Author Topic: The Good News / Bad News Thread (Read 393953 times)

billplumtree · « **Reply #1025 on:** 12 April, 2013, 01:34:56 pm »

Quote from: Ham on 12 April, 2013, 12:10:47 pm

Bad news: I have received a ten year award from Megacorp

Good news: At least I didn't have to meet my manager or anything like that, all I had to do was open the door and the postie put the biro in my hand.

10 years service, and all they gave you was a lousy biro?

Guy · « **Reply #1026 on:** 12 April, 2013, 01:56:16 pm »

Quote from: billplumtree on 12 April, 2013, 01:34:56 pm

10 years service, and all they gave you was a lousy biro?

Don't knock it. 22 years in the MoD and I still have to steal them.

clarion · « **Reply #1027 on:** 12 April, 2013, 02:02:10 pm »

You can afford biros in your part of the public service? I said the Defence budget was OTT!

Now pharmaceutical companies are not allowed to give away stationery, it's placed a heavy burden on our budgets.

fwiw, and before Regulator steps in, our prescribing patterns have not changed as a result, proving how inept most advertising is.

Canardly · « **Reply #1028 on:** 12 April, 2013, 09:43:45 pm »

I can remember a time when MOD used to buy biro refills in silver tubes containing 25.

Ham · « **Reply #1029 on:** 15 April, 2013, 09:52:15 am »

Good news!! The problem with my Karcher pressure washer was not terminal as a result of frost, instead it was caused by a dodgy Hozelock stop valve connector, not opening fully on the Karcher connector (but opening OK on the Hozelock nozzle)

Bad news! I only found this out when the exact same problem surfaced on the brand new pressure washer I bought to replace it.

Maybe good news for someone: Anyone interested in buying a Karcher K3.90 in good working order? (will go on eBay in a week or so)

Greenbank · « **Reply #1030 on:** 18 April, 2013, 01:54:22 pm »

Quote from: Ham on 12 April, 2013, 12:10:47 pm

Bad news: I have received a ten year award from Megacorp

Good news: At least I didn't have to meet my manager or anything like that, all I had to do was open the door and the postie put the biro in my hand.

Good news: Well done (for avoiding your manager). For mine I was called in to a meeting room in one of those "have you got a minute?" things that can often quickly become bad news; luckily not.

Bad news 1: My 15 years at Megacorp comes up next year (it should really have been last year but they don't count the time they 'employed' me whilst I was a student).

Bad news 2: The pen will also appear on your P11D. Joy.

Vince · « **Reply #1031 on:** 18 April, 2013, 02:04:33 pm »

BN: Turning on the coffee machine without the jug inplace was a bad idea.

GN: I've found the hiding place for the Custard Cream supply... Nom Nom Nom

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #1032 on:** 22 April, 2013, 10:13:02 am »

GN: the gf bread I left at work last week is still edible

BN: I've nearly run out of coffee.

Dibdib · « **Reply #1033 on:** 22 April, 2013, 03:37:23 pm »

BN: I was in the office half an hour early and only got half an hour's lunch because of a ton of Important Time-Critical Stuff which isn't actually my job.

GN: I didn't mind doing it, and now i'm sloping off at 4 instead of 5 for a cheeky spin on the bike. Happy days!

CommuteTooFar · « **Reply #1034 on:** 22 April, 2013, 09:03:03 pm »

Good: I am about to collect my repaired frame painted in club colours. Pink, White and Blue.
Bad: Four weeks ago the club decided to return to its 1927 colour scheme. Black & White with a red dragon on the collar.

Andrij · « **Reply #1035 on:** 23 April, 2013, 01:36:11 pm »

GN: found the date for this year's Chap Olympiad - 20^th July.

BN: 20^th-21^st July is the DunRun.

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #1036 on:** 23 April, 2013, 07:45:29 pm »

GN: They're resurfacing Mill Lane in Acaster Malbis, at last! (It was a horrible, crater-strewn surface.)

BN: They haven't finished yet. Riding over the exposed ironwork wasn't particularly pleasant.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1037 on:** 23 April, 2013, 08:31:57 pm »

BN: I lost a library book.
GN: It's been found.
BN: I'll have to pay for it to be posted to me.
GN: Then I'll be able to finish reading it - and in the meantime I can finish the other books due back soon!

matthew · « **Reply #1038 on:** 28 April, 2013, 03:41:35 pm »

BN: the lakes of the Lake District are being replenished.

GN: I did at least get out to lap Coniston water in the dry break between deluges.

PaulF · « **Reply #1039 on:** 28 April, 2013, 06:36:58 pm »

Bad news: I arrived at my hotel to be told I wasn't expected until tomorrow.

Good news: they have a room anyway!

That is why I prefer to make my own reservations, that and the fact that the office books me out to save £30 ignoring the fact if I have to go to Gatwick that means an extra night in a hotel and a longer drive

jogler · « **Reply #1040 on:** 28 April, 2013, 07:23:53 pm »

BN : incurred yet another puncture

GN : the new Marathon+ came off & went back on much easier than previously.

woollypigs · « **Reply #1041 on:** 29 April, 2013, 08:50:00 pm »

We got a car.

Canardly · « **Reply #1042 on:** 29 April, 2013, 09:28:32 pm »

Woolly what can I say.

Dibdib · « **Reply #1043 on:** 30 April, 2013, 08:52:58 am »

Good! After a couple of years of not being able to play due to a lack of local teams, I've finally found a (fledgling) ultimate frisbee group in Swindonia.

Bad! I went down to chuck a few discs around with them last night, and twisted my knee. Owwww.

loadsabikes · « **Reply #1044 on:** 30 April, 2013, 09:07:00 am »

Bring a frisby to Rutland

woollypigs · « **Reply #1045 on:** 30 April, 2013, 09:10:01 am »

Quote from: Canardly on 29 April, 2013, 09:28:32 pm

Woolly what can I say.

Well we all know the bad news. Good news is that we can come to more forums rides and I can ride a trike.

Bledlow · « **Reply #1046 on:** 02 May, 2013, 06:15:01 pm »

Bad: both my calves have painful & madly itchy insect bites, acquired while cycling through South Oxfordshire last nght.

Good: the anti-histamine cream I bought this afternoon is working. Bliss!

Polar Bear · « **Reply #1047 on:** 02 May, 2013, 06:25:14 pm »

Quote from: woollypigs on 29 April, 2013, 08:50:00 pm

We got a car.

Quote from: Canardly on 29 April, 2013, 09:28:32 pm

Woolly what can I say.

You could say...

See you at Long Itch?

Canardly · « **Reply #1048 on:** 02 May, 2013, 08:24:06 pm »

Now thats an idea.......

Dibdib · « **Reply #1049 on:** 02 May, 2013, 08:36:41 pm »

Quote from: loadsabikes on 30 April, 2013, 09:07:00 am

Bring a frisby to Rutland

Will do!