Rant thread

[DavidM]

Quick rant .... some brainless cretin or cretins decided to deface war memorials in London . Especially the one to Bomber Command , who despite suffering horrendous losses and showing tremendous bravery in doing their duty were disgracefully marginalised for decades after the war . These kind of things make me physically sick . War memorials are about respect , remembrance and a somber reminder of what people went through and what war entails . I’d say these idiots have no sense or care of history and what these people went through for all of us , but obviously they just have no sense , brain or basic level of decency at all

[ckn]

10 minutes ago, DavidM said:

Quick rant .... some brainless cretin or cretins decided to deface war memorials in London . Especially the one to Bomber Command , who despite suffering horrendous losses and showing tremendous bravery in doing their duty were disgracefully marginalised for decades after the war . These kind of things make me physically sick . War memorials are about respect , remembrance and a somber reminder of what people went through and what war entails . I’d say these idiots have no sense or care of history and what these people went through for all of us , but obviously they just have no sense , brain or basic level of decency at all

It's a reaction to revisionist history at its worst, putting modern niceties of "peace" against the reality of a war that has devastated many parts of the world.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Aldi. Start rant. Now I shop in aldi cos its cheap and close to where I live however the place does really do my nut in. 

1. Aldi is a small place with narrow aisles and the workers insist on sitting a huge cart thing bang in the middle as they spend hours absently stocking one shelf and then give you a foul look when you ask them to move their massive cart. What happened to customer comes first?? 

2. People who park their trolley bang in front of the shelves, literally an inch away, and start having a conversation with janine from work whom they have just run into (by run into I mean literally run the trolley into them (cos the aisles are ridiculously narrow) ) and are completely ignorant of their surroundings as you're trying to squeeze behind their trolley like a contortionist in an attempt to get a pack of rice. 

3. When you're getting something from the shelf and someone parks their trolley behind you so you turn around, attempting to walk away from the shelf, and find yourself pinned against said shelf. 

4. Family outing. Wife and hubby arguing over what cheese to buy while they pay no attention to their three kids running around screaming on scooters and those wheelie shoes. Why did hubby not stay at home with kids or stay in car with them? Trust me mate, she knows what cheese you normally get, you just eat it. 

5. After you've negotiated all that without doing a massacre you get to the tills. In aldi you will find a dozen people with trolleys absolutely brimmed fighting to get onto two checkouts cos they won't open any other ones. Once everyone has managed to start unloading their shopping, after waiting for much of the morning, only then will they open another. 

6. People who have been to aldi will be aware when things go through checkout you stick them back in your trolley and pack at a long table past the tills. There is always one person who insists on packing at the checkout (something Futtocks mentioned further back in thread) and then, when asked for payment method, they choose card and only then do they start rummaging around for their purse or wallet and get it out and then start inspecting every card for the right one. That's a library card moron! This person invariably gets their pin wrong first time and insists on getting cashback. My food is defrosting while I'm waiting!! 

7. Finally we come to the last point. People who sit their children on the packing shelf. This really pees me off!! Move your brat so I can pack my bags, I do not want its excrement or urine all over my pizzas. I saw a kid pee on that shelf once and the parent didn't even seem to care.... Disgusting...... 

......why do I shop there?? 

[JohnM]

Dunno. Might be better to move from Hull. 

[Bearman]

29 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Aldi. Start rant. Now I shop in aldi cos its cheap and close to where I live however the place does really do my nut in. 

1. Aldi is a small place with narrow aisles and the workers insist on sitting a huge cart thing bang in the middle as they spend hours absently stocking one shelf and then give you a foul look when you ask them to move their massive cart. What happened to customer comes first?? 

2. People who park their trolley bang in front of the shelves, literally an inch away, and start having a conversation with janine from work whom they have just run into (by run into I mean literally run the trolley into them (cos the aisles are ridiculously narrow) ) and are completely ignorant of their surroundings as you're trying to squeeze behind their trolley like a contortionist in an attempt to get a pack of rice. 

3. When you're getting something from the shelf and someone parks their trolley behind you so you turn around, attempting to walk away from the shelf, and find yourself pinned against said shelf. 

4. Family outing. Wife and hubby arguing over what cheese to buy while they pay no attention to their three kids running around screaming on scooters and those wheelie shoes. Why did hubby not stay at home with kids or stay in car with them? Trust me mate, she knows what cheese you normally get, you just eat it. 

5. After you've negotiated all that without doing a massacre you get to the tills. In aldi you will find a dozen people with trolleys absolutely brimmed fighting to get onto two checkouts cos they won't open any other ones. Once everyone has managed to start unloading their shopping, after waiting for much of the morning, only then will they open another. 

6. People who have been to aldi will be aware when things go through checkout you stick them back in your trolley and pack at a long table past the tills. There is always one person who insists on packing at the checkout (something Futtocks mentioned further back in thread) and then, when asked for payment method, they choose card and only then do they start rummaging around for their purse or wallet and get it out and then start inspecting every card for the right one. That's a library card moron! This person invariably gets their pin wrong first time and insists on getting cashback. My food is defrosting while I'm waiting!! 

7. Finally we come to the last point. People who sit their children on the packing shelf. This really pees me off!! Move your brat so I can pack my bags, I do not want its excrement or urine all over my pizzas. I saw a kid pee on that shelf once and the parent didn't even seem to care.... Disgusting...... 

......why do I shop there?? 

Just hope that your Aldi does not get too busy.

 https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-news-aldi-bell-green-15686470

[Clogiron]

I give the local Aldi a miss due to all the problems mentioned and go to one a little further away at which the isles seem wider, and they put people on the check out pretty quickly, then load the shopping into the bags in the back of the car. There's so many of them about now perhaps try another one!

[henage]

I have a relative that works at Aldi , he has been attacked 3 times over the last 18months , the store is fitted with very good quality cctv . Is anyone interested in prosecuting the low life that carry out violent attacks against people going about there job . No . 

[CanaBull]

This weekend it dropped to -20 around Toronto with a very modest few inches of snow.  Now, despite many folks staying home with the only reduction in temperature being the chilling with Netflix, there were still over 300 crashes in the area.

There were plenty of w anchor drivers in Bradford back in the day but honestly in a place like Canada you'd be forgiven for assuming people know how to drive in winter, but no apparently that knowledge melts with the spring thaw.  I used to love bombing round the snow covered single track roads in the Dales and enjoy the fun of snow driving, but man the fidiots over here are maddening.

BMW could certainly do with adding a section on driving in winter for their SUV manuals, though you do get to see quality of the chassis construction while they're on their sides in a ditch.

[RoyBoy295]

I was driving up to a junction earlier today just as a BMW driver was approaching in the opposite direction. How dare he use his indicators to let me know which way he was going, should be ashamed to drive a BMW

[CanaBull]

Couple of years ago I was going in for my night shift driving a crappy little Dodge Neon and there were two X5's and an X6 in ditches on the way there and another X5 and X6 in ditches on the way back.  No other makes, it was totally bizarre.

All the traction controlled jiggery-pokery computerised wotsit shifters unfortunately never make up for the loose nut behind the wheel.

[Mister Ting]

Canadians complaining about cold weather. What do they expect, some unexpected jet stream from Angola? Or a medal for being s##t at geography?

Edited January 21, 2019 by Mister Ting

[Kayakman]

3 minutes ago, Mister Ting said:

Canadians complaining about cold weather. What do they expect, some unexpected jet stream from Angola? Or a medal for being s##t at geography?

Oh cut the guy some slack will ya...he is from Southern Ontario which is like California compared to where I live.

I SAY BRING ON THE COLD MR WINTER!

[Mister Ting]

9 minutes ago, Kayakman said:

Oh cut the guy some slack will ya...he is from Southern Ontario which is like California compared to where I live.

I SAY BRING ON THE COLD MR WINTER!

Except for Vancouvarians, don't most Canadians live in your California?

[Kayakman]

3 minutes ago, Mister Ting said:

Except for Vancouvarians, don't most Canadians live in your California?

Well the Lower Mainland is like the tropics....my  brother has a palm tree at his place there!

Saskatchewan gets pretty cold in the winter alright, also Northern Ontario and Quebec.  Newfoundland gets some bad, bad weather in the winters; thats for sure.   The country has about 35 million of which probably 7-9 mill live in Southern Ontario (something like that).

 

[Mister Ting]

1 minute ago, Kayakman said:

Well the Lower Mainland is like the tropics....my  brother has a palm tree at his place there!

Saskatchewan gets pretty cold in the winter alright, also Northern Ontario and Quebec.  Newfoundland gets some bad, bad weather in the winters; thats for sure.   The country has about 35 million of which probably 7-9 mill live in Southern Ontario (something like that).

 

But most of you are infatuated with the USA aren't you? admit it. That's why you live so close to the border.

[Kayakman]

1 minute ago, Mister Ting said:

But most of you are infatuated with the USA aren't you? admit it. That's why you live so close to the border.

No it has more to do more with trade and climate.....I try to stay in the  North whenever possible except for the long drive to the Wolfpack games and then I get out of the rats nest and back to nature as soon as the final whistle blows.

Its quite surprising to me personally but I think people from GB are the infatuated ones, especially with NYC and Niagara Falls...I don't even pretend to begin to understand it....both places are ######s.

 

[CanaBull]

7 hours ago, Mister Ting said:

Canadians complaining about cold weather. What do they expect, some unexpected jet stream from Angola? Or a medal for being s##t at geography?

Who’s complaining about the weather?  It’s a gripe about useless drivers. Maybe they should hand out medals for comprehension, or at least a participation trophy

[Phil]

My daughter was just setting off for an interview she was really excited about at Lloyds data centre

They called just as she was leaving the house to say no interview, position filled

unprofessional imo 

Edited January 23, 2019 by Phil
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[Bearman]

I have just eaten some Tuna steaks from Morrison's.

The label said

WARNING, MAY CONTAIN FISH!

[Kayakman]

2 minutes ago, Bearman said:

I have just eaten some Tuna steaks from Morrison's.

The label said

WARNING, MAY CONTAIN FISH!

How were the steaks?....did you grill 'em?

[Futtocks]

3 hours ago, Phil said:

My daughter was just setting off for an interview she was really excited about at Lloyds data centre

They called just as she was leaving the house to say no interview, position filled

unprofessional imo 

Better they let her know, instead of having her waste her time and money on a fruitless journey. The latter has happened to me once, plus another occasion when I phoned to confirm the interview on the day, only to receive the news they couldn't be bothered to ring up/email and tell me.

Edited January 23, 2019 by Futtocks

[Bearman]

1 hour ago, Kayakman said:

How were the steaks?....did you grill 'em?

Poached in orange juice with a handful of dill( The way I like to do salmon)

[Phil]

2 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Better they let her know, instead of having her waste her time and money on a fruitless journey. The latter has happened to me once, plus another occasion when I phoned to confirm the interview on the day, only to receive the news they couldn't be bothered to ring up/email and tell me.

I sort of get that, but, how do they know she’s not an absolutely outstanding candidate? 

Yes it could be argued interviewing would be a waste of time, but in my time I’ve always interviewed all candidates 

[Futtocks]

7 minutes ago, Phil said:

I sort of get that, but, how do they know she’s not an absolutely outstanding candidate? 

Yes it could be argued interviewing would be a waste of time, but in my time I’ve always interviewed all candidates 

Fair enough. I found, during my period of unemployment, that the jobs I went for that I really wanted were always good at communication, including unsolicited feedback about how I'd done.

The jobs I'd gone for just because I absolutely had to - they never got in touch except with rote rejections. Something of a relief, as it turned out, but still cheap behaviour.

[JohnM]

On 1/21/2019 at 6:26 PM, Mister Ting said:

But most of you are infatuated with the USA aren't you? admit it. That's why you live so close to the border.

I thought it was the Americans that lived so close to the Canadian border.