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That doesn't actually surprise me Stig. Went to one of those all you can eat buffet places in York the other day with my good ladies family (annoying in itself) and was shocked by the greed and every-man-for-themselves attitude shown by my fellow diners. And yes, a lot of them were indeed portly and rotund .0
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Yes too right! The number of times I read that this muslim has done this, or that immigrant has done that, or this dole scrounger gets this on social media, and it turns out to be a story from five years ago, or, in 90% of cases it is totally made up.Fiiish said:Newspapers and media telling people who they should get outraged at, leading to a neverending deluge of outrage from idiots on social media who are unable to think for themselves.
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Really, I should be amazed at my manager's ability to discover each day a new petty, pathetic thing to obsess about and piss everyone off.2 -
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But you have admitted to wearing black socks AUN palAddickUpNorth said:The amount of dentally challenged Northerners on the Jeremy Kyle show. I'm not a native of the North but there's more to it's people than the badly dressed, ill mannered, uncouth, sweary mouthed specimens that demean themselves by appearing on the programme.
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Well I certainly wouldn't wear white ones. Do I look like some sorta Michael Jackson?!?1
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Noisy as fudge washing machine in an open plan lounge kitchen, diner, when I'm trying to Watch a movie.1
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Fudge ain't noisy is it?1
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Depends on the method you use for it's extraction.brogib said:Fudge ain't noisy is it?
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This has been getting on my tits for a while now, and tonight it happened again so I need to vent...
When I go to a restaurant, I want to sit, give my order, have a chat with my missus, eat, pay then fuck off. The only circumstances under which I want to talk to anyone else is when I'm ordering the food, saying thanks when they bring it and when I'm paying the bill. Occasionally I might want to call them over for an extra coffee or, if there's a problem, to point out if something's not right with the meal. I don't mind any of that. All of it is acceptable up to a point and not an issue for me.
What is an issue is being approached sometimes more than once during my meal for no other reason than to ask me if my meal is ok.
FUCK OFF. I'M EATING.
When did this become normal? Why does, it seems, every single restaurant do this now? This didn't used to happen did it? I keep meaning to speak to waiters at the beginning of a meal out and say "By the way, when we've got our food, please don't come over and ask if everything's ok. If there's a problem, I'll get your attention." But I always forget to do it. Then when they come over while I'm trying to swallow a mouthful of food, I just mumble "yes, thanks" with a hand over my mouth because I want them to get the fuck away from me when I'm eating and I don't like talking with my mouth full because it's disgusting.
To make things even worse, now I'm finding more and more that you get approached by more than one member of staff to ask the same thing! For fuck's sake, can't restaurant staff find a system where each table only gets visited once? None would be better, but come on!
I'm too polite in public to make a scene over this and I'm also aware that the staff are told to do it, so it's not them I'm pissed off with. It's this generic, yet utterly plastic, 'customer care' that actually decreases my enjoyment of the food.
If one of my fellow lifers wants to set up a restaurant, here's an idea for you: Have a gimmick where your customers can put a flippable sign on their table that says something like 'Please leave me alone when I'm eating - everything is fine unless I call you over' on one side and 'Please ask me how my food is halfway through my fucking meal' on the other. If you do that, I'll come and eat in your restaurant.
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Drivers who turn their engine off at traffic lights. What? Unless you're in a 2 hour standstill, it's not worth it.0
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What if they're in a car where the engine turns off automatically?JaShea99 said:Drivers who turn their engine off at traffic lights. What? Unless you're in a 2 hour standstill, it's not worth it.
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Flavour of the month business speak. You know the type 'Blue Sky Thinking'.
The latest appears to SPOC and SPOF Single point of contact, Single point of failure.
Speak proper English FFS!
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Normally spouted by suits full of bugger all.man_at_milletts said:Flavour of the month business speak. You know the type 'Blue Sky Thinking'.
The latest appears to SPOC and SPOF Single point of contact, Single point of failure.
Speak proper English FFS!0 -
Only if my car is on the train line. And there is a hose connected from the exhaust through the window. And a life-size decoy of me is in the car and I have some great life insurance but lots of unpaid debts.Dazzler21 said:
What if you're at a train line? I bet you leave the engine running don't you, you environment killing nazi.JaShea99 said:Drivers who turn their engine off at traffic lights. What? Unless you're in a 2 hour standstill, it's not worth it.
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I could rant and rave about this sort of thing all day. "What are the action points to take away from this meeting?" - What you mean, "what happened?" "Whats next?!"man_at_milletts said:Flavour of the month business speak. You know the type 'Blue Sky Thinking'.
The latest appears to SPOC and SPOF Single point of contact, Single point of failure.
Speak proper English FFS!0 -
No. I'm aware that newer cars have this facility, and that's fine, but yesterday I was at the lights when I heard horns, and actually saw the bloke next to me at a filter light reach over and turn his ignition back on. That wastes more petrol that leaving it on. Also I don't think I've ever been at a train line, so not sure what I'd do.ForeverAddickted said:
What if they're in a car where the engine turns off automatically?JaShea99 said:Drivers who turn their engine off at traffic lights. What? Unless you're in a 2 hour standstill, it's not worth it.
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Nice one Tom. I'm empowering you to come up with some more :-)cafctom said:
I could rant and rave about this sort of thing all day. "What are the action points to take away from this meeting?" - What you mean, "what happened?" "Whats next?!"man_at_milletts said:Flavour of the month business speak. You know the type 'Blue Sky Thinking'.
The latest appears to SPOC and SPOF Single point of contact, Single point of failure.
Speak proper English FFS!
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Proof of Concept - That's the other one that gets my pip. Does it f......g work?cafctom said:
I could rant and rave about this sort of thing all day. "What are the action points to take away from this meeting?" - What you mean, "what happened?" "Whats next?!"man_at_milletts said:Flavour of the month business speak. You know the type 'Blue Sky Thinking'.
The latest appears to SPOC and SPOF Single point of contact, Single point of failure.
Speak proper English FFS!
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"Align our objectives" - basically just try and agree on something.1
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In that case fair enough yeah, doesnt make any sense to do that.JaShea99 said:
No. I'm aware that newer cars have this facility, and that's fine, but yesterday I was at the lights when I heard horns, and actually saw the bloke next to me at a filter light reach over and turn his ignition back on. That wastes more petrol that leaving it on. Also I don't think I've ever been at a train line, so not sure what I'd do.ForeverAddickted said:
What if they're in a car where the engine turns off automatically?JaShea99 said:Drivers who turn their engine off at traffic lights. What? Unless you're in a 2 hour standstill, it's not worth it.
Maybe he was like those people in the Volkswagen advert (i.e. "If you listen carefully it sounds just like a Golf")... in his instance he could have been going "It maybe an old car, but it still turns off when stopping at traffic lights", yes but not automatically you bell end!!0 -
Haha maybe.0
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You can't stop at the language though. It's the whole bullshit aura that comes with it all. Too many people have an over inflated opinions of themselves through their jobs. This is a personal bugbear of mine as I'm in sales, I have a lot of people that patronise me because I 'cold call'. But to listen to people operating in a business environment, you'd think most of these tossers think they are due a call up for the next Dragons' Den.cafctom said:"Align our objectives" - basically just try and agree on something.
Not everyone is like this I know, but entertainment and (some) education value aside, programmes like Dragons' Den and the Apprentice have a lot to answer for re: celebrity business bullshit culture.6 -
Think thats a great point. I'm in sales as well Cabbles, and you do get a lot of that aura on the other side of the phone on calls. 80% of my business, sales wise, in based in the US though and its a lot different there I've found. Often very friendly and polite and happy to do business without all the crap language getting in the way. In the UK the business culture just seems a lot more pompous and overly formal.1
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NSFW - when you post something in an online forum that might be a little bit 'fruity' and people at work moan that you didn't mark it NSFW, listen, you shouldn't be on the inter web at work, its misconduct, so stop moaning.4
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