Ant Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 I believe this time of year, when christmas starts up despite the fact that it's still the eleventh month of the year, should be called No-Fucking-Vember.Might help get the point across.Deck the halls... No, it's No-*&$king-Vember.Done your shopping yet? No, it's No-F&@#ing-Vember!Etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Lasagne.Or more specifically the fact that despite the industry standard size for lasagne sheets being x, lasagne dish manufacturers seem incapable of making a dish that fits a whole number of sheets (i.e. it is always 2x + 1/3x). So I have to then try and break the sheets into thirds to try and fill gaps.Argh. It says "Lasagne" on the dish ffs. Measure the dried sheets before going into production you berks!Let me cook in peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mc Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 And the problem with breaking sheets of pasta is? Do you think anyone would notice?Now back to the song game and the word association threads.....Oh - and why can bar staff not add up in their heads any more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhinestone Cowboy Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Men who when shaking yr hand give you the death grip, Sorry just had a meeting and I still cannot feel my fingers I think this guy ( he was French ) wanted to get one up on me. Well it worked. Could be a couple of lonely nights now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony.London Suburbs Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Rhinestone Cowboy Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Men who when shaking yr hand give you the death> grip, Sorry just had a meeting and I still cannot> feel my fingers I think this guy ( he was French> ) wanted to get one up on me. Ask him to "Try A Little Kindness" next time::o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atila Reincarnate Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 People who insist on eating opposite you on trains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadwolf Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Missed breakfast today did we Atila? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atila Reincarnate Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 bigbadwolf Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Missed breakfast today did we Atila?No, I hate the way people shovel nasty smelling stuff that passes for food in their faces, why not make time to eat before you come out and inflict such nastiness on an unsuspecting public. Do they not have dining chairs and tables at home? Yet another example of how society is going down the shit hole. Manners, morality, sense of social responsibility, all gone down the crapper. There,..... I feel much better now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Line managers who have no idea how to talk to a person! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atila Reincarnate Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Keef Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Line managers who have no idea how to talk to a> person!Speaking as a man manager of many years standing, I can relate to this. I have reported mostly to either senior managers, directors or CEO's. It's strange how the higher up the laddder they go, the more divorced they become from reality. I remember one director asking me and my team while we were out on a "team" do, what we were going to be doing over the weekend. Most of us muttered that we weren't sure, he said "I've just been on a Formula 1 weekend in Monaco, it cost me ?4,000, I thoroughly recommend it to you all". Clearly the fact that most of the people who reported to me and ultimately him, were only taking home about ?1200 a month at the time had escaped his attention. What a tool!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Atila Reincarnate Wrote:------------------------------------------------------- Yet> another example of how society is going down the> shit hole. Manners, morality, sense of social> responsibility, all gone down the crapper.> There,..... I feel much better now.I blame video games, Thatcher, The EU, organic farming, New Labour and Jeremy Clarkson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atila Reincarnate Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Brendan Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Atila Reincarnate Wrote:> --------------------------------------------------> -----> Yet> > another example of how society is going down> the> > shit hole. Manners, morality, sense of social> > responsibility, all gone down the crapper.> > There,..... I feel much better now.> > > I blame video games, Thatcher, The EU, organic> farming, New Labour and Jeremy Clarkson.Nah Clarkson is a Legend, he doesn't care who he upsets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikecg Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Line managers are an aukward bunch, but in truth sh!t rolls down hill. and in some circles back up again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony.London Suburbs Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 People on the Internet who, faithfully, reproduce in full a 100-line entry (when we have already seen the "original") only to enter a one line or even one word reply!Edit It, you lazy.....:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 People who have clearly missed a train (you can hear the doors beeping), but who will still try to hove their way through a tide of 100 people, rather than just standing aside, letting the crowd go, then strolling down to the platform to wait for the next train... Always feel like* tripping them down the bloody stairs!* but just for the record, never would!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonaloochieB Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Posted by: giggirl Today, 01:12PMIt's a slippery slope though isn't it Mikecg? I love the English language and I want to see it used properly. On the other hand, I accept what you say about the spelling Nazis; I've seen instances where people have corrected other people's English in a sly way. It's not clever to belittle people. Who the heck has the time to read everything through three times before posting (I do that for a living, the forum is supposed to be light-relief). I have a growing hatred of texting and it niggles when people write text-speak. Whatever became of the petty annoyances thread? We should get that back up and running.Here it is back for you Giggi.Your obedient servant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macroban Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 BFI on doing the national archival transfers to DVD cropping the original 16/35mm films to 4:3 ratio on the DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giggirl Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Hoochie sweet, do you think you could pop and get me a venti cap with no chocolate. Quick as you like. Bless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikecg Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Yh M8 urry up..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giggirl Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Mikecg Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Yh M8 urry up.....*smack* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonaloochieB Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Sure, running all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikecg Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Ouch! my chin hurts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizenED Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Those coffee jugs you get at conferences: twist to top to find the right position for pouring and risk the whole thing falling off as you pour or look like a nerd and take the top off completely in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonaloochieB Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 citizenED Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Those coffee jugs you get at conferences: twist to> top to find the right position for pouring and> risk the whole thing falling off as you pour or> look like a nerd and take the top off completely> in the first place.And then the liquid within goes cold, and then of course it's you that causes the 'lukewarm' coffee break because of course you couldn't resist a 'swifty' on the way back from a 'brainstorm', could you? Well, could you? Thereafter you notice no one wants to be in a group with you. Networking? How do, networking.You go back to work the next day and suggest the conference was a waste of time.But the truth resides in you, chides you. Colleagues are easily gulled. Yourself not so. And you go home and you cry and you want to die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 At each place setting, a pen made of recycled cardboard bearing the name of the conference's Platinum Sponsor lies on a thin A4 block of grid-lined paper. Every six places on the conference room tables are two bottles of room-temperature Hildon water (one still, one sparkling), and a bowl of boiled sweets in lurid colours. The WiFi connection refuses to authenticate you, although everyone else seems to be tapping away no bother. But it's too late to do anything about checking the key because the keynote speaker has started. As her laptop is connected to the projector you notice her powerpoint deck has 68 slides. And clip art.Your mind turns to the decisions you made in your career that have brought you here. Regrets cloud in like sea mist at the end of an early summer's day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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