The grumpy thread

[richardthestag]

I went through a phase of challenging this ^^ kind of nonsense i.e. hand up. "ERR what does that actually mean?" 

 

Caused chaos because on the whole nobody seemed able to quantify it.

 

Meeting Bingo too

 

Luckily there is no room for such bollocks in a German owned company

[Jazoli]

I went through a phase of challenging this ^^ kind of nonsense i.e. hand up. "ERR what does that actually mean?" 

 

Caused chaos because on the whole nobody seemed able to quantify it.

 

Meeting Bingo too

 

Luckily there is no room for such bollocks in a German owned company

 

Me too, then I realised that you must be able to talk this bollocks to progress your career, so I moved on to somewhere where we speak plain English and a cunt is a cunt.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

'information radiator', that's a flippin cracker!!!! Lolz

[chaseracer]

I went through a phase of challenging this ^^ kind of nonsense i.e. hand up. "ERR what does that actually mean?" 

 

Caused chaos because on the whole nobody seemed able to quantify it.

 

Not just me, then?

[oldcars]

I was once having a chat with my old boss. "We need to look at this on a makro level". My reply of "I'm a costco member if that helps" went down well. I moved on a few months after. I cannot work with that kind of pish.

[Noel Tidybeard]

This is quite good too

 

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i'm not surprised- if some one has the brass neck enough to drive round with their rear number plate so blatently obscured they need avoiding with much wideness

[Parky]

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

Agreed. Guy who crashed into Mrs P had an untraceable plate. Despite cctv and witnesses, I still had to wear that as the insurance had nobody to claim against. Bastards.

 

Also seeing an increasing number of English guys in RHD cars with Romanian plates on locally....

[eddyramrod]

I asked for Sheridan Smith's debut CD for Christmas.  Everyone here knows I'm a fan, right?

I got it.  Lovely.

I put it in my bag that I take to work, containing a supply of CDs to play when Chris Evans is on.

 

Today I played it, for the first time.

 

Let's just say, be careful what you wish for.  I think I'm over my crush on her.

[Des]

'Information radiator' has got to be where some thick twat has confused a flatscreen on the wall with an actual radiator. I've always suspected corporate talk a mask for the stupid. Wait until they start getting 'attuned to pre-prepare a smaller socket hammering scenario' because that'll action going forward to initialising full beams at the dogging site of displeasure.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

 

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

 

Agreed. Guy who crashed into Mrs P had an untraceable plate. Despite cctv and witnesses, I still had to wear that as the insurance had nobody to claim against. Bastards.

 

Also seeing an increasing number of English guys in RHD cars with Romanian plates on locally....

 

 

Down here, the Met just don't have the resources to concentrate on traffic or pulling in dodgy plates. That's why people can get away with running foreign plates and evading VED / MoT / insurance on what are actually UK RHD cars. There's one in my street. I'm even seeing the odd Albanian-registered RHD car (usually a high-end vehicle) appearing in London. The only RHD countries in the EU are, let's remind ourselves, Ireland, Britain, Malta, Cyprus. Everyone else is LHD, and Albania is not (yet) an EU Member State.

 

The haulage people do it too, by registering as hauliers in Romania or Bulgaria, plating their lorries as such, and then operating here in the UK.

 

Dishonesty is now acceptable in our society today because "everyone does it".

[eddyramrod]

 Dishonesty is now acceptable in our society today because "everyone does it".

No, it absolutely isn't, and for that exact reason.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

No, it absolutely isn't, and for that exact reason.

It will take a generation at least before we revert to "isn't", because it took at least a generation to get to where we are now.

[somewhatfoolish]

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"

How hard is bulb swappage on a Connect? Is it Renault Clio hard? Or is the owner just a slack and lazy waste of skin?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

How hard is bulb swappage on a Connect? Is it Renault Clio hard? ....

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?

[Captain Furious]

Literally the day after I posted on here about not fixing iPhone screens any more, my sister comes over askin pg if I can fix an iPhone screen for my bro-in-law...least it’s a 5 which are a piece of piss.

[sierraman]

No, it's some sort of software corruption. Reset the new one just fine, tried same on my old one and it runs the update and restore, and crashes at the end. Piece of crap. Probably turn out to need a new battery and motherboard or some other shit.

 

Later I shall be spending some quality time in the garage. Just me, my phone, and Mr Lumphammer.

 

In other news, I just had a call from the school. Junior was supposed to do a maths project over Christmas and hasn't. We specifically asked him when the holidays started what work he had and he denied having any. So not only has he lied, but now has a shitload of Latin to do by next Monday and a massive Maths project to do tonight. If it isn't in by tomorrow he will not only get a week of detention but be dropped from the top Maths set which will remove his opportunity to do his Maths GCSE a year early. He can easily do it, he is just being a lying lazy little fucker.

 

Every privilege that boy has been given has just disappeared.

 

I am VERY FUCKING ANGRY

He probably doesn't see the value in Latin. To be honest its pretty useless as far as a subject goes. The bigger problem these days is the lack of work ethic, while ever someone has that they'll be alright.

[artdjones]

If you know Latin and Ancient Greek you can see why many words are constructed the way they are, therefore you will be able to use them in an understandable way in written form.That is a useful skill,I would say. Also,you will be able to learn and understand French, Spanish,Portuguese and Italian much more easily.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

He probably doesn't see the value in Latin. To be honest its pretty useless as far as a subject goes. ....

Latin is a language

As dead as dead can be,

First it killed the Romans,

And now it's killing me

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

No longer fix things with touch screens on for other people. I just hoard their broken shit and make good ones for myself... excluding Apple products. I once had an emergency buy HTC windows phone which I had as a work phone. It was one of the first windows phones so soon got forgot about and generally wasn't very compatible with apps and things but it was fairly robust. It never had a replacement screen in it, largely due to the metal construction of the frame. It was also the only phone I've ever had where the alarm goes off... in silence. Then after covering it in grinder sparks I broke it and it started messing around. I got the hump with it one day and launched it shattering the screen good but it still worked which infuriated me so I submerged it in a bucket of water until it died and then threw it in the shed.

A week later I found it and switched it on and half the screen worked which surprised me but with not much interest I just left it. 6 months later I came across it again and switched it on and... it all works, battery at 75%... Stupid phone. 

[sierraman]

If you know Latin and Ancient Greek you can see why many words are constructed the way they are, therefore you will be able to use them in an understandable way in written form.That is a useful skill,I would say. Also,you will be able to learn and understand French, Spanish,Portuguese and Italian much more easily.

I'd consider myself fairly articulate and I don't know any Latin. Its about as pointless as Classics. When will they start teaching kids something of practical use in schools.

[Pillock]

Work ethic.

 

Daughter used to be very diligent at going to work as a pot washer a couple of days a week. Now she's with her boyfriend who sacks it off for the slightest reason, suddenly she is there about 50% of the time.

 

Got a cold. Got a headache. Not feeling up to it.

 

And then gets in a foul mood when they either give her shifts permanently to someone else, or she gets her pay packet and it barely covers a takeaway for them both. She's already been moved off weekends because she missed loads of shifts.

 

But still, he keeps phoning in sick and she gets the idea it's ok, that they can't argue if she has illness.

 

Hopefully the fact he phoned in sick the day his sick note ran out, and got told to look for another job, is a wake-up call. He can't do mornings apparently so it was unfair to put him on a 7.30am start....LOL!

[artdjones]

I'd consider myself fairly articulate and I don't know any Latin. Its about as pointless as Classics. When will they start teaching kids something of practical use in schools.

Yes,maybe how to repair iPhones,for example.Understanding how some of the major world languages work will always be useful knowledge.A lot of "practical" knowledge is superceded very quickly.I did computer science in 1976.I use the Latin I learned much more than that as it's completely outdated now.

[Mally]

Latin is a language

As dead as dead can be,

First it killed the Romans,

And now it's killing me

 

I took Latin 60 years ago. I thought it was dead then.

It seems I'll go first.

[meggersdog]

How hard is bulb swappage on a Connect? Is it Renault Clio hard? Or is the owner just a slack and lazy waste of skin?

took longer to fetch one out of the stores than fit it.

[sierraman]

I'm talking simple stuff like writing a letter, wiring a plug, managing money etc.

 

It won't matter how clever you are, if you don't have a work ethic you won't get anywhere.

[Anthony]

It won't matter how clever you are, if you don't have a work ethic you won't get anywhere.

Unless you're employed in the public sector, and then the workshy and inept seem to do surprisingly well...

 

Not that I think unkindly of half the slackers I work with you understand (he says, whilst replying to a thread on AS)

[chaseracer]

It will take a generation at least before we revert to "isn't", because it took at least a generation to get to where we are now.

 

There are many of us already working on this.  

[chaseracer]

Unless you're employed in the public sector, and then the workshy and inept seem to do surprisingly well...

 

Not in my experience.  

 

Indeed, for properly stupid laziness and outright venal corruption, you really need the higher pay grades of the state-funded private/charity sector of public service provision.

[Eddie Honda]

Despite this:

 

 

The arseholes at Virgin Media seem to be re-routing YouTube stuff as I've just tried streaming 1080p after that test and the fucking thing is stuttering. Yes, I could cancel, but as the best of a bad bunch...

[strangeangel]

Unless you're employed in the public sector, and then the workshy and inept seem to do surprisingly well...

 

I suggest you put down the Daily Mail, talk to some people who actually do work in the public sector, and then come back here when you have a clue.