The grumpy thread

[chaseracer]

It’s because they have fallen into the McNamara trap, to manage you need to measure, to measure you need numbers. So everything is reduced to a number on a spreadsheet with little or no understanding of what the job requires to do it successfully and to the satisfaction of the customer. Companies then spend thousands employing people to look at these numbers who then, to justify their inflated salaries, state that what is needed to increase productivity is more measurement because then they can see what is happening better. Where as in reality what happens is people spend half their working lives filling in pointless pieces of paper or aiming at meaningless targets.

 

Or, in my case, refusing to do so and falling out with 'managers' throughout my so-called career*.

[chaseracer]

It was purely cultural research occifer.

 

We should go back and obtain more recent data.

[Tamworthbay]

We should go back and obtain more recent data.

That sounds like a plan! Maybe pick up a nice Daf or Zundapp.

[SiC]

Off to a mate's funeral this morning, he was only 46 years old.   He is going off in style but I wish he wasn't going anywhere.   Second friend this month we have had to say goodbye to.

Just before Christmas too.

 

My condolences.

[John F]

strangeangel, on 22 Dec 2017 - 07:44 AM, said:

I visited Germany frequently in the 90s, and all I ever came across was local breweries knocking out 'German purity law' lager. As lager goes it was fine, but it inevitably all tasted the same. I must not have been looking in the right places for dark beers!

 

Did you ever visit Düsseldorf? Dark beer's pretty much all you can get in the Altstadt there.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altbier

[mercrocker]

Just before Christmas too.

 

My condolences.

 

Thank you sir   

 

As I mentioned, he went off in style.....

 

 

[Tamworthbay]

Thank you sir   

 

As I mentioned, he went off in style.....

 

 

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Good send off but that's no age to go and even worse for the family and friends this time of year.

[puddlethumper]

A lot of the dark beers are seasonal, you can get them bottled in decent shops all year round but otherwise they are only available for a couple of months. MeiBok are light and very sweet (bloody horrible) but any other Beer with Bok in the name should be a dark beer. When I lived in Breda 95% or pubs sold Heineken, Amstel, Oranjeboom (the local brew) and Brand, you had to go to the equivalent of real ale pubs to find the good stuff but it was readily available if you knew where to look. There was one bar on the main square in Breda that had over 200 different beers, all listed alphabetically on a big board, in six months I managed to get to P with a few interesting sounding ones from later letters tried as well. Delft was similar except that the touristy bits just sold shite as you would expect. It’s a real shame that the big breweries just take the name of a lager, stick in on their leftover goats piss and flog it cheap at Aldi when there are so many good beers they could import and sell loads of. After mentioning Palm on here I had a nose online and found a place that sells it over here for sensible money so I now have a dozen on their way which should reach me by New Years Eve, but I noticed the courier is Yodel so I suppose it could be New Year’s Eve next year.

Where did you get Palm from. Love it. Lived in Tilburg where most bars had it.

[RustyNuts]

So I was coming home tonight.. one foglight abuser after another has the stupid things turned on. I've become so frustrated lately that i flash them the full beams and then flash the foglights at them repeatedly. It doesn't seem to have any effect but i keep thinking eventually people will get a grip of their stupidity.

 

So coming up the road towards what is technically home, there is a car parked on my side of the road facing me with headlights and foglights turned on right in front of me dazzling me. I stopped about 15 foot away from it, full beam and foggies on back. The driver pulled out and was about to go past when i managed to stop her.

 

Nice new 4x4 so she's apparently intelligent enough to earn good money.. but had no clue that she had her foglights on at all. I told her "Thats what the bloody icon on your dashboard means". She didn't seem to give a damn although she did say sorry and turn them off.

 

So let me ask a question, how is it that people who can afford these expensive cars are so bloody thick?

 

Can we have a new law that says foglight abuse will be punished by shooting?

[Guest Hooli]

Because the average human is sub-normal.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Sounds like someone needs to pop into their local Starbucks for a maximo-sized piping hot cup of 'getoveritaccino'

[Junkman]

So I was coming home tonight.. one foglight abuser after another has the stupid things turned on. I've become so frustrated lately that i flash them the full beams and then flash the foglights at them repeatedly. It doesn't seem to have any effect but i keep thinking eventually people will get a grip of their stupidity.

 

So coming up the road towards what is technically home, there is a car parked on my side of the road facing me with headlights and foglights turned on right in front of me dazzling me. I stopped about 15 foot away from it, full beam and foggies on back. The driver pulled out and was about to go past when i managed to stop her.

 

You should have brake tested them, too, for good measure.

[eddyramrod]

Because the average human is sub-normal.

Exactly what I was about to say.  I'm so glad it's not just me getting offended by these twats.  Incidentally, wouldn't you think that the best car to drive on these dark mornings is something LHD, when everyone has their headlights on?  Er, no, they somehow still manage to dazzle me.

[Dave_Q]

http://autoshite.com/topic/30113-grumpy-old-man-thread/page-2298

[Philyc]

Drives me mental. Currently 4 hours into an 8 hour drive to my folks in France... French driver's love driving with dogs and full beams on, no indicators and no sense of self preservation. I've just come out the south side of Paris and had to stop for a smoke

[Split_Pin]

Sounds like someone needs to pop into their local Starbucks for a maximo-sized piping hot cup of 'getoveritaccino'

FLIPP8NG LOLZ!!

[RustyNuts]

Sounds like someone needs to pop into their local Starbucks for a maximo-sized piping hot cup of 'getoveritaccino'

 

I think you may be right however as they also have a dubious past over their tax affairs I think it would tip me over the danger level mentally..

[Craig the Princess]

We're heading to London tomorrow for a few days with family over Christmas.

 

Went out in the Multipla to pick Mrs the Princess up from work, stopped at the vet to get some cat food and... Dead sodding battery. Luckily beige110 came to our rescue in the ZX and got it started with a jump. As I got in I caught the handbrake cable with my thigh and the car started rolling down the slope. So dead battery and a snapped handbrake cable.

 

Cars, cunts the lot of them.

[DeeJay]

I've tried Guinness all over England and Ireland.

No matter where I've drank it, it always tastes like sour piss.

 

 

(Other opinions available)

[Negative Creep]

Went to Peterborough and back on Saturday but only realised last night I forgot to pay the Dart Charge for either crossing. Have done so now but will have to see if anything turns up in the post about it

[cros]

Went to Peterborough and back on Saturday but only realised last night I forgot to pay the Dart Charge for either crossing. Have done so now but will have to see if anything turns up in the post about it

They should pay you if you've got to visit that shit-hole.

[eddyramrod]

I've tried Guinness , it always tastes like sour piss.

That's a comparison I'm not qualified to make, but as an ex-Guinness drinker I have to admire someone who can!

[Stanky]

Went to Peterborough and back on Saturday but only realised last night I forgot to pay the Dart Charge for either crossing. Have done so now but will have to see if anything turns up in the post about it

 

Let me know if you do, I've had moderate success appealing them.

[Tamworthbay]

Where did you get Palm from. Love it. Lived in Tilburg where most bars had it.

Beerwulf, it’s only 79p a bottle and free delivery if you order a dozen. They do loads of good stuff on there. Can’t wait to get it, not had any for getting on ten years. My sister lived over there after me and used to bring me a couple of crates every time she came over.

[DeeJay]

That's a comparison I'm not qualified to make, but as an ex-Guinness drinker I have to admire someone who can!

 

Should have qualified that, "what I imagine sour piss tastes like".

[Tamworthbay]

Where did you get Palm from. Love it. Lived in Tilburg where most bars had it.

Here you go:

https://www.beerwulf.com/en-gb/p/palm2/

[Soap Distant]

Just turned going down the stairs at home. Little toe stayed where it was and ended up 90 degrees to the rest of my foot. My foot is one giant ball of pain right now.

[chaseracer]

Ouch... 

[Cavcraft]

Guinness deserves to be in the grumpy thread. It's like piss soaked diesel that's been infused with tarmac.

[Soap Distant]

Between this and knocking myself out on a new shape 9-5 last week after slipping on black ice - I've had better (at least less painful) few days.