The grumpy thread

[Pillock]

There's absolutely no way any schools should be teaching latin unless it's some sort of punishment. I want to see a list of jobs you'd be better at if you got an A* in GCSE Dead Languages. 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

full-time professional internet moaner

[Tadhg Tiogar]

full-time professional internet moaner

 

....said he, carrying a photo of Nigel Farage as his avatar 

[Guest Hooli]

It's the main PC and is wired into the router though.

Well in that case ya fucked

[fraser.innes.3]

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

As to speak to someone who can speak Welsh. Any company who has more than 50k customers in the UK has to have Welsh speakers. They just get confused, and pass you back to the UK.

 

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[alcyonecorporation]

....said he, carrying a photo of Nigel Farage as his avatar 

Yes, with TWAT superimposed over the top.

[fraser.innes.3]

Er....is the Clio one of the ones where you have to practically remove the entire front end of the car just to get at the headlight?

I think that is the Megane, as I have one of the fuckers. Get in through the wheel arch, but Renault recommend bumper removal. I have it down to 10 minutes.

 

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[Tadhg Tiogar]

Yes, with TWAT superimposed over the top.

Looks like half-a-twat!

[alcyonecorporation]

Looks like half-a-twat!

No, he's a full shilling fanny, make no bones about it.

[paulplom]

I'm a plumber and have been since I left school in 1988. I have been corgi/gas safe all this time since they brought out acops (acs now) in the early 90's. where do the pompous boiler installers/service/repair guys get the right to call themselves engineers? I thought you needed a degree to be an engineer. My son is currently finishing his A levels with a view to becoming an engineer at uni. It's a small point but it winds me up when other 'plumbers' call themselves engineers.

It's not just in our trade either.

[sierraman]

If only you could speak Latin..

[Timewaster]

Ap Pro po achieving surround sound.

 

Well you ought to have a basic grasp of Latin if you are going to work in Currys.

 

Alan Partridge.

 

 

 

I never did any Latin, nor would I as the 14 year old me would have dismissed it as bloody pointless.

Even now I understand why it could be useful as a basis for medicine or law careers and maybe the Times crossword but I bet 90% of students never discover an application for it.

 

Far better to teach kids how the financial system works, gross and net interest, how to compare loans, what your payslip actually means, profit and loss, investment, pensions etc.

I'm sure most teenagers leave school financially clueless.

[Tamworthbay]

I did Latin, only because I seriously hated the French teacher with a passion and you had to do a language. I did Biochemistry at uni and it helped a tiny bit understanding some of the term origins but it really was a tiny bit. It also helps a tiny bit when we go to Italy as Italian has its roots in Latin. So was it a useful way to spend two hours a week for two years? Was it fuck, utter waste of time.

[Pillock]

On the plus side, turns out I can call myself an engineer even though I sit at a desk and type into Word for much of the day. Bonus!

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Guys that come and check new upvc windows that have been thrown in are called engineers too apparently. Confirmed, legit, when he rolled up on his steam engine... Not.

[cort16]

It’s worth learning Latin so you can do all the spells from Harry Potter . Bifidus digestivum amd so on.

[richardthestag]

romanes eunt domus

[Tadhg Tiogar]

romanes eunt domus

"Romans? They go? The house!?"

[richardthestag]

can anyone tell me what the latin for alter ego is please

[richardthestag]

"Romans? They go? The house!?"

 

people called Romanes they go to the house

 

now write it out 100 times before dawn or i'll cut your balls off

[richardthestag]

listen to you leathery old goats moaning about kids of today and bemoaning ther lack of latin skills!!!! SRSLY?

 

and phones

 

but I thought that was what this thread was for....

 

 

oh and you moaning about us moaning also fits this thread too

 

carry on

[scaryoldcortina]

romanesi euntite domusm

 

I've got an O level in latin too.

 

semper in faecibus sumus sole, profundum variat...

[Timewaster]

Ha. My new job title is engineer.

 

I have discovered the secret of perpetual motion.

It is Brunell turning in his grave.

 

I am basically doing high level admin.

 

There is a whole office of us and not a stove pipe hat to be seen.

[Cavcraft]

They say car buyers are timewasters, but having attempted to deal with the sellers of about five Focus STs, countless Insiginas and a couple of Pumas (not you, Moog!) I've just about given up. On one, we agreed a price (the asking one, incidentally), deposit and a day and time for someone to collect it for me, but then he refused to sell it. Why? Because he asked for a Paypal payment (agreed to that) then said he wasn't comfortable with me having his email address for that account, then bank transfer (agreed to that) then said he didn't want me having his bank details. He mentioned cash initially, but pissed about so there's no way I'm sending a driver to collect it.

Other belters have included having to ask people the same question (location, description of faults, reg. no, best time to view etc etc etc) several times before answers were forthcoming and some questions which were routinely avoided.

[Kiltox]

Grump - car in front of me in the queue at the jet wash doesn’t even need washing

 

Grin - girl washing a Fiesta at the moment is a proper fitty.

[stonedagain]

I have poor hearing, caused by years of working in noisy garages. Does that make me an engine ear?

[Parky]

Well I must say my original whinge about Juniors Latin project was more controversial than I first thought!

 

And re the phone - it's fotally tucked. Not even some downloaded software, an Apple Genius (ahem) or the guy from iSmash could get it to do anything. Farewell fair iPhone C. You made calls and sent messages whilst allowing the occasional trawl around the web.

 

Nite nite litle fone solja, yur in heven wiv all the angles an Nokia 3210's now

[DeeJay]

They say car buyers are timewasters, but having attempted to deal with the sellers of about five Focus STs, countless Insiginas and a couple of Pumas (not you, Moog!) I've just about given up. On one, we agreed a price (the asking one, incidentally), deposit and a day and time for someone to collect it for me, but then he refused to sell it. Why? Because he asked for a Paypal payment (agreed to that) then said he wasn't comfortable with me having his email address for that account, then bank transfer (agreed to that) then said he didn't want me having his bank details. He mentioned cash initially, but pissed about so there's no way I'm sending a driver to collect it.

Other belters have included having to ask people the same question (location, description of faults, reg. no, best time to view etc etc etc) several times before answers were forthcoming and some questions which were routinely avoided.

Paying the asking price for a Ford, he probably thinks it's worth at least 200% more now.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I have poor hearing, caused by years of working in noisy garages. Does that make me an engine ear?

Deaf-initely.

[tooSavvy]

people called Romanes they go to the house

 

[LifeOfBrian]

 

now write it out 100 times before dawn or i'll cut your balls off

 

[/LifeOfBrian]

 

 

 

EFA

 

TS