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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #375 on: 11 July, 2011, 02:45:51 pm »
but it's #6 apparently so I should think it'll come out like a well buttered sprout on boxing day.
I've not heard that one before,PMSL
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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #376 on: 11 July, 2011, 03:18:55 pm »
do I really want to open that link?
what does the panel think :-\

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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #377 on: 11 July, 2011, 03:44:15 pm »
I dare you jogler.

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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #378 on: 11 July, 2011, 03:47:25 pm »


Son.  I love you very much.  It's great having you home from uni.  But for all our sakes, turn that bloody awful music down.

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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #379 on: 11 July, 2011, 03:55:03 pm »
It sounds like the lead singer is being burned to death to a background of (actually, very good) electric guitar.

Atreyu, apparently.  And Cannibal Corpse.  Ewwww.

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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #380 on: 11 July, 2011, 03:59:26 pm »
I dare you jogler.

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I have & it's not what I expected. ;D

Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #381 on: 11 July, 2011, 06:05:04 pm »
It's more or less SFW. Unless you're Catholic.
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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #382 on: 11 July, 2011, 06:18:19 pm »
I packed my laptop in a bag to bring home as I'm going away tomorrow, left it next to my pannier while I got changed for the commute and then left it there, despite picking up my pannier. Dummy
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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #383 on: 12 July, 2011, 09:23:54 pm »
Self. I know you've never seen a left sided drivechain but when buying a freewheel called 'southpaw' it might men it works the other way round!

I now have a freewheel that only goes backwards  :facepalm:
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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #384 on: 12 July, 2011, 09:37:47 pm »
I'm having to lift my coffee cup with my left hand because of pain. Sodding Arthritis!
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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #385 on: 12 July, 2011, 09:49:36 pm »
I now have a freewheel that only goes backwards  :facepalm:

Sell it to Wobbly John.

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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #386 on: 12 July, 2011, 10:01:17 pm »
I now have a freewheel that only goes backwards  :facepalm:

Sell it to Wobbly John.

Wonder what the drive would be like with a chain and freewheel on both sides of the wheel  ::-)
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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #387 on: 13 July, 2011, 09:43:03 am »
dual  :)
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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #388 on: 13 July, 2011, 12:14:10 pm »
Oh bugger.  Having left my decent front light in Waleslandshire I'm going to have to pop over the road to BloodyEvans at lunch time.
I just HATE going in there and having to go through the bloody "You don't need my post code you bloody morons" argument every time
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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #389 on: 13 July, 2011, 12:16:39 pm »
Now wash your hands.
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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #390 on: 13 July, 2011, 12:20:09 pm »
Oh bugger.  Having left my decent front light in Waleslandshire I'm going to have to pop over the road to BloodyEvans at lunch time.
I just HATE going in there and having to go through the bloody "You don't need my post code you bloody morons" argument every time


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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #391 on: 14 July, 2011, 10:54:20 am »
Just a mathematical query.

If I am number                              zero                           in the queue, as the (badly) automated call handling system informs me, how does that work?  I mean, if there is a queue and it's just me, then surely I'd be number                         one              ?

Also, if I am privileged to be at the front of this metaphysical queue, then why am I waiting So Sodding Long?
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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #392 on: 14 July, 2011, 11:01:08 am »
Just a mathematical query.

If I am number                              zero                           in the queue, as the (badly) automated call handling system informs me, how does that work?  I mean, if there is a queue and it's just me, then surely I'd be number                         one              ?

Also, if I am privileged to be at the front of this metaphysical queue, then why am I waiting So Sodding Long?

Surely it's more a philosophical question?  If you are number zero, do you actually exist?
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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #393 on: 14 July, 2011, 11:05:52 am »
Just a mathematical query.

If I am number                              zero                           in the queue, as the (badly) automated call handling system informs me, how does that work?  I mean, if there is a queue and it's just me, then surely I'd be number                         one              ?

Also, if I am privileged to be at the front of this metaphysical queue, then why am I waiting So Sodding Long?

Surely it's more a philosophical question?  If you are number zero, do you actually exist?

As ever, Dilbert has the answer ...

clarion

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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #394 on: 14 July, 2011, 11:24:18 am »
I am not a number, I am a free man!
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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #395 on: 14 July, 2011, 11:37:56 am »
If it's such a high priority matter, you gibbon-faced twonk, why has it taken you more than an hour not to reply to my question?  Were it not for the fact that you are in Cape Town I would e'en now be tolchocking you about the gulliver with my stoutest knobkerrie and viddying the red red krovvy flow, o my droogies.
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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #396 on: 14 July, 2011, 12:47:30 pm »
Just a mathematical query.

If I am number                              zero                           in the queue, as the (badly) automated call handling system informs me, how does that work?  I mean, if there is a queue and it's just me, then surely I'd be number                         one              ?

Also, if I am privileged to be at the front of this metaphysical queue, then why am I waiting So Sodding Long?

Perhaps you're lost in translation (mathematically speaking)?

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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #397 on: 14 July, 2011, 01:00:34 pm »
Just a mathematical query.

If I am number                              zero                           in the queue, as the (badly) automated call handling system informs me, how does that work?  I mean, if there is a queue and it's just me, then surely I'd be number                         one              ?

Computers, and people who spend too much time getting intimate with them, count from zero, for perfectly sensible reasons.  The writers of the badly automated call handling system probably forgot to convert to human (indeed they may not have actually met one for years).

Of course, if I were writing a call handling system, I'd set it up to lie about people's position in the queue, and make them feel like they were making progress.  A bit like traffic lights with placebo buttons on the pedestrian crossings that do nothing to the timings.  It would also be XKCD/806 compliant.

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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #398 on: 14 July, 2011, 03:16:46 pm »
ftr, from being zero in the queue to an answer to my call took fifteen minutes.
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Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Reply #399 on: 14 July, 2011, 04:35:40 pm »
Toothache, earache, jawache, shoulder ache, sore throat, split lip and mouth ulcers - your company is rapidly becoming extremely tedious.  Kindly fuck off and leave me alone.