The grumpy thread

[OwdChina]

Grump today is that I just heard that work are looking at making another round of redundancies.   We had one lot over the summer and I kept my job and thought it was all over for a while but they have started another lot.  

 

The real worry is that if I lose my job then my visa expires so we would have to leave the States within a few weeks probably not enough time to find a new job in the current climate.   Obviously this would be a real PITA with the kids in the middle of the school year, house to sell, cars to sell, etc.

I've seen this situation with others.

What they did was to leave the USA pronto so that the passport has the departed stamp on it, then return on a 90 day tourist visa next day. Canada is best option.

Also heard of companies keeping people on the books, so to speak, through a redundancy package over time rather than a lump sum. Gives more time to get shit sorted out.

[beko1987]

Evas playhouse has blown forward 40cm. Not an issue in itself but all the crap that was piled up behind it has fallen everywhere and woke me up and made me shit myself.

[The Moog]

Had planned to deliver the Saab to its new owner today but weather is a nightmare.

 

Rained nonstop since last Wednesday. Probably my fault as that was the day we had scaffolding put up to fix our roof!

[Cavcraft]

Blowing a hoolie here, too. Plans on using our (fairly) new season ticket to Chester zoo are out of the window I reckon.

 

Hoping it holds off a bit tomorrow as I want to bike to work and back, I only really get the chance about 5 times in 4 weeks and want to make the most of it.

[purplebargeken]

Bit of a 'not sure what to think' on this one. 

 

Have been estranged from my older sister for many years now since mum and dad died. Mum died at 63, Dad at 70, oldest sis at 53.

 

On a weird whim I checked the Ooop North Register of birth, deaths and so on and found that my sister had died in April of 2014.

 

Am the last one now. 

[garbaldy]

I am worried I may be responsible for this minor pineappling. This car was for sale some time ago, I posted the ad on the blue forum.

 

Judging by the distressed looking house it's only a mater of time before the sandpaper comes out for that omg ratlook

[michael1703]

What's all this tldr bollocks?

 

This joey Essex language gets on my tits

 

"Hacks" is another one that's a load of shit

[Timewaster]

Tldr = too long , didn't read.

[MrDuke]

I'm pretty sure Joey Essex (*spit*) isn't capable of developing or promoting any form of language whatsoever, he has enough difficulty with the words he learned at school. The expression 'tl;dr' was invented by The Internet several years ago, along with many other alphanumeric oddities, which is a sign of progress, apparently.

 

"Hacks" gets my goat massively though. Especially as the original purpose of hacking had nothing whatsoever to do with making everyday life easier for everyone.

[fred]

''Life Hacks'' Really scrapes my Foreskin -  cock wombles bah Phooey

[HH-R]

Usually goes hand in hand with wank Facebook clickbait posts like "She Did Something Really Mundane And Something Mundane Happened That We Will Say Is Amazing!"

[fred]

Usually goes hand in hand with wank Facebook clickbait posts like "She Did Something Really Mundane And Something Mundane Happened That We Will Say Is Amazing!"

Tried FB Fpr one day, and fuck me - full of self important mouth breathers chucking pics of their dinners up, Britain First bollocks and ''This is me with a chair'' DOH

Fuck sake !

[HH-R]

Yes, I'm looking forward to its eventual Myspace-esque demise so I can sack it off and not bother signing up for whatever is the new flavour of the month. Twitter is even worse.

[MrDuke]

The phrase "..... Will Blow Your Mind!!" also causes an irrationally irate response from me. Often found in a link at the side of a genuinely interesting on-line article.

 

Class-A drugs would blow my mind. Trying to understand the basics of chaos theory or quantum physics would probably blow my mind. Watching someone fold a shirt with one hand, despite being moderately impressive, really has no effect on my mental state whatsoever.

[HH-R]

The absolute worst one I've seen was watching a video of someone cleaning a toilet that would supposedly Blow My Mind!, then reading the comments on how the lass in the video was doing it wrong.

 

After I realised I'd been sucked into it all, I wondered what the point in being alive was.

[robinmasters]

I don't normally watch 'The Apprentice', so I feel like I'm the only one not in on the joke. They're all rubbish; most of them can barely string a coherent sentence together, those that can can't do so without including some stupid meaningless cliched idiom like 'at the end of the day' or 'to be fair', and they seem to fail at everything they do in spite of their claimed 'business experience'. They'd struggle to get jobs in call centres.

 

I can only assume this is aimed at the sort of people that used to laugh at disabled people or teh forens, but now they're not allowed to they have turned their attention to fuckwits.

 

AND WHY DO THEY HOLD THEIR TELEPHONES LIKE THAT?

[fred]

I don't normally watch 'The Apprentice', so I feel like I'm the only one not in on the joke. They're all rubbish; most of them can barely string a coherent sentence together, those that can can't do so without including some stupid meaningless cliched idiom like 'at the end of the day' or 'to be fair', and they seem to fail at everything they do in spite of their claimed 'business experience'. They'd struggle to get jobs in call centres.

 

I can only assume this is aimed at the sort of people that used to laugh at disabled people or teh forens, but now they're not allowed to they have turned their attention to fuckwits.

 

AND WHY DO THEY HOLD THEIR TELEPHONES LIKE THAT?

Think its force of habit of sucking the Bosses cock

[MrDuke]

I think this might have been answered before, but: What does the winner of The Apprentice actually end up doing? I mean, I'm sure Lawshoogah has sufficient money to 'employ' vast numbers of plebs, but he no longer runs Amstrad (who only manufacture digiboxes anyway) and seems to generate most of his income from property ownership. I'd love it if the biggest 'go-getting' tosspot ended up cleaning the windows of a Docklands office block, but I doubt that happens unfortunately.

[captain_70s]

My microwave has ceased waving micros or whatever it does to heat food. It now merely rotates it (in an uneven jerky manner), my 2 min microwave noodles took 8 mins to "cook" and they are more "lightly warmed" than anything.

[Eddie Honda]

Microwave noodles? Just get the jaggy nettle on and soak the buggers for 3/4 min - do it all the time when I can't be arsed cleaning another pan. Just stick a pan lid over the bowl to keep the steam in. 20p noodles FTW.

 

Demotion from captain beckons for bellyaching about microwaves - 8 minutes for luke warm noodles is an 80s issue. If on the other hand there was an issue with a Vesta Curry...

[purplebargeken]

Bloody cat makes fake pucking noises to wake us up and feed him. Bastard.

 

Well at least I think they are fake as I have never actually found anything..................... yet.

[bub2006]

Bit of a 'not sure what to think' on this one.

 

Have been estranged from my older sister for many years now since mum and dad died. Mum died at 63, Dad at 70, oldest sis at 53.

 

On a weird whim I checked the Ooop North Register of birth, deaths and so on and found that my sister had died in April of 2014.

 

Am the last one now.

Bit of a harsh way to find out mate. I know me and my sister don't see much of each other but I'd be devastated. Sorry. Must be confusing.

[purplebargeken]

It is a bit mate, still processing it all to be honest.,

[bub2006]

I've found it can be tricky trying to comprehend something you don't understand

[quicksilver]

Damn you ebay! Has anyone else fallen foul of their latest ruse?

Last night I spotted four items I wanted, all from the same seller ending in a 5 min period about 5am this morning. Knowing I'd be fast asleep at that time I set up a snipe for them. Come back this morning and I won 3 of them for the starting bid, all good, but looked at the 4th and it said 'no bids, you lost'. Huh? Then I spotted a message from Goofbid: "It appears that you have a few unpaid items on ebay! if you do not pay for items you have committed to buy before a snipe is due, ebay may block the snipe!."

 

While I appreciate the principle of this to stop people sniping loads of items and not paying for them, it lacks common sense. It doesn't take a genius to work out what I was doing, buying 4 items from the same seller in a very short period (when I wasn't even online and able to pay) and paying for them all in one go, which I'm sure is something ebay encourage. Result: item didn't sell when it should have done so I've messaged the seller to ask for a sale outside ebay and they've lost out on their fees through their own stupidity.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I still don't understand sniping on eBay. The system works where it will bid up to your maximum for you. So just put that in and leave it

[Eddie Honda]

...for shills to chip away at?

 

Bid once, bid late. No time for counter bid. Sorted. Also, if it goes silly and you decide not to bid, it means your not leaving a bucket load of footprints behind for someone to look up.

 

There's also the random loose change on top, because in a dead heat, earliest bid takes it.

[dugong]

I don't normally watch 'The Apprentice', so I feel like I'm the only one not in on the joke. They're all rubbish; most of them can barely string a coherent sentence together, those that can can't do so without including some stupid meaningless cliched idiom like 'at the end of the day' or 'to be fair', and they seem to fail at everything they do in spite of their claimed 'business experience'. They'd struggle to get jobs in call centres.

 

I can only assume this is aimed at the sort of people that used to laugh at disabled people or teh forens, but now they're not allowed to they have turned their attention to fuckwits.

 

AND WHY DO THEY HOLD THEIR TELEPHONES LIKE THAT?

You are aware it's all contrived, yeah? I just wanted to check. 

 

It's a nauseating piece of television, granted. 

[Cavcraft]

I love the Apprentice, it's great watching a load of cocky bastards failing so publically as something they claim to be experts at.

 

You're right about the phone holding though, long since been a major annoyance/rant to me.

[Lord Sterling]

I don't normally watch 'The Apprentice', so I feel like I'm the only one not in on the joke. They're all rubbish; most of them can barely string a coherent sentence together, those that can can't do so without including some stupid meaningless cliched idiom like 'at the end of the day' or 'to be fair', and they seem to fail at everything they do in spite of their claimed 'business experience'. They'd struggle to get jobs in call centres.

I can only assume this is aimed at the sort of people that used to laugh at disabled people or teh forens, etc...

Agreed 110%

 

Thing is, most of these gobshite wannabes are they types that 'fit' into those kinds of office jobs. They try to "thrive" on pressure which is bullshit and one of the things that makes me rofl if ever I'm in ear shot of a Job Interview.

 

It's aimed at other wannabe office block types and those who like to judge just by looking at a TV