Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[BanannaMan]

Whatever happened to voluptuous???
Probably telling my age but I can remember when Fredricks girls had big boobs and shaply rear ends.
But they're all just models.
I think it's a misconception that men expect real women to look like models.
In real life attractiveness isnt based on weight for most men.
Thinking of the women I find attractive in real life they run from too skinny to pleasingly plump.
None of them look like models.

[NTECUK]

The crux of it is. Yes nice to look at.
But can you live with it.
A lesson my son is learning right now.

[ophic]

Originally Posted by BanannaMan

In real life attractiveness isnt based on weight for most men.

Quality of the cooking does it for me

[kaivalagi]

Originally Posted by NTECUK

The crux of it is. Yes nice to look at.
But can you live with it.
A lesson my son is learning right now.

Haha, thought he'd caught a good one had he lol, it's a lesson we all need to go through (same both ways)...that said my wife is gorgeous inside and out, not easy to come by (lady orgers excluded of course ) And no she's not a size 8 and a stick insect!

Originally Posted by ophic

Quality of the cooking does it for me

That's the icing on the cake

[Littlepeahead]

I've seen an article on what those VS girls eat, and if you're the sort of man who loves quinoa and carrot sticks then they are definitely your dream woman. Not that they'd have much time to cook for you since they spend hours in the gym/pilates studio every day. I doubt they'd know how to make an Aberdeen Angus and blue cheese burger if their life depended on it

[carelesschucca]

I'd love to have a meal cooked for me once in a while. Be great to just come home and not cook... Where is Nigela when you need her, she's my kinda woman curvy brunette a great cook and likes a bit of class...... A!

My gripe for today is; getting grief for telling the truth... I got asked to go and test a new fancy looking Internet based calculator for work. Broke it within 5 minutes, they fixed it. Used it for half an hour reported back saying... Why have we wasted time developing this when we already have xl spreadsheets everyone have access to and that do the same job already but they do it better.

Got told to STFU and stop hampering progress you're just here to check it works not question why its being brought out.

[pookie]

Weather forecasters.. it was supposed to be nice and dry today

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by pookie

Weather forecasters.. it was supposed to be nice and dry today

It has been, gloriously dry. and ferkin cold. -3 when I started working in the back garden this morning. Spent the whole day grafting. No need for wet weather gear.

[Nutsinatin]

Originally Posted by carelesschucca

I'd love to have a meal cooked for me once in a while. Be great to just come home and not cook... Where is Nigela when you need her, she's my kinda woman curvy brunette a great cook and likes a bit of class...... A!

My gripe for today is; getting grief for telling the truth... I got asked to go and test a new fancy looking Internet based calculator for work. Broke it within 5 minutes, they fixed it. Used it for half an hour reported back saying... Why have we wasted time developing this when we already have xl spreadsheets everyone have access to and that do the same job already but they do it better.

Got told to STFU and stop hampering progress you're just here to check it works not question why its being brought out.

I feel your pain, we've brought in a cloud based system to replace our servers at work. Unfortunately about 50% of our documents are nested Excel spreadsheets, which the new system can't cope with. So we had to build a new server to move these to so we could dispose of the old one.

The new cloud also requires a constant internet connection for security, so if you lose connection for even a second, there goes your work. Despite this you cannot edit in real time so have to download a local copy of a document, edit it, save it, then reupload it.

Finally every time you open a folder it has to load a new web page so takes an age. This was brought in to give infinite storage so IT didn't have to add a new rack to the server every time we wanted more storage. It has added 10 minutes onto editing any document and we are paying a third party for the privilege of this.

[kaivalagi]

I hope rented cloud services and associated outsourced dev/support contracts will die a death eventually once all the ftse 500 realise they actually don't save them money in the long run! I work in systems architecture and the wasted money on these "fashionable" projects is atrocious! Trouble is when you sink so much cash into them it's hard to pull out. There's nothing wrong with an inhouse team and local server room!