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Post 14461

Sho - employed again!

all the people on platform 16 at Düsseldorf main station yesterday who pushed me and a woman with a pushchair back on the train I was helping her get off because they couldn't wait the extra 20 seconds to get on ...

Especially the rather large chap I managed to elbow in his corpulent stomach and the lady in high heels who had her toe stamped on. smiley - grr


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Post 14462

You can call me TC

PH, or perhaps not so PH. Anything to do with accounts or book-keeping. It just is not my world and I really can't understand why people get so het up about it all. Related to that, bosses who are only interested in the bottom line.

a - we don't sell the stuff, we just enter the orders as they come in.
b - if this company would get off its backside and start getting its act together, perhaps people would order more stuff. Instead of the bottom line, take a look at how we get to that bottom line and make things WORK.


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Post 14463

hammondorgan

When you've gone to the shed to get your bike out and it's a lovely day and you can't wait to hit the road and you've guessed it, flat tyre. Scour the house for the puncture kit, fix the puncture, get back home and another flat tyre, this time the back one, I'm afraid I failed to see the funny side. At least I knew where the puncture kit was I suppose.


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Post 14464

Bluebottle

I was getting a puncture per week on average before I upgraded to Kevlar tyres.

<BB<


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Post 14465

swl

Gatorskins, you know it makes sense.


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Post 14466

Pastey

I'm on Kevlar tyres too, amazing things.


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Post 14467

Bluebottle

Here's something that's more of a puzzle than petty hate - people who go somewhere beautiful, say a country park, garden etc - and then eat their lunch in the car park.

I can understand it means you don't have to carry bags far, but if you've gone to the effort of going somewhere nice, why stop in a car park? Also, having kids running around in car parks - even ones to a country park etc - is never the best idea.

<BB<


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Post 14468

Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!"

"Automatic windscreen wipers that, for no apparent reason on a beautiful dry sunny day, decide to activate and drag their juddering way across the screen leaving a huge smear."



Automatic anything is usually a bad idea....

smiley - pirate


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Post 14469

ITIWBS

On post 14467, BB, when I do that its usually because I'm on a long, cross country road trip and a taut schedule, merely looking for a safe and convenient place to park, preferably with facilities.

I might do the same in a shopping center parking lot, but a public park is usually less traffic intensive.

Any port in a storm.


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Post 14470

Florida Sailor All is well with the world

PH

Every time you are forced to set up a new computer and have to spend hours turning off all the 'auto-complete' and 'auto-correct' options in every applicationsmiley - grr

You do not know what I want to say and my vocabulary is much better than the on-line dictionary.

I am quite qualified to make a fool of myself without any computer help.

And yes - I really did mean to do that! Please stop askingsmiley - rolleyes

F smiley - dolphin S


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Post 14471

Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!"

Exactly.

smiley - winkeyesmiley - pirate


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Post 14472

quotes

>>I can understand it means you don't have to carry bags far, but if you've gone to the effort of going somewhere nice, why stop in a car park?

I'll ignore the fact that your question may be rhetorical, and instead try to answer. Inside the car:
* You're protected from the elements (especially useful in Britain)
* Wasps won't annoy you
* You have comfy seats
* You have cupholders and maybe even picnic tables
* Kids can't kick their ball at you


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Post 14473

Pink Paisley

I do a fair amount of walking out in the country and have two associated (more than) petty hates related.

1. Dog poo in bags left hanging in trees. It really would be better to just leave it laying around.

2. Having walked a fair way to a nice spot, to find a little (dead) fire surrounded by litter. If it's worth coming here for a smoke and drink it's worth taking the litter away so that it is a nice spot for next time isn't it?

PP.


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Post 14474

ITIWBS

I must admit to a passionate detestation of untidy campers myself.

Something I always have in my rucksack when I carry one is a small assortment of plastic garbage bags.


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Post 14475

Sho - employed again!

lots of PH today.

The guys who put in my new super snazzy and fast fibre optic router. As far away from the electricity point as possible despite me telling them not to.
Meaning I had to buy a new phone - not so bad, but now I also need a different, and much longer, phone cable so I have to wait for that to arrive...

and the wifi booster that I just bought that comes with an also useless 2m LAN cable meaning I have to order another one which won't come until Monday. But that means I have regularly fast internet even though I'm connected to the fibre optic

Sky. Bloody sky. I got the package at a good price for the football. So that's ok. But he told me that sky+ is for recording and watching something else at the same time. Only now I finally come to use it, it turns out I need more cables and connectors and have to faff about knowing techical stuff about my dish that I, as a non-satellite installing engineer, should not be required to know. More expense.

Sky's reply, btw, was "isn't there someone in your circle of family and friends who can help you? or you can order in a Sky engineer" yes. No I don't know anyone and no I'm not paying for a service you should have told me about in the first place.

In Sky's favour, this is all going on via twitter and they are replying in real time pretty quickly.


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Post 14476

Deb

Funnily enough, this mirrors my thinking this morning when I took the dog for a walk. I often walk him in a local...park, for want of a better word, although it's not as formal as a park as it has no facilities, but it's more than just a field. Anyway...

Yesterday evening when I walked there, what looked like a family group were there, several adults, teenagers, kids, playing football, having a drink, generally enjoying the early evening sunshine. This morning there were beer cans, water bottles, food wrappers. Why? It couldn't have been more than about 25 paces to the bins.

In my family that would have been a competition to see which child could put the most rubbish in the bin in the shortest time.

As to the decorating of trees with dog poo bags...whoever first thought of that and decided it'd be the best way to deal with it? Admittedly, a lot of places where I walk my dog don't have bins, but that's just tough, surely. I've been known to walk past a bin with a bag dangling off one finger, completely forgetting it's there. People who hang it, and people who don't clear it up in the first place, give the rest of us a bad rep and that's more than a petty hate.

Deb smiley - cheerup


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Post 14477

ITIWBS

Dyslexials usually get confused when one puts things in negatives rather than postives.

Often pantomime works better, show them.

Don't draw them a sketch.

They'll just reverse it.

Instead give them an 'X' marks the spot on the physical location where you want things.


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Post 14478

Bluebottle

It isn't people eating inside their car that I don't understand - if it is wet, cold or windy, that's fair enough. It is people who lay out their picnic blankets next to their car and eat their nammet in the car park when there's a perfect picnic area just a few yards away.smiley - huh

<BB<


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Post 14479

ITIWBS

I've got admit that doesn't make sense to me.

I'd either stay in the car or get the hell out of the parking area for safety reasons.

Wouldn't want risk getting run over by some hapless parent distracted by unruly kids in the back seat in a hurry to bail.


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Post 14480

swl

There's a scene in Mad Men where the lead character takes his family for a picnic in the country. An idyllic scene with Mom, Pop and the kid having sandwiches and lemonade in a beautiful sunlit spot. At the end of the picnic mom picks up the blanket and shakes it, scattering the litter everywhere whilst Pop takes a last swig of his beer bottle before throwing it away and getting back in the car. As they drive away, the camera lingers on the wrappers, bottles and litter left everywhere.

It's listed as one of the ten top shocking scenes in the entire seven season series.


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