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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22425 on: 30 July, 2020, 11:02:25 am »
Have you approached the quarry direct??

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22426 on: 30 July, 2020, 11:37:05 am »
Or waited til closing time and visited with a wheelbarrow?  :P
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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22427 on: 07 August, 2020, 04:34:02 pm »
Dear colleague, how lazy do you have to be to sign off your emails "KR"? If typing "Kind Regards" is too much effort, perhaps you could stretch to "Regards"?
Grrrrrrrrrr.

Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22428 on: 07 August, 2020, 04:59:04 pm »
In a previous company it was typical to sign off with /mvh

But that was a bit shorter than med vänliga hälsningar (with friendly greetings)

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22429 on: 07 August, 2020, 05:08:00 pm »
Like German mfG - mit freundlichen Grüßen. Or freudlichen gruseln, provoking Freudian horror, sort-of.
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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22430 on: 07 August, 2020, 06:02:46 pm »
In a previous company it was typical to sign off with /mvh

But that was a bit shorter than med vänliga hälsningar (with friendly greetings)
Ah thanks for that, I've often wondered what that meabs but been too lazy to look it up..
Do not clench. It only makes it worse.

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22431 on: 07 August, 2020, 09:18:22 pm »
I remember when people used to sign off emails with "-- " and then a signature that was more likely to feature ASCII-art than a waste-of-bandwidth legal disclaimer.   >:(

Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22432 on: 07 August, 2020, 09:21:00 pm »
.......and the ubiquitous Civil Service Yours ever.
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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22433 on: 07 August, 2020, 09:45:36 pm »
In a previous company it was typical to sign off with /mvh

But that was a bit shorter than med vänliga hälsningar (with friendly greetings)
Ah thanks for that, I've often wondered what that meabs but been too lazy to look it up..

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22434 on: 08 August, 2020, 08:21:20 am »
I remember when people used to sign off emails with "-- " and then a signature that was more likely to feature ASCII-art than a waste-of-bandwidth legal disclaimer.   >:(

And proper email clients automatically deleted the incoming sig when you replied, and you'd reply underneath, snipping irrelevant parts out.

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22435 on: 08 August, 2020, 09:52:28 am »
I remember when people used to sign off emails with "-- " and then a signature that was more likely to feature ASCII-art than a waste-of-bandwidth legal disclaimer.   >:(

And proper email clients automatically deleted the incoming sig when you replied, and you'd reply underneath, snipping irrelevant parts out.
Wasn't there a thing in Usenet where the brokenness of $newsreader (Outlook I think) could be demonstrated by doing stuff with dash dash space and getting a warning/rude/other message to display?
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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22436 on: 08 August, 2020, 10:08:19 am »
I remember when people used to sign off emails with "-- "

I still do! More out of habit than anything.

Never been one for ascii art though.
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ian

Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22437 on: 10 August, 2020, 10:48:47 am »
I'm wondering how much of the internet is iteratively nested legal disclaimers, and whether they'll eventually take over and start self-declaiming.

Rant, oh yeah, rant. The fucking building project up the road is still going on, now on day 5,563. We took last week off, which meant we had the delightful waking chorus of drilling and grinding every morning at just after 8am. Then on Saturday, the chap next door but one to them decide to play with his power tools in the front garden at 9am.

Of course, it's a gorgeous day, the windows are open and grind-grind-brrrttt-hammer-grind-grind-brrrrrrrzzzzzzt. I'm almost missing the halcyon days when it was just them dumping tonnes of rubble in an empty skip all day.

I'm tempted to go up and show them some innovative painful and fatal uses for those fucking power tools.

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22438 on: 10 August, 2020, 08:32:09 pm »
In a previous company it was typical to sign off with /mvh

But that was a bit shorter than med vänliga hälsningar (with friendly greetings)
Ah thanks for that, I've often wondered what that meabs but been too lazy to look it up..

Tusen takk, shirley.

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22439 on: 10 August, 2020, 08:37:15 pm »
In a previous company it was typical to sign off with /mvh

But that was a bit shorter than med vänliga hälsningar (with friendly greetings)
Ah thanks for that, I've often wondered what that meabs but been too lazy to look it up..

Tusen takk, shirley.

Not if someone hasn't done anything worth thanking you for...
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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22440 on: 10 August, 2020, 08:39:41 pm »
In a previous company it was typical to sign off with /mvh

But that was a bit shorter than med vänliga hälsningar (with friendly greetings)
Ah thanks for that, I've often wondered what that meabs but been too lazy to look it up..

Tusen takk, shirley.

Not if someone hasn't done anything worth thanking you for...

Well, MattH gave you some info.

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22441 on: 12 August, 2020, 04:37:57 pm »
Trying to sit and enjoy the sun in the garden but being subjected to someone else's shit music from several gardens away.  >:(
Do not clench. It only makes it worse.

Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22442 on: 12 August, 2020, 05:36:46 pm »
Trying to sit and enjoy the sun in the garden but being subjected to someone else's shit music from several gardens away.  >:(

I feel your pain.

I ended up deciding that being drenched in sweat was a small price to pay for not being subjected to the "R&B" blasting out from a neighbour's radio, and went for a ride.

Fortunately, it had stopped by the time I got back .
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ian

Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22443 on: 12 August, 2020, 05:57:51 pm »
I am sure there's a name for the fact that outdoor music volume is inversely proportional to how much anyone wants to hear it. Which explains the overloud doppler-shifted wankmusic that is emitted from topless motorcars.

That said, it's probably better than the construction site. I finally gave in and went to see what they're doing. Seems to be some major garden restructuring project. There had better be a secret underground lair underneath. And sharktanks.

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22444 on: 12 August, 2020, 06:00:49 pm »
Trying to sit and enjoy the sun in the garden but being subjected to someone else's shit music from several gardens away.  >:(

I feel your pain.

I ended up deciding that being drenched in sweat was a small price to pay for not being subjected to the "R&B" blasting out from a neighbour's radio, and went for a ride.

Fortunately, it had stopped by the time I got back .

I suggest you return fire with Ride of the Valkyries, while simultaneously strafing them from helicopters.

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22445 on: 12 August, 2020, 06:22:29 pm »
Quote from: Karla
Quote from: spesh
Quote from: Mrs Pingu
Trying to sit and enjoy the sun in the garden but being subjected to someone else's shit music from several gardens away.  >:(

I feel your pain.

I ended up deciding that being drenched in sweat was a small price to pay for not being subjected to the "R&B" blasting out from a neighbour's radio, and went for a ride.

Fortunately, it had stopped by the time I got back .

I suggest you return fire with Ride of the Valkyries, while simultaneously strafing them from helicopters.
Sod the music, cut straight to the strafing run from the helicopters.
Τα πιο όμορφα ταξίδια γίνονται με τις δικές μας δυνάμεις - Φίλοι του Ποδήλατου

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22446 on: 12 August, 2020, 06:58:16 pm »
It got worse for a bit, segueing from some disco I don't know to Papa Don't Preach by McDonna which was pretty dire. Then it got better with a trip to Tom Tom Club before finishing with Kate Bush and then eventually they STFU.
Still, it could have been worse. If there'd been Oasis I'd have had to go indoors.
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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22447 on: 12 August, 2020, 07:45:59 pm »
Quote from: Karla
Quote from: spesh
Quote from: Mrs Pingu
Trying to sit and enjoy the sun in the garden but being subjected to someone else's shit music from several gardens away.  >:(

I feel your pain.

I ended up deciding that being drenched in sweat was a small price to pay for not being subjected to the "R&B" blasting out from a neighbour's radio, and went for a ride.

Fortunately, it had stopped by the time I got back .

I suggest you return fire with Ride of the Valkyries, while simultaneously strafing them from helicopters.
Sod the music, cut straight to the strafing run from the helicopters.

Forget ROTV, go with Immigrant Song instead
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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22448 on: 12 August, 2020, 07:53:27 pm »
Quote from: Karla
Quote from: spesh
Quote from: Mrs Pingu
Trying to sit and enjoy the sun in the garden but being subjected to someone else's shit music from several gardens away.  >:(

I feel your pain.

I ended up deciding that being drenched in sweat was a small price to pay for not being subjected to the "R&B" blasting out from a neighbour's radio, and went for a ride.

Fortunately, it had stopped by the time I got back .

I suggest you return fire with Ride of the Valkyries, while simultaneously strafing them from helicopters.
Sod the music, cut straight to the strafing run from the helicopters.

Forget ROTV, go with Immigrant Song instead

Go for the worst of both worlds and give them “The Crunge”.  Led Zeppelin attempt soul.  Drugs probably involved.
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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22449 on: 12 August, 2020, 08:55:53 pm »
Quote from: Karla
Quote from: spesh
Quote from: Mrs Pingu
Trying to sit and enjoy the sun in the garden but being subjected to someone else's shit music from several gardens away.  >:(

I feel your pain.

I ended up deciding that being drenched in sweat was a small price to pay for not being subjected to the "R&B" blasting out from a neighbour's radio, and went for a ride.

Fortunately, it had stopped by the time I got back .

I suggest you return fire with Ride of the Valkyries, while simultaneously strafing them from helicopters.
Sod the music, cut straight to the strafing run from the helicopters.

Forget ROTV, go with Immigrant Song instead

Go for the worst of both worlds and give them “The Crunge”.  Led Zeppelin attempt soul.  Drugs probably involved.

If you’re taking that approach just put “In Through the Out Door” on at full volume. And repeat. Then emigrate.

But that could reasonably be construed as an overreaction.