Teams chat.
It's a blessing and a curse.
It's great in so far as I don't have to drive halfway across the country for a 15 minute meeting.
But as the saying goes, when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail. At my previous employer, easily 40% of my working week was spent on Teams calls the vast majority of which I didn't need to be in. Eg, we'd have 9am breakfast briefings which were mostly the handover from the night shift to teams I wasn't part of. Then they'd all piss and moan that they didn't have enough hours in the day to get their jobs completed. If they'd sent out update emails rather than dragging half of the company into Teams meetings they could easily have turned 15 hours into 15 minutes for everyone else.
Idiot in the house behind us who replaced his grass with fake plastic grass and who now has to regularly spend Sundays jet washing the stale dog wee off of it.
All day! Hummmm. Hummmmm. Hummmm.
This after they were out for 5 hours the night before leaving their dogs to bark in the garden. Is it possible to hammer frozen sausages into AstroTurf?
The self seal on the Weber bag is so finnicky it takes longer to reseal 🤐 than setting up the bbq, cooking and clearing up after.. .. great idea … rubbish design
Top tip from when i still grilled using charcoal, get one of the snap topped storage boxes (IKEA or Smartstore classic maybe), then add a strip of the self adhesive door/draft seal to the underside of the lid and pop your charcoal in there. Keeps it dry for months, possibly years.
(I've never had it last that long though. I used to get through at least 10 kilos a month.)
800 people post to thank them.
Update:
HR post new meeting date.
400 people post to say they've booked on it
400 people post to say they can't make that day
100 people post a link to a list of dates in a couple of months.
300 people post to thank them and say they've booked a date.
100 people moan that this cancelled meeting has been handled very badly.
I post to tell them to quit moaning
It goes quiet.
100 people then message me to thank me for saying that.
JUST **** OFF, the lot of you.
Shoes - specifically lack of a standard in sizing.
You can't sell a 1kg jar of jam that contains more, or less, than 1kg. So why are you allowed to sell size 10 shoes that are half a size out? There should be standard sized moulds that every size and width of shoe needs to fit neatly for that shoe to be sold.
About 2 weeks ago, the road contractor had a job to do on the main road outside our house. Basically to shore up, and then re-surface around, half a dozen fire-hydrant access 'lids' in the carriageway. 3 of them on the northbound side of the road (1st pic) and 2 of them on the southbound side (2nd pic), all within a few yards of a roundabout. So they, quite correctly, got all the permissions to do this, installed a 4-way set of lights, occasionally supplemented by a man with a red/green board, and about 4 days later, after some shuffling around of the cones and lights etc, all was good.
1st pic - northbound side of road:-
2nd pic - southbound side of the road:-
Only they couldn't be bothered, for the sake of an extra hour or so, and about 45pence-worth of asphalt, to cleanly cut out and then resurface the latest pothole, which lies in the middle of the carriageway pretty much directly between the two sections that they actually did repair. FFS.
Pic 3 - the remaining pothole, ignored by all and still very much there:-
See if you can guess who spent half of last night listening to the passing traffic falling into THAT? And shaking the footings of our house every time they did so?
A perfect example of a lack of joined-up thinking. So much "Not my job, mate"
Shoes – specifically lack of a standard in sizing.
Clothing generally.
My ex griped like daily, "how is this size 14 bigger than this size 16?" or what have you. These sizes are meaningless outside of that one product line you're looking at.
My own personal bugbear was shirts, on what planet is "collar size" a meaningful measurement of anything in isolation? I'm a skinny runt but I spent my formative years in rock clubs, if I bought shirts based on collar size you could get a ringmaster, two clowns and an elephant inside it.
See if you can guess who spent half of last night listening to the passing traffic falling into THAT? And shaking the footings of our house every time they did so?
I'd be seeking out a councillor at this point.
I had similar, a loose grate that went "crash-crash" every time something drove over it. I went out to see if I could shore it up somehow but the surrounding road was sodded. Whilst out frobbing about with it I had a string of neighbours come out to me, "oh, we've reported this several times over going back months."
I got in touch with a local MP - by accident as it happened, he'd seen my whinging on Facebook and reached out to me. He came out the next day and stood at the roadside for 20 minutes. He said to me, "how do you cope?" to which I replied "I don't really, it's driving me round the twist." He put a rocket up the arse of the council, it was fixed inside of 48 hours and I was Local Hero for about ten minutes.
People who think half a dozen = 5.
See if you can guess who spent half of last night listening to the passing traffic falling into THAT? And shaking the footings of our house every time they did so?
Tin of yellow spray paint and decorate the pothole with a massive cock and balls. Council will get to that sharpish.
countless signs saying “MERGE IN TURN”.
This and NickC's post are the two things that boil my piss to the point I want to go on a rampage. I'm unsure if I'm disproportionally cross about it or if my level of anger is correct. Use the ****ing road how it was designed. Drive to the damn merge point, then you don't block up other junctions. And FFS filter like a ****ing zipper. Christ, the amount of ****s who won't make me mildly dismayed (****ing livid) about the stupidity of society. I think we can all tell how my journey went this morning!
YouTube Auditors. Like an adult version of the most annoying kid at school
on what planet is “collar size” a meaningful measurement of anything
also on @franksinatra point, size 10 refers to the number of barley-corns. Yes, that's right shoe dimension in the 21st century is based on that well known length; The Barley-Corn* Makes collar size practically a normal measurement
*a third of an inch, thanks for asking, or about 8.4mm...
Drivers who think they’re doing others a favour when they try to upend priority on the roads and how there’s so often a massive gap behind them that they’ve now instead filled with their stupid **** headlight morse code and simpering petty anarchy.
My Filthy Fuzz friend who spent several years investigating Crash-For-Cash advised never take up such an offer. If they then run into you you're on a sticky wicket legally as the HC does not upend priority for that moment.
People who think half a dozen = 5.
Lolwut? Is this a thing?
countless signs saying “MERGE IN TURN”
This and NickC’s post are the two things that boil my piss to the point I want to go on a rampage.
It will come as little surprise to regular readers that I've recently been having this self same argument elsewhere on the Internet. "But, you're queue jumping!" No, you're making the queue twice as long as it needs to be and causing gridlocked foul-ups half a mile behind us due to some arbitrary rule you've just $%^&ing made up. If we were supposed to merge half a mile back there would have been half a mile's worth of cones enforcing it, and you'd still be whining about it you utter fin du cloche.
YouTube Auditors. Like an adult version of the most annoying kid at school
There was a thread about this recently. It went about as well as you could predict but the TL;DR consensus was that yes, they're all thrush.
YouTube Auditors. Like an adult version of the most annoying kid at school
Nothing adult about them. ****ers is what they are.
You’re making the queue twice as long as it needs to be and causing gridlocked foul-ups half a mile behind us due to some arbitrary rule you’ve just $%^&ing made up.
I had a conversation with a former colleague about this. He said people driving down and merging where they should were causing traffic hold-ups, and if no one did, there would be no hold-up. This ignored two things. First, two lanes were going into one. It didn't matter where the merge point was. There would still be two going in one. The second and most critical was traffic lights just past the merge point. The lights caused the hold-ups. Even if everyone drove in his 'perfect' way, the lights would still go red. And that's why Jack from Tupelo, MS, is not cited in driver's ed!
This after they were out for 5 hours the night before leaving their dogs to bark in the garden. Is it possible to hammer frozen sausages into AstroTurf?
There's probably a Paslode device that can do that!
I really want to retire to France for a few years but every so often catch a program on TV (diy chateau for example) and every person seems to be a brit and all the people that appear are British and the customers and visitors are British. Puts me right off.
We (the expats from round these parts) have been the saviours of many a small South of France village. The Expats join in and help run things, many of the mayors are grateful for the help and life brought back to dying villages. Besides La France Profond means shut!
People who think half a dozen = 5.
Lolwut? Is this a thing?
It is in one of the posts you commented on earlier on the page! As in -
half a dozen fire-hydrant access ‘lids’ in the carriageway. 3 of them on the northbound side of the road (1st pic) and 2 of them on the southbound side (2nd pic)
Sorry, I was just being frivolous.
Friv away, irrational fury is the point of this thread. 😁
I had a conversation with a former colleague about this.
Well, he's clearly a plum who was born without a Common Sense Gland. There's more of them about than one might initially assume.
People who think half a dozen = 5.
Me, apparently, so it seems. I hadnt even realised the comment was loosely directed at me, was far too subtle for my radar 🤣
Car drivers who complain about potholes.
You never see potholes on a tarmac’d cycle track!
I've never quite got my head around the notion that the council will attend to a road to fill in potholes, then cover it with speed bumps. It'd be quicker, easier, cheaper and almost certainly as effective just to rock up with a can of white paint to draw triangles and make the holes a feature.
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Local meadow. Very popular with dog walking enthusiasts, including myself.
Council haven't emptied it for days(probably because it's one of those bins they can't drive the van right next to) but, there's a bin in either direction at the other ends of the meadow under a minute walk.
Nah... Just pile it on top and all over the ground.
Local meadow. Very popular with dog walking enthusiasts, including myself
I live in the same town as you. Local social media is full of pictures like this, followed by hundreds of comments blaming the council. It wasn't the council who dumped that shit there!
At least they've bagged it up and attempted to get it in a bin. That's a much higher standard than a lot of dog owners can manage.
It actually does surprise me that you have time to maintain arguments elsewhere on the internet as well as here.
It's easier to maintain arguments elsewhere as the standard of argument is usually lower than this forum.
It’s easier to maintain arguments elsewhere as the standard of argument is usually lower than this forum.
No it isn't.
That's not an argument. Argument’s an intellectual process. Contradiction’s just the
automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.
Doctors who tell previously a fit and able 88 year old lady that her blood sugar is high and now has to prick her finger twice a day and has turned into a worried and scared person who hardly goes out now.
She's 88 FFS🤬
“Common Sense” makes me mad
“Common sense” is not a thing. Everything is learned. What “common sense” is is a mindset used to sneeringly abuse and other people, and an insidious attack on learning and growth. You might think my anger is appropriate, but after many years of quiet disquiet I now automatically file people who use the phrase in my “ignorant ****s” list.
I was very young when I learned that the people who banged on about common sense all the time were usually unpleasant and worth avoiding. I am not sure if I ever grew out of it. I know only too well where it gets you in a mountain navigation context. It is also a good guide to being parted from your bike and gaining some air time.
“Common sense” is not a thing
Strictly speaking it's a learned behaviour but those spouting about it tend not to recognise this subtlety.
Lack of learning is what enables the young new worker to cross the yard ignoring the walkways and then get crushed by the loading shovel or the reversing arctic (or any of a host of other dangerous things in a workplace).
Those managers that then blame them for a lack of common sense need it explaining with a 4 by clue that this was their failure to adequtely train and inform the worker.
"get crushed by the loading shovel or the reversing arctic"
If they can't see a polar region reversing then they deserve to be crushed.
if I bought shirts based on collar size you could get a ringmaster, two clowns and an elephant inside it.
Same, i needed shirts in 3 or 4 sizes depending on if i was being a roadie or an MTBer that year. And where i was in my training cycling. The largest size, which fitted closely round my neck had enough fabric round the waist that it could (almost) wrap around twice.
Thankfully i don't wear ties (ever) and rarely wear a shirt, so i don't care anymore.
Lack of learning is what enables the young new worker to cross the yard ignoring the walkways and then get crushed by the loading shovel or the reversing arctic (or any of a host of other dangerous things in a workplace).
Well, up to a point, yes. And almost everything can be classed as "lack of learning" but when people use the term "common sense" it's usually in cases where, for example, a workplace has marked walkways and large vehicles moving around and the young new worker wanders out into the middle of it all and gets squished instead of looking around, recognising the fairly obvious danger and the marked walkways and working it out for himself.
Granted the term can be (and is) over-used, but sometimes people need to be able to adapt to situations by themselves instead of having it taught to them. And yes, I guess the ability to adapt is learned to some extent, but any adult should be able to do this.
I think there is such a thing as common sense, however as above it's also an over-used and over-simplified term. Generally when someone does something through a lack of common sense, it's actually just being thoughtless or a lack of awareness. Everyone's guilty of this sometimes. Some more than others!
If they can’t see a polar region reversing then they deserve to be crushed.
You may want to have a think about that in a quiet room. It ill becomes you and the two who upvoted it
I chose very large vehicles because the inexperienced are not aware of the terrible visibility offered to the operators. See also amazed cyclists when the LGV blind spot is filled with cyclists that they can not see from the cab on demonstration days.
Unless one is properly informed, one doesn't know.
You may want to have a think about that in a quiet room. It ill becomes you and the two who upvoted it
I chose very large vehicles because the inexperienced are not aware of the terrible visibility offered to the operators. See also amazed cyclists when the LGV blind spot is filled with cyclists that they can not see from the cab on demonstration days.
A very large lorry, like an artic(ulated) lorry, rather than large like a polar continent...?
The subtlety of an extra c. Unless one is properly informed, one doesn’t know.
Strictly speaking it’s a learned behaviour but those spouting about it tend not to recognise this subtlety.
And the same managers can also drip on about human factors in the same breath.
Oh the ironing!
Going back a few days, @ossify posted his photo of the manhole cover, replaced skew-wiff so the white line delineating the parking space was consequently on the piss. I saw similar, here it is
How hard would it have been to get that the right way around?
A very large lorry, like an artic(ulated) lorry, rather than large like a polar continent…?
TBF the point still stands. Polar regions probably have a huge blind spot, and most people will never even have thought of this.
😉
An arcticulated lorry:
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You may want to have a think about that in a quiet room. It ill becomes you and the two who upvoted it
I chose very large vehicles because the inexperienced are not aware of the terrible visibility offered to the operators. See also amazed cyclists when the LGV blind spot is filled with cyclists that they can not see from the cab on demonstration days.
Unless one is properly informed, one doesn’t know.
I c what he did there, I think you've missed it.
It actually does surprise me that you have time to maintain arguments elsewhere on the internet as well as here.
Bastard. 😁
I was very young when I learned that the people who banged on about common sense all the time were usually unpleasant and worth avoiding.
I don't want to bring up brexit again but yes, broadly you've got two sorts of people and the ones who drone on about 'common sense' are the same people who go "well, you can't say anything anymore because of political correctness / snowflakes / the gays / the blacks / wokeness." It seems like the harder you're obsessed with terms like "sense," the harder you're bereft of it yourself.
I saw similar, here it is
That genuinely disturbs me grate- uh, greatly.
How hard would it have been to get that the right way around?
Honestly if I were in a Position of Power when it came to putting manhole lids back in place I'd be sorely tempted to do that sort of thing for the sheer hell of it, in the sure and certain knowledge it'd get some subset of society frothing about it on the Internet.
Busy hotel at breakfast. People queuing to be let in to use the restaurant buffet.
Groups of people sitting at tables gossiping well after they’ve finished breakfast.
It’s a Holiday Inn on Salford docks, not a Hawaiian resort. Eat up and eff off.
That this is the thread I visit most times in a day.
I was very young when I learned that the people who banged on about common sense all the time were usually unpleasant and worth avoiding.
See also "Rule 1", implies consensus (decided upon by whom?)
I’ve just seen an article that states ‘queen’ Camilla will no longer buy new fur products…..no longer!!!!!
surely any sane individual hasn’t considered buying real fur for the last 25 years at least!
where do these people come from and why are they considered important?
In fact pretty much any media coverage of the monarchy makes me disproportionately cross.
LGV blind spot
There's blind spots and there's a problem with drivers not looking properly. Any LGV with true "blind spots" shouldn't be allowed to mix with vulnerable road users.
Tesco and putting sugar ring donuts in pink bags. These are usually for jam donuts and when in a rush, grabbing a pack only to open them at home to be extremely disappointed with a dry ring of jamless 'meh'
How hard would it have been to get that the right way around?
That should be in the Tate modern. I quite like it. Can you not appreciate the beauty of the myriad angles?
People who parralel park in the street at the end of a parking area and leave half a car length between the front of their car and the end line.
It's a truism wherever I've lived (so both places), it's always the smallest car which takes up the most room. BMW X5, not a problem. Nissan Micra, I could have got another two cars in there if you'd parked six inches further forward.
The way anything posted on social media about cycling safety, new cycle lanes etc is immediately drawn into a spiral of cycle hating bingo.... 🙁
The ****ing gov.co.uk website. Write things in plain language you absolute bastards! Also check your links to make sure the one on the second page you send me to doesn’t send me back to the first page. Putting me in some form of hyperlink purgatory! And when searching for commodity codes why does ‘Parts for a Nuclear Reactor’ always appear in the top 3 results. ****s.
Iain Duncan Smith
The **** gov.co.uk website.
I’m glad I’m not the only one. Someone much smarter than me will I’m sure be along soon to explain what’s going on, but it seems like they’ve made a deliberate decision to employ a design language and structure that literally no other website uses. I guess it’s supposed to follow usability guidelines or something, but the end result (for me anyway) is that it is absolutely impossible to navigate.
The way anything posted on social media about cycling safety, new cycle lanes etc is immediately drawn into a spiral of cycle hating bingo…. 🙁
Yeah. I got drawn into that big fat waste of time this week about some road improvement works in my hood. 🙄
Should learn to leave them to it.
gov.uk websites…
Yes, they following incredibly strong design standards. I’ve worked on some of them, they are designed to cater to absolutely anyone and as a result can feel a bit weird compared to other sites.
https://design-system.service.gov.uk/
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles
https://www.gov.uk/service-manual
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/style-guide
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design
Through vs thru. For ****s sake, if you are writing marketing material to send out to customers and potential customers, why would you put what is essentially a spelling error in it?
People being allowed to drive their kids to and from the school gates and cause utter chaos.
Through vs thru. For **** sake
Isn't it an Americanism, like 'drive-thru'? It feels like something Webster would have come up with.
In any case, the shortening of already short words pees me off. "C U L8R!!" Unlikely if you persist in writing like an imbecile. 40-character limits on text messages went out of the window twenty years ago, you now sound like the old boy next door who still hasn't grasped what a metre is.
MS Teams at work. Not content with telling me still, 4 months after updating to 'new', that it is in fact 'new', it now tells I need to update to this new version, which, when clicking said update command, does 5 fifth of fudge all...
People being allowed to drive their kids to and from the school gates and cause utter chaos.
Schools really need a park & ride system. I'm the last person to be going "you can't do [something] any more" but attitudes have certainly shifted, there's a common perception that it's unsafe to let your offspring walk ten yards unaccompanied in case there's a former Radio 1 DJ hiding in the bushes or something.
When I used to walk to school the roads were quieter sure, but that's just self-fulfilling. It's like everyone at work taking a spoon from the kitchen and sticking it in their desk drawer because there's never any spoons. If you weren't collectively all selfish nob-ends this issue wouldn't exist. The only reason you feel the need to drop your kid six inches from the school gate is that everyone else feels the need to their kid six inches from the school gate, it's an artificial problem of your own creation. See also: fuel crises.
gov.uk websites…
Yes, they following incredibly strong design standards. I’ve worked on some of them, they are designed to cater to absolutely anyone
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 nobody, catering for nobody.
In gangster films where they torch a car.
Fill it full of petrol, light a Zippo and throw it in.
Just use a box of matches or light a bit of rag or something ffs!
What a waste of a Zippo 🙄
Re to Cougar, our house backs on to a primary school, it's two minutes walk to the gates, maybe three, none of the parents ever and I mean ever park in our street and walk the kids round, they all insist on getting as close to the school gates as humanly possible, it's total carnage.
We bought the house as it's close to the school we wanted our kids to go to and could walk them to.
I use thru because I cannot spell the full word - sometimes not even getting close enough for spellcheck to correct me
I use thru because I cannot spell the full word – sometimes not even getting close enough for spellcheck to correct me
Damn it Teej! 😃
New Sonos app, I appreciate the tidy up but it's full of bugs and has some how made the speakers not Sync..there's a delay of about 0.5 secs between them which is really bloody annoying
I have to go to the skip at least twice today, I used to like going, the feeling of freedom as you ditch a load of stuff you don't need.
Since the introduction of parking bays it's a bloody nightmare, I'm fine with this, even when I'm carrying over filled bags/buckets of rubble across the yard, its a more economical use of space.
The general population however, FFS just park in the bay!!! If even one of you go old skool and roll up to the unit youre chucking Nanas old carpet in it causes effing gridlock you absolute inconsiderate lazy chumps.