The grumpy thread

[tooSavvy]

I certainly wasted mine.    Its a lot harder to enjoy youth when you are pushing 60.

@60 one has had the time to appraise the period since = ergo "I wouldn't say it was an unhappy childhood, but it has been a long one!"

 

 

TS

[Captain Furious]

Someone says something funny. I reply with “lol that’s brilliant”

 

However two nanoseconds before my reply goes on, someone reveals a terrible tragedy. Suddenly my reply seems somewhat harsh!

 

Quotes can sometimes help keep things in perspective!

 

Many years ago when txt spk was just getting trendy, a friend of mines mum thought lol meant lots of love.  One day my mate got a text from her saying

 

"Hi, just letting you know they've had to take your Granddad into hospital, lol Mum"

 

Still find that amusing to this day (and his Grandad is still alive and kicking)

[Tadhg Tiogar]

..... a friend of mines mum thought lol meant lots of love.....

 

I think the previous Prime Minister also laboured under the very same misapprehension.

[alcyonecorporation]

Discreet autocorrect and not discreet don't give a shit.

Discrete*

 

[runs]

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Discrete*

 

[runs]

 

I'll have to correct you there 

[AlabamaShrimp]

One day I'm going to invent that sarcastic font...

[cort1977]

Spelling pedants of the world untie!

[tooSavvy]

Daughter was just onto BT about her bill [paid yesterday with her BT payment card=cash payment clear on the app] and was (surprise...) speaking to India.

 

Got not a semblance of understanding of her clearly expressed + explained query.

 

Like >> APP... ?? On my Phone here... No, not my computer, on my phone - my BT A..P..P ?? No.. (loop :/ )

 

She asked "could I speak to an English person, who might understand me more clearly? A Supervisor then?? NO >> I'm NOT being racist!! I wish to speak to someone who will understand me clearly..."

 

She gave up - rang off - started a 'text chat' and sorted in half a minute..

She isn't that Geordie twangger

 

 

TS

[Kiltox]

Urgh. Been hungover as fuck all day and now need to sit on a coach for 3 hours+. Deep fucking joy.

[mercrocker]

Gahhh....reminds me of the time I thought it would be a good idea to start a 22hr coach trip to Austria after a rocking night out.   Apparently ended up with me gently bonking my head on the headrest of the seat in front of me repeating "God..I..have...a...fucking...Mercedes...at...home"

[richardthestag]

This thing about kids being knob heads is understandable but really were you, I or anyone that different at their age?

 

I feel that far too much emphasis is put on results you got in exams one time when you were too young to give a shit what those exams and results actually meant.

 

Years later you go for a job being judged on weather you could add up or spell when you were 16 completely ignoring the last X number of years where you were obviously using those and so many more skills.

 

I was far worse than my lads, they have already out achieved what I managed. BUT I never ever spoke out of turn or in an off fashion with my parents or any adult. except the parkie that is, all parkies were cunts then.

 

i find now that without a degree, 35years of experience in IT amounts to nothing if I am applying for the same job as some spotty herbert with a nice honours degree in computer science. drives me up the wall. am am planning to get out of the whole industry pretty soon I think. Not sure Mrs thestag can even contemplate me doing something that I really want to do. lol

[Parky]

Well tonight we had arguments, negotiations (one sided), complaints (ignored), and determination to have the last word (denied).

 

Upshot is he got stuck into his stuff, breezed through it fairly easily, and generally showed me that his maths acumen is well ahead of mine (and mine is pretty good). Just need to find the right balance of carrot and stick and I think we might have the makings of a half useful member of society.

 

And he is making me and Mrs P a cuppa as we speak. Am waiting for the catch...

[DodgeRover]

i find now that without a degree, 35years of experience in IT amounts to nothing if I am applying for the same job as some spotty herbert with a nice honours degree in computer science. drives me up the wall. am am planning to get out of the whole industry pretty soon I think. Not sure Mrs thestag can even contemplate me doing something that I really want to do. lol

Just make up a BSc from an obscure poly that not longer exists, with 35 years experience nobody will call you on it unless you are exceptionally unlucky or go on the apprentice.

[Jerzy Woking]

I left school at 16 back in the mid 70's with some excellent GCSE and CSE results without studying for them. There was no need to as five months before my GCSE's I had passed an open entrance exam with a company that gave me a contract to start with them in September. When I did start everyone I worked with was at least 4 years older, and all had degrees. Since then, I've always worked with people who have degrees of some sort, mostly unrelated to the work I do.

 

I hated studying (still do) and am lucky to have had a great career, but I still think what I could have achieved had I applied myself.

[Parky]

Most finance jobs require degrees. I often get overlooked for roles where I have years of relevant experience in favour of those with a 2:2 in Art from Hatfield Polytechnic. It is very frustrating.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

... he is making me and Mrs P a cuppa as we speak. Am waiting for the catch...

The catch is probably mixed in the cuppa.

[myglaren]

One day I'm going to invent that sarcastic font...

 

Too late

 

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/12/12/finally-sarcasm-has-a-voice-in-print-with-its-own-font/

[dollywobbler]

This thread is making me feel a lot better about my Oppo mobile phone. There are quite a few things it does badly (including making calls where signal is poor, when other phones just man up and manage it), but at least it isn't an i-Phone.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Too late

 

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/12/12/finally-sarcasm-has-a-voice-in-print-with-its-own-font/

Good effort but looks shit. Think I'll stick with being misread.

[STUNO]

My phone is having a problem with one key sticking. It's only about 20 years old and I hate the thought of buying a new one. The battery is still as good as new. For those who know these things it is a Motorola C118. Hoping it will fix itself.

[Pillock]

Kids. Nobheads, the lot of them. But then again we were all nobheads when we were that age, it's the circle of life.

Sometimes I distinctly remember doing exactly the same stuff I kick off about to my kids. If they ever talk to my mum, I'm screwed.

 

Phones. They're all shit, really. Don't ever fix a phone for anyone, it becomes your responsibility every time it bleeps funny for the next five years.

[nebuchenezer]

Cunt cyclismo in Bloomsbury - when there is a red light stopping your advance and a green man allowing a large tired and annoyed person (somebody on the train was snoring louder than me) to cross the road, shouting abuse at said man crossing for slowing your progress will only result in one outcome. I won

[nebuchenezer]

Oh, is it now allowed to make up your own number plates in London? - the amount of cars driving around with plates that are not on "the database" seems to be increasing daily

[Kiltox]

 

FFS

[meggersdog]

We've all seen vehicles driving about with a headlight out infact on my drive home (about five miles) I usually see atleast 4.Yesterday had a scabby transit connect in.Headlight out, sidelight the other side out,completely missing numberplate light and a stop and tail in upside down.Guy comes to collect his van "did you fit a new headlight bulb?". oh, so you brought it in for an MOT knowing you had a bulb out. "yeah, it's been out for months"

[nebuchenezer]

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FFS

Ye gods - is that actual Pterodactyl shite?

[Supernaut]

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Looks like the Aberdonian seagulls have migrated south for the winter...

[Kiltox]

There’s either some very relieved or very broken birds kicking about

[angle]

I'm having to read a report prepared by some 'retail consultants'. On a train to Slough. This is the line that broke me:

 

'Tesco's current dominance of driving interaction at the shopping centre is highlighted by half of Shopper Missions being driven by grocery. 40% Convenient Grocery Missions links to the frequent low value trips seen in the KPIs'.

 

Convenient Grocery Missions FFS, what has my life become?

[Kiltox]

“We need access to the network to enable our information radiators” is the corporate bollocks of the week for me.

 

An information radiator is aparrently a dashboard on a screen on the wall.