Rant thread

[ckn]

26 minutes ago, tonyXIII said:

Sorry the pics are so big. I guess I need to crop them first. The first shows the vinegar/soap and the second is my wife's wine glass. I'm going to repeat the experiment, altering a couple of things - soap before vinegar so they mix better and I'll put the vinegar/soap mix in a glass vessel rather than the metal one I used.

I am going to murder the damn things.

 

My Canadian friend swears by citronella candles and he had them liberally placed around his garden edge last time I was at his and he had a barbecue.  He says they're a good match for the usual mosquito.

[ckn]

I’m giving a presentation at a conference centre today and it’s in an area of east London where the traffic is unpredictable. So I’m here an hour early.

I decided to get a coffee from the canteen, 1529 on their clock and my phone:

“sorry, we close at 3:30”,

“but it’s 3:29”,

“I couldn’t serve you your coffee by 3:30 so have to not serve you at all as we close at 3:30”

Sodding jobsworth. I now have a vending machine coffee that tastes like cigarette ash. Each day, I understand Michael Douglas’s character in Falling Down more. 

[Spidey]

19 minutes ago, ckn said:

I’m giving a presentation at a conference centre today and it’s in an area of east London where the traffic is unpredictable. So I’m here an hour early.

I decided to get a coffee from the canteen, 1529 on their clock and my phone:

“sorry, we close at 3:30”,

“but it’s 3:29”,

“I couldn’t serve you your coffee by 3:30 so have to not serve you at all as we close at 3:30”

Sodding jobsworth. I now have a vending machine coffee that tastes like cigarette ash. Each day, I understand Michael Douglas’s character in Falling Down more. 

My wife had that the other day at the hot food counter at Sainsbury’s 

“We close at 6.30”

”But it’s 6.15”

”It takes a while to clean up”

Probably the staff member’s shift finishes then and doesn’t get paid afterwards. Sainsbury’s should either close it at 6pm to allow clean up or adjust shifts to 7.00

[Mumby Magic]

Living my life, seeing something that annoys me an think "that should go on the rant thread".........

[Futtocks]

4 hours ago, ckn said:

My Canadian friend swears by citronella candles and he had them liberally placed around his garden edge last time I was at his and he had a barbecue.  He says they're a good match for the usual mosquito.

What about burning citronella indoors? Much smell? It has been years since I've used them.

[Wiltshire Rhino]

5 hours ago, ckn said:

Each day, I understand Michael Douglas’s character in Falling Down more. 

You and me both!

[ckn]

3 hours ago, Futtocks said:

What about burning citronella indoors? Much smell? It has been years since I've used them.

No idea, only seen it used outside.

[Farmduck]

I'm watching an episode of Mr Robot. It's 10 minutes in and the opening credits are still going. No, it's not edgy or "indie" or "non-linear." It's just annoying.

[ckn]

2 minutes ago, Farmduck said:

I'm watching an episode of Mr Robot. It's 10 minutes in and the opening credits are still going. No, it's not edgy or "indie" or "non-linear." It's just annoying.

The most annoying thing about modern TV is the inability to keep a camera steady, or shaky camera as I've heard it called.  Millions of £/$ gone on investing in the best and steadiest cameras for perfect TV/movie filming and they wobble it around like a drunk put in charge of a wedding video.  I'll accept wobbly TV for live coverage but filmed coverage where it's clearly deliberate to make it more lifelike are just idiotic.  I'll even accept it for cinematic effect to show a first-person clip for maybe 5 seconds in a two hour movie but it's beyond annoying seeing it used for two people standing in a corridor talking.  Humans are quite happy keeping themselves stable and don't need their TV to pretend they've had a good bellyful of beer before they watch it. 

[tonyXIII]

While we're ranting about TV,

1) why do modern dramas include scenes shot in pitch blackness? I get the idea that it's night if you turn the lighting down. You don't need to turn it off completely.

2) why do modern dramas include scenes in which the conversation is so quiet that spies with the latest eavesdropping kit would fail to pick anything up? (Disclosure. My wife swears I am deaf. I don't agree, she needs to speak up.)

3) then the adverts come on and the sound is loud enough to knock you off your chair. 

Grrrrr!

 

[Bleep1673]

21 hours ago, Farmduck said:

I'm watching an episode of Mr Robot. It's 10 minutes in and the opening credits are still going. No, it's not edgy or "indie" or "non-linear." It's just annoying.

There is an American show called Person of Interest, that still has credits running after the first advert break.

[ckn]

I'll just leave this here and let you bask in the wonderful knowledge from the Scottish Sun that CARDBOARD BOXES ARE FLAMMABLE!

Some things just need to be sworn at

[JohnM]

8 minutes ago, ckn said:

I'll just leave this here and let you bask in the wonderful knowledge from the Scottish Sun that CARDBOARD BOXES ARE FLAMMABLE!

Some things just need to be sworn at

http://www.cardboardboxes4u.com/cardboard-boxes/flame-retardant-boxes.html

[graveyard johnny]

got a van tax reminder as normal from the dvla which is fair enough, but plastered all over the front of the envelope are the words "TAX IT OR LOSE IT" does this sort of rhetoric not make it a highly illegal threatening letter?

[JohnM]

No. Its not a threat. Its a promise.

[Phil]

Hungover....badly... that is all 

[Wiltshire Rhino]

6 minutes ago, Phil said:

Hungover....badly... that is all 

Good work! 

[Phil]

Forgot my password to go online and get my repeat prescription, clicked on the “forgot you password” link. Got an email with a link to an incomprehensible web site. Found where I needed to enter passwords, it doesn’t work.

Called the docs explained problem, what’s your email address? they ask, told them, that’s not the one we have on file for you, well I say it’s the one you sent the link to, no they say it can’t be. So what email address do you have for me? Sorry we can’t tell you, data protection. 

I’m losing it by now but try to remain calm, can you send me another password? 

No you’ll have to call in,

but im at work 10miles away, you close at one on Tuesday and don’t open till ten on Wednesday, there’s a 48 hour turn around and I’ll need my medication, I have to take it. 

Ended  call with situation still unresolved 

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[ckn]

26 minutes ago, Phil said:

Forgot my password to go online and get my repeat prescription, clicked on the “forgot you password” link. Got an email with a link to an incomprehensible web site. Found where I needed to enter passwords, it doesn’t work.

Called the docs explained problem, what’s your email address? they ask, told them, that’s not the one we have on file for you, well I say it’s the one you sent the link to, no they say it can’t be. So what email address do you have for me? Sorry we can’t tell you, data protection. 

I’m losing it by now but try to remain calm, can you send me another password? 

No you’ll have to call in,

but im at work 10miles away, you close at one on Tuesday and don’t open till ten on Wednesday, there’s a 48 hour turn around and I’ll need my medication, I have to take it. 

Ended  call with situation still unresolved 

?

Ask them to do a manual repeat until you get it sorted.  Unless they're pedantic idiots they will.

[graveyard johnny]

39 minutes ago, Phil said:

Forgot my password to go online and get my repeat prescription, clicked on the “forgot you password” link. Got an email with a link to an incomprehensible web site. Found where I needed to enter passwords, it doesn’t work.

Called the docs explained problem, what’s your email address? they ask, told them, that’s not the one we have on file for you, well I say it’s the one you sent the link to, no they say it can’t be. So what email address do you have for me? Sorry we can’t tell you, data protection. 

I’m losing it by now but try to remain calm, can you send me another password? 

No you’ll have to call in,

but im at work 10miles away, you close at one on Tuesday and don’t open till ten on Wednesday, there’s a 48 hour turn around and I’ll need my medication, I have to take it. 

Ended  call with situation still unresolved 

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Edited May 8, 2018 by graveyard johnny

[MattSantos]

People with mobile phones at gigs.

 

[ckn]

I normally listen to LBC in the background when working at home but often switch off after 1pm when Shelagh Fogarty comes on, nothing to do with her or her style but it's just a bit too miserable too often.

I left it on today and she started with the story that schools are being told to not give free school meals to the CHILDREN of those classed as illegal immigrants.  Some of the comments coming in are shameful with too many people saying "so what?  Why should we feed their offspring?  Who cares if the parents can't get benefits and can't feed their kids?  They can sod off home then!"" and so on.

It has to be remembered that the Windrush scandal thing has those people classed as "illegal immigrants" and their kids, if at school, would suddenly be denied free school meals at the same time as their parents would be denied benefits, sacked from their jobs and denied housing.

Shameful.  Those heartless people really deserve to have a year or three of real suffering themselves to see what it's like when you suddenly have nothing.

[Spidey]

46 minutes ago, ckn said:

I normally listen to LBC in the background when working at home but often switch off after 1pm when Shelagh Fogarty comes on, nothing to do with her or her style but it's just a bit too miserable too often.

I left it on today and she started with the story that schools are being told to not give free school meals to the CHILDREN of those classed as illegal immigrants.  Some of the comments coming in are shameful with too many people saying "so what?  Why should we feed their offspring?  Who cares if the parents can't get benefits and can't feed their kids?  They can sod off home then!"" and so on.

It has to be remembered that the Windrush scandal thing has those people classed as "illegal immigrants" and their kids, if at school, would suddenly be denied free school meals at the same time as their parents would be denied benefits, sacked from their jobs and denied housing.

Shameful.  Those heartless people really deserve to have a year or three of real suffering themselves to see what it's like when you suddenly have nothing.

Using kids as pawns is a disgrace in any context. Shame on those that support it

[Mark S]

2 hours ago, ckn said:

I normally listen to LBC in the background when working at home but often switch off after 1pm when Shelagh Fogarty comes on, nothing to do with her or her style but it's just a bit too miserable too often.

I left it on today and she started with the story that schools are being told to not give free school meals to the CHILDREN of those classed as illegal immigrants.  Some of the comments coming in are shameful with too many people saying "so what?  Why should we feed their offspring?  Who cares if the parents can't get benefits and can't feed their kids?  They can sod off home then!"" and so on.

It has to be remembered that the Windrush scandal thing has those people classed as "illegal immigrants" and their kids, if at school, would suddenly be denied free school meals at the same time as their parents would be denied benefits, sacked from their jobs and denied housing.

Shameful.  Those heartless people really deserve to have a year or three of real suffering themselves to see what it's like when you suddenly have nothing.

All part of the nasty, selfish attitude that has developed since the Tories got back in power. The idea that someone else might get something that they can’t sends people into a tizzy. 

There should be no kids in this country going without food.

Edited May 10, 2018 by Mark S

[JohnM]

What I hate is poorly design filters that result in crosstalk from other topics, e.g.breakthrough from" those nice tories".