.  Could be water pump, though no coolant loss so not likely.  More possibly a pulley, so the timing cover's coming off later.  

 

Optimism pill: three-quarters of the way to the next cambelt change anyway...

 

;)

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Puncture. Bugger, and indeed, damn! Went out to the KIA of much indiference to wander up to the shop and the back tyre is as flat as a witches tit. Good job I always wander round the cars before I get in or I'd have missed that and ruined a tyre. Had to take the Mazda instead which is not really a hardship apart from the fact I (currently) have to roll out on to the floor to exit yon heap which is no fun when:

A, it's raining.

B, when the dogs are in the car 'cos Chester jumps all over me the fat sod!

 

I wonder how long it'll be before I bother to get it fixed?

 

Welcome back, not seen you post for yonks.

Posted

Streetshite got coated in a shitty film of crap this afternoon following cricket-wrecking torrential downpours in Notts.

 

The rain seemed to lift up all the loose mud and sand which lies around in the filthy, pot-holed, dark and creepy car park I dump the car in for work each afternoon (off Alfreton Road anyone who knows it - essentially a demolition site masquerading as a car park) and flung it at the exterior surfaces and windows of any vehicle belonging to the poor saps who parted with £2.40 for a day's quality* parking.

 

No amount of screenwash or frantic scrubbing of the windscreen rendered anything more than 5% visibility. Reminded me of the old days when there were no heater blowers in cars and you drove along with a 10p size worth of ice-free windscreen which you stuck your face to and relied upon for all round vision.

 

Essentially most of my drive home was like this:

 

dog-hanging-out-car-window-photoshop-bat.

Got to be a dog thread calendar shot that! Cool mutt !

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Dude, hope you got your head on straight....... and it went well enough. Keep us posted.

 

As an aside - how old are the kids then? My treasure* (actually he really is at the moment) is already being shown the workload he has to undertake to earn his weekly allowance etc... and is helping with meal prep to a certain extent. If the kids are (I started at 5) old enough then can't they learn the age old lesson of - you're hungry - get off your butt and help get it (or other things done to leave you free) sorted then? Of course if they're toddlers then you can just tell me to FRO!

If teenagers - a decent horsewhip or liquid suspended over precious electronics would also act as incentive ;-)

 

Best of luck on the job front

Well on the whole it went pretty well. Feedback was good from the team, including the 19 year old receptionist who referred to me as that "nice polite gentleman" when she was asked about me. General summary is guy in UK wants me on board, but need to get feedback from the HR lady in the US - who I got on well with too so am quietly optimistic I am in line for a second go.

 

Feel much better now, needed a little boost and today has provided that.

 

As for my kids, my Daughter is 16 and has autism, a result of which is she fails to perceive danger. So if she cooked something, chances are the hob would be left on. Son on the other hand is just a lazy bastard but tonight he discovers he has no pizza as he hadn't emptied the dishwasher as I asked him to....

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I think I've just been nabbed by a scamera van. Pissflaps.

 

Don't worry about it until the letter arrives. Remember they set their threshold higher than the limit by 10% or so, and your speedo almost definitely reads fast too - they always do. I've been "borderline" a few times and never got a letter.

 

I once went to the next village, noticed the camera van as I passed it at 42mph or so. Dunno where I was looking as this thing was visible from 1/4 mile away, pointing in the direction I was driving. Gave myself a right mental kicking for not spotting that.

On the way back it was still there.... parked in the 30mph zone but only by a couple of feet, with the "target zone" for pictures well into a 40. Never knew that bit of road was 40 not 30. Well relieved! 

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I went past one when they had a clear view of me at 45+ in a 30 the other month. Nothing came of it.

 

For info some east european nutter was busy trying to run me off the road for daring to drive in the lane he wanted, so I was using a bit boooooooooost to keep the fucker behind me.

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So this morning this happened.

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Mrs V8 had been out to a meeting called into the house to collect something on her way to her next meeting,parked the car in front of the house.

The young lass over the road heading into work, reverse off her drive straight into my big bright blue BMW that see hadn't seen.

Damaging the front bumper,nearside head light,pushing the inner wheel arch cover into the tyre and  damaging the alloy wheel.

 

It pushed her rear bumper up into her boot. She has a BMW 218 coupe 66plate.

I,at the time was looking out of the bedroom window and saw it all happen.

 

The lass was absolutely distort,shaking and sobbing,our lass went over and just gave her a hug.Both crying.

 

I rang our insurance and explained,within a hour a recovery truck was at mine to collect to take it to Coopers BMW in Sunderland,Enterprise had rang to organise our replacement car.

 

I now have a black 17plate  BMW 2.0d M-sport x drive  auto.

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Don't worry about it until the letter arrives. Remember they set their threshold higher than the limit by 10% or so, and your speedo almost definitely reads fast too - they always do. I've been "borderline" a few times and never got a letter.

 

I once went to the next village, noticed the camera van as I passed it at 42mph or so. Dunno where I was looking as this thing was visible from 1/4 mile away, pointing in the direction I was driving. Gave myself a right mental kicking for not spotting that.

On the way back it was still there.... parked in the 30mph zone but only by a couple of feet, with the "target zone" for pictures well into a 40. Never knew that bit of road was 40 not 30. Well relieved!

Whereas 2 different vans got me at 34 in a 30 on 2 consecutive days in different counties (same plod force though) .

 

And yes, it fucking sucked! Plus side, I popped into British heart foundation during the lunch break on the course for the first offense and found a lovely vacuum cleaner... Then 3 points/£100 for the second offense.

 

Be careful out there

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