Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1626328 times)

clarion · « **Reply #3800 on:** 27 August, 2013, 04:11:38 pm »

My Toyota satnav loved to go down Deansgate to window shop.

And never worked out the existence of one of the roads out of Crowborough.

Kim · « **Reply #3801 on:** 27 August, 2013, 05:54:15 pm »

I'm absolutely exhausted. I'm going to blame a combination of asthma last night and a weekend which, though fun, involved distinctly suboptimal amounts of digestive fail, Being Too Hot and driving, often at the same time.

clarion · « **Reply #3802 on:** 27 August, 2013, 06:18:47 pm »

Sorry about adding to that driving

Kim · « **Reply #3803 on:** 27 August, 2013, 06:29:27 pm »

Better helping you than a traffic jam, forgetting of something important or epic navigational cockup (the less said about the time we drove back from D-tek without a map and discovered the M6 was closed the better).

As I said, I'm happy enough that we were in a position to do something positive, it's not like you wouldn't do the same for someone else if the circumstances were different.

clarion · « **Reply #3804 on:** 27 August, 2013, 07:12:47 pm »

I hope that I would.

clarion · « **Reply #3805 on:** 27 August, 2013, 07:30:40 pm »

Train.

Standing.

Shoved around.

Not one person tried to help or offered me a seat.

hellymedic · « **Reply #3806 on:** 27 August, 2013, 10:08:39 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 27 August, 2013, 07:30:40 pm

Train.

Standing.

Shoved around.

Not one person tried to help or offered me a seat.

BAAAASTAARDS! Hope they get bad karma.

barakta · « **Reply #3807 on:** 27 August, 2013, 10:26:00 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 27 August, 2013, 07:30:40 pm

Train.

Standing.

Shoved around.

Not one person tried to help or offered me a seat.

Fuckers!

I need to make up those "Excuse me, I'm disabled - PLEASE give me a seat" badges so that people wearing one (by choice - thank you TfL patronising numpties) might get noticed or feel a little teeny bit more empowered to ask for a seat and maybe get one...

hellymedic · « **Reply #3808 on:** 27 August, 2013, 10:28:30 pm »

Good to see I'm not the only one using sweary words...

barakta · « **Reply #3809 on:** 27 August, 2013, 10:47:21 pm »

Sometimes I'm told I'm too sweary... Such a shame!

Ruth · « **Reply #3810 on:** 28 August, 2013, 05:49:30 pm »

Fuckers. Good word for 'em.

Fucking London fuckers.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3811 on:** 28 August, 2013, 08:52:03 pm »

Quote from: barakta on 27 August, 2013, 10:26:00 pm

Quote from: clarion on 27 August, 2013, 07:30:40 pm
Train.

Standing.

Shoved around.

Not one person tried to help or offered me a seat.

Fuckers!

I need to make up those "Excuse me, I'm disabled - PLEASE give me a seat" badges so that people wearing one (by choice - thank you TfL patronising numpties) might get noticed or feel a little teeny bit more empowered to ask for a seat and maybe get one...

Kulcha. Maybe we need to get more used to standing being the norm before this happens. I do not think Poles are any more polite than Englos but it is the norm there to stand for elderly, disabled, parents with small kids (and for the kids then to sit on knees not seats), etc - just because the buses are usually packed and have been for 50 years.

Ruth · « **Reply #3812 on:** 28 August, 2013, 09:14:49 pm »

Yeah. So. I went to Canada, and all I got was this lousy emergency root canal surgery ...

Clare · « **Reply #3813 on:** 28 August, 2013, 09:38:00 pm »

Lalalalalalala I'm not listening.

Hope it sorts the problem out.

mcshroom · « **Reply #3814 on:** 28 August, 2013, 09:49:59 pm »

Quote from: Ruthie on 28 August, 2013, 09:14:49 pm

Yeah. So. I went to Canada, and all I got was this lousy emergency root canal surgery ...

Bloody health tourists

Hope you're feeling better soon

tiermat · « **Reply #3815 on:** 30 August, 2013, 01:42:55 pm »

<in Grumble thread as it is my choice to work 180 miles from home>

Idiot that decides Friday afternoon is a good time to cause an accident on the A1, North of Peterborough, thanks a fucking lot, I will now have to endure the A10 and A17 to get back on the A1, as will millions of other people, thus making me late home and making me miss a night ride.

GAH!

Jacomus · « **Reply #3816 on:** 30 August, 2013, 05:31:39 pm »

Ah, so your free WiFi is not 'here is the code, fire away' it is actually 'login using your email, phone number and name (all mandatory fields, natch). We totally promise not the spam the shit out of you and sell on your details'.

*tap tap tap*

So just entering a series of o or 0 depending on the field doesn't work eh? For my 'convenience' eh?

*tap tap tap*

Well, good sirs, you now have a certain Foxtrot Oscar, mobile 07000 000000, email FoxtrotOscar@youbastards.com, using ur internets.

interzen · « **Reply #3817 on:** 30 August, 2013, 05:36:59 pm »

Quote from: Jacomus on 30 August, 2013, 05:31:39 pm

Well, good sirs, you now have a certain Foxtrot Oscar, mobile 07000 000000, email FoxtrotOscar@youbastards.com, using ur internets.

Lemme guess .... The Clo(u)d?

More people need to take a leaf out of this chap's book, I reckon: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23869462

Remember kids, you're not a 'user' any more ... you're the product.

Jacomus · « **Reply #3818 on:** 30 August, 2013, 08:05:27 pm »

Quote from: interzen on 30 August, 2013, 05:36:59 pm

Quote from: Jacomus on 30 August, 2013, 05:31:39 pm
Well, good sirs, you now have a certain Foxtrot Oscar, mobile 07000 000000, email FoxtrotOscar@youbastards.com, using ur internets.
Lemme guess .... The Clo(u)d?

More people need to take a leaf out of this chap's book, I reckon: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23869462

Remember kids, you're not a 'user' any more ... you're the product.

Nope, just a restaurant/bar WiFi offering.

I'm on my mobile's data connection now though, as I spent too long working on a document and was 'logged out'. I can't reconnect now, despite the reconnect auto-loaded page's best efforts.

We have had a round of drinks free after I complained that their 'business, booze and bangers' slogan didn't exactly light the world on fire. Especially at £4.95 a pint of Fosters.

David Martin · « **Reply #3819 on:** 30 August, 2013, 10:45:14 pm »

Just heading home from a github-hosted gathering. Dundee being a hotbed of tech wizardry there was a heaving crowd turned up for free drinks.
Good blether - may be in need of chips and a kebab now though...

Basil · « **Reply #3820 on:** 30 August, 2013, 11:46:06 pm »

Oh bugger. I think I should have a hair cut. For deity's sake. That will be three this year. That will be £22.50 this year. (£27 inc, tips)

Actually, it takes at least 4 weeks from me deciding that I should have a hair cut to me actually submitting to the hell of a non blokey bloke exposing his rubbish blokeyness in a heavily blokey situation.

Ashaman42 · « **Reply #3821 on:** 31 August, 2013, 02:53:09 pm »

Why do the pictures in the Haynes manual never seem to match up with what's under the bonnet?

Kim · « **Reply #3822 on:** 31 August, 2013, 03:31:13 pm »

Quote from: Ashaman42 on 31 August, 2013, 02:53:09 pm

Why do the pictures in the Haynes manual never seem to match up with what's under the bonnet?

So it can earn its title of "Book Of Lies"

hellymedic · « **Reply #3823 on:** 31 August, 2013, 04:29:28 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 31 August, 2013, 03:31:13 pm

Quote from: Ashaman42 on 31 August, 2013, 02:53:09 pm
Why do the pictures in the Haynes manual never seem to match up with what's under the bonnet?

So it can earn its title of "Book Of Lies"

Tim Hall · « **Reply #3824 on:** 31 August, 2013, 09:30:04 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 31 August, 2013, 03:31:13 pm

Quote from: Ashaman42 on 31 August, 2013, 02:53:09 pm
Why do the pictures in the Haynes manual never seem to match up with what's under the bonnet?

So it can earn its title of "Book Of Lies"

This woman speak da troof.

I had a Peugeot 309 once and needed to fettle something, timing belt probably. This involved locking the engine TDC by placing an xmm diameter drill in the hole in the flywheel housing provided for the purpose and poking it into a hole in the flywheel. The HBOL said the hole in the flywheel housing was toward the back of the engine. An hour of fruitless poking, with swearing as appropriate, followed by Looking Elsewhere found the hole towards the front of the engine. Gits.