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punyXpress
05-05-15, 05:06 PM
Could have been worse, Tim - they might be in Yorkshire! ;)

timwilky
05-05-15, 08:25 PM
I gripe because some of the flight offerings are ridiculous, 6+ hours between connections etc. I loose my friday night travelling back etc.


I don't get paid extra to be away from my wife and family, don't sleep without her next to me. Expenses are limited to my hotel /travel/ food so no perks, go in a restaurant and be johnny no mates. A table for the sad lonely guy please.

I tend to buy a couple of beers from supermarkets etc to drink in my room. cheap hotel, no internet so cannot even work whilst away from home. Yes wonderful, work, hotel, eat, head down. No chance of seeing a beautiful city.


Christ, that makes yorkshire look inviting.

Bibio
05-05-15, 08:40 PM
nope still cant see any drawbacks.. lol

Red ones
05-05-15, 09:29 PM
I agree with griping about a trip like that. I loathe going away for work. Miss the family and a comfy bed just to have a meal on your own? Plus not get paid extra for the inconvenience AND when I get sent somewhere its Birmingham or Aberdeen or somewhere equally appealing. The others in the office have had Vienna and Marseille!!

Littlepeahead
05-05-15, 09:44 PM
I had to take the Wisden trophy to Durham once, but when they needed to transport it to Barbados a more senior manager got to go instead, typical.

Luckypants
05-05-15, 10:49 PM
i think this should be in the smile of the day thread.

let me get this right. your going to if i'm not mistaken a beautiful city in france, your more than likely getting all your expenses paid to do so and your moaning about not being able to get a direct transport link. where's your sense of adventure...... and i thought i was grumpy and depressed.
I'm guessing you haven't been to Grenoble. Being sent there is worth a gripe :D

Sent from my HTC One

NTECUK
06-05-15, 12:01 AM
I'm guessing you haven't been to Grenoble. Being sent there is worth a gripe :D

Sent from my HTC One
Could be worse.
Coventry?? ;)

maviczap
06-05-15, 09:19 AM
Who the feck would set up a factory in Grenoble.
It is impossible to get to. Fly to Lyon and catch a train they say, change here or there. nothing direct. So got to go the day before. So there for the morning meeting. Grrhhh

I gripe because some of the flight offerings are ridiculous, 6+ hours between connections etc. I loose my friday night travelling back etc.


I don't get paid extra to be away from my wife and family, don't sleep without her next to me. Expenses are limited to my hotel /travel/ food so no perks, go in a restaurant and be johnny no mates. A table for the sad lonely guy please.

I tend to buy a couple of beers from supermarkets etc to drink in my room. cheap hotel, no internet so cannot even work whilst away from home. Yes wonderful, work, hotel, eat, head down. No chance of seeing a beautiful city.


Christ, that makes yorkshire look inviting.

Blimey I wouldn't complain about being sent there, just a the base of the Alps. I know what I'd be doing ;)

However it is a PITA to get to. I'd fly to Lyon & hire a car, must easier than the train.

However there is a direct Eurostar service from London to Lyon. But its an early train (0700)

From you part of the world I guess there's no direct flights to Lyon?

They move my direct flight from Stansted to Luton, but the flight time is convenient. being about midday. You can get there from Gatwick & Heathrow, flights are either early or late :-(

You need to go there in the skiing season, there's direct flights then :-)

I'm guessing you haven't been to Grenoble. Being sent there is worth a gripe :D

Sent from my HTC One

Picturesque it ain't :p But the location is fab

Sir Trev
06-05-15, 12:21 PM
I agree with Tim and others on the sheer waste of time and soul destroying boredom it can turn out to be. My last perm job treated travel time as "unproductive" and considering my pay was dependent on me booking a certain % of productive hours it meant travelling in our own time or risking a chunk of money (or working unpaid overtime to make up the hours). The only way around it was to work on the train/plane and book it to the job, but that's easier said than done and no use when you're driving yourself.


As someone who lived in a hotel four nights a week for nine months I can state that you need an absorbing hobby that needs no internet to stay sane. I used to take my guitar with me, lots of books, DVDs... You still get bored. I would often work offline on plans or reports in the evenings just for something to do. I've been all over Europe with work but you don't get time to explore or enjoy anything more than a ten minute walk from your hotel or the view from the taxi window to/from the airport. Business travel utterly sucks.

BanannaMan
09-05-15, 12:37 AM
Had two heart attacks and heart surgery last night.
Still in the hospital for a few days.
So much for my rideout to the mountains this weekend. :rolleyes:

Geodude
09-05-15, 01:01 AM
Had two heart attacks and heart surgery last night.
Still in the hospital for a few days.
So much for my rideout to the mountains this weekend. :rolleyes:

Bloody hell Bill so glad you're ok, and I bet the weather is lovely for a ride huh typical ;)

GWS Bill hugs xGx

Ch00
09-05-15, 05:36 AM
Get well soon Bill.

Amadeus
09-05-15, 05:42 AM
Gosh - take it easy, my favourite potassium-based snack.
The fact that heart conditions are so serious does mean they're very well practiced in treating them so complete recovery rates are very high.
Get well soon,

andrewsmith
09-05-15, 05:48 AM
Bloody hell Bill

Get well soon

Bluepete
09-05-15, 06:10 AM
Flippin 'eck Bill!

Hope you mend quickly, take it easy.

Pete ;)

maviczap
09-05-15, 06:56 AM
Bloody hell Bill so glad you're ok, and I bet the weather is lovely for a ride huh typical ;)

GWS Bill hugs xGx

Bloody hell Bill, thats not what i wanted to hear, but at least you're in the right place and they've sorted your pump out.

GWS mate

Trev B
09-05-15, 08:33 AM
Get well soon Bill!!!

carelesschucca
09-05-15, 10:44 AM
It's a lovely day and I'm stuck doing religious things, amd I don't mean that religion of burning fossil fuels in the search for speed.

Ch00
09-05-15, 11:17 AM
Starting work at 2am Sunday morning!

Heorot
09-05-15, 01:02 PM
You have my best wishes too Bill. Just don't overdo it when you get out of hospital. A friend who had a heart attack took 6 months before he felt anything like normal.

Luckypants
09-05-15, 01:38 PM
Had two heart attacks and heart surgery last night.
Still in the hospital for a few days.
So much for my rideout to the mountains this weekend. :rolleyes:DUDE! Take heed of the doctors Bill and get well as quickly as possible. All the very best. :thumbsup:

Bibio
09-05-15, 03:02 PM
Had two heart attacks and heart surgery last night.
Still in the hospital for a few days.
So much for my rideout to the mountains this weekend. :rolleyes:

could have been a loot worse Bill.

Welcome to the zipper club :) next up is the zimmer club :dwarf:

pookie
09-05-15, 06:09 PM
Get well soon Bill.. chin up !

Sir Trev
09-05-15, 06:25 PM
Defo GWS Bill old fruit. We need more piccies of the stunning scenery you have on your doorstep to cheer us up when it rains over here.

timwilky
09-05-15, 07:10 PM
Just seen this

Get well soon Bill

garynortheast
09-05-15, 08:52 PM
Chuffin' hell Bill!! Get well soon and take it easy. Glad you are at least able to post here and let us know.

Bluepete
09-05-15, 11:50 PM
My feckin brother.

I'm home at Mum & Dad's so we met up with my brother for a few pints and a meal.

Now, I'm 43, I've been a front line cop in Manchester for nearly 18 years. He's been an abattoir worker, a tele sales tw@-t and is now an IT teacher who asks the kids for help. Yet he still treats me like a kid brother, even though he's only 18 months older! At one point, I was saying times tables because he was talking over me AGAIN then he agreed with what I'd been saying! Even Dad called him a noisy tw@.t.

Fekin families. You can choose your mates but...

Pete :smt072

BanannaMan
10-05-15, 02:57 AM
Thanks for all the well wishes.
Been feeling very tired and mostly sleeping since the good drugs have worn off. LOL
They say I'm doing well and should make a full recovery (if I follow instructions}.
Going to be nothing but bed rest for a while.
Awake and watching Doc Martin at the moment,
I find it strangely relaxining and enjoy the scenery as well.
One of the few brittish shows we get here.
Oops I'm rambling ..sorry.

Thanks all again.

atassiedevil
11-05-15, 03:07 PM
Get better soon Bill.
Hopefully you won't be off the bike for too long.

Heorot
11-05-15, 04:43 PM
Yesterdays gripe: the BMW driver who slowed right down and pulled in to the kerb and then tried to do a U-turn just as I started to pass him. Good job I was in the Subaru and not the bike.

Todays gripe; the idiot who pulled out of a parking space in front of me without looking in his mirrors just as I was about to pass the car. On the bike that time.

keith_d
12-05-15, 10:30 AM
I'll add the van who decided to move into the space I was already occupying on the M25. I needed a generous amount of right hand to avoid being pushed into the central reservation.

NTECUK
12-05-15, 11:21 AM
People throwing there rubbish out of the car windows.

Nutsinatin
12-05-15, 04:20 PM
Punctured front tyre from a half brick knocked in front of me by a car in the next lane. Torn a hole in the side of the tyre so no hope of repair, awaiting man with van.

phi-dan
13-05-15, 11:40 AM
"User having issues seeing some appointments in certain Outlook Calanders seems to be random
User will show & tell"

No wonder our front line desk need help...

NTECUK
13-05-15, 06:58 PM
breaking the screen on my mobile

kaivalagi
13-05-15, 07:12 PM
Oh dear, how did you manage that!

NTECUK
13-05-15, 07:25 PM
Oh dear, how did you manage that!

keys in pocket sat on the bike:smt089

BanannaMan
14-05-15, 05:30 PM
Back in the hospital with blood clots in one lung.
Hopefully just aftermath of the heart surgery and not too serious.

Bluepete
14-05-15, 05:35 PM
Jeez Bill!

Fingers crossed for you, hopefully all will be good in the end and you'll be back out on yer bike ASAP!

Pete ;)

maviczap
14-05-15, 05:54 PM
Yep, you're not having a good time of it lately Bill

GWS, big Org hug :grouphug:

Heorot
14-05-15, 06:34 PM
The cost of posting stuff overseas.

£10 to send my mate a small packet.

Its almost as bad sending stuff to UK addresses.

No wonder Hermes & other services are thriving

Back in the hospital with blood clots in one lung.
Hopefully just aftermath of the heart surgery and not too serious.

Should be just that, Bill. They collapse the lung to give themselves room to operate on the heart. This can cause some bleeding at the time which results in clots. My daughter had to have physio to clear hers post op.

Bibio
14-05-15, 07:34 PM
Back in the hospital with blood clots in one lung.
Hopefully just aftermath of the heart surgery and not too serious.
jezzzuzzz Bill, hang in there bud. you might also find you have sore shoulders as well for a wee while.

andrewsmith
14-05-15, 07:40 PM
Gws Bill

garynortheast
14-05-15, 10:15 PM
Good grief Bill, you don't do things by halves do you mister! Take it easy, do what the doctors tell you and leave the nurses alone - it'll just get you all unnecessarily excited! :smt007.
Hope you're out and back up to full strength asap.

BanannaMan
16-05-15, 12:11 PM
Thanks everyone. Back home again. Hopefully to stay this time.

jezzzuzzz Bill, hang in there bud. you might also find you have sore shoulders as well for a wee while.


I hope it's just a wee while. Discovered that upon arriving home last night. Have to sleep sitting up. They are way too sore to lay down on I'm any position. :(

Kenzie
17-05-15, 08:49 AM
Dropped my Caberg yesterday. I had taken it off and placed it on the tank while I rooted through my bag. It bounced off the visor, rolled down a small hill and into a puddle. I think I should change it? Cost of a visor is half the cost of the lid.

Red ones
17-05-15, 10:03 AM
Schools that tell you off for taking children out of school for a holiday but then do a school trip in school time to watch a cricket match.

Littlepeahead
17-05-15, 10:56 AM
Schools that tell you off for taking children out of school for a holiday but then do a school trip in school time to watch a cricket match.
What's wrong with that. Watching professional sports people play should inspire the children to want to participate themselves.

BanannaMan
17-05-15, 12:09 PM
Dropped my Caberg yesterday. I had taken it off and placed it on the tank while I rooted through my bag. It bounced off the visor, rolled down a small hill and into a puddle. I think I should change it? Cost of a visor is half the cost of the lid.


Lucky it landed on the visor.
What they are worried about is the foam inside being damaged in a drop so as long as the visor isn't broken or scratched no need to worry about replacement.

Kenzie
17-05-15, 12:46 PM
Three scratches on the visor.

BanannaMan
17-05-15, 12:52 PM
Three scratches on the visor.




:(
If they don't distract from your vision wouldn't worry about it.
If they do, I'd replace it just to be safe .

NTECUK
17-05-15, 01:12 PM
Dropped my Caberg yesterday. I had taken it off and placed it on the tank while I rooted through my bag. It bounced off the visor, rolled down a small hill and into a puddle. I think I should change it? Cost of a visor is half the cost of the lid.
£30 on ebay for a visor ?
But depends how old it is 3 years then a new lids not unforgivable.

BanannaMan
17-05-15, 02:10 PM
Watching professional sports people play should inspire the children to want to participate themselves.



Yes but it was a cricket match.
They can learn how to call each other names and get mad and quit on the playground. :p ;)

Red ones
17-05-15, 02:51 PM
But the point is that it doesn't matter what I wanted to take a child out for. It could be to watch a match, a trip somewhere educational etc. the school would object. If I took him out to watch England V all Blacks at Twickenham they would go mad at me.

I hope he enjoys it. He's very sporty

Kenzie
17-05-15, 02:54 PM
The lid is about four years old

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keith_d
17-05-15, 08:18 PM
My slight sore throat from yesterday is turning into a really nasty cold. I hope I didn't infect anyone on Friday.

Matt-EUC
17-05-15, 09:35 PM
My gripe of the day, is everything and everyone everywhere ever. **** everything.

punyXpress
18-05-15, 09:56 AM
We love you too!

ophic
18-05-15, 12:02 PM
My lunch has gone missing. Left it in the fridge on Friday, as work ordered pizza in, today it's gone. And the tupperware box it was in. Was a nice bit of red snapper as well :(

Teejayexc
18-05-15, 03:42 PM
@ Bibio.....

You started this thread..http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=214956


And have posted 21 times in it, but currently have posted 55 times in this thread.


Just saying......:smt066

Bibio
18-05-15, 04:22 PM
yes but since i have started the other thread i think i have had a moan once in this tread. unlike other members that seem to be up and down like a yo-yo.

and more to the point are you stalking me counting the number of posts that i have in threads.. now thats just anal or is it you would like some anal :confused: :)

as the great man Suggs would say, it must be love :smt077

Teejayexc
18-05-15, 05:27 PM
.. now thats just anal or is it you would like some anal

From what I've read on here, you'd struggle to reach unless I bent down on all fours :smt077



.....unlike other members that seem to be up and down like a yo-yo.





Speaking from previous experiences?

:smt039

Bibio
18-05-15, 07:51 PM
''From what I've read on here, you'd struggle to reach unless I bent down on all fours :smt077''
however which way you want it lover as long as i'm giving i dont care :safe:

''Speaking from previous experiences?''
yes :smt082

:smt039

ophic
19-05-15, 08:31 AM
Keep it grumpy you two! This is a gripe thread, not some singles channel! :p

Bibio
22-05-15, 01:03 PM
is it my imagination of have HMR dropped the value threshold on imported goods for VAT?

maviczap
22-05-15, 03:42 PM
is it my imagination of have HMR dropped the value threshold on imported goods for VAT?

Why do you say that? Been charged duty and vat on something?

There is more activity in gathering duty and vat these days, especially from the USA

Bibio
22-05-15, 03:50 PM
i seem to recall that it was more the £15 allowance, which to me is just taking the pizz out the public. add to that £8 handling charge from the PO for something that could be £15.01.

would i be right in saying that it used to be £30?

maviczap
22-05-15, 04:06 PM
Yep, £32 was the old limit

i hadn't noticed the allowance being reduced, but it might have been snuck in the last budget by gorgeous George

maviczap
22-05-15, 04:07 PM
The PO handling charge is taking the pizz, but what do you expect for a plc now

maviczap
22-05-15, 04:16 PM
i seem to recall that it was more the £15 allowance, which to me is just taking the pizz out the public. add to that £8 handling charge from the PO for something that could be £15.01.

would i be right in saying that it used to be £30?

Just checked the personal allowance from outside the eu

£36 allowance for gifts

£15 for commercial consignments

Bibio
22-05-15, 04:16 PM
i seem to remember that the whole point of privatising was to reduce costs and give the customers better service. i'm still waiting.....

what really happens is that the fat cats get fatter ripping the public off and there is nothing the Gov can do about it once its done. why cant the Gov hire the right people to run the services in the first place and make profit that then goes back into the public purse.

well that my gripe for today and i'm going to go to a happier place now.

maviczap
22-05-15, 04:20 PM
To reduce costs they've got to make money, so a handling charge is one way.

Didn't it used to be less than £8?

swaffle
22-05-15, 06:23 PM
waiting for a parcel... leaving work .... finding out its been sat in reception since lunchtime and you just havent been told #'~@@'~@~''£%~@!

littleoldman2
22-05-15, 07:08 PM
Ooww what ya got?.

swaffle
22-05-15, 07:15 PM
the brackets for my lowers... grrs haha. Probs for the best... Id be tempted to change it... and id get stuck on the fuel tank haha. :)

BanannaMan
22-05-15, 08:07 PM
Bank holiday weekend here and the first time in 16 years I haven't been on a bike trip to the mountains this weekend.
Would love to go but still to weak from the heat attack.
Bugger.

maviczap
22-05-15, 08:14 PM
At least you're here to ride again Bill, and we're grateful of that.

My MIL was taken into hospital on Tuesday, A&E said heart attack, but later on the ward, they said probably muscular?

Initial blood test result was lost and they didn't tell her the result of the scan?

Not good

She was back at the Doc's this morning, as she was still feeling ill

Bluepete
22-05-15, 09:55 PM
Bank holiday weekend here and the first time in 16 years I haven't been on a bike trip to the mountains this weekend.
Would love to go but still to weak from the heat attack.
Bugger.

I tell you what Bill, I'd move heaven and earth to get a ride in the mountains you tease us with in your photos!

Get well soon and get riding and photographing!

Pete ;)

BanannaMan
23-05-15, 07:30 AM
I tell you what Bill, I'd move heaven and earth to get a ride in the mountains you tease us with in your photos!

Get well soon and get riding and photographing!

Pete ;)






Thanks Pete!
I suppose realistically I shouldn't expect to be riding so soon,
But I'm a terrible patient at home when it comes to waiting.
I've always cheated a bit in the past and started doing things earlier than the docs say.
I had planned to get myself well enough for a ride this weekend when I was first in the hospital but just too much to overcome or maybe I'm just getting old (nah)
Nothing to do but resign myself to more rest and getting well.
Is no fun at all though. :p

swaffle
23-05-15, 07:19 PM
This whole day... one of the nicest days of the year so far so was looking forward to it, heading out, saw something that started me thinking and stressing/worrying, continued to alston... "im not gona spoil my day".... turned off A69, head not clearing, made few mistakes, more stressy n worked up, "rite im going home" (didnt even make it to alston)... now in grump... got on the A69, headphones started going weird and messing up, all I could hear through the buds was wind noise, and when I pulled over and taking gloves off to look, I could even hear the ruffling and velcro undoing through them. GRRRRS! Also ontop of that, few times didnt hear any turn-over when pressing starter, but worked out if I just wiggle the clutch when holding it in to start it, its fine. Must just be the switch.. but grrrrss... was really hoping for a chilled happy day.

maviczap
23-05-15, 07:24 PM
This 'news' story do they really think I'm stupid enough to believe it was a mistake that the email was sent to the wrong person.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32856698

Why can't they just say the that the BOE is working on a strategy in case we decide to leave the EU

Bibio
23-05-15, 07:34 PM
of course they are working on a strategy to leave the EU just like the rest of the other country's that are also members. only problem is that the public trust will be spear headed by the Gov with lies and decete so they win over the public when the time comes. i wonder if EU companies will say that they are going to leave the UK if we win the vote.

maviczap
23-05-15, 08:14 PM
yes lots of lies & deceit

Depends if they support Dave & co, the chief of JCB Lord somebody or other said we're big enough to stand on our own 2 feet

Bibio
23-05-15, 08:18 PM
hhhmmm what happens to all the EU citizens that are already in the UK, will they be told to leave?

maviczap
23-05-15, 08:51 PM
I guess that we'd keep the ones we wanted and send the others back home

Bibio
23-05-15, 09:03 PM
but i thought that we were 'better together' :rolleyes:

just goes to show that westminster will dump anything that they cant control or gain revenue from.

i hope the EU kick us out or bully us into joining fully and with the Euro.

so what happens to all the handouts that we have had via the EU are we going to pay it all back or are we not responsible for it :rolleyes:

Red ones
23-05-15, 09:42 PM
I love the way we are led to believe we need to worry because the BoE are looking at options.
Personally I'd be more worried if they didn't.

keith_d
24-05-15, 04:45 AM
There's nothing really news worthy here, just a civil servant having an auto-complete failure.

There will be teams of economists in all of the European capitals busily trying to quantify the effect of various options including Grexit, GBexit, and probably some more unexpected ones too. The big multi-nationals will be doing much the same to understand how the Euro options will affect them. That's all just business as usual. The only mildly interesting bit is why the BoE felt the need to describe this group's work in such bland terms. After all, it's not exactly top secret stuff when the government has publicly promised a referendum.

What I'd really like to know is whether De La Rue are busy at the moment. That would be far more concrete than all the prevarication and obfuscation we're getting from Brussels about the situation in Greece.

maviczap
24-05-15, 06:22 AM
I doubt it was an auto complete failure Keith, but a deliberate leak, as they working it secret without anyone in the BoE knowing about it.

But why not just say BoE is working on various options in a proper press release than leak it in this fashion.

Like you say it wasn't newsworthy, but that's what happens on Saturday.

Perhaps they thought leaking it on a Friday afternoon they thought no one would make much of it.

DarrenSV650S
25-05-15, 03:29 PM
People who go as slow as they possibly can approaching a roundabout, just waiting for someone to get in their way. It's clear now, just fupping go!

Traffic

Aberdeen in general. What a hole

Kenzie
25-05-15, 06:50 PM
I was sat on a road that had cars down both sides and waiting for the jam to clear (a car and trailer trying to get through). Some old dude proceeds to drive around me and then get stuck in the jam I was waiting for. He then had to reverse out to allow the cars coming the other way to pass. Also some woman did the same thing to a car waiting behind me.

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maviczap
25-05-15, 06:58 PM
Gut ache

Bibio
25-05-15, 07:22 PM
Gut ache
must be catching as i have had it all day.

maviczap
25-05-15, 07:32 PM
Mine came on this afternoon :-(

NTECUK
25-05-15, 10:18 PM
This 'news' story do they really think I'm stupid enough to believe it was a mistake that the email was sent to the wrong person.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32856698

Why can't they just say the that the BOE is working on a strategy in case we decide to leave the EU

I do hope that they are planning for that rather than just hoping that it works out.

Red ones
27-05-15, 06:46 PM
Getting an advert at the bottom of every thread on Tapatalk.

Amadeus
27-05-15, 07:54 PM
Getting an advert at the bottom of every thread on Tapatalk.
I get one as the second item in every thread! At least if it's at the bottom it's easier to ignore! :-s

NTECUK
27-05-15, 09:00 PM
Insurance brokers who think you're not going to look for a better deal.
Then magically appeared with a competitive quote, with your declared mods!!!

shiftin_gear98
28-05-15, 08:50 AM
Gypsies

punyXpress
28-05-15, 09:33 AM
What, in London E4 ?