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SV650rules
24-10-18, 03:31 PM
Pretty sure the Highway Code deals with this reasonably explicitly. I'm actually appalled that in some cases the "flasher" has been held partly to blame. The law has become woolly and this makes things even less certain on the road.
Make your own observations.
https://www.drivingtesttips.biz/flashing-headlights.html
Problem is when you flash someone to come out they may assume you have already checked it is OK and they just don't check and barge across. Correct thing to do is just leave a gap, but I have tried this and some people are very slow to catch on and people behind you can pip their horns thinking you are holding them up.
Adam Ef
24-10-18, 03:32 PM
Last time I used a train I took a bicycle to complete my journey the other end. I was allowed to book it on the train for the journey out but not the return journey. I asked what would happen if they didn't allow me on with it on the return journey and they said I'd have to leave it behind and go back and collect it after!!!? I asked how I'd do that. They suggested a train journey back again some time.
The time before that the return train shot through the station not stopping. The guy next to me said they always do it as they're timed at the next station and get fined if they're not on time. The fine is more than it costs to provide taxis for everyone waiting at the station that it's just skipped. He said almost every day about this time he phones the train company to complain and they send taxis. Only this time we didn't need to phone as the taxis were waiting outside asking people if that was their train. Almost as if they knew the routine : )
Annoyed as I'd used the train to try and do the right thing and leave the car at home... and ended up in a car, with all the cost and inconvience of a train trip too. Worst of both worlds.
That and quite a few one hour train journeys turning into 4 hour bus replacement services detouring around Wales is why I no longer use trains.
Sir Trev
25-10-18, 10:21 AM
On my local train service you cannot take a normal bicycle on between very wide peak hours in the morning and afternoon. Most of the older stock has no space for bicycles so you have to stand in the vestibule and hold your bike or in the newer units there is just space for two. If another bike (or two) are already on there you again have to stand.
And don't bother trying to get a bicycle on a train from Marylebone (probably the same at every London terminus) any time in the evening as every train leaving after 4pm is packed. So, if going to London from here with a bicycle on the train I can only leave Wycombe after 10 but need to be on a service no later than 15:45 to come back. So about four maybe five hours tops. Better to use the Boris Bikes and leave your own at home.
At least the services are pretty reliable on Chiltern though but as the network for them is so simple, with almost no interchanges with other operators, it ought to be.
typical UK.. we had the first trains in the world but we also have the worst train service... what does that say about the UK and its people........ brewery, pizzup, organise, springs to mind.
kaivalagi
25-10-18, 02:56 PM
Like all sectors....too much middle management adding nothing but fluff for the people above them...
SV650rules
25-10-18, 06:15 PM
Like all sectors....too much middle management adding nothing but fluff for the people above them...
It all started when people no longer started at the bottom, learned the basics and worked their way up the ladder, now we have graduates 'fast tracked' into upper management jobs with lofty theoretical ideas who have absolutely no idea what the people on the coalface do every day. Same goes for police and many other bodies in the UK, nothing more depressing than for people who have worked their way through the system to have managers parachuted in above them, telling them what to do who know f**k all about the way the system runs.
zsv650s
25-10-18, 07:18 PM
It all started when people no longer started at the bottom, learned the basics and worked their way up the ladder, now we have graduates 'fast tracked' into upper management jobs with lofty theoretical ideas who have absolutely no idea what the people on the coalface do every day. Same goes for police and many other bodies in the UK, nothing more depressing than for people who have worked their way through the system to have managers parachuted in above them, telling them what to do who know f**k all about the way the system runs.
100% incredibly poor business to have a manager that can't do the job they are instructing others to do.
Red ones
25-10-18, 07:37 PM
What tosh.
So, you run a small business churning widgets. You created this company from an idea you had at the kitchen table. You know how to churn widgets.
The day arrives when you need someone to run your website, your social media, to do your graphic design, to write your user manuals to be your finance director etc.
You can't employ them because you don't know how to do their job.
Stupid argument. You employ people BECAUSE you can't do their job.
Thanks for dissing how I got to my job. I don't know anyone who has the skills to do all the jobs I have to manage people doing. One moment it might be painting a wall (I could do that poorly), electrical installation, replacing an industrial direct fitted gas burner, installing and maintaining office air conditioning, road surfacing, marble floor laying, signage design, choosing furniture or a coffee machine, space planning or financial forecasting.
Showing an employee that you could do the job better only does the employee you don't trust them. Choose the employees for talks you can't do, recruit for your weaknesses and then show trust and care.
chris8886
25-10-18, 10:45 PM
no operation again today, my body's (my heart) apparently isn't producing enough of the eptopic beats that my surgeon needs to see to be able to do the procedure on me. so more tests again tomorrow, when hopefully I can produce some more/enough of these beats so that they can then target them next week. therefore requiring another weekend spent in hospital twiddling my thumbs! :(
garynortheast
26-10-18, 07:07 AM
Hope they get you sorted soon Chris. Sounds like it's getting a bit tedious hanging around waiting!
Littlepeahead
26-10-18, 07:48 AM
Hope they get you sorted soon Chris. Sounds like it's getting a bit tedious hanging around waiting!But at least you have clean pants now.
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garynortheast
26-10-18, 07:55 AM
But at least you have clean pants now.
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Gotta be better than having to turn the existing pair inside out!
uh oh, just when I thought I was free and clear from the prostate scare, I receive a call from the hospital because they have spotted something "incidental" on my MRI in my colon which will require a sigmoidoscopy; a camera up my bum.
Since it's a sigmoidoscopy not a colonoscopy I will be awake and, if like America, given the opportunity to watch (err, no thanks).
Should I be worried? My Mum died of colon cancer...
andrewsmith
26-10-18, 08:39 AM
Gotta be better than having to turn the existing pair inside out!Or throwing them at the wall and seeing if they stick
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SV650rules
26-10-18, 09:09 AM
What tosh.
So, you run a small business churning widgets. You created this company from an idea you had at the kitchen table. You know how to churn widgets.
The day arrives when you need someone to run your website, your social media, to do your graphic design, to write your user manuals to be your finance director etc.
You can't employ them because you don't know how to do their job.
Stupid argument. You employ people BECAUSE you can't do their job.
Thanks for dissing how I got to my job. I don't know anyone who has the skills to do all the jobs I have to manage people doing. One moment it might be painting a wall (I could do that poorly), electrical installation, replacing an industrial direct fitted gas burner, installing and maintaining office air conditioning, road surfacing, marble floor laying, signage design, choosing furniture or a coffee machine, space planning or financial forecasting.
Showing an employee that you could do the job better only does the employee you don't trust them. Choose the employees for talks you can't do, recruit for your weaknesses and then show trust and care.
Except we were not discussing making widgets, we were talking about running trains and police. Of course you employ experts to run your website ( but under the supervision of someone who knows what you are selling and what your market is - otherwise you will end up with a glitzy technically brilliant website that does not do what you want - always happens when you leave a nerd unsupervised ). The ability for managers with no experience of day to day policing ( or running railways ) while simultaneously dealing with disruptive shift work and the public telling the people who are risking their lives how to behave and carry out their duties is a recipe for disaster. Every 'fast track manager' should spend at least 12 months learning the basics of the system, just like the health service - you don't get to be a senior doctor without being a junior doctor and dealing with all the **** and long hours that entails.
yup far too many "Yosser Hughes" university leavers who cant get a job in their own field so they end up blagging their way in but cant do the job properly which in turn disrupts the running of a company.
littleoldman2
26-10-18, 10:33 AM
I once worked in a brand new chemical plant which was the most advance multi product plant in the western world when built. Our manifold room had steel sheet floors as the young designers not having experience of plant operators didn't realise the lads would use an electric pallet truck. So the floor quickly bowed between the support girders. The drains of course were attached to the upright steelwork. so we had a series of puddles. I convinced one young Chemical Engineer (She was with us to oversee a new product) that this was a new design philosophy to help with containment of spillages:smt005:smt005:rolleyes:.
During the first batch of the series we were oxidising a forerunner using oxygen gas being fed into the bottom run off valve of the vessel. The reactants had been dissolved in boiling pure acetic acid. A few of us can asked about this at the hasop and hasan meetings and were told that it would not be a problem and had not caused any issues in the pilot plant (pilot plant 10 lt reaction vessel, plant 10000 Lt reaction vessel). It was night shift when it blocked up and we had a visiting PHD level chemist with us from the pilot plant, (he was very good btw but hadn't been involved with us up to that point) so during the discussions we said "thought there were no problems" he told us they disconnected their reactor turned it upside down and gave it a bit of a shake. We eventually got it clear safely (several times) and the second batch had a dip pipe fitted and it didn't happen again.
This was the first of six batches for clinical trials. We had to get 3 consecutive batches within every limit though out in order to proceed. We got batches 3,4 and 5 bang on.
Just to say, our Chemists and Chemical Engineers were the vast majority of the time very very good.
chris8886
26-10-18, 12:29 PM
But at least you have clean pants now.
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Indeed and it's glorious! :D
Or throwing them at the wall and seeing if they stick
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:smt069:smt046 my heart rate just spiked somewhat upon reading that, never tried that before, might give it a go if I don't get any visitors today to keep me occupied....
shiftin_gear98
26-10-18, 05:04 PM
I have no gripes today as I've had the day off. Fingers or even gingers (as my auto typing just suggested) crossed for those of you that need it. Good luck.
SV650rules
28-10-18, 09:50 AM
daylight saving....
BST ( Bull5h1t Summer Time) designed to make extra profit for pubs in the summer by making sure it stays lighter at night, back to normal GMT now, wish they would leave it alone.....
littleoldman2
28-10-18, 11:13 AM
Yep should stick to GMT. More natural for our body clocks.
I get to fix all the legacy systems that break when the clocks change.
Everyone else gets an extra hour. I get to work all night.
But it's paid overtime at least.
Red ones
29-10-18, 12:00 PM
Why didn't anyone tell me that chain cleaner is really good at cleaning chain grease off the bike?
I know, it seems obvious now. I now have a clean rear wheel
maviczap
29-10-18, 01:30 PM
Why didn't anyone tell me that chain cleaner is really good at cleaning chain grease off the bike?
I know, it seems obvious now. I now have a clean rear wheel
Thought everyone knew this :-)
Mine for today. Due to circumstances beyond my control I'm stuck in my hotel room, bored out of my mind, waiting to go to work, which won't be until later.
Plus I have a neck ache
Sometimes I wish I had a 9 to 5 Monday to Friday job
Adam Ef
29-10-18, 01:37 PM
Why didn't anyone tell me that chain cleaner is really good at cleaning chain grease off the bike?
I know, it seems obvious now. I now have a clean rear wheel
And disc brake / clutch cleaner.
some scrote stole my sons carved pumkin tonight. Why o why?
maviczap
31-10-18, 08:43 PM
Cos they're scrotes
Adam Ef
31-10-18, 09:46 PM
Just had an email from eBay saying they've removed one of my listings as it infringes copyright on one of the photos. Only thing is, the photo is the auto generated one you get when you select a product description. You can't remove it and it allows you 12 of your own photos alongside it. I added my own photos but couldn't delete the product shot or tech spec box that eBay insert into your listing.
I wouldn't mind as the item has already sold two days ago, but now the buyer has no listing to reference for his purchase and he can't access tracking data either and can't give feedback.
eBay also notified me via one of those no reply email addresses and say in the message not to reply as they won't read it. So, I can't feedback / complain / question it.
Red ones
31-10-18, 10:42 PM
Insurance companies.
The usual complaint that they are shisters. You agree dates for premium payments but then find they try taking money early. Every month. Then one month the money isn't there early.
Late payment penalty. Because the money wasnt there 2 days before it had to be there.
Wtf?
Ah. They say. It's not a direct debit. You don't have the usual guarantee they tell you. It's your bank's fault for taking a few days to process a CPA.
They are so clever aren't they! So I asked for it to be confirmed in a letter but got told they don't do that. I'm going to bet I do get response via the complaints procedure. I also bet I don't use the same company again next year, or ever. They might get a £20 late payment charge out of me once, but they'll never get another penny.
chris8886
31-10-18, 11:19 PM
operations, especially ones under only local anaesthetic on your heart that surgeon says she needs me awake for it (it's not open heart obviously). i'm absolutely bricking myself!
operations, especially ones under only local anaesthetic on your heart that surgeon says she needs me awake for it (it's not open heart obviously). i'm absolutely bricking myself!
no need to brick it m8.. trust me i've had 4 angio's. its absolutely no bother and no pain. i have had one in the wrist and three in the groin. the first one i was like you and bricking myself but it was nothing. you will nod in and out and be sedated enough not to feel anything.
from speaking to others even fitting a pacemaker is easy.
the dentist is faaaarrrrrr worse.
chris8886
31-10-18, 11:48 PM
no need to brick it m8.. trust me i've had 4 angio's. its absolutely no bother and no pain. i have had one in the wrist and three in the groin. the first one i was like you and bricking myself but it was nothing. you will nod in and out and be sedated enough not to feel anything.
from speaking to others even fitting a pacemaker is easy.
the dentist is faaaarrrrrr worse.
That’s part of it though, she needs me awake so she can stress me to try and find my dodgy heart beats.
I’ve got the pacemaker (actually a defibrillator, but it’s just easier to say it’s a pacemaker most of the time) and I made th do that under a general and mine’s only just under my skin.
the surgeon is more than likely just going to test the defib to assess how its working and if anything need tweaked. as far as i know the defib tweaking is done wirelessly theses days.
dont fret... it'll be a breeze. well do fret but only when the surgeon tells you to.. lol
its a pocket watch... it needs tweaking now and again... lol
chris8886
01-11-18, 07:21 AM
the surgeon is more than likely just going to test the defib to assess how its working and if anything need tweaked. as far as i know the defib tweaking is done wirelessly theses days.
dont fret... it'll be a breeze. well do fret but only when the surgeon tells you to.. lol
its a pocket watch... it needs tweaking now and again... lol
Nah, is nothing to do with the defib, it’s about getting me anxious so that I hopefully produce the weird beats that are screwing me over, so that she can ablate them. And needs me awake so she can stress me out! So that I then hopefully produce said beats and they can be ablated.
Nah, is nothing to do with the defib, it’s about getting me anxious so that I hopefully produce the weird beats that are screwing me over, so that she can ablate them. And needs me awake so she can stress me out! So that I then hopefully produce said beats and they can be ablated.
sounds fun.. nothing like a good stress workout :D
hope it all goes well for you when the time comes.
SV650rules
01-11-18, 04:57 PM
I emailed the local NHS to see if it can be moved forward. I have also discovered it's possible to go private in a NHS hospital - why is that allowed? Anyway, I asked them for pricing too. The 'net seems to think it would be about £1400.
Senior doctors and consultants often work for private companies as well as the NHS, they will often arrange consultations privately and then put patients back on the NHS for the treatment, but it looks as though they are using NHS facilities more and more.
and there you have it folks.. the big push to privatise the NHS.... anybody who pays to have private health via an NHS hospital is basically a queue jumper. this practise should be stopped immediately. i say ban private health completely, that way the rich would complain and something would get done.
SV650rules
01-11-18, 05:54 PM
I think that is why there's a growth in "medical tourism": travel to another country to get your procedure done quicker/cheaper or, worst case, botched.
Still, the Tories have said austerity is over, next they'll say they care.
I agree with stopping private healthcare though. In Lincolnshire most of our hospitals are going to agencies because we're short of nurses, doctors, consultants and paying through the nose for the privilege of hiring medical staff that may have been initially trained by the NHS. Lincoln NHS trust is forecasting spending £32 million on agencies.
Friend of my wife was a bank nurse ( agency ) and decided to rejoin NHS - she took a 30% drop in pay but had more security and only had to travel short distance to work. I can only guess what the agency was being paid by NHS if they could afford to pay people 30% more and still make a nice profit.
biggest u turn in uk political/law history https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1039342/medicinal-cannabis-uk-legal-prescription
after telling the public that it was bad for you yada yada for 40+ years it now has medical uses. nothing to do with the owner of the company giving the licence being friends with someone.. no not at all.
only saying as i picked up a leaflet in the chemist earlier and asked if it was a joke..
SV650rules
01-11-18, 07:00 PM
There is an old saying that ' hard cases make bad law' just because 0.001% of the population with rare conditions may benefit ( ? ) and a campaign by ' who shouts the loudest' people we now in theory have a law allowing doctors to prescribe ' that which has been demonized for decades' - except apparently this oil is no good for the campaigners as they need ' really strong whole cannabis oil' made from the whole plant, not this weak as water refined stuff that can be prescribed - watch this space.....
maviczap
01-11-18, 07:00 PM
biggest u turn in uk political/law history https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1039342/medicinal-cannabis-uk-legal-prescription
after telling the public that it was bad for you yada yada for 40+ years it now has medical uses. nothing to do with the owner of the company giving the licence being friends with someone.. no not at all.
only saying as i picked up a leaflet in the chemist earlier and asked if it was a joke..
Contains no TCH, which is why the medicinal use has been allowed, so you can use as much as you want, but you won't get high
shiftin_gear98
01-11-18, 07:30 PM
My minor grip. Cut my finger today at work.
Still can't get it to stop bleeding. Really can't be arsed to go and sit for hours waiting in ER to get it stitched. Fingers crossed, or pressed tightly, that it stops soon.
Good luck to those of you with bigger problems than me.
Hold it over your head.
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BanannaMan
02-11-18, 03:14 AM
My four year old grandson, autistic, heart transplant recipient is now about to have kidney failure.
His kidneys have 20% function. He will go on dialysis at 10%.
Not strong enough for a transplant and doesn't qualify. His body is shutting down his kidneys. New kidneys if he survived would suffer the same fate.
They are going to be trying some experimental treatments in the next few weeks. Possibly removing him from all rejection drugs to see if his body can fight this off but at a great risk of his heart being rejected.
Doctors today at one of our best hospitals on the east coast not offering much hope.
His mum left him at 1 and he has been living here since being raised by me, my wife and my youngest son (his dad).
He is like our own child to my wife and I.
shiftin_gear98
02-11-18, 06:21 AM
Bill, That sounds horrific. I really hope they find something that will help him. Good luck to you and the ones you love.
Geodude
02-11-18, 06:52 AM
Bill, That sounds horrific. I really hope they find something that will help him. Good luck to you and the ones you love.
+1 :(
my heart goes out to the little one Bill. keep positive.
maviczap
02-11-18, 11:32 AM
Life is so cruel Bill, Fingers crossed for the little guy.
Adam Ef
02-11-18, 12:17 PM
My four year old grandson...
It's things like this that put everything in perspective. I've got lots of worries and stress at the moment, but all of it will pass or is fixable and pales in comparison to reality like yours.
Wishing you and the little guy all the luck and hope in the world.
garynortheast
02-11-18, 12:43 PM
Oh my God, that's awful Bill. I so hope the doctors find something to help him. Such a hard time for all of you, just wish we could do something more than expressing our sympathy and sadness at what seems so unfair.
Sir Trev
02-11-18, 01:23 PM
We all wish him and your family well Bill. Good luck to little fella.
That's so sad and tragic.
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BanannaMan
03-11-18, 05:01 AM
Thanks everyone.
When he had the heart transplant they told us in all likelihood we would see this day come.
Doesn't make it any easier but for now he is at home unaware and having a good time.
Going to try to make the most of the time he has left with us and hope for miracle.
There are no words, Bill...I am so sorry.
Luckypants
04-11-18, 01:06 PM
Bill, my heart goes out to you and your family. Makes our problems seem pretty insignificant.
All the very best from us.
littleoldman2
04-11-18, 06:15 PM
Bill there can be nothing worse in the world than loosing a child. My heart grieves for you.
andrewsmith
04-11-18, 08:22 PM
Bill, my heart goes out to you and your family. Makes our problems seem pretty insignificant.
All the very best from us.Can't say any more than this
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maviczap
05-11-18, 06:14 PM
Back to minor gripes
Bloomin Hermes you accept a parcel for delivery from me, THEN you decide it's outside your size limits and want more money. Do like the other sites, and ask for the box dimensions, as well as the weight of the package!
timwilky
06-11-18, 10:15 AM
Toothwrights in 45 mins.
a month ago "Book a followup appointment, you need those 3 broken stumps extracting and two fillings"
Not looking forward to this.
Sir Trev
06-11-18, 10:57 AM
Good luck Tim - you should be about to sit in the chair as I type. Oddly enough I have a checkup at the fang fairy myself at 2 today. Last two times she has tried the hard sell on teeth whitening which I have managed to bat away but I get the impression my dentist sees me as a piggy bank rather than as a patient.
timwilky
06-11-18, 12:19 PM
Well it ran 30 mins late as they had to use the downstairs surgery where I was scheduled for an oap who could not mange the stairs to the one where she was scheduled. I saw the upstairs chap come down, why my dentist couldn't swap I know not.
So today they decided to do the two fillings. two anesthetics to left/right upper sides. first one done, and she moves over the the far side and a couple of pokes, a scrub with some emery and refers to x rays and decides it is already filled and no treatment necassary. (I wonder if that was because it is lunch time and she is running late?)
So back tomorrow for two of the 3 extractions. Sat in the waiting room I hear them offing appointments in December, yet when she said to me at the desk can you come anytime? I replied the sooner the better. Is tomorrow OK? Wow I was expecting weeks.
Good luck Sir Trev, I hope you don't have as rotten teeth as me. The legacy of poor dentists, fillings that fail leading to crowns that last days before breaking away. pity my dental plan will not fund implants.
Back to minor gripes
Bloomin Hermes you accept a parcel for delivery from me, THEN you decide it's outside your size limits and want more money. Do like the other sites, and ask for the box dimensions, as well as the weight of the package!
What are you on about Mavi? I did a MyHermes order today and you have to select a weight range and it clearly states the maximum parcel size AND it warns that there would be additional charges if the limits were exceeded.
Good luck Sir Trev, I hope you don't have as rotten teeth as me. The legacy of poor dentists, fillings that fail leading to crowns that last days before breaking away. pity my dental plan will not fund implants.
Implants are so expensive in the UK. 4 years ago I had 3 implants and a crown while I was in Turkey at a total cost of about £1250. Two visits were needed at least 3 months apart. Lots of people who holiday in Turkey get dental treatment while there as it's so much cheaper than in the UK.
shiftin_gear98
09-11-18, 12:50 PM
My gripe.
Having to waste my days at work when there are many, many, many other things. Some even enjoyable, that I would rather be doing.
It's a never ending re-run of Ground Hog day.
maviczap
09-11-18, 02:02 PM
My gripe.
Having to waste my days at work when there are many, many, many other things. Some even enjoyable, that I would rather be doing.
It's a never ending re-run of Ground Hog day.
Yes, work gets in the way of doing stuff we'd rather being doing, although it does pay for the stuff we want to do.
Attended the funeral of a colleague today, who died two weeks before he was due to retire :-|
Two weeks, two weeks! You work all those years, and you don't even get to enjoy the fruits of your labour.
Try and do the things you want to do, you never know when your time is up
shiftin_gear98
09-11-18, 06:53 PM
Mavic, oh that is sad. And really sucks all in one go.
maviczap
09-11-18, 07:04 PM
Mavic, oh that is sad. And really sucks all in one go.
Aye, nice bloke too, big turn out, we had to stand outside because the crematorium was full.
Nice send off song, Golden Earring "Radar Love" no boring sloppy song
BanannaMan
09-11-18, 11:06 PM
Sorry to hear Mavi.
Wow two weeks, that's terrible!
garynortheast
10-11-18, 11:06 AM
That's really sad Mav, such a shame to spend so many years working towards a reward and never to realize it. Must be a terrible thing for family and friends too.
littleoldman2
10-11-18, 12:58 PM
Shame Mav hope he lived life to the full.
My gripe today. Oil pump gone on the Meriva. Not moaning about the car as I paid >£500 for it 2.5 years ago and it's only cost me the usual consumables and two MOT repairs at >£70 each. Looking for another £500's worth and going to be skint for a bit. With my current health, fixing it myself is not going to happen.
littleoldman2
10-11-18, 08:15 PM
Good news found out it's a faulty switch. Told a mechanic friend who said "bet it's the switch, we change loads of em" and he's right.
maviczap
10-11-18, 10:10 PM
Shame Mav hope he lived life to the fulln
Yes a fun packed life and got an MBE. Two previous wives, and was living with his current partner since 2002.
Two nice kids
So yes, a full life. One wife and two kids is enough for me!
Sir Trev
13-11-18, 01:41 PM
Bit like forms that get mailed to your house that ask you to add your address....
Red ones
13-11-18, 08:40 PM
Or filling stations that ask which is your vehicle/pump as you go to pay wearing a helmet.
I say mines the blue car, but my driving isn't very good.
chris8886
13-11-18, 08:57 PM
Or filling stations that ask which is your vehicle/pump as you go to pay wearing a helmet.
I say mines the blue car, but my driving isn't very good.
:smt046
punyXpress
13-11-18, 09:02 PM
. . . and blue driver put £60 in.
You, mate, are bien fouque!
Customers that come into my shop 10 minutes before closing and either want you to do something that will take 30 minutes or want to buy something but can't decide what they want and **** you about for ages. Even dropping hints like lowering shutters etc has no effect on them.
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chris8886
13-11-18, 09:26 PM
Customers that come into my shop 10 minutes before closing and either want you to do something that will take 30 minutes or want to buy something but can't decide what they want and **** you about for ages. Even dropping hints like lowering shutters etc has no effect on them.
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and I bet they then didn't buy anything!
and I bet they then didn't buy anything!Yep, had that too.
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Adam Ef
13-11-18, 10:10 PM
Customers that come into my shop 10 minutes before closing and either want you to do something that will take 30 minutes or want to buy something but can't decide what they want and **** you about for ages. Even dropping hints like lowering shutters etc has no effect on them.
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Used to get this a lot in someone elses shop that I worked in. 5pm closing time Saturday a whole family would suddenly pile in wanting advice about what sort of bike to buy, wanting to sit on them all... and usually fairly obvious that they were "showrooming"... ie. trying them all for size and then Dad was going to go and get them off the internet.
Not great in a small independent shop and not great for me working minimum wage for a boss that didn't know what overtime was.
I got in the habit of putting the shutters half down 10 mins before closing and turning half the lights off. Some still didn't take the hint.
Littlepeahead
13-11-18, 10:44 PM
When I worked in Our Price we would put Napalm Death on at full volume at 5.27pm. Worked a treat every day.
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shiftin_gear98
14-11-18, 06:25 AM
As the store manager of a bike shop, you could always tell who were messers and who weren't. The ones that weren't we rushed through the process as politely as possible. The messers I simply told to come back in the morning and they could then spend 8 hours asking us as many questions as they liked. But the till was now closed. This conversation happened as we walked towards the door. Where one of the others would open it. My smile slowly fading if they didn't get the hint. I don't work in retail anymore.
shiftin_gear98
14-11-18, 06:35 AM
My gripe of yesterday. Having a large stone fling off a car in front of me. Hitting me in the shoulder. Even with my jacket, jumper and t-shirt it still bloody hurt. We were doing 65 mph. I have a nice bruise now. And what annoyed me more was that I was about 25 meters behind it.
When I worked in Our Price we would put Napalm Death on at full volume at 5.27pm. Worked a treat every day.
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As the store manager of a bike shop, you could always tell who were messers and who weren't. The ones that weren't we rushed through the process as politely as possible. The messers I simply told to come back in the morning and they could then spend 8 hours asking us as many questions as they liked. But the till was now closed. This conversation happened as we walked towards the door. Where one of the others would open it. My smile slowly fading if they didn't get the hint. I don't work in retail anymore.That's what i try to do. We also get idiots who ring us up at closing time and want to have a long conversation about a problem they're having with a camera. I won't answer the phone at that time but some of my colleagues do.
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being told lies to my face for 12 years from fife councils occupational therapy department. "we dont fit baths for disabled bathrooms" has now turned into "its as a need to basis but only if a shower is not fit for purpose" after i asked for fife councils policy number regarding fitting baths for disabled.
maviczap
15-11-18, 06:54 AM
BBC Breakfast outside parliament in the dark because of yesterday's Brexit announcement.
They're not telling me it couldn't be done from the studio, and in my view it'd be better done from the studio.
Only because the producer has got a massive boner about the news they've all been waiting for.
Give me the details, not live reporters in the dark when all MP'S are still in bed.
BBC Breakfast outside parliament in the dark because of yesterday's Brexit announcement.
They're not telling me it couldn't be done from the studio, and in my view it'd be better done from the studio.
Only because the producer has got a massive boner about the news they've all been waiting for.
Give me the details, not live reporters in the dark when all MP'S are still in bed.It annoys me to. Especially when the poor reporter is standing in torrential rain and/or the place they're reporting from is closed or only loosely connected with story.
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Adam Ef
15-11-18, 09:39 AM
Brooker has it all worked out... audio NSFW (contains swearing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHun58mz3vI
Sir Trev
15-11-18, 01:42 PM
Brooker has it all worked out... audio NSFW (contains swearing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHun58mz3vI
That is sooo accurate. Love the way it's a BBC clip making fun of BBC reporting styles too.
timwilky
15-11-18, 03:27 PM
Only 24 hours in a day. yet my bosses seem to think I can fit 36 hours to a working day.
I have too many concurrent projects and not permitted to take on any junior PMs to run the business as usual leaving me free to undertake the difficult and costly.
A former boss once equated it to the old circus spinning plates act. You can keep adding more plates but you get to a point that they start falling and only then does anyone notice that things have gone wrong as a result of spinning the wrong plate at that moment in time. The trick apparently is deciding which is the least costly to break
littleoldman2
15-11-18, 03:35 PM
That's why I left manufacturing in 2004.
littleoldman2
15-11-18, 03:37 PM
BTW Tim this is your fault, you should have dropped a few cheap plates last year.
Only 24 hours in a day. yet my bosses seem to think I can fit 36 hours to a working day.
I have too many concurrent projects and not permitted to take on any junior PMs to run the business as usual leaving me free to undertake the difficult and costly.
A former boss once equated it to the old circus spinning plates act. You can keep adding more plates but you get to a point that they start falling and only then does anyone notice that things have gone wrong as a result of spinning the wrong plate at that moment in time. The trick apparently is deciding which is the least costly to break
its called saying NO.. a word that most people will not use which in turn makes it worse for all of us.
kaivalagi
15-11-18, 04:49 PM
BTW Tim this is your fault, you should have dropped a few cheap plates last year.That's exactly what I was going to say....easier said than done though when you give too much of a sh*t about doing the right thing...I blame my parents for bringing me up right haha
SV650rules
16-11-18, 11:25 AM
its called saying NO.. a word that most people will not use which in turn makes it worse for all of us.
+1
Used to have a boss that said yes to everything that higher ups suggested, the result was working weekends as well as weekdays, he never learned to say no... Higher management can be d1ck heads and need reigning in every so often.
looking at stuff to eat only to say NO i cant have that.
Had my rotor cuff and tear done on my shoulder talk about pain thank goodness for Morphine. lol
littleoldman2
18-11-18, 08:29 PM
Morphine by mouth I really know what you mean, but by IV, I see and hear all sorts of nonsense. Fentanyl by IV on the other hand, no pain and none of the nonsense. Just make sure you get plenty of water to combat the constipation.
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