The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.

[Mr Larrington]

As a result of driving a convertible due west all week, the left side of my face has acquired a respectable tan.  The right side looks like it's spent the summer indoors drinking BEER.  I look like the Phantom of the fucking Opera.  If it isn't sunny one the way back I'm going to have to start job-hunting looking like a twat.

[Marco Stefano]

Yet another weekend lost to urgent work. Bloody weary of all this.

[Gattopardo]

As a result of driving a convertible due west all week, the left side of my face has acquired a respectable tan.  The right side looks like it's spent the summer indoors drinking BEER.  I look like the Phantom of the fucking Opera.  If it isn't sunny one the way back I'm going to have to start job-hunting looking like a twat.

Sunbed quick

[Clare]

Gah, no Nigel fix this week 

[rafletcher]

I need to top up a mobile phone.  I'm at work. I can't do it online as for whatever reason our works laptops/network won't render the site properly.  Ok, I'll use my phone to get to the site. But Orange (ok EE), a mobile phome operator, do not appear to have a site optimised - wait for it - for viewing on a mobile phone. It just loads the full website - whereas other content providers automatically default to a smart-phone sized screen "m" version. Pooh.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

It's really annoying when someone makes a crappy form-for-filling-in in Word and delineates the spaces for typing in with ... . It's even more annoying when they put boxes-to-be-Xd in by adding a tiny square which isn't a text box and can't be typed in.

[mrcharly-YHT]

As a result of driving a convertible due west all week, the left side of my face has acquired a respectable tan.  The right side looks like it's spent the summer indoors drinking BEER.  I look like the Phantom of the fucking Opera.  If it isn't sunny one the way back I'm going to have to start job-hunting looking like a twat.

Sunbed quick

Mirror on the dashboard

[Kim]

As a result of driving a convertible due west all week, the left side of my face has acquired a respectable tan.  The right side looks like it's spent the summer indoors drinking BEER.  I look like the Phantom of the fucking Opera.  If it isn't sunny one the way back I'm going to have to start job-hunting looking like a twat.

Sunbed quick

Mirror on the dashboard

Get a Windcheetah.  Then they'll be too busy trying to work out your elbows to notice the tan on your face.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

As a result of driving a convertible due west all week, the left side of my face has acquired a respectable tan.  The right side looks like it's spent the summer indoors drinking BEER.  I look like the Phantom of the fucking Opera.  If it isn't sunny one the way back I'm going to have to start job-hunting looking like a twat.

Sunbed quick

Mirror on the dashboard

"I think that was by The Beat, Ken."

[Basil]

Look.  I am aware of some of what you are working on, and I’m sure we may have had previous discussions.
But,
Your world is not something I spend my whole life thinking about.  I’ve probably been to bed at least 30 times since our last discussion.
So,
Your e-mail which roughly translates as “We need to do the biz with the wossname”, requesting my thoughts, could have been a little more helpful.  Just a few extra words might have saved me having to go back and waste time refreshing my poor old brain.

Lazy git!

[barakta]

I have taken to saying to people when they refer to your last query the thing we were discussing and other such vague references that we are so hideously busy that I lose track and can make kind to clarify which specific item they are referring to.

It doesn't help that the reference last time wasn't even for me it was for my colleague whose name is a bit similar to mine I don't like sharing similar names it annoying
 
this brought to you by firebreathing Dragon NaturallySpeaking dictation hell which is just wrong computers of typing on not talking to although this version does at least understand me when I'm not being sarcastic previous versions have required me to be cross and sarcastic before it understood be I could do without the lag though.

[Feanor]

Dearest junior, it's great that you are doing your homework, even if it is at 22:00 o'clock.

But please not to be asking me about maths I've not done since school at this hour.
Yes, I'll figure it out, but not tonight.

NN.

[Vince]

Dearest Junior, You spent 6 or 8 weeks assuring us that you had no homework set. Why are you now writing up the notes from the geography trip back in June?

[Guy]

Dear big shiny silver BMW with the 2-letter 2-number personal plate. It was really lovely of you to pull out reeeeallly wide to pas me last night

Was the bend half-way down The Greenway really the place to do it thobut

[T42]

Candidates for Koko's Little List:

People who enter a nice, warm bathroom, use the cludge then open the window because they don't "believe" in air fresheners, so that the next one in freezes his arse off.

Our goddamned cleaning woman who persists in leaving her wretched cleaning cloths to dry right on the corner of the bath where I park my book.

[jsabine]

To be honest, I'd rather have a frozen arse than smell most air fresheners - I can warm up quicker than I can forget the chemical taint in my nostrils.

[mrcharly-YHT]

To be honest, I'd rather have a frozen arse than smell most air fresheners - I can warm up quicker than I can forget the chemical taint in my nostrils.

ditto

[T42]

To be honest, I'd rather have a frozen arse than smell most air fresheners - I can warm up quicker than I can forget the chemical taint in my nostrils.

So hold the air freshener: I'd rather have the nice warm friendly natural pong of a fellow human than plonk down shivering on a slice of frigid plastic.  The nose dismisses smells far faster than the cold recedes.

[Cudzoziemiec]

To be honest, I'd rather have a frozen arse than smell most air fresheners - I can warm up quicker than I can forget the chemical taint in my nostrils.

So hold the air freshener: I'd rather have the nice warm friendly natural pong of a fellow human than plonk down shivering on a slice of frigid plastic.  The nose dismisses smells far faster than the cold recedes.

How about a fan? Air fresheners don't freshen the air, they just mask whatever's there with a pseudo-floral cocktail. Which could be a metaphor for much more of life...

[jsabine]

Oh yes, open window/air freshener is a false dichotomy, though my wife feels that the fan is too slow-acting.

the nice warm friendly natural pong of a fellow human

Hmmm. There are times I'd rather not inflict the aroma on myself again, let alone on anyone else.

[Ham]

Oh yes, open window/air freshener is a false dichotomy, though my wife feels that the fan is too slow-acting.

the nice warm friendly natural pong of a fellow human

Hmmm. There are times I'd rather not inflict the aroma on myself again, let alone on anyone else.

Now you've confused me. Was it you or me in my khasi a short while ago?

[jsabine]

I don't know - is your khazi upstairs in my house? Should I check?

[Kim]

To be honest, I'd rather have a frozen arse than smell most air fresheners - I can warm up quicker than I can forget the chemical taint in my nostrils.

So hold the air freshener: I'd rather have the nice warm friendly natural pong of a fellow human than plonk down shivering on a slice of frigid plastic.  The nose dismisses smells far faster than the cold recedes.

How about a fan? Air fresheners don't freshen the air, they just mask whatever's there with a pseudo-floral cocktail. Which could be a metaphor for much more of life...

In my experience, they don't even do that.  Poo + air freshener = pooey air freshener.

[T42]

I don't know - is your khazi upstairs in my house? Should I check?

Maybe it's a gateway to another universe.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I don't know - is your khazi upstairs in my house? Should I check?

Maybe it's a gateway to another universe.

It's a gateway to some prototype of the Feminist Republic of Juliana.