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Posted by Patdys (# 9397) on :
 
Today I consign to Hell.


Some Family.


Sorry Hosts, think of this thread as coal in your stocking
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
Oooooh, thank you!!!! Before we both get bludgeoned with a big ol' stick of Fuck You, then...

TICTH the eedjit who just assigned me to write up a chart for lo, 2000+ products produced this past year, specifying who originated them, the format and method by which they arrived at my desk, and which of three virtually interchangeable product categories they fall under. By January 2. When he knows damn well that everybody in the relevant department (not mine, of course!) is going to be out of the office celebrating the holidays. So where the hell is the info supposed to come from?

Oh, and did I say I'm covering my OWN department basically singlehanded?

Merry Fucking Christmas to you, too.
 
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
I hate your job, Lamb Chopped.

I'll consign to Hell all the really bad Christmas movies, particularly the ones that target children and then send all the wrong messages.
 
Posted by Niteowl (# 15841) on :
 
TITCH Fed Ex who has had an important package of mine "on truck out for delivery" for 2 days without actually managing to deliver said package. I realize it's a heavy shipping season, but hiring competent help is your job and Christmas shipping shouldn't be a surprise to you.
 
Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH whatever spyware has gotten into my computer and caused certain words to be underlined as links to advertizing. I'm running my antivirus to try and get rid of it, if anyone has any other ideas let me know by PM. [Mad]
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
fuck all you lazy, whineyass bastards. start your own goddamn threads. Give us something to ridicule you about.

and Pissy? give us some fucking details, you delicate little snowflake, you. don't just "some family" like you're afraid to be caught out daring to say something other than motherfucking roses and bonbons about your kin and spawn. we all know how it really is. so share. make the rest of us feel better about the misery we're saddled with. I want the gory details on how Uncle Howard's been buggering livestock and the kids are all snorting tabasco for thrills and your wife decided to cook only vegan and the puppy is learning to play the drums.
 
Posted by alienfromzog (# 5327) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
and Pissy? give us some fucking details, you delicate little snowflake, you. don't just "some family" like you're afraid to be caught out daring to say something other than motherfucking roses and bonbons about your kin and spawn. we all know how it really is. so share. make the rest of us feel better about the misery we're saddled with. I want the gory details on how Uncle Howard's been buggering livestock and the kids are all snorting tabasco for thrills and your wife decided to cook only vegan and the puppy is learning to play the drums.

[Overused] [Overused] [Axe murder]

It wouldn't be Christmas without Comet's Ownbrand Christmas Cheer™

TICTH The Black Dog who really needs to learn to take a Christmas break.

AFZ
 
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :
 
TICTH Orthodox priests who seem to think that the Orthodox Church's positions on every single fucking question of morals or economics or government policy do now and always have perfectly matched the U.S. Republican Party platform.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Patdys:
Sorry Hosts, think of this thread as coal in your stocking

Appropriate response.
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
Comet's cheer reminded me of a recent New Yorker cartoon. "We did a vegan Thanksgiving but our family still showed up."
 
Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Nicolemr:
TICTH whatever spyware has gotten into my computer and caused certain words to be underlined as links to advertizing. I'm running my antivirus to try and get rid of it, if anyone has any other ideas let me know by PM. [Mad]

From Balaam on a thread in heaven where Boogie had asked the same question.

Jengie
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
first some idiot brings back TICTH, and now we're being Helpful?

Bah. Humbug.

Watch your asses, losers. I'll be right there to steal your Who Presents and Roast Beast. fuckers.
 
Posted by MrsBeaky (# 17663) on :
 
TICTH my bloody stupid internet connection which meant I have just had to spend more than three hours trying to sort out our flaming blog which decided of its own accord to disable the comments facility after I'd sent out the latest post.

The air was more than a little blue........
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
first some idiot brings back TICTH, and now we're being Helpful?

Bah. Humbug.

Watch your asses, losers. I'll be right there to steal your Who Presents and Roast Beast. fuckers.

Awww Comet, you sweet wee Hellhost [Axe murder] Feel the Love.

Huia - ducks and runs
 
Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on :
 
i agree with Patdys; 43 hours to go [Help]

[ 25. December 2013, 15:15: Message edited by: JoannaP ]
 
Posted by Mrs Shrew (# 8635) on :
 
Today.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
CRACKS HOSTLY WHIP

Merry Christmas and fuck you all.

THREAD CLOSED

comet
HOLLY JOLLY EVIL HELLHOST
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
HOSTING

oh, all right then. don't make me regret this.

THREAD REOPENED

comet
HELLHOST

mumble mumble...
 
Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
TICTH the fact that this thread wasn't available for me to moan in when Mother-in-Law was staying with us and I was counting down the hours to her departure. (On the train, not shuffling off this mortal coil, although it was a pretty close thing in the last few hours.)
 
Posted by MarsmanTJ (# 8689) on :
 
TITCH those who use Jeremiah 29:11 to tell you that whatever is going wrong in your life will all be sorted out soon because God knows the plan he has for your life. Read the damn preceding chapter to place it in context. Read the verse DIRECTLY BEFORE IT and discover that it doesn't mean what you said it means, then take your patronising crap and unload it onto someone else. But of course, I'm heavily involved in ministry of my church, I can't say things like that, I can only very gently suggest that it might not mean that it says what the moron in question thinks it says, and even then get get upset... [Mad] [Mad] [Mad] [Mad] [Mad]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
HOSTING

oh, all right then. don't make me regret this.

THREAD REOPENED

comet
HELLHOST

mumble mumble...

Regret is inevitable.
 
Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH the fluorescent tube lights in my bedroom that are not working properly even after I changed the tubes. Probably needs a new ballast. *grumble*
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
HOSTING

oh, all right then. don't make me regret this.

THREAD REOPENED

comet
HELLHOST

mumble mumble...

Regret is inevitable.
Not for Edith. Non, Je ne regrette rien
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Nicolemr:
TICTH the fluorescent tube lights in my bedroom that are not working properly even after I changed the tubes. Probably needs a new ballast. *grumble*

Fluorescent tube lights in a bedroom? [Eek!] Dear God, the idea itself should be consigned to Hell. It must be like sleeping in McDonalds.
 
Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
ICTH dry sockets. Arrrghghg. [Frown] The pain is driving me batty. And this is after my oral surgeon 'packed' it with stinky stuff.

The constant throbbing and aching and sympathy pain in my other teeth made it very difficult to be nice to the lovely but clueless people at the wedding rehearsal I played for tonight.

[Mad]
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
It must be like sleeping in McDonalds.

Except I wouldn't want to contemplate what "Big Mac with cheese" might be like. [Ultra confused]

Miss Amanda will get her wrap.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
It would be really NICE if, just occasionally, when I try to make someone a priority and arrange my day to better suit their needs, the favour got reciprocated. [Mad]
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
boy I stand you up for drinks one time in the Hosts' Lounge and I never hear the end of it.
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
TICTH people who ask for Christmas presents (rather than, say, a book token) so that they "have something to open on Christmas Day" then moan that they don't like what you bought. Year after year after year.
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
TICTH Family. For fucks sake would it be to much to post even one single measley card?

Bastards. I sent cakes and puddings and money.

Never again.

Anyone want to adopt me? Please?

Huia
 
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Seconding TICTH family - particularly the unhappy people who sole aim in life seems to be making others just as unhappy as they are!
 
Posted by Bene Gesserit (# 14718) on :
 
I third it.
 
Posted by Meg the Red (# 11838) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Huia:


Anyone want to adopt me? Please?


Dibs!!!!!

And in return, I'll introduce your crappy-ass ungrateful family members to mine. Because of course the appropriate response to a pile of carefully chosen gifts and a lavish meal is a (misspelled) five-word text a week after the fact.

Huia, say the word and the spare bedroom is yours! (and the cat's, unfortunately) [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
TICTH the friend who used to pay for parking and lunch when we went out toghether (because I'm the one with a car, so I drive and pay for the petrol etc). She stopped paying for parking months ago without any explanation, which was slightly annoying but I didn't say anything.

Yesterday, I drove 5 miles in the wrong direction to pick her up - i.e. 5 miles in the opposite direction from the place where we were going, so I then had to drive the additional 5 miles back before getting back on track to our destination. I paid for parking. She paid for coffee - good thing I ordered a large one! We looked around the shops and she tried to persuade me to buy a top that I'd already told her I couldn't afford (seriously, £65 is NOT a sale price for a blouse!) She then needed to find a bank, so I waited while she withdrew cash and had to watch while she counted out a large pile of twenties in front of me.

Come lunchtime, we went up to the counter to order and she paid for just her own, leaving me to pay for mine. There had been no previous consultation or conversation about changing our arrangements. On previous days out, she's always paid for my lunch and made a comment about me providing the transport, petrol etc. After that, she wanted to go to Waitrose and asked me to read a label for her because she couldn't be arsed to get her glasses put of her handbag! I read the first one for her, then moved away and pretented to go and look at something else, as I was starting to get really peed off by then.

I then had to drive her home, which included the extra five miles each way again. Although she said 'thank you', she made no offer of petrol money. I feel like a mug.

This person is far more well off than me and doesn't understand budgets or the need to save, hence the encouragement to buy an overpriced top that I didn't need. She can also be extremely 'grand' which, quite frankly, is sometimes embarrassing. It's the feeling of being taken for granted that annoys me, though - I feel as if she expects me to be an unpaid chauffeur. Someone's taking someone for a ride and I'm not sure it's me.
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Seconding TICTH family - particularly the unhappy people who sole aim in life seems to be making others just as unhappy as they are!

This.

What is the point? If you've asked to be sent a present, why not just say "Thank you"? Why enumerate the (many) ways in which your present disappointed?

Specifically, why phone us up to whinge about somebody who gifted you a cake (a totally thoughtless present, apparently) and say you wish they'd given you a fruit basket instead, you'd have been thrilled to get a fruit basket, whereupon we sent you an (expensive) fruit basket via Interflora, only for you to tell us that when you saw the fruit basket you "remembered you didn't like fruit."
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Meg the Red:

Huia, say the word and the spare bedroom is yours! (and the cat's, unfortunately) [Big Grin]

Thank-you, but alas, I must remain faithful to my own Georgie-Porgy.

Huia
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:
quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Seconding TICTH family - particularly the unhappy people who sole aim in life seems to be making others just as unhappy as they are!

This.

What is the point? If you've asked to be sent a present, why not just say "Thank you"? Why enumerate the (many) ways in which your present disappointed?

Specifically, why phone us up to whinge about somebody who gifted you a cake (a totally thoughtless present, apparently) and say you wish they'd given you a fruit basket instead, you'd have been thrilled to get a fruit basket, whereupon we sent you an (expensive) fruit basket via Interflora, only for you to tell us that when you saw the fruit basket you "remembered you didn't like fruit."

That's like my neices who were presented with cheesecake for the first time. One complained that she didn't like cake while the other that she didn't like cheese.

You can buy the wrong Ferrari for some people.
 
Posted by Meerkat (# 16117) on :
 
Starbug, I feel your pain. We have the same problem in our household, except for the fact that the 'friend' is MIL. On an average day such as that to which you alluded, Mrs. Kat can easily drive somewhere in the region of 60 miles and MIL is STILL not satisfied. OK, she will usually pay for lunch snacks... being about £3.50 for a jacket potato. One of these days, I will make it my business to tell her off, but I have ben persuaded not to by Mrs. Kat. Watch this space...
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Starbug:
This person is far more well off than me. . . . It's the feeling of being taken for granted that annoys me, though - I feel as if she expects me to be an unpaid chauffeur. Someone's taking someone for a ride and I'm not sure it's me.

So next time you tell her you're sorry but you can't afford to driver her around, and to call a taxi.
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
This is the same relative who decided she wanted to go to church with us, and turned up in a T-shirt with BOLLOCKS printed across it. When we said she couldn't go to church wearing that, she told us we obviously weren't true Christians, because God doesn't care about outward appearances.

(It wasn't God we were worried about, but the parents of the Sunday School children.)
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
I suspect there is something else going on there, that has little to with presents. Feeling lonely and rejected and no-one cares about her unless they have to, perhaps ? Of course her self-defeating behaviour then creates a self-fulfilling prophecy.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Seconding TICTH family - particularly the unhappy people who sole aim in life seems to be making others just as unhappy as they are!

Continuing subcategory family.
I just graduated, need to go job-hunting, need to prepare for interviews, and in the middle of my discussing my need to conquer my own nervousness, I get this :
"And don't go out there expecting to find the perfect job the first time you interview."
First off-that so was nowhere near anything we were discussing. Second-- am I nine years old? You don't think I know I might need to make compromises? Why should I let knowing that prevent me from taking a shot at something excellent?
Second- I think most of my life problems have not come from expecting too much, but from not trying for something better. From being too scared to risk and settling for what is easiest. I really don't need more people in my life telling me to lower my expectations. Especially someone who makes it clear to me their expectations of me are nil.

[ 04. January 2014, 19:54: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
[heavenly tangent]

Damn I'm grateful for my family. None of the reasonably close relatives have done anything like the horrible mindfucks so much of the world seems to endure.

[/heavenly tangent]

Of course, there was the step-grandmother who lied about how her previous children had died in a fiery crash, but that didn't really affect me directly...
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH people who turn around and very pointedly glare at children in the last pew who are experiencing minor Tourette's symptoms. Okay, one person. But fuck, woman, you're at least 60, you're old enough to have met any number of people with disabilities. Why be a jackass about it?
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Seconding TICTH family - particularly the unhappy people who sole aim in life seems to be making others just as unhappy as they are!

Continuing subcategory family.
I just graduated, need to go job-hunting, need to prepare for interviews, and in the middle of my discussing my need to conquer my own nervousness, I get this :
"And don't go out there expecting to find the perfect job the first time you interview."
First off-that so was nowhere near anything we were discussing. Second-- am I nine years old? You don't think I know I might need to make compromises? Why should I let knowing that prevent me from taking a shot at something excellent?
Second- I think most of my life problems have not come from expecting too much, but from not trying for something better. From being too scared to risk and settling for what is easiest. I really don't need more people in my life telling me to lower my expectations. Especially someone who makes it clear to me their expectations of me are nil.

Don't go out there expecting the perfect family on the first try. You will probably have to have several before you get it right.
 
Posted by agingjb (# 16555) on :
 
Burglars
 
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
TICTH Newfoundland Power, whose peculiar brand of incompetence meant that most of the island had no power for most of yesterday, when the temperature was -12° before you consider the wind-chill. Apparently the cause was a fire in a trailer-park somewhere out in the sticks, but how that managed to knock out the entire island for a time (and chez Piglet for 17 hours) is beyond me.

To add insult to freezing, they're imposing "rolling power-cuts" over the next few days, to save power. Why the hell can't they do that before the weather gets sub-Arctic?

[Mad] [Mad] [Mad]
 
Posted by Charlie-in-the-box (# 17954) on :
 
Today I am consigning my job and whoever makes the decision to tell us to drive in or stay home after the 3rd worst blizzard in the history of our city. Some lunatic asshole has said that the business is closed but staff are to report?! I want him damned to the testicular torture tank of hell for eternity. I want 15 minutes alone with him and then I'm putting on my cool black high heels and kicking his whining ass into the dark abyss. I also want to consign to hell the stupid ass hat that invented our call in system. You have to keep calling back until you speak to a supervisor, making me dial 5 damn phone calls! I HATE YOU JERK! Burn in hell. I want his coffee cold and his nipples tore off. I'm not 5 years old, if you can't trust me to leave a message and get with my supervisor when I return then let me show you what you can kiss while I set your hair on fire.

I am not driving in 6 ft snow drifts and wrecking my car in dangerous wind chills over some piece of shit job that obviously wants me to die.

I bet the prick who decided to say, "Staff report" on the business closing list doesn't even drag his ugly ass into work either. He belongs in the trench of hell where there is a phone that never stops ringing that you can't reach, a broken copier that can't be fixed and you are always late for a meeting that you can't find. Eat it work, eat a big one! [Mad] [Two face]

[ 06. January 2014, 07:05: Message edited by: Charlie-in-the-box ]
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
TICTH crappy starts to the week. I opened my Monday by dropping a handmade teacup in a collection that they don’t make anymore. I know it’s a small thing, but I’m bloody upset. The week has hardly begun and I’m already bummed out.

[Waterworks]
 
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
TICTH the insanity of modern packaging - today I collected something from the courier, two new SD cards for my camera. Together they weigh about 5 grammes - the packaging, mostly plastic with a bit of card, weighed 50 grammes! No wonder we are killing the planet!
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
The people who called LBC 97.3 to insist on the existence of the devil, and that all people who did not decide to take Jesus as their personal favour would be consigned to his care, except innocent little babies who died and immediately became angels, and claimed that everything evil, in which they included earthquakes and disease etc., was the direct result of Adam and Eve's disobedience, and God had not set up the world so that these things happened, and it was no good being an atheist who secretly gave away all their wealth to the poor, because they were only doing it to buy their way into heaven, and that wouldn't work.
Nobody sane and believing rang in (or was allowed to speak). Only lapsed Catholic atheists opposed the vile dualist universe. Do these people really think that their fantastic world view is going to bring people to God? Do they honestly think that saying that the most effective trick of Satan is to persuade people that he doesn't exist, when it is really those people who argue that who drive others from God?
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
Yahoo - for letting some idiot play around their their mail servers so that one can't download emails on to phone or email client.

But praise be to those clever people on various users' help pages who have found out how to remedy the situation that has bewitched us for the past 3 days.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
The idiot who programmed the voice menu system of the office I just called. "Thank you for allowing us to enrich your waiting experience!" the voice said, before placing me on interminable hold while vapid music-like sounds played in the background. If that's an "enriched waiting experience" I'll take the non-enriched version, thank you very much.
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
The people who called LBC 97.3 to insist on the existence of the devil, and that all people who did not decide to take Jesus as their personal favour would be consigned to his care, except innocent little babies who died and immediately became angels, and claimed that everything evil, in which they included earthquakes and disease etc., was the direct result of Adam and Eve's disobedience, and God had not set up the world so that these things happened, and it was no good being an atheist who secretly gave away all their wealth to the poor, because they were only doing it to buy their way into heaven, and that wouldn't work.
Nobody sane and believing rang in (or was allowed to speak). Only lapsed Catholic atheists opposed the vile dualist universe. Do these people really think that their fantastic world view is going to bring people to God? Do they honestly think that saying that the most effective trick of Satan is to persuade people that he doesn't exist, when it is really those people who argue that who drive others from God?

The alternative would be to not listen to that shitty little excuse for a radio station

[ 06. January 2014, 17:29: Message edited by: Spike ]
 
Posted by Charlie-in-the-box (# 17954) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
It would be really NICE if, just occasionally, when I try to make someone a priority and arrange my day to better suit their needs, the favour got reciprocated. [Mad]

I sure identify with this. I am pissed off because during the holidays I sent a priest, who I thought was a friend, an email saying that I was in a faith crisis and that I am probably leaving the Catholic Church. He's a school chaplain and they have had school closed for the weather so what the feck is the reason he's not even dropping a note to say; I'm praying for ya, fuck off, go to hell, anything???? I also sent an urgent email to a friend, thought she was a close friend, and she sent an online card, no mention of prayers of anything. I've cleared calendars for people, can't they even ring me up or pretend they give a shit?!

I am always there for my friends. No I don't want a damn cookie, I want reciprocal relationships. ACT like you care, it would be a start. [Mad] [Mad] [Mad]
 
Posted by Charlie-in-the-box (# 17954) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
The idiot who programmed the voice menu system of the office I just called. "Thank you for allowing us to enrich your waiting experience!" the voice said, before placing me on interminable hold while vapid music-like sounds played in the background. If that's an "enriched waiting experience" I'll take the non-enriched version, thank you very much.

Please relax and enjoy this 30-minute flute solo, [Killing me]
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Charlie-in-the-box:
I am pissed off because during the holidays I sent a priest, who I thought was a friend, an email saying that I was in a faith crisis and that I am probably leaving the Catholic Church. He's a school chaplain and they have had school closed for the weather so what the feck is the reason he's not even dropping a note to say; I'm praying for ya, fuck off, go to hell, anything????

nobody is obliged to check their email, you know.
 
Posted by Charlie-in-the-box (# 17954) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
quote:
Originally posted by Charlie-in-the-box:
I am pissed off because during the holidays I sent a priest, who I thought was a friend, an email saying that I was in a faith crisis and that I am probably leaving the Catholic Church. He's a school chaplain and they have had school closed for the weather so what the feck is the reason he's not even dropping a note to say; I'm praying for ya, fuck off, go to hell, anything????

nobody is obliged to check their email, you know.
Very true.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
There are times when Radio 4 isn't broadcasting anything interesting, and I can't get a digital talk station with no drivelly music in between, and LBC actually has some interesting people and discussions on.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Charlie-in-the-box:
I am pissed off because during the holidays I sent a priest, who I thought was a friend, an email . . . so what the feck is the reason he's not even dropping a note?

If he has Yahoo Mail, he may not have gotten it or, if he did, his reply may not have gone out.

The chairman of a donations drive my choral group recently undertook sent a thank-you note to donors who responded. He sent the note to a mailing list of 250 names. People with Yahoo Mail got 250 copies of the note.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
(after reading the 876th meme on this matter)

Is there anybody left in the free world who doesn't have the common sense to turn off autocorrect?

Because if you don't -- nobody to blame but you, really. So perhaps you have a deep, sick need to shock your mother with "accidental" sex talk.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
TICTH Exes, almosts and rekindles, make up your fucking minds. And remembering, where is my fucking Eternal Sunshine?
 
Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 
TICTH our county water management folks. We live in a drafty, rinky-dink doublewide house trailer and we planned ahead, prepared, and kept our pipes from freezing on Sunday night when the temps dropped so low. The county, however, managed to let some vital piece of equipment at a the water tower freeze solid last evening. Now, the prolonged lack of pressure has caused what water was in our pipes to freeze and BAM, we have busted plumbing. From the calls and visits I've had this morning, we're not the only one. I'm thinking of organizing an angry mob of villagers to storm the water tower...
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
TICT the burning, acidic, acrid bowels of H the useless, cowardly, immature, fragile-flower, stunted, simple-minded piece of absolute diseased dog shit that my daughter married.

Listen, you little freak of nature: when your wife is pregnant and gets ill enough to be rushed to the emergency room, you get off your lazy, useless ass and you drive her in. You don't say you just don't feel well enough to drive so she needs to call her relatives to get out of bed and drive 20 miles to go fetch her and bring her in. and you don't catch a ride so you can hang around whining about how inconvenient it all is and how hard your little excuse for a life is.

I have put up with your pathetic, poor-me routine far too long. not because you, you slimy little fraction of a man, are worth one measley moment of concern, but because my deluded daughter seemed to extend her need to take in strays and make you her project.

Let's face it. without her, you'd be in fucking prison if you got lucky. You'd be broke and unhoused and unfed and still wondering why everyone hates you.

I used to think you were just paranoid and pathetic; but no. It's true. everyone hates you. you're a waste of oxygen. If I came across you on the side of the road after a truck hit you, I wouldn't waste the bullet to put you down.
 
Posted by Francophile (# 17838) on :
 
And your son in law loves you too.
 
Posted by Macrina (# 8807) on :
 
TICTH Public transport in New Zealand. I have the job interview of my dreams in Christchurch, however it is physically impossible for me to attend right now because although I am willing to go 24 hours without sleep to move my shifts so I have the time to, there are NO BUSES after my interview to get me back home again. Seriously, one bus a day at 2.30pm IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. Five bus companies who all have their buses/shuttles leave at this time is also NOT ACCEPTABLE.

GAH! I love this freaking country but right now I feel like I am being suffocated to death by giant white balls in a South Canterbury sized set of 'The Prisoner'.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
... when your wife is pregnant and gets ill enough to be rushed to the emergency room...

Unhellish, but I hope your daughter and grandbaby are o.k.
[Votive]
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Those who whine about the weather. Just put on a proper coat, a toque, scarf and boots, and deal with it. You're not cold until it's in the -40s (C and F coincide there), and don't tell me dramatically about the temp + wind chill and tell me that you'll freeze in 5 minutes. You won't unless you're an idiot. (I was 45 minutes on my bicycle so I know, numb brain!)
 
Posted by Leaf (# 14169) on :
 
In other news: no prophet's teeny tiny little bank account of sympathy goes unspent yet again.

[Roll Eyes]
 
Posted by Vulpior (# 12744) on :
 
TICTH Australia's right-wing racists who think it's acceptable to bombard complete strangers with abuse. Yes, I've been in the news, folks.
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
(after reading the 876th meme on this matter)

Is there anybody left in the free world who doesn't have the common sense to turn off autocorrect?

Because if you don't -- nobody to blame but you, really. So perhaps you have a deep, sick need to shock your mother with "accidental" sex talk.

Or just, you know, read what you've typed before you press send?
 
Posted by ken (# 2460) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
Those who whine about the weather. Just put on a proper coat, a toque, scarf and boots, and deal with it.



WTF is a toque?

Oh, and no-one has a right to complain about flooding ever. Just spend sixty billion (at today's prices) on flood defences like we did in London. Or build big polders like in the Netherlands. All those whingers in places like New Orleans and New York and Devon and Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and China...
 
Posted by Honest Ron Bacardi (# 38) on :
 
A toque is one of those tall white chef's hats. I always wear mine when venturing out in gale force winds.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
a tuque is different to different people.
 
Posted by ken (# 2460) on :
 
Oh. A woolly bobble hat. We didn't need to use a French word for one of those.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
think of it as a Canadian word.
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
Those who whine about the weather. Just put on a proper coat, a toque, scarf and boots, and deal with it. You're not cold until it's in the -40s (C and F coincide there), and don't tell me dramatically about the temp + wind chill and tell me that you'll freeze in 5 minutes. You won't unless you're an idiot. (I was 45 minutes on my bicycle so I know, numb brain!)

Poor wee NP. Extreme cold has obviously affected your ability to see anyone elses's point of view. Other Canadian posters don't have the same judgemental scathing attitude towards other people's experiences.

It dropped to 5c here last night and I was cold, delicate wee flower that I am [Razz]

Huia
 
Posted by ken (# 2460) on :
 
But this is Hell, and whenever you say that C word a certain shipmate will come along to tell you how everyone and everything is shit except for that big country begining with C wghich is the only place where they have proper politcs or churches (especially of the Refoprmed sort) or weather and how tyou are an iognorant wally because you forgot to takwe into account the career and writings of some person from country C who you never heard of...
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by ken:
... some person from country C who you never heard of...

or have heard of, but always thought they were American.
 
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Leaf:
In other news: no prophet's teeny tiny little bank account of sympathy goes unspent yet again.

[Roll Eyes]

But I think we might have happened upon the explanation:
quote:
I was 45 minutes on my bicycle so I know, numb brain!

 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
Basketball has-been Dennis Rodman, for saying that he has bonded with North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Un over their mutual love of basketball, and that Baby Kim is "a really nice guy".

That's like the Dog Whisperer (Cesar Millan) saying he could have bonded with Adolf Hitler over their mutual love of German Shepherds.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
It wasn't about you lovable hateful people. It was about the local whining Canadians. Who won't stop it.

Use Google if you don't know a word. I was abused and roasted by some of you unwiped anuses when I asked about a chitsly dialect word in Hell, so bite me.

Sympathy jn Hell? You think this place is exothemic? Feel the love of Satan and her giant red hot fork. Gerbils.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
If you want this TICTH thread to continue, the chit-chat about Canadians will now cease. Either that or I'll fuck you all using the specially sharpened end of my lyre.

orfeo
Hellhost

 
Posted by Lothlorien (# 4927) on :
 
"Have a nice day," I was told by shop assistants at least four times today. I wonder if the bosses who make them say this have any idea how hollow it is.

It is not a nice day, hasn't been since little granddaughter was diagnosed with leukaemia a few days ago. Some of the treatment has already given her pancreatitis. Today is the first session of chemotherapy which will last probably at least two years.

And just what is a nice day? What a colourless word.
 
Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :
 
Fuck!
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
TICTH filling in annual appraisal forms AKA a colossal waste of everybody’s time, the only purpose of which is to destroy the morale of the workforce and give the HR department something to do to justify their sad existence.

We hates it, we hates it forever.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Jury duty. [Mad] There are so many other things I should be doing today.
 
Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
I am (despite the online revolutionary fervour) a mild-mannered individual, and it normally takes a lot to get my dander up.

I am absolutely fucking furious with someone whose professional and personal integrity should have been unimpeachable, who has simply, calmly and with forethought, betrayed my trust entirely.

I am not shouting and screaming. I am so coldly and righteously angry that I will be quite happy not to rest until any pretence they have at a moral high ground is naught but dust under my feet.
 
Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :
 
TICTH teeth, a filling that has been in place for less than a month has fallen out and it's bloody uncomfortable. To make matters worse the dentist cannot see me until Tuesday week
 
Posted by basso (# 4228) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
You're not cold until it's in the -40s (C and F coincide there), and don't tell me dramatically about the temp + wind chill and tell me that you'll freeze in 5 minutes. You won't unless you're an idiot.

Tell that to the four men who died the other day in our cold snap. It got down to about 30F, which is more than enough to die of hypothermia.

Fucktard.
 
Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Jury duty. [Mad] There are so many other things I should be doing today.

People who get cross about having to play their part in the governance of a (reasonably) free society because there are other things they'd rather be doing.
 
Posted by Charlie-in-the-box (# 17954) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Charlie-in-the-box:
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
quote:
Originally posted by Charlie-in-the-box:
I am pissed off because during the holidays I sent a priest, who I thought was a friend, an email saying that I was in a faith crisis and that I am probably leaving the Catholic Church. He's a school chaplain and they have had school closed for the weather so what the feck is the reason he's not even dropping a note to say; I'm praying for ya, fuck off, go to hell, anything????

nobody is obliged to check their email, you know.
Very true.
OK I am going to send myself to hell along with my shitty attitude. My priest-friend apologized, saying he had been off work due to the storm. He was very concerned about my feelings so I will join all the crap in hell for my being so rude.
[Eek!]
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
go and sin no more, my child.

Most of the time when people think I've snubbed them it's either because I hate telephones and email or because the power was out.
 
Posted by Patdys (# 9397) on :
 
Sure, next you'll claim its the 8116 miles that's stopping you from dropping in for coffee.

Shit, we have driveways longer than that.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
Daw... you counted!
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Albertus:
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Jury duty. [Mad] There are so many other things I should be doing today.

People who get cross about having to play their part in the governance of a (reasonably) free society because there are other things they'd rather be doing.
If they treated prospective jurors a little better it wouldn't be so bad, but not knowing until late afternoon the day before, having everyone check in early and then sit around forever, being treated like a herd of cattle, etc., etc. The last time I was called they showed a video of some judge telling us how we were just as important a part of the process as the judge and lawyers -- yeah, like they'd put up with being treated like that for a few pennies a day. (And in Arizona you only get those pennies if you're called for a trial, not if you're stuck waiting around all day.) Give us some consideration, give us the opportunity to work with our schedules, etc., and most of us would feel different about it.
 
Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 
TICTH the new neighbors in the single-wide across the field. They couldn't be more trailer-trash if they tried. Motley collection of vehicles in various shades of rust and bondo, loud boom-boom music played at all hours, mangy pregnant pitt bull bitch who is allowed to roam free, sticky ill-behaved children, and the ever-popular domestic squabbles carried out on the front porch so everyone else can share in the magic that is your relationship. [Mad]

My only solace is in waiting for the inevitable meth-bust...
 
Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by Albertus:
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Jury duty. [Mad] There are so many other things I should be doing today.

People who get cross about having to play their part in the governance of a (reasonably) free society because there are other things they'd rather be doing.
If they treated prospective jurors a little better it wouldn't be so bad, but not knowing until late afternoon the day before, having everyone check in early and then sit around forever, being treated like a herd of cattle, etc., etc. The last time I was called they showed a video of some judge telling us how we were just as important a part of the process as the judge and lawyers -- yeah, like they'd put up with being treated like that for a few pennies a day. (And in Arizona you only get those pennies if you're called for a trial, not if you're stuck waiting around all day.) Give us some consideration, give us the opportunity to work with our schedules, etc., and most of us would feel different about it.
Pretty much my own experience of jury duty here in the UK (though here they give you rather more than a day's notice that you're being called up). Sure, it could be better organised: but on the whole it's a privilege to have to do it, even though they do bugger you about.

[ 11. January 2014, 15:37: Message edited by: Albertus ]
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by BessHiggs:
TICTH the new neighbors in the single-wide across the field. They couldn't be more trailer-trash if they tried. Motley collection of vehicles in various shades of rust and bondo, loud boom-boom music played at all hours, mangy pregnant pitt bull bitch who is allowed to roam free, sticky ill-behaved children, and the ever-popular domestic squabbles carried out on the front porch so everyone else can share in the magic that is your relationship. [Mad]

My only solace is in waiting for the inevitable meth-bust...

Are the children safe ?
 
Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 
They're at school/grandma's most of the day, or at my house squabbling over video games. I haven't seen anything I could report to the law, but I'm waiting...
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
The Daily Heil, for being a bunch of lying fucking cunts who are out to villify people who every day make more contribution to the world than they will in their entire sad publishing history.

Admittedly, a dead meerkat makes more contribution than Dacre. The man is an utter waste of carbon.
 
Posted by Chocoholic (# 4655) on :
 
Fuckwits who make up lies, bend the truth so far it's back breaks, spread rumours and unfounded gossip.
[Mad]
 
Posted by Taliesin (# 14017) on :
 
Back pain. Sudden, sharp, nasty, jabbing when you don't expect it back pain.
 
Posted by Zacchaeus (# 14454) on :
 
Life - sometimes it is just so damm complicated, and I don't think I have the energy for it right now..
 
Posted by Zoey (# 11152) on :
 
TICTH managerial incompetence. My manager surpassed herself today. Told me something so stupid about such a basic part of our work that I was originally scared to ask for a second opinion in case she realises how stupid she's been and flat-out denies that she said what she did to me. Have decided I will think very, very carefully about the wording of the email I send (and copy her into) in order to ask for a second opinion. I thought managers were meant to support their staff, not add an extra layer - sod that, an extra few layers - of difficulty to the job.

[brick wall]
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
On Saturday morning I used the journey into work† typing a rant about my moronic, nit-picking, self-appointed*, incompetent, layabout line manager on my phone and managed to lose it changing trains. I would have forgotten about it except he neither turned up to the weekend training or work today.

Advice for line managers:

† OFSTED is coming. We got the joy of a weekend to train and organise
* he was my line manager when I started this job, but in September we were told I was reporting to someone else. He continued to micro-manage and to self-aggrandise as a line manager although I am damn certain it is not in his job description.
** compulsory training as instructed in a stream of texts and e-mails, but funnily enough, not for him
 
Posted by Mad Cat (# 9104) on :
 
Bastard shoulder. What is PAIN that will not go away these 5 months? That steroid injections cannot dent? That painkillers bounce off of like an England rugby player off of Jonah Lomu?

Bastard shoulder clinic should have received referral early December. Why no send me an appointment? Even if in next millenium? Please??

Nice lady thank you for giving me clinic number on Friday afternoon. Oh (sad face) early finish, but answering service will be on yes.

No it fucking won't.

It would be nice to sleep..... so nice......
 
Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :
 
My ungrateful son who refused to play the nice Spice Girls CD I got him. He even requested it before I went off to the used book and CD store. I spent a whole 95 ¢ on the durn thing.

I think he is just jealous of my White Stripes and Black Keys CDs.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
You're consigning your child to Hell over less than a dollar. Niiiiiiiice.
 
Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :
 
It was a joke.

My sense of humor seems to be a bit dry.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
I want to rip a hole in the universe with my bare hands.

that is all.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Can I throw a couple of government departments into the hole once you've made it, or won't there be room?
 
Posted by Patdys (# 9397) on :
 
Bushfires.

So, its a 45 degree day. (113 farenheit).
We're are in a boutique Hotel in the Adelaide Hills. We just had a thunderstorm and there is now a fire in the valley below us thanks to a lightning strike.

On the up side, I have had half a bottle of champagne and ain't driving anywhere.

(We are safe)
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
Can I throw a couple of government departments into the hole once you've made it, or won't there be room?

bring it!
 
Posted by Patdys (# 9397) on :
 
Damn it. I was wrong. Now evacuated and back in town because of multiple small spot fires. Shit.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Tortuf:
It was a joke.

My sense of humor seems to be a bit dry.

That "nice Spice Girls" line should have been a clue.

Meanwhile, I consign to Hell the entire concept of sole agency* for IT contractor recruitment. If there's a surer way to ensure a limited supply of inadequate candidates, do let me know.

*and probably for everything else in the wonderful world of Mr/Ms twenty percent.
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Patdys:
Bushfires.

So, its a 45 degree day. (113 farenheit).
We're are in a boutique Hotel in the Adelaide Hills. We just had a thunderstorm and there is now a fire in the valley below us thanks to a lightning strike.

On the up side, I have had half a bottle of champagne and ain't driving anywhere.

(We are safe)

quote:
Damn it. I was wrong. Now evacuated and back in town because of multiple small spot fires. Shit.

I asked goggle to define "Hubris" and it linked this post.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
TICTH Abortion, its proponents and opponents, those who argue it with all the compassion of an abandoned lamppost, those who manipulate with emotion...oh Hell, Fuck. You. All. It is not easy, cut and dry or one-sided. The only abortions which fit that criteria are the retroactive ones I will be happy to perform on you, you walking wastes of carbon.

[ 14. January 2014, 17:31: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]
 
Posted by Mrs Shrew (# 8635) on :
 
Plumbers. I have been trying to employ one to do our bathroom since oc-fucking-tober. We have not even managed to get a quote out of any.... The latest one should have been here forty five minutes ago, but I darestnot ring just in case he IS on his way and takes umbrage and we then have to start looking again.

I'm sure in other lines of employment you phone a person who does a thing, explain what needs doing, they tell you how much, and then it is done and you pay them. None of this endless arsing about phoning and emailing and never getting replies or getting appointments they never show to or (better still) they show up to take a look, agree to send a quote and are never heard from again.
 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Mrs Shrew:
Plumbers. I have been trying to employ one to do our bathroom since oc-fucking-tober. We have not even managed to get a quote out of any.... The latest one should have been here forty five minutes ago, but I darestnot ring just in case he IS on his way and takes umbrage and we then have to start looking again.

Sounds like nobody actually wants your business. Is the work you want doing in your bathroom relatively small on the scale of bathroom remodels? Things must be pretty good for plumbers in York if they're all able to turn work away, though.
 
Posted by Patdys (# 9397) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
quote:
Originally posted by Patdys:
Bushfires.

So, its a 45 degree day. (113 farenheit).
We're are in a boutique Hotel in the Adelaide Hills. We just had a thunderstorm and there is now a fire in the valley below us thanks to a lightning strike.

On the up side, I have had half a bottle of champagne and ain't driving anywhere.

(We are safe)

quote:
Damn it. I was wrong. Now evacuated and back in town because of multiple small spot fires. Shit.

I asked goggle to define "Hubris" and it linked this post.

[Big Grin]
Arrogant and pretentious: I have commanded my servant to say 'moi?'

(And mea culpa)
 
Posted by maleveque (# 132) on :
 
Fucking fuckers who promise two weeks severance, then ask you to work one more week, then don't pay two weeks severance for FOUR fucking months. Then the check finally arrives and it's for ONE week and, icing on the cake, cherry on top, it isn't fucking SIGNED.
I was working for an old high school friend, part-time office help. Helping him out, helping me out. I thought. More fool me.
Anne L.
 
Posted by maleveque (# 132) on :
 
On top of that, the car needs $1,000 of repairs that have to be done. The pay owed would nearly cover that. Fuck.
- Anne L.
 
Posted by tessaB (# 8533) on :
 
Fucking church politics! 60th anniversary of daughter church. Been trying for a year to get vicar to agree something can be arranged to celebrate, finally decided last month we could have a service (well thanks for that, it is after all a Sunday [brick wall] ) followed by a bring and share lunch. But.....no delegation to organise it, so everyone assumes someone else is doing it. Why then would anyone assume my husband (who is chair of outreach committee should be in charge of inviting the old vicar. Particularly since said vicar and new vicar do not get on. Why is my husband getting it in the neck for not inviting someone he hasn't spoken to for six years and has no idea how to get hold of? Yeah, passed that poison chalice straight back!
 
Posted by Mad Cat (# 9104) on :
 
I got my letter from the shoulder people.

Did one of you bastards pray?

[Devil]
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
Mad Cat [Two face]

Fucking bloody earthquakes - the gift that keeps giving. So the drains are stuffed. The street is full of "Drain Surgeons" (it wasn't even fummy the first time guys) and they have a sucky maching that squeals which has set off my tinnitus.

Yeah, I know - it's a first world problem and it would be worse if they didn't fix them - but it's not only the machine that sucks.

Huia
 
Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Huia:
... they have a sucky maching that squeals which has set off my tinnitus.

Yeah, I know - it's a first world problem ...

Having had non-stop tinnitus for a couple of years now, I sometime feel like it's going to be a global problem when I finally explode, creating a giant crater in southern California and an ash cloud that alters the weather world-wide.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
22 years of tinnitus and counting. And now you don't have to wonder what inspired me to become a Hellhost.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH sinus infections. And mold stealing out from the open holes in 100 year old walls under repair, sneaking into my sinuses and creating havoc and mayhem there. And a freakin' overactive immune system that causes even the allergist to look at me all squiggle-eyed.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Additional advice for the same bloody line manager ~if you are going to lie to cover only working one day last week don't expect your frustrated "team" to back you up.
 
Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
The thread on my long running dental fucknuggetness has been transferred to oblivion but I need to scream about what is going on.

I finally got my tooth taken out last Friday. No sedation beyond taking a couple of valium to calm me down. I almost coped but it wasn't pleasant.

And now, just when I thought it was all over, I've developed a fucking dry socket which is even more painful then the original toothache. The dentist has put some horrible tasting gunk on the exposed bone but it hurts so badly I haven't slept in two days.

I thought it would all be over when the tooth was taken out and now I'm ready to jump off the nearest tall thing (which as I'm in the house at the moment is a table which will do no damage) to get rid of the pain and stop me lying in bed all night crying because it's so fucking bad.

I hate my teeth. I hate everything about teeth. I hate pain and I've run out of cope.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Had a dry socket after a tooth to be extracted got broken in half and removed after they had to drill holes in the pieces, insert screws into the holes and pull. Dry socket is nasty. [Votive] for you

But my call to hell is me this morning off the bike at a marked crosswalk and a truck and a car both swerve around in front of me. They almost sent me to hell as well. [Confused]
 
Posted by QLib (# 43) on :
 
Yeah, last night,in the rain, a car overtook me and then turned left across my path, so that I had to brake. I got the number, but the police aren't interested, of course. [Mad]
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by QLib:
Yeah, last night,in the rain, a car overtook me and then turned left across my path, so that I had to brake. I got the number, but the police aren't interested, of course. [Mad]

They prefer to wait until idiots like that actually kill someone, then they can say it's the sort of thing that could happen to everyone, the driver gets 3 points and £150 fine (if convicted at all) and we all get a lecture about magic polystyrene hats and hi-viz, like no-one has any obligation to actually look where they're fucking going.
 
Posted by Bene Gesserit (# 14718) on :
 
TICTH inconsiderate neighbours who have parties, starting – starting, mark you! – at five past sodding midnight with music at nightclub volumes. During the working week (for me, not for them). Still, at least this one didn’t involve one fast response paramedic, one ambulance, two cars full of police and one van full of even more police. That one was two weeks ago...
 
Posted by Qoheleth. (# 9265) on :
 
Two for the price of one from me, who seldom posts in Hell:

TICTH residents near the Royal United Hospital in Bath, who have vetoed an extension of the limited parking because of additional traffic. So having driven down the M4 to see my very seriously ill father, I have to queue 27 minutes until a space becomes vacant. [Mad] [Other narratives may exist, but I ain't interested]

Same week:
TICTH my line manager, who formally investigates me for Gross Misconduct on exaggerated grounds. Without warning, the letter drops onto the mat last Saturday. Not what I needed this week (see above). [Mad]
 
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on :
 
TICTH puppy mills. And people who unwittingly wind up with a dog from a puppy mill and advertize it for sale and get other people's hopes up that finally this is the dog for them and then, after a long drive to meet the dog, find out that it is not what it seemed to be and is beyond this first-time-dog-owner-wannabe's skill level or budget to have this dog come home with her.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Qoheleth.:
Two for the price of one from me, who seldom posts in Hell:

TICTH residents near the Royal United Hospital in Bath, who have vetoed an extension of the limited parking because of additional traffic. So having driven down the M4 to see my very seriously ill father, I have to queue 27 minutes until a space becomes vacant. [Mad] [Other narratives may exist, but I ain't interested]


That's Bath for you. Toytown*'s residents have been NIMBYs since at least 1970 when I went to school there.

*Bath residents are disparaging about every other damned town, especially since the residents of the poorer and more rundown districts of that city were safely rehoused well outside Bath.
 
Posted by Taliesin (# 14017) on :
 
Chive, if I ever get tooth pain-situation like yours, I swear to God I'm going to stand in A&E screaming and crying till someone gives me morphine. Pain relief exists, for fucks sake! It can't possibly be that expensive. Gas and air? What do they want to make you do?
Bastards.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH Vladimir Putin for saying that gays won't be persecuted at the Winter Olympics as long as they leave children alone.

[Mad]
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Oh. yeah, I heard about that. Seriously, fuck that guy.

[ 18. January 2014, 06:00: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
quote:
Originally posted by QLib:
Yeah, last night,in the rain, a car overtook me and then turned left across my path, so that I had to brake. I got the number, but the police aren't interested, of course. [Mad]

They prefer to wait until idiots like that actually kill someone, then they can say it's the sort of thing that could happen to everyone, the driver gets 3 points and £150 fine (if convicted at all) and we all get a lecture about magic polystyrene hats and hi-viz, like no-one has any obligation to actually look where they're fucking going.
I suspect the same thing would happen when a cyclist ignores the traffic lights at a pedestrian crossing and consequently knocks a pedestrian flying.

[ 18. January 2014, 07:41: Message edited by: Spike ]
 
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
TICTH parents who don't value education for their kids - we have a couple of these families in the village and there seems to be no effort on the part of the parents [and even {completely illiterate} grandparents!] to encourage the kids to get an education so the kids are often not in school.

Thankfully it is a tiny minority but it is still far too many!
 
Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
TICTH my evil teeth again. Gunk from the dentist fell off last night and it was nine hours before I could get to the emergency dentist to get more gunk. Nine hours of lying crying in pain despite having taken Tramadol.

I fear I have inadvertently disturbed the wrath of the tooth god.
 
Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
TICTH next door's cat. I'm building a rock garden, not the world's biggest litter tray, you furry bag of shit. Use the one in your house.

( [Votive] for Chive, if I'm allowed to do that here. One more flame in Hell shouldn't make much difference.)
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH Vladimir Putin for saying that gays won't be persecuted at the Winter Olympics as long as they leave children alone.

[Mad]

Must be his weird way of inviting straight perverts to molest children.
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
TICTH a well-known dark blue university that has absolutely no career progression or advice for senior technical staff, and having promoted total twats to positions of ridiculous authority where they can do meaningless "research" that pisses money (given by little old ladies to charities supposedly saving lives...) up the wall, then will do nothing about the impact their twattery has on other people.

The grammar in the above is probably worth at least a heck call, but sometimes you just have to have an inchoate blurt.

AG
 
Posted by Yorick (# 12169) on :
 
David Silvester. Nasty hateful homophobic religious bigot.
 
Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
I'm aware I'm turning this thread into all about poor little me but that cunt of a dentist who put the gunk in my mouth today can fuck off to the deepest darkest pit of hell. THE GUNK HAS FUCKING FALLEN OUT What did I do to cause this? I yawned. Now the pain is back and the emergency useless dentist is closed til tomorrow morning and if I go then I'll miss yet another day of work.

Fucking useless incompetent piece of shiteing cuntiefuckpig.
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
quote:
Originally posted by QLib:
Yeah, last night,in the rain, a car overtook me and then turned left across my path, so that I had to brake. I got the number, but the police aren't interested, of course. [Mad]

They prefer to wait until idiots like that actually kill someone, then they can say it's the sort of thing that could happen to everyone, the driver gets 3 points and £150 fine (if convicted at all) and we all get a lecture about magic polystyrene hats and hi-viz, like no-one has any obligation to actually look where they're fucking going.
I suspect the same thing would happen when a cyclist ignores the traffic lights at a pedestrian crossing and consequently knocks a pedestrian flying.
Point? Dangerous road usersare underprosecuted regardless of vehicle? Or are you trying to imply that because some cyclists are careless no cyclists have a right to complain about dangerous drivers? Even those of us who always observe red lights and never ride on pavements? Does this guilt by association apply to drivers as well? Some speed therefore they're all speeders?

You do know far more pedestrians are killed on pavements by motorists than cyclists, I trust?

[ 18. January 2014, 17:36: Message edited by: Karl: Liberal Backslider ]
 
Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH Vladimir Putin for saying that gays won't be persecuted at the Winter Olympics as long as they leave children alone.

[Mad]

Must be his weird way of inviting straight perverts to molest children.
You mean like, erm...
 
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
@ KLB - come on - you know it's about dangerous road users. And some of them are pedestrians.


@ Chive [Votive] [Votive] [Votive]

You have all my sympathy. Even a prayer. Would a tens machine help?
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by chive:
I'm aware I'm turning this thread into all about poor little me...

Fucking useless incompetent piece of shiteing cuntiefuckpig.

What saves you is that you are absolutely fucking GORGEOUS when you are angry. I believe the word is "phwooar!", right?
 
Posted by tessaB (# 8533) on :
 
TIC to uttermost reaches of H church members with a sentimental attachment to musical instruments that no-one can play.
Yes it was lovely having our old organist's son come and play today. Yes it brought back some lovely memories. No there is nothing wrong with the organ, apart from the one fact that for 51 weeks of the year it sits there like a great big lump of wood being neither use nor ornament because (and this is the important bit folks) we don't have a fucking organist .
We do however need the space it occupies so stop telling me all about whoever it was that used to play it and either find us a new organist or let us get rid of the bloody thing.


ETA Thank you, I now feel much better.

[ 19. January 2014, 18:50: Message edited by: tessaB ]
 
Posted by MarsmanTJ (# 8689) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by tessaB:
TIC to uttermost reaches of H church members with a sentimental attachment to musical instruments that no-one can play.
Yes it was lovely having our old organist's son come and play today. Yes it brought back some lovely memories. No there is nothing wrong with the organ, apart from the one fact that for 51 weeks of the year it sits there like a great big lump of wood being neither use nor ornament because (and this is the important bit folks) we don't have a fucking organist .
We do however need the space it occupies so stop telling me all about whoever it was that used to play it and either find us a new organist or let us get rid of the bloody thing.


ETA Thank you, I now feel much better.

I found a way around that at one church where I was the organist and the organ started to die. I didn't tell them about the cheap replacement options, I only told them about the expensive ones. I did, however, tell them about the digital pianos that were six thousand pounds less than the next cheapest option that I would consider... [Two face] [Two face]

On a church related note, however, TITCH preachers who say 'In conclusion' then go on for another ten minutes repeating themselves after their conclusion.
 
Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Yorick:
David Silvester. Nasty hateful homophobic religious bigot.

But he's right! Have you not heard the forecast?
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
^ That link doesn't appear to be working. At least, not for me.
 
Posted by Coffee Cup (# 13506) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
^ That link doesn't appear to be working. At least, not for me.

It worked for me, and is ace. Maybe try the non-mobile one? Unless soundcloud isn't Australia-friendly for (unknown) rights reasons?
 
Posted by John Holding (# 158) on :
 
Didn't work for me in Canada, either.

John
 
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Strangely it works okay here in India and the one that follows on is also worth a listen.
 
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
Nor in India. I think you and your fellow raj will just have to chortle to yourself.
 
Posted by Coffee Cup (# 13506) on :
 
My conclusion at this point is that it works if you're from the UK, even if you're in the US or India, and if it senses a non-uk passport - hooray for visas (visae?) - then it's a no go.
 
Posted by Jonah the Whale (# 1244) on :
 
Appropriately enough it works in other EU countries. Unless it's the passport sensing thing doing its trick.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Yes, okay, thank you for all the 'technical support'. You'll be no doubt thrilled to know that it works on my home computer but not the work PC, even though they run the same basic operating system and are located in the same city.

It's very funny by the way. So if it works, I recommend it. If not, then buy a new computer. [Razz]

And because it's funny, I'm not going to go all Hellhosty on anyone for a questionable link.
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by jacobsen:
@ KLB - come on - you know it's about dangerous road users. And some of them are pedestrians.



The whataboutery that tends to result from any point a cyclist dare make about lifethreatening bad driving does make one a little - defensive.
 
Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Coffee Cup:
My conclusion at this point is that it works if you're from the UK, even if you're in the US or India, and if it senses a non-uk passport - hooray for visas (visae?) - then it's a no go.

Works perfectly for me and I am in the UK.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
okay, minions, cut the discussion of the link crap. no one is taking a poll.
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
TICTH the dickhead in the car in front who decided that they needed to overtake Celtic Knotweed (on her pushbike) on the single track bridge out of the village, then got up their own arse and started hurling abuse when she held her line.

I hope you get shunted by a juggernaut doing the same.

AG
 
Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on :
 
TICTH the nice young doctor who decided, for reasons that were not explained to me, to change the medication that has worked well for several years and instead to prescribe me something else that is known to exacerbate depression. Despite the fact that my previous visit to the doctor had been to discuss my depression.

Being off for a couple of weeks when work is really busy is not going to improve my relationship with my boss.
 
Posted by Pearl B4 Swine (# 11451) on :
 
TICTH the riot-inciting weather people on line and TV & radio.
Yes, it's snowing, cold & headed for 0° and blowing. But for Crisssake, who thought up naming winter storms & giving them a psychopath personality? "Winter Storm Janus Targets Millions" Give. Me. A. Break.
 
Posted by Beethoven (# 114) on :
 
TICTH Migraines. That is all.

[ 21. January 2014, 13:21: Message edited by: Beethoven ]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Deep sympathy. Mine were never as utterly horrendous as I know they can be, but bad enough. (Now I only get occasional pretty fringes in the manner of Hildegarde von Bingen.)
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
TICTH mobile phones. This is the second time mine's decided to go and have an adventure somewhere without me. Someone's picked it up and turned it off: it's not ringing any more.

I have a basic sort of backup phone but I can't remember the number and can't find out how to get it, either. [brick wall]
 
Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :
 
I will second that, mine decided not to charge last night. So this morning I was faced with a dead phone. Unplugged it from the powersocket and replugged into another showed it was just sulking.

Jengie
 
Posted by Francophile (# 17838) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
I will second that, mine decided not to charge last night. So this morning I was faced with a dead phone. Unplugged it from the powersocket and replugged into another showed it was just sulking.

Jengie

Mine's been doing that. Sometimes it resolutely won't charge, other times it obliges. Can anyone explain the problem?
 
Posted by JonahMan (# 12126) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Francophile:
quote:
Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
I will second that, mine decided not to charge last night. So this morning I was faced with a dead phone. Unplugged it from the powersocket and replugged into another showed it was just sulking.

Jengie

Mine's been doing that. Sometimes it resolutely won't charge, other times it obliges. Can anyone explain the problem?
Do mobile phone companies make more money when

a) their phones last for ever and ever

or

b) their phones go wrong with reasonable frequency, not badly enough to make people want to give the things up altogether, but so that eventually they buy a new one?
 
Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH My Employers, who have decided that closing all branches at 6 pm due to the snow that is blizzarding down is "closing early". Thanks to my boss who is allowing me to leave at 5 so I have some chance of getting home at a reasonable hour tonight.
 
Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
I have a basic sort of backup phone but I can't remember the number and can't find out how to get it, either. [brick wall]

Call your landline from your mobile. 1471 the number.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Francophile:
quote:
Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
I will second that, mine decided not to charge last night. So this morning I was faced with a dead phone. Unplugged it from the powersocket and replugged into another showed it was just sulking.

Jengie

Mine's been doing that. Sometimes it resolutely won't charge, other times it obliges. Can anyone explain the problem?
Not going to answer this here, but......
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doc Tor:
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
I have a basic sort of backup phone but I can't remember the number and can't find out how to get it, either. [brick wall]

Call your landline from your mobile. 1471 the number.
It did dawn on me after I'd posted that. Too many very early mornings; though some phones used to list the number somewhere in the settings which is what I was hoping to find.
 
Posted by pydseybare (# 16184) on :
 
Today I consign to hell potential employers who lead you on through 3 interviews and weeks of headache before telling you that, actually, they don't want to employ someone who has been out of work for years looking after the children.

Which they knew from the very beginning.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
Where's John Waters when we need him so badly? (Not workplace friendly.)

[ 22. January 2014, 16:42: Message edited by: Amanda B. Reckondwythe ]
 
Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH who or whatever attempted to spam my e-mail account so badly that my ISP locked the account and changed the password, causing me to have to call them and find out what was going on and changing my password.
 
Posted by Macrina (# 8807) on :
 
TICTH the New Zealand Transport Agency for deciding it was appropriate at midnight and 3.30am to park a truck AT THE BOTTOM OF MY DRIVE ten metres from where I was sleeping that was so fucking loud the kid I went out to say 'WTF???????' to had ear defenders on. The kid, whose fault it was not, got off lightly. However I have sent an email expressing my opinion of NZTA to NZTA and politely suggesting they do something about that.
 
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
TICTH the weather in the Cotswolds which is resolutely refusing either to stop raining or to start snowing so that we can have a real bitch. But it will snow just when we have lowered our guard, and inconvenience us big style.
 
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
TICTH whatever crappy flu type virus is doing the round of our family. Yes, I'm bored of feeling ill now and would like to feel well so that I can look after the next member of the family who has just gone down with it.
 
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
TICTH T-Mobile in the UK and their system for topping up mobile broadband, apparently designed to make sure you can't.

I ran out of credit on my USB dongle that I use for church. So, following the links that their webpage directed me to, I set up an account so I could pay for the credit. OK, except the website was down, apparently, when I tried to login with the new account. "No problems," thought sweet, innocent, little me, "I'll top up by phone." Which I did, managing successfully to put £30 on my account. "Great, this should work now," thought still sweet, innocent little me. Except when I tried to use the internet, like I'd just paid £30 to do, it still took me to the "You need to top up screen", except it was also telling me I had £30 on my account, but didn't tell me how I could actually use that I tried pressing the "top up" button but it didn't work. I tried re-booting, thinking that my work. Nope: still took me to the "You need to top up screen", which now told me I had no credit on my dongle.

Eh? What? What happened to the £30 I just paid?

Oh, and the webste's still down and I'm stuck in a queue to speak to someone to find out what happened to the £30 - don't have time to spend in a queue.

Which means I'm now using my smartphone as a mobile modem (which buying a dongle was supposed to avoid) and I appear to have lost £30, which I can't afford to lose.

If this is how T-Mobile treat their customers, then they can fuck off and I'll go elsewhere... [Mad]
 
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
(Apologies for the double post...):

Sent an email to their customer services department via the form on their website and guess what?

quote:
Please accept our apologies, we are in the process of improving our e-mail service, and cannot deal with your e-mail enquiry at this time.
[Mad] [Mad] May all their mobiles gain sentience and rise up against them.
 
Posted by Left at the Altar (# 5077) on :
 
First world problem, dearie.

Websites do crash. You haven't lost your 30 quid. It will just take a day or so to process, due to technical difficulties.

That's life. 30 years ago, you wouldn't have had a dongle to use for church (god, 30 years ago, if you'd said dongle in church, you'd have been arrested). But if you had one and you wanted to top it up (another arrest), you'd have to queue up at the bank to get cash out of your passbook account, then queue up at your (non existent) dongle provider to pay up your account and then three days later, you could use your dongle again.

Just be happy you even have a dongle. Read your bible if you have nothing else to occupy you while you wait for your dongle top up.

[ 24. January 2014, 10:00: Message edited by: Left at the Altar ]
 
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
Well, gosh - I didn't realise there was a minimum threshold of seriousness before one could post in TICTH. I'll remember that in future, thanks for the tip-off...

Look, I'm hardly over-burdened with wealth at the moment (like a lot of people, I know) and am not exactly thrilled at £30 simply floating away into the ether either. It wouldn't be that bad if they were easily contactable to discuss the issue - but they're not. It's not just the website: it's pretty much every form of getting in touch with them being nigh-on impossible that's so. darned. frustrating.

And yeah, there are people with worst problems than mine. Much worse. Yesterday I was talking with one of the members of my church whose partner's just been diagnosed cancer but they can't do any more tests to see how far it's spread for another 2 weeks - that's hell, real hell. Compared to them, my problem is as nothing. I'm not so self-obsessed that I can't see that.

But, it's a pain in the arse, it's frustrating when I'd spent the best part of an hour (which should have been sermon preparing) trying to top the thing up, only for it all to go pear-shaped right at the death and it's even more frustrating that no one at T-Mobile will even acknowledge there's a problem.

And I do read my Bible. Regularly.
 
Posted by Left at the Altar (# 5077) on :
 
Good. I'm sure there's a passage in there somewhere to help you.

Sorry to trivialise your frustration. It would give me the shits too. But, you know, it could be worse. It'll blow over.

And hey, as a bonus, you got to snark at me. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
Aw, just listen to the poo' widdle sensitive flower. [Waterworks]
 
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
Good. I'm sure there's a passage in there somewhere to help you.

Sorry to trivialise your frustration. It would give me the shits too. But, you know, it could be worse. It'll blow over.

And hey, as a bonus, you got to snark at me. [Big Grin]

I know, I know... and yeah, apologies (am I allowed to do that here?) for the snark - just was glad no one walked by the office here when there was some very un-ministerial language being used when the money went missing...
 
Posted by Left at the Altar (# 5077) on :
 
I love a cussing clergyman.
 
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
TICTH earache. Just when I though this flu bug might be moving towards the exit I now have horrid pulsating painful earache which is making me feel nauseous.

I've really had enough of feeling crap now and would like to be able get on with life and do fun things, like, my tax return or something...
 
Posted by Stumbling Pilgrim (# 7637) on :
 
Stejjie, you should have a look at the Facebook pages of Tmobile and their associated companies. There's been no way to contact them by email for the best part of a year now, and the disappearing credit is a recurring theme. You are not alone! (says somebody who would have CTH one of their associates had the thread been available when they were depriving me of the use of a phone)
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
anyone else read or hear the word "dongle" and immediately picture a penis?

anyone? Bueller?
 
Posted by Lothlorien (# 4927) on :
 
TICTH the bank down here with the dragon.

Son has enough troubles without his old car being terminally ill. He needs it to get to Children's hospital where young daughter has leukaemia.

He has found one and agreed to buy it, to be collected Tuesday evening after long weekend down here for Australia Day.

I lent him enough to buy a reliable car and transferred the money as a direct deposit on Thursday. Nothing showed up yesterday so he rang bank. They told him holiday weekend messed things around and it might be there by Wednesday next week. So Mum gets no interest, he gets no interest? He asked if the dragon gobbled the interest? Silence on the phone.

I can see the little old man hobbling to my bank and slowly carrying the amount in hand to his bank. Actually the banks concerned are from the same family. Six days for a computer transaction to be accomplished? No way.
 
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
"Staying connected." When did that become such a great thing? I go out to get away from the phone, why would I want to take one with me?

Does anyone but a few professionals or chronically ill people really need a mobile? Throughout 34 years of marriage I've never once needed to call my husband at work, call anyone from the store, or call my mommy from school. Now we have a generation of kids so lacking in poise they can't make casual conversation, or even just sit and stare, in the waiting rooms, or cashier lines of life. No, they have to be on the phone with their friends all the time.

Last month, I experienced the dire occasion all my friends say is the reason they have a cell-phone. I had a minor car wreck. I managed to discuss the situation with the semi driver who took out my tail light and go on with life without calling anyone. If my car had been incapacitated, I'm sure the police would have either taken me home or called someone for me.

But owning cell-phones are my friends' decision and if they want to bother with them that's fine with me -- except-- now that they have the things they seem to think they must use it all day everyday.

I heard my landline ring at 7:30 this morning as I was stepping into the shower. As it was my day for detailing myself and the bathroom, I was in there for an hour and a half, rushing the whole time,as I worried about the call. The message was for my husband who had left at 7:00. It was Edna telling him she wouldn't be at this morning's choir practice. She mentioned she had already called the pastor. I expect she called everyone in the Choir and Praise Band. Just. because. she. could.

To Edna and most of the people on the other end of the majority of our calls, I would really like to say:
You could have not called.
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Twilight:
Now we have a generation of kids so lacking in poise they can't make casual conversation, or even just sit and stare, in the waiting rooms, or cashier lines of life. No, they have to be on the phone with their friends all the time.

Totally agree. The depressing thing is they mostly don't even talk to each other on these phones, it's text text text all the way. It's taken communication out of real time and added a layer of distance and virtuality to it.

The thing I really miss about not having my phone any more is the ease of being able to check the public transport travel situation when on the move. All else can usually wait until I get either to the office or home.

And TICTH the mobile phone company's pricing scheme. Apparently I can't just go in and buy a replacement handset for the one I lost and wait for the replacement sim card to arrive in the post. If I buy the handset in advance it will cost me £30 extra because I will have to buy it as a new phone instead of an upgrade, and have compulsory credit top-up.

[ 25. January 2014, 15:29: Message edited by: Ariel ]
 
Posted by ken (# 2460) on :
 
So how come its bad for kids to text each other but OK for us to post here? Same bloody thing it seems to me.

And who mainly uses phones to talk these days anyway? Text took over more than ten years ago.

Posted on my phone. From the pub.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by ken:
So how come its bad for kids to text each other but OK for us to post here?

Because we set all else aside, sit down at the computer, login, browse to the Ship and post -- like people used to set all else aside and sit down at the telephone, which rested on a special little table in a special little corner of the room, in days gone by. We don't carry the Ship around with us and post on it during all waking hours.

quote:
And who mainly uses phones to talk these days anyway? Text took over more than ten years ago.
I do. No it didn't.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Um, no - I read the Ship on my phone and occasionally post too on my commute. It's also when I catch up with e-mails.
 
Posted by Chocoholic (# 4655) on :
 
Don't start me on phone calls. No I do not want to claim for ppi mis selling. No I do not want to claim for injuries received in an accident, yes I am quite sure I didn't receive any, and leave off with that crap trying to persuade me I did and that if I don't claim it it'll just go to shareholders. I've told you not to call again, to leave me alone, to stop harassing me, I tell you that Choccie must have changed her number as I keep getting her calls, you still try.

So I don't answer unrecognised numbers, if you really know me you'll leave a message but the recurrent ringing/vibrating is still annoying sometimes several times a day. For goodness sake, you even got my mothers number and call her trying to track me down!

[ 25. January 2014, 20:30: Message edited by: Chocoholic ]
 
Posted by Beethoven (# 114) on :
 
TICTH this weekend. One car condemned, other car broke down on Friday, will be towed home to local garage tomorrow. Op 2 has leaking ear so is on antibiotics and as much paracetamol and ibuprofen as I can give her. Mr Beets unwell. And my sister finally has an official diagnosis, and it's upset me far more than I anticipated even though we knew this was coming. [Waterworks] [Waterworks] [Waterworks] Roll on Monday.
 
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
TICTH my computer AND Blackberry. Downloaded a program - recommended by the IT guru at work - which refuses to open and prevents me from booting up the desktop. Blackberry refusing to send or receive e-mails even though I've sorted (or have I?) the password thing. Fortunately I can do mails at work but this whole debacle* is a complete bugger.

* trans. Disaster
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
TICTH Mini-Stalin
 
Posted by cheesymarzipan (# 9442) on :
 
TICTH stupid information sharing cloud websites which we are forced to use because sending information by email is NOT GOOD ENOUGH for some people when you can create much more hassle for everyone with your stupid system.
How about I issue some drawings on paper for you instead - wrapped around a brick. Even finding the brick would take me less time than uploading to the stupid thing raarg
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH not car batteries, but car battery technicians who decide that your battery is fine and doesn't need replacing, because then you have to call for assistance again 6 hours later when your car isn't starting again.

Alternatively, TICTH second car battery technicians who tell you that your car battery is not fine (but the alternator is). One of you isn't competent, I suspect I know which one but I'm not yet 100% certain. Also, slight grumble that no.2 didn't have the right kind of replacement battery and has to call a 'battery van', but I'll give him credit for turning up quickly.
 
Posted by Alban (# 9047) on :
 
TITCH Redundancy by Proxy inc. A hearty fuck you, sorry, we haven't got enough work so we'll stand someone down. In the good old days, ie. last August, before you fired our competent supervisor and his colleagues quit like rats deserting the sinking ship you are now, if a low work situation happened you tried to share the work among those who were available. Not any more, oh no, stand Alban down. 2 months out of the last 5 paid, 1 of those our standard Christmas leave (because no-one in their right mind wouldn't tell a market researcher to fuck off during the festive season).
You give me the wrong date for the year restarting, meaning I don't get paid leave for the last week of no work, then just like last year, no fucking work. Then you have the gall to say I could pick up some evening work - only half the time I'd normally work and at a time of day I have other things to do. But needs must I guess, so "oh, just contact this guy", but don't tell Alban this man's on leave. And when I finally get that info out of you, you can't fit me into the shift while you're doing his job.
And fuck job hunting, too. I'm living off my other part time job (praise God for that at least) charity from family and a gas tank constantly on empty. If you don't want me, fire me, quit pissing me round pretending I have a job!
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by ken:
So how come its bad for kids to text each other but OK for us to post here? Same bloody thing it seems to me.

And who mainly uses phones to talk these days anyway? Text took over more than ten years ago.

Posted on my phone. From the pub.

"Oh noes! Some people conduct their lives differently to me! The sky will fall in! Downfall of western civilisation!
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Alban, do you have a case for constructive dismissal?
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by ken:

Posted on my phone. From the pub.

as always, blatantly obvious.
 
Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
No TICTH from me but just the absolute bliss of my ex tooth being fixed, the dry socket healed and no more pain. Sixteen dentist appointments (two of which were on one day - useless fucker of an emergency dentist), months of pain, prescriptions for morphine and tramadol, two weeks of not eating solid food and it's all over after six months of awfulness. Please God let the remainder of my teeth stay perfect forever.

/Please return to your regularly scheduled rants now.
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
I'm sure there's a thread somewhere in AS for that. [Biased]

(but big congrats anyway)
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Chive's tooth had its own special membership down here, so I'll allow it.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Well, we can always reframe it as " fuck you, dental distress, you haven't beat me yet, and you never will! [mad cackle]"
 
Posted by The Kat in the Hat (# 2557) on :
 
I am asked to send out invites to an event, rather than by post. I do so. I then discover that some people were missed, so I resend to all who have not yet replied, clearly stating that I was doing so to make sure they got the invitation and that a "read request" was also included - so I would know it had arrived.
Today I find that one person didn't get theirs, because I had the wrong email address - fair enough.
I decide to phone round all those who I haven't heard from, to check that the email had arrived. Lost count of the number who said "Oh yes I got that one". I could have really done without that waste of time [Mad]
The plus was a lovely conversation held with two different people who hadn't received it (can I also rant about people who don't understand about keeping databases up to date?) and were very grateful I had called.
 
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
Pokes head nervously round door...
Dips toe gingerly into the water...
Promises never to mix metaphors like that again...


Dog shit and the sheer amount of it around here. There's loads of the stuff on practically every stretch of pavement and it's just horrible. Especially when you're walking around with children and you're forever having to call "watch where you're stepping", pull them away from it, check their shoes for the yucky stuff etc.

If you're too lazy to clean up after your own dog then don't have one.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
TICTH fever dreams.
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
I'm with you Stejjie.

I'm helping out a mate by walking two dogs - so invested in a cheap pair of thinnish gloves just in case the bags broke when scooping up the s**t.

But the number of owners who don't pick it up.

In particular, I meet a dog walker with 6 (yes, really) pooches at one time: they all get taken to a particular patch of grass and HEAVE HO - s**t x 6. But the walker doesn't scoop, no, just a blithe "its biodegradeable" and off they go.

This in an AONB which attracts hundreds of walkers and bird-watchers year-round.

Bring back dog licences, sensibly priced and with metal tag to be attached to a collar: employ wardens equipped with machines to hoover the s**t up. And any animal found either collar-less or in a collar without the licence tag to be destroyed (Guide Dogs to be exempt, of course).
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
And if dogs need to be licensed and leashed (which I fully agree with), why not cats? Every day I find their poop in my planters, and yesterday was the second time recently that I found what was obviously cat vomit just outside my front door. This is MY property, keep your damned cats home and let them shit and puke at YOUR house. If they're truly pets, then treat them as such.
 
Posted by Patdys (# 9397) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
Chive's tooth had its own special membership down here, so I'll allow it.

I think the membership has been pulled. Chive, I am glad this saga is over for you.


And TICTH the heat, the drought and frigging water restrictions which have finally killed my beautiful huge canopied* claret ash tree which was why i live in this house.

*12 metres of our 14 metre wide block.
 
Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :
 
TICTH the idea that to love someone you need to be oblivious to their faults. Failing that you need to pretend they do not have any.

Jengie
 
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
And if dogs need to be licensed and leashed (which I fully agree with), why not cats? Every day I find their poop in my planters, and yesterday was the second time recently that I found what was obviously cat vomit just outside my front door. This is MY property, keep your damned cats home and let them shit and puke at YOUR house. If they're truly pets, then treat them as such.

Come down to earth, Pigwidgeon. You know, or should know, that cats go their own way. Which is why some people have dogs; they do as they are told, at least part of the time. And my cats shit in my garden and on my lawn, which is not nice. As JJ said, you can love someone while acknowledging their faults. But I am pleased (dare I say this in Hell?) that since I had a trellis fence erected to screen my back garden from the shared drive, neighburing cats seem to observe the boundary and stay outside!
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
Well, I've caught the neighbor's cats knocking down my bamboo plants to get around my trellis fence.

However the real villains are the occasional passing raccoon. One was tearing branches off my cherry tree to eat the cherries before heading across the fence to my neighbor's chicken coop for a snack.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
I blame the parents.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
I blame the parents.

I blame the people who call them "pets" but don't keep them indoors where they're safer, healthier, and don't bother the neighbors.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Yeah, do that and you might as well have a stuffed toy. You just don't get cats, do you? (I don't have one at the moment, BTW. I haven't worked out a sensible lifestyle sharing mechanism.)

I have a woodmouse in my garden - like her as she eats up the food the birds drop. But she can have several litters of several offspring a year. And each of the females could have several litters from just a short time from birth. I don't think I'd much like the world with no predation of small mammals in it.

Reminds me, I've got to go and work out a squirrel prevention system.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
I blame the parents.

I blame the people who call them "pets" but don't keep them indoors where they're safer, healthier, and don't bother the neighbors.
...I was making a joke about raccoons. What were you doing?
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
I blame the parents.

I blame the people who call them "pets" but don't keep them indoors where they're safer, healthier, and don't bother the neighbors.
...I was making a joke about raccoons. What were you doing?
I thought you were talking about destructive cats.

Raccoons are wild animals, no one pretends that they're pets -- and they're charming, funny, amazing animals. (Yes, I had them in my yard when I lived in another part of the country.)
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
Yeah, do that and you might as well have a stuffed toy.

If that's all the personality a cat has, I guess so.

quote:
You just don't get cats, do you?
NOPE!

I don't "get" pet tarantulas either, but if people choose to keep them, that's fine with me. They don't let them out to do their thing on my property.
 
Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
Cats belong inside. Anyone who thinks this limits their essential catness doesn't understand cats well at all.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Only one generation from a farm, me, where cats had jobs to do.

As in, in the Depression, there was nothing for my Nana to prepare for lunch, and she said so, out loud, and the cat brought in a rabbit! (My mother always read Puss in Boots in the light of that event.)

I have managed to prevent the neighbours' cats using my property. Various means, such as fixing, not too well, plastic trellis on top of the 6 ft fence. Making sure that there is no earth that looks like a latrine - I've got some trimmings from the bramble that could do the job if I'm sowing seeds later. Also lion poo from the garden centre*. I've used nettles in the past. I'm not sure what happened with the hairy grey - glaring at him led to looks back that suggested I didn't know my place, but all he wanted to do was sleep on the compost bin. Haven't seen him for a while - but the rest of them just got fed up with being disturbed every time they arrived, I think.
* This works by persuading them that you have a very big cat they don't want to meet, and your garden is his territory.
Mind you, round here there's plenty of communal spaces they can use without disturbing people.

And at least they don't bag up their excrement and leave it dangling off the trees. Burying it would be good, if only they would do it somewhere else.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
TICTH morons who imperil the TICTH thread.
Go the Fuck away, I value this thread.
 
Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
Seriously, discussion on the TICTH thread is bad enough, but discussion of cats, containing cats, cat shit? Don't make me stop this car, people.

RuthW
Temp Hellhost
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
TICTH indeterminate abdominal pain that wakes you up at 5am, lovely though the NHS direct lady was - "well, it might be an inflamed appendix but we don't do anything about that nowadays but if you get a temperature and start to feel dizzy call a doctor" is not exactly reassuring.
 
Posted by Mrs Shrew (# 8635) on :
 
TICTH having to chase people for replies to wedding invitations. They were all sent out by more than three weeks before the "please rsvp by" date of 1st Feb, with the longest travelling time ones sent first.
I included a handy online form for making it super easy if wanted (about seventy percent of replies have come through it so far).

WHY ARE PEOPLE MAKING THIS SO DIFFICULT? I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF THEY ARE COMING.

(I CTH especially uncles who don't reply, which is currently a 100% segment of the group.)
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
TICTH Dr Ian Oliver, whose sanctimonious voice has just been on Radio Scotland, talking about keeping children safe from drugs.

The same Dr Ian Oliver who led a spectacularly incompetent police "investigation" into the disappearance of Scott Simpson. Just because Scott's family were "known to social services" Dr Ian Oliver, self-advertised as a "Christian" decided that Scott must have run away. He dismissed all reports of Scott being approached in a playpark by a man.

And guess what? When Scott's body was found, the man who had abducted, abused and murdered him matched the description of the man seen by the witnesses approaching Scott in the playpark. And he was a known paedophile, and he lived in the same street as the play park that Scott was last seen in.

Meanwhile, it transpired that in between slagging off Scott's parents, and sneering at the witnesses, Ian Oliver had found time during his busy working day to meet up with a woman from his church to give her "pastoral advice" of the sort that involves standing very close together and snogging.

And now he has managed to re-invent himself and those of us who remember Scott Simpson's disappearance get to hear him on the radio.

I wouldn't normally lay flowers at the spot where a child's body was found, but I'll be walking past that spot later this week and I'm going to leave flowers.

R.I.P. Scott Simpson

[edited to remove one part of the post not included in the linked BBC articles ... scratch that, it's all in linked BBC articles]

[ 03. February 2014, 10:46: Message edited by: Alan Cresswell ]
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
Haemorrhoids. You wake up in the middle of the night feeling like someone is sodomising you with a chairleg and spend the day walking around feeling like Bishop Brennan, post arse kicking.

(NB I have never been sodomised by anything or anyone but I have a vivid imagination.)

And they also have such a bloody stupid spelling that you have to pause in your rant to look it up and check you've got it right.
 
Posted by Francophile (# 17838) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:
TICTH Dr Ian Oliver, whose sanctimonious voice has just been on Radio Scotland, talking about keeping children safe from drugs.

The same Dr Ian Oliver who led a spectacularly incompetent police "investigation" into the disappearance of Scott Simpson. Just because Scott's family were "known to social services" Dr Ian Oliver, self-advertised as a "Christian" decided that Scott must have run away. He dismissed all reports of Scott being approached in a playpark by a man.

And guess what? When Scott's body was found, the man who had abducted, abused and murdered him matched the description of the man seen by the witnesses approaching Scott in the playpark. And he was a known paedophile, and he lived in the same street as the play park that Scott was last seen in.

Meanwhile, it transpired that in between slagging off Scott's parents, and sneering at the witnesses, Ian Oliver had found time during his busy working day to have an affair with a married woman.

And now he has managed to re-invent himself and those of us who remember Scott Simpson's disappearance get to hear him on the radio.

I wouldn't normally lay flowers at the spot where a child's body was found, but I'll be walking past that spot later this week and I'm going to leave flowers.

R.I.P. Scott Simpson

This is libellous.

I happen to know Ian and he is a thoroughly decent man.

[ 03. February 2014, 10:44: Message edited by: Alan Cresswell ]
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
Which bit exactly do you think is libellous?

There is nothing in that post which hasn't already appeared in the official report and the newspaper coverage. Please point out any particular sentence which you think is libellous.

What I have posted does not differ from, for example,

this bbc report.
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
My first paragraph:
quote:
TICTH Dr Ian Oliver, whose sanctimonious voice has just been on Radio Scotland, talking about keeping children safe from drugs.
"Sanctimonious" is my opinion, but hardly libellous. The rest is fact.

My second paragraph:
quote:
The same Dr Ian Oliver who led a spectacularly incompetent police "investigation" into the disappearance of Scott Simpson.
"Incompetent" was the word used in the report by Deputy Chief Constable Graham Power.


quote:
Just because Scott's family were "known to social services" Dr Ian Oliver, self-advertised as a "Christian" decided that Scott must have run away. He dismissed all reports of Scott being approached in a playpark by a man.
This was local opinion at the time, based on the fact that it took 3 days (see official report) to interview the last people to see Scott alive, and who had seen Scott approached by the paedophile who killed him.. Have you any other explanation for the reason it took three days?

During those three days, Scott's parents, out of their minds with worry, issued their own poster, with the description of the man. The police "Have You Seen this Child" implied he had run away. No suggestion he'd been abducted.

Did you see those posters? Every last fucking shop the length of Great Northern Road and George Street had them in their window. I could weep. How many parents of missing children have to make their own fucking posters???
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
quote:
And guess what? When Scott's body was found, the man who had abducted, abused and murdered him matched the description of the man seen by the witnesses approaching Scott in the playpark. And he was a known paedophile, and he lived in the same street as the play park that Scott was last seen in.
This is incontrovertible fact. See the court case, conviction, independent report etc.
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
quote:
Meanwhile, it transpired that in between slagging off Scott's parents, and sneering at the witnesses, Ian Oliver had found time during his busy working day to meet up with a woman from his church to give her "pastoral advice" of the sort that involves standing very close together and snogging.
I'd have to go back to the newspapers to get the comments about the parents posters diverting attention away from the missing child hunt, by creating an "abduction" red herring. The force took three days to interview the witnesses, which is hardly treating them with respect - they felt their evidence was being sneered at.

The incident with the fellow church member is public knowledge. See, for example, this bbc report.
 
Posted by Alan Cresswell (# 31) on :
 
OK, I think that has established that there is plenty of material on the public record regarding Dr Olivers past conduct, supporting the original post by NEQ. I don't see any reason to post any more.

I'd thought about editing out some of one paragraph that the first two links didn't support. But, as the third does support that I've re-instated the original text.

I am not a lawyer, and the admins retain the right to edit it later should those within the H&As with more legal background deem it sensible.
 
Posted by pydseybare (# 16184) on :
 
I consign to hell all those who used the prayer-time in church yesterday to thank God that they didn't live in an area affected by flooding.

And also Christians Against Poverty, the Trussell Trust and other disgusting organisations of their ilk. And all the middle-class Christians who support them knee-jerk without thinking about whether their methods and theologies are actually something they want to support.
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
pydseybare

Agree - there is a touch of the "I thank God I'm not like other men" about it.

As for Christians Against Poverty: well, I doubt that anyone sane is actually for poverty - its just meaningless.
 
Posted by pydseybare (# 16184) on :
 
Christians Against Poverty have a new debt course which mixes evangelism (actual winning-souls-for-Jesus stuff) and debt management. I just think that is totally inappropriate.

Fair enough put on courses (or whatever else floats your boat) to try to win converts to your religious opinion. But this just takes the biscuit. And the tragic thing is that it is expanding rapidly within various Evangelical sectors (including, bizarrely, those whom the founders of CAP do not appear to count as Christians) with barely a word of protest.

There are better debt councilling models and better materials available for churches. But like the Trussell Trust, CAP seems to be in the process of becoming 'the' church response to debt problems.
 
Posted by Francophile (# 17838) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:
Which bit exactly do you think is libellous?

There is nothing in that post which hasn't already appeared in the official report and the newspaper coverage. Please point out any particular sentence which you think is libellous.

What I have posted does not differ from, for example,

this bbc report.

I suppose someone like you who slags off her own mother in public on an internet I forum isn't going to worry about a bit if libel of a man who has given his life to public service. How do you know the facts?
 
Posted by Siegfried (# 29) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Francophile:
quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:
Which bit exactly do you think is libellous?

There is nothing in that post which hasn't already appeared in the official report and the newspaper coverage. Please point out any particular sentence which you think is libellous.

What I have posted does not differ from, for example,

this bbc report.

I suppose someone like you who slags off her own mother in public on an internet I forum isn't going to worry about a bit if libel of a man who has given his life to public service. How do you know the facts?
Perhaps you are to close to the situation to be impartial. Step back, take a few breaths, then move along.
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by pydseybare:
There are better debt councilling models and better materials available for churches. But like the Trussell Trust, CAP seems to be in the process of becoming 'the' church response to debt problems.

Genuinely curious here: what do you have against the Trussell Trust? I only know of them through their food bank work and the fact that they upset Ian Duncan Smith by helping people he doesn't believe exist.
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lord Jestocost:
Genuinely curious here: what do you have against the Trussell Trust?...they upset Ian Duncan Smith

And for that alone they should be congratulated.
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Francophile:
quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:
Which bit exactly do you think is libellous?

There is nothing in that post which hasn't already appeared in the official report and the newspaper coverage. Please point out any particular sentence which you think is libellous.

What I have posted does not differ from, for example,

this bbc report.

I suppose someone like you who slags off her own mother in public on an internet I forum isn't going to worry about a bit if libel of a man who has given his life to public service. How do you know the facts?
a) I have linked to BBC reports which state the same facts.
b) I lived in the area at the time.

I asked you which parts of my rant were libellous; i.e. if you could identify any part as untrue, but you have not done so.
 
Posted by pydseybare (# 16184) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lord Jestocost:
Genuinely curious here: what do you have against the Trussell Trust? I only know of them through their food bank work and the fact that they upset Ian Duncan Smith by helping people he doesn't believe exist.

It is an utterly revolting industry created by Tory-supporting bastards which mascarades as Christian mission whilst actually doing very little more than taking money off local congregations.

You did ask.
 
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
Envisions the Trust covered in mascara. [Eek!]
 
Posted by Porridge (# 15405) on :
 
TICTH the agent of the owners of the building in which I live.

When he was first hired and I called about a drip under the sink, he informed me that "When people complain too much, I just evict them."

When the kitchen light stuck in the "on" position, I called. I called again. I removed the shade and took out the bulb. I called again. I called again. I called again. And so on. A year and a half later, the light got replaced, and now it's starting to stick just like the old one.

More than two years ago, my doorbell began ringing incessantly due to a nearby lightning strike in a bad storm. I took off the cover and loosened some wires to stop the ringing, but it has been emitting a low-level buzz ever since. I've called about it, and called, and called, and called. Last Friday, I got home (after hours, of course), and the low-level buzz had ratcheted up to an ear-splitting shriek. I called. I called again. As the hours passed(while wondering how the hell I would get any sleep that night, as the doorbell is right across the hall from the bedroom), I began fiddling with the bell-box again, managing to reduce the shriek back to its previous low-level buzz.

I called again to cancel the earlier request for help. Agent hung up on me. Fuck him.
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by pydseybare:
It is an utterly revolting industry created by Tory-supporting bastards which mascarades as Christian mission whilst actually doing very little more than taking money off local congregations.

You did ask.

I did. We must agree to disagree.
 
Posted by Raptor Eye (# 16649) on :
 
TICTH the inverse snobbery of the people who seem to spend their time hating whoever they have decided is 'middle class' or 'upper class,' slagging off any good they try to do, often accusing them of condescending attitudes, and who seem to resent the fact that they exist at all.
 
Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
Host hat on

If you think something is worth discussing, start a thread for it. Stop having conversations on this thread. Now.

RuthW
Temp Hellhost
 
Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on :
 
Bob Crow
 
Posted by Mockingale (# 16599) on :
 
TICTH...

The saved search history feature on iOS Safari which caused my wife to find out that I googled "Why is my wife a nag?" on my personal iPad several weeks ago. [Waterworks]
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
Bwahaha! AWESOME!

*ahem* let this be a lesson to you.

that was fantastic.
 
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
Mockingale? Mockingwife, more likely. Try the delete button next time.
 
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
Speaking of delete:

TICTH lingering colds that come and go as they please. And mostly stay. May they fucking erase themselves and never be found again!!
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Wesley J:
Speaking of delete:

TICTH lingering colds that come and go as they please. And mostly stay. May they fucking erase themselves and never be found again!!

Seconded.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Anglican't:
Bob Crow

Boris Johnson!
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by leo:
quote:
Originally posted by Anglican't:
Bob Crow

Boris Johnson!
Boris Johnson promised to keep ticket offices open as part of his election manifesto, so the lying bastard has brought this on himself.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Flat tire on bike at -30°C. & cold hands. & delay. & ignorant comments from stupid people about it all. Hate the hateful feelings too. I am a mess! And I hate being a mess!
 
Posted by Japes (# 5358) on :
 
TICTH my doctor's surgery.

If you require proof of ID, and proof I live where I say I live, which has not changed in the four years I've been registered with you, you need to say so in the letter you sent out asking me to confirm address and phone number. The phone number's not changed, either, just whilst we're on the subject.

I had to read the letter over the phone three times before you would accept I was only doing what you asked me to do. "Please return the slip at the bottom of the letter, OR phone the surgery to confirm your details with us." No mention whatsoever of enough ID to get my next DBS (Disclosure and Barring Services) check done, something I didn't think was a requirement for being a patient on a doctor's list. I mean, I expect all of that for my job with vulnerable teenagers and young adults, but just to confirm my address and phone number?!?!

Still, if I discover in a months time you've decided to remove me from your lists for being "difficult", (I've made exactly three appointments in four years, and it was a nightmare to get those.) maybe it's a Sign I should register elsewhere.
 
Posted by Amos (# 44) on :
 
TICTH

Francophile.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
Amos, suck it up and get him his own goddamn thread. Don't be lazy. you are capable of so much more than that.
 
Posted by Francophile (# 17838) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Amos:
TICTH

Francophile.

Titchy Amos. So fucking childish.
 
Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on :
 
After my 30 minute commute turned into a 2¼ hour one, including a nearly 90 minute walk that appears to have given me a cold, I call Bob Crow to Hell again.
 
Posted by ken (# 2460) on :
 
What, so he can preach to the mayor and cronies whose fault this is?
 
Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by ken:
What, so he can preach to the mayor and cronies whose fault this is?

I'll let Crow admit his fault before he goes down.
 
Posted by ken (# 2460) on :
 
The weather itself seems to have come out in sympathy with the strikers.

As does the signalling infrastructure in most of south-east London and the adjoining suburbs [Smile]
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
CIGNA (for those who don't know, a US health insurance provider).

Dear CIGNA: Thanks for the nifty 2014 calendar, sent the second week in February, filled with nifty little tidbits of advice about what to eat, how to exercise, how to dress, etc. to stay healthy.

You can assume, can't you, that by the first week of February most of us have already bought our 2014 calendars. You can also assume that most of us know what we should be eating and drinking, what exercise we should be taking (I get all the exercise I need attending funerals of people who exercised, thank you), and what to wear when we go outdoors.

Why don't you take the money you spend on having the silly calendar produced and mailed, and give it instead to the health care providers we've used for services they've rendered. Maybe then you could charge lower premiums.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Anglican't:
quote:
Originally posted by ken:
What, so he can preach to the mayor and cronies whose fault this is?

I'll let Crow admit his fault before he goes down.
If defending your members' interests is a fault, then TICTH Bob Crow.

(btw, when virtually everything stopped in London for a couple of days in summer 1989 I walked to Camden fom Greenford. That was a bit over three hours. Suck it up)

[ 05. February 2014, 15:41: Message edited by: Sioni Sais ]
 
Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
TICTH the police who decided to use the big red battering ram to smash in next door's front door at half five this morning then shout a lot and run around the house leaving me literally terrified. I thought they were coming in my door.

I don't know what next door have done - they've always been polite and pleasant to me but I didn't realise how scary these raids were and it wasn't even my house.

And ICTH the PTSD that now has me jumping terrified every time anyone walks past the door.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Lawyers and courts who think they are kings and queens. They are not, and a well stated argument is not the same as something (a) true (b) ethical. May you fall headlong and your bowels burst open and jackals eat them in front of you (I know it says several places not to add to bible verses, so I consider I'm writing a new one).
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
all you asshats with the retention of a gnat on coke - you wanna have a conversation about transportation(?) and crows and whatever, get your own thread. one more tangent and TICTH gets it.
 
Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH the way that e-mail from a certain webmail provider seems to be unable to be received by my e-mail server. Since someone very important to me regularly uses the provider that can't be received, this is very upsetting and frustrating.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
TICTH Visible masses of liquid droplets and frozen crystals made of water. Proof positive Nature is a Mother.
Two days ago, the air was heavy with fog, no use looking for the sunset. Except by sunset the fog had lifted and I noticed just in time to see the last trace of colour fade from the sky.
Yesterday, beautiful clouds everywhere. Planned where to be when the sun should be at good angle only to have the clouds dissipate behind the sun.
Today, very few clouds, so essential shopping it was. As I exited the shops, clouds had come from NOWHERE to form on the horizon. Beautiful oranges, golds and purples, fading to nothing before I could take advantage.
ARRRRRRGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
 
Posted by Bene Gesserit (# 14718) on :
 
TICTH anxiety. Shit it.
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
My bloody central heating, which has decided to break down just as it gets cold AGAIN.
 
Posted by birdie (# 2173) on :
 
TICTH the whole business of houses and their maintenance. Specifically, ICTH: letting agents who have let both us and our tenants down badly, the previous owner of this house, the building inspector who signed off the building regs approval on the extension the previous owner built despite there being no sodding damp proof course, and the whole system of backhanders and little brown envelopes which mean this surprises nobody.

All I want is a house which keeps the weather out.
 
Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :
 
TITCH the idiot whose bright idea is to ring people up at random and ask if they have had an accident or industrial injury!

So far two calls one of which claimed that I had worked in industry (no, NHS and Universities only) and another that I had had a bump (I do not own a car).

Total inefficient timewasters. Not effective as marketing (not based on any real data so random) and a good way to annoy people.

Jengie
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
TICTH my subscapular muscles. (No, I didn't think about them much either until they hurt).

Ow ow ow ow ow ow.

Ow. [Razz]

When are the holidays again? (the blocked muscles are due to excessive tiredness)
 
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
TICTH colds - especially those that leave you with a dripping nose and a head full of cement
 
Posted by David (# 3) on :
 
Gout, you complete bastard.
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
The sony ereader and it's interface with the library system here - and Amazon for only allowing the kindle Fire to connect with the system.

When I rule the world it will be different!

Huia - technopeasant*

* thanks Pete
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
The charmers who took my grand-daughter's bike from the back garden as we were busy putting the flood boards across the front of the house.

Bas***ds.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
People who park outside my front window with their engine running, pumping out noxious fumes - and with their windows open and a loud radio blaring out crap music.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by leo:
People who park outside my front window with their engine running, pumping out noxious fumes - and with their windows open and a loud radio blaring out crap music.

If you lived in Florida you could shoot them.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
It should be a capital offense everywhere.
 
Posted by Bishops Finger (# 5430) on :
 
TICTH the foul-mouthed and aggressive young harridan who lives opposite our church hall, and persists in parking on our very limited off-street parking spaces, to the detriment of church/hall/Nursery/Scout HQ users.

Apparently, she's lived in her parents' house (lucky them) for 27 f***ing years, and this therefore entitles her to tell our Vicar's wife (amongst others) that she can park where she f***ing well likes.

What a miserable and wasted life - nothing to show for 27 years but a pathetically limited use of Saxon(?).

Mwahahahahahaha......a combination of new parking restrictions and nicely lockable posts, together with an equally nice £70 fine for violation, may well make her re-evaluate her priorities.

Sad little bitch.

Ian J.
 
Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH some people I work with. Bitches.
 
Posted by Taliesin (# 14017) on :
 
TICTH the virus I can't shake off. It looked like a cold,I no longer have blocked noise, why still the other symptoms???? Rhetorical question, promise.
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
TICTH my subscapular muscles. (No, I didn't think about them much either until they hurt).

Ow ow ow ow ow ow.

Ow. [Razz]

When are the holidays again? (the blocked muscles are due to excessive tiredness)

Oh my, yes. I second this. Mine are getting slowly better with some exercises which basically involve lying on a mat with the tiniest weight available in my hand and doing what looks like a trivially simple shoulder rotation exercise. I find it so challenging that I always discover I'm doing something dicky with the other arm, in some kind of sympathy movement...
 
Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
TICTH fucking broken ankle during the worst fucking winter we've had in 30 years. Fuck.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
Supermarkets selling St. Valentine's Day roses.

According to this, those whop pick them in Nigeria get paid £1 per day and have to pick two roses every second.

Because of all the chemicals, the workers have blisters.

And it's bad for the environment.
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
Leo, you should boycott them, if you get any.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We cook for each other instead.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
Leo, you should boycott them, if you get any.

Maybe the bish will send you some roses. Just ask him if they were fairly traded.

Happy Valetnines! x
 
Posted by Keren-Happuch (# 9818) on :
 
TICTH the IEB, Norfolk County Council and the Department for Education. For why, see sig.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kyzyl:
TICTH fucking broken ankle during the worst fucking winter we've had in 30 years. Fuck.

It was that golden retriever making a rush for the door, wasn't it?
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
TICTH people who think they know things they cannot possibly know. Like what heaven will be like. The person who wants to talk about "going to a better place", "gone home", "gone to be with Jesus/God/whatever". To hell with all of you! Because my heaven will have people who live their lives like they do now.

And don't tell me about "eternal peace" either. In heaven, I expect there to be beer, loud music, singing along, bottle smashing, gratuitous nudity, endless laughter and other ridiculous carrying on. We can do the effing peace thing in the morning because we won't be hung over, 'cause it's freaking heaven right.
 
Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
quote:
Originally posted by Kyzyl:
TICTH fucking broken ankle during the worst fucking winter we've had in 30 years. Fuck.

It was that golden retriever making a rush for the door, wasn't it?
Close, pretty damn close.
 
Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
TICTH my big mouth.

My supervisor: I'm a bit of a control freak. But at least I get things done.

Me: I'm an agent of chaos.

#whatnottosaytoyournewboss
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
TICTH people who think they know things they cannot possibly know. Like what heaven will be like. The person who wants to talk about "going to a better place", "gone home", "gone to be with Jesus/God/whatever". To hell with all of you! Because my heaven will have people who live their lives like they do now.

And don't tell me about "eternal peace" either. In heaven, I expect there to be beer, loud music, singing along, bottle smashing, gratuitous nudity, endless laughter and other ridiculous carrying on. We can do the effing peace thing in the morning because we won't be hung over, 'cause it's freaking heaven right.

You've been reading Purgatory threads again, haven't you. I tell you, no good will come of it.

Note to hosts: please treat this as an economical alternative to at least three Calls to Hell.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Keren-Happuch:
TICTH the IEB, Norfolk County Council and the Department for Education. For why, see sig.

And the Academy Trust that did manage to get its thieving hands on the junior school I used to teach at, has wangled experienced staff out to replace with cheaper (including the one who kept the place running as acting deputy head during a long interregnum), reduced the number of classes so that the children are in larger mixed age ones, and, which has got me into this place, decided to make all the long serving loyal midday supervisors redundant at Easter. The work to be done by the teaching assistants whose work running clubs at lunch time was praised by Ofsted. They are apparently currently advertising for a Vice Principal at a large salary. (So why was the deputy head redundant?)

They are very pleased with themselves - latest Ofsted "requiring improvement". All the time I taught there - no connection at all - it was a really good school. It collapsed a couple of years afterwards when parental pressures* were put on the head who felt it necessary to move elsewhere. *Bad behaviour not politicking.

Best of luck with keeping them off your school.
 
Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :
 
TICTH the b***h who is hurting my son and his boys [Mad]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH West Dunbartonshire Council for this idea of disabled access to a house.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Assholes.
 
Posted by pydseybare (# 16184) on :
 
TICTH people who use prayer time in church as a political platform to claim that the current weather-related problems are associated with gay marriage.

I mean, really.
 
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
They didn't even get it right. All weather related problems are Al Gore's fault.
 
Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH the exigencies of fate. [Waterworks]
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by pydseybare:
TICTH people who use prayer time in church as a political platform to claim that the current weather-related problems are associated with gay marriage.

I mean, really.

The odd thing here is that Kelly responded to this before you posted.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Least it's not a drought.
 
Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
No kidding. You know it's bad when Californians are bitching because there's been too much sunny weather.
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by RuthW:
No kidding. You know it's bad when Californians are bitching because there's been too much sunny weather.

Not enough gay couples in LA.

But anyway TICTH the stupid laws that say a nurse isn't allowed to give food to a dementia patient when she says she's had enough - even though she's losing weight at a dangerous rate and isn't easting at all. My wife feeds my mother in law ignoring the "I've had enough", by just waiting for a few seconds then holding the spoon to her mouth. She fucking eats it! But the nurses are not allowed to do that - in the name of "personal dignity".


Bollocks. It's not dignity at all when the patient faints from lack of food.

I'm not blamimg the nurses, just the ridiculous policies.
 
Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH vomiting. [Projectile] Yup it was just like that. [Frown]
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Too bad you can't customize the color.
 
Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on :
 
TICTH the SCM evangelicals (yes they exist!) getting me to sing worship songs and enjoy them, and then actually choosing to listen to a Soul Survivor album for pleasure. Bollocks.
 
Posted by argona (# 14037) on :
 
TICTH the sudden blur of Lycra, roughly two feet from my nose, that was a cyclist swinging without warning into the side road I was crossing. You had seen me? You have razor-sharp judgement so there was no danger? Fuck off. You scared the living daylights out of me.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
Couriers who stick a card through your letter box saying that 'we called but you were out....' without having rung the doorbell first.

And you phone them and discover that you are expected to collect a heavy parcel from a depot which is 50 minutes bus journey either way.
 
Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
ICTH this stoopid cold. Bleahh.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
My satnav. I'm trying to download updates. I'm sat here, holding the plug in the socket. The device says I'm connected. The computer doesn't think so. There's a circle symbol going round and round and nothing happening. If I let my grip relax a moment, it truly disconnects. (I've tried a different lead - no better.)
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
And the car tyre company I went to last week with an odd slow puncture - when it happened, it was quick, but it only did it when stationary - in different places, so it's not vandalism - and not every time it was stationary. £15 for resealing the tyre to the alloys. Lovely. Only it went on doing the same thing, and this time it's a cut in the inner rim wall and £85 for a new tyre. And of course I couldn't prove that it wasn't the cut last week, and the woman at the counter insisted that the two faults produce exactly the same symptoms, and it's just coincidence that the one followed the other. I would have quite liked a discount of £15 for the misdiagnosis last week.
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
Being fucking completely and absolutely stone deaf!

Two bastard weeks ago I picked up an ear infection which sent me deaf.

A week last Sunday the pain in my left ear was really bad and it eventually perforated.

Went to the nurse at our local surgery who gave me antibiotics. The infection seems to have gone, but I'm still deaf as a post.

Got to go back to nurse on Monday.

I hate ear problems. I've had them on and off since I was a kid. I had operations on them and now my eardrums are pretty scarred, which means I have a low hearing level anyway. But this is now pissing me off.
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
and one more for good luck! I must be Mr Angry today!!!

TICTH the unmitigated prick, the brain-dead filter-feeding bi-valve, the complete and utter twat who decided to rename a “form” into a “toolkit”!

Who decided it was necessary to rename a simple form, a checklist of questions, into an “Assessment of Nursing Care Needs TOOLKIT”.

Tosser.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH the fools at my old work. Today I learnt that pretty much everybody of golden skills and high repute who has supposedly left there for greener pastures in the last few years was in fact fired and frogs-marched to the door just as I was.

On the other hand, I now feel much better about my own firing. It's getting to be a case of "They haven't fired you yet. What's wrong with you?" [Devil]

Oh, and my dear, dear old boss Z has just lost the entire division at one swell foop. X quit, a week later he fired me, and now Y (the only remaining one) has announced his early retirement, leaving nobody to carry on. And Z never bothered to learn what our division actually does, so he can't carry on without us. Bye bye, institutional knowledge. Bye bye experience. Hello "Man, you lost a whole division in two weeks. Would you care to explain your long-range goals to HR?"
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
deano - I feel for you.
I'm currently spending a week putting olive oil in four times a day preparatory to being syringed next week - and I know it isn't wax, or an infection, I know it is now lost high frequency hair cells and I need an aid. Because the very cheap gadget I got from a catalogue corrects the things.
Time to heat it up again.
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Commuting which has become even more fun thanks to flooded railway lines. I'm getting a bit sick of doing the Platform Sprint. You know, the one where you adopt a strategic position by the doors of the train as you're just arriving into the station, then go for gold through tourists and over luggage up the stairs, across the bridge and up the stairs to try to squeeze into an overcrowded train just as the doors are closing.

And sick of seeing destination boards promising a train that is suddenly 7-8 minutes later. For the next 45 minutes. When there are no seats left in the station where you can wait, except outside on a metal bench in cold rainy weather.

[ 19. February 2014, 19:10: Message edited by: Ariel ]
 
Posted by Porridge (# 15405) on :
 
TICTH weather alert systems. Two days in a row now I have slogged through rain-sleet-snow-dark-of-night like the Post Office to multiple meetings-hearings-continuing education etc. only to be informed upon arrival that whatever I've arrived for has been CANCELED due to weather, despite my taking pains to check before setting out that said meeting-hearing-continuing-ed thingy is going to be held.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH human resources of my old job, which has just called me (waking me out of a needed nap), ostensibly "to see if you have any questions?" But really to find out if I'm suing their asses. My refusal to return their freakin' legal form before the very last minute is making them... uneasy. Good.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH human resources of my old job, which has just called me (waking me out of a needed nap), ostensibly "to see if you have any questions?" But really to find out if I'm suing their asses. My refusal to return their freakin' legal form before the very last minute is making them... uneasy. Good.
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
Deano, Toolkits are only the opening wedge. The Hospital I go to for some medical treatment always has surveys to fill out. if it's a special week you can be asked to fill out 5 surveys as you shuttle from office to office and then they mail you more.

Still, I think it will be hard to top the worst form I got as a patient. It was for an experimental cancer treatment and was two pages, both sides with name, address, insurance and medical history. The last half of the back page was neatly labelled "Cause of Death". I told the clerk that if they killed me they would have to do the paperwork themselves.
 
Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
Once again,TICTH fate or luck or whatever the fuck it is that's screwing up my life now. It's no fucking fair, is what it is. [Waterworks]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Oh for goodness' sake. This week I've already had both a motoring association and a supermarket chain trying to sell life insurance and income protection. Today the national postal service is trying to sell me car insurance!

How about you put your energies into being good at the business you're actually supposed to be in, you morons!
 
Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
TICTH insensitive people who think it's appropriate to inform you of the death of someone you loved by text. A five minute phone call would be a problem?
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by chive:
TICTH insensitive people who think it's appropriate to inform you of the death of someone you loved by text.

But I've never loved anyone by text. E-mail, perhaps.

[Miss Amanda will get her wrap.]
 
Posted by pydseybare (# 16184) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
But I've never loved anyone by text. E-mail, perhaps.

[Miss Amanda will get her wrap.]

Not funny and in extremely poor taste.
 
Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by pydseybare:
quote:
Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
But I've never loved anyone by text. E-mail, perhaps.

[Miss Amanda will get her wrap.]

Not funny and in extremely poor taste.
In poor taste maybe, funny definitely. Thankyou Ms Amanda [Big Grin]
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
Today, I condemn to hell viruses. Particularly those which bung up your head, make your joints feel 50 years older than they are and yet force you to run to the loo lest the erupting tidal wave be intercepted by your trousers.

I'm also none too chuffed with the car driver who knocked over my colleague while he was cycling home from work last night.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by pydseybare:
Not funny and in extremely poor taste.

Up to the usual standards of Hell, then?
 
Posted by Taliesin (# 14017) on :
 
TICTH people who claim to channel the thoughts and wishes of the dead. You are all complete bastards.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
The Most Revd John J. Meyers, Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, for helping himself to millions of dollars from the Archdiocese's coffers in order to renovate his vacation home (not the archbishop's residence, mind you, but his vacation home) while closing schools for lack of funds.
 
Posted by roybart (# 17357) on :
 
I especially enjoyed the way this truly despicable prelate insists upon being addressed ad "Your Grace."
 
Posted by Jemima the 9th (# 15106) on :
 
TICTH anxiety. Stupid, paralysing, waste-of-bloody-time-making anxiety. May it fuck off to the far side of fuck, and then fuck off a bit more.
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
The Archbishop is also noted for his deft handling of the Newark Priest Scandal.
 
Posted by Stercus Tauri (# 16668) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
TICTH human resources of my old job, which has just called me (waking me out of a needed nap), ostensibly "to see if you have any questions?" But really to find out if I'm suing their asses. My refusal to return their freakin' legal form before the very last minute is making them... uneasy. Good.

A few years ago, just after I was shown the door, I had a grovelling e-mail asking for the password to a sensitive document I'd prepared. It was pleasant to be able to tell him "2buggeroff". He didn't even thank me.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
[Snigger]
 
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
TICTH Ted Nugent, singer, gun activist, hate filled, despicable racist who recently called President Obama a "sub-human mongrel," and announced to a crowd in Charleston, West Virginia that if Obama was still in office next year he himself would either be dead or in jail.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Twilight:
if Obama was still in office next year he himself would either be dead or in jail.

that would be a bonus.
 
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
Tut.

Edited on the realisation that Comet was not wishing Obama ill. I know, read for comprehension... [Ultra confused]

[ 25. February 2014, 09:37: Message edited by: jacobsen ]
 
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
Jacobsen--

Yeah, I was confused at first, too.
 
Posted by Majorminor (# 17967) on :
 
TICTH the Student Loans Company for not giving my son any money since September, despite them having had the information they swear blind not have, for the previous 3 years' applications. 'Could I speak with your supervisor?' 'There's no-one here at the moment.'
Now there's a surprise. Am angry.... [Mad]
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
Insurance companies and their forms. Renewing insurance since the quakes is so complicated.

I have an A5 sized 23 page booklet, an A4 18 page booklet, 9 seperate A4 sized pages and a website to visit.

I am fast losing the desire to live.

Huia
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by jacobsen:
Tut.

Edited on the realisation that Comet was not wishing Obama ill. I know, read for comprehension... [Ultra confused]

whoops, sorry. No, love me some Obama. Nugent can kiss my ass.
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
quote:
Originally posted by jacobsen:
Tut.

Edited on the realisation that Comet was not wishing Obama ill. I know, read for comprehension... [Ultra confused]

whoops, sorry. No, love me some Obama. Nugent can kiss my ass.
Hee. Taking two on eh?
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
nice to know some things never change. you're still an immature idiot.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
-44°C yesterday morning, and frostbite on my cheek again! And thanks awfully much for warming up to -36°C today. And the groundhog, I am putting you on a stick and roasting you to death. I have no idea how many weeks of freaking winter you predicted but I want you to feel pain for even being involved with the weather you bastard.
 
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
He did not seek his gift and sometimes finds the burden heavy.
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Twilight:
He did not seek his gift and sometimes finds the burden heavy.

That is way too cute for Hell. [Axe murder]
 
Posted by MarsmanTJ (# 8689) on :
 
Business VAT codes and registering for ordering things. I just want to get this equipment ordered, and a three day wait to have our VAT number validated is not doing my temper (or my boss's) any good at all...
 
Posted by Japes (# 5358) on :
 
TICTH the idiot who drove on to the pavement directly in front of me and the visually impaired young person I was guiding.

This particular pavement is wide enough for two people only. We're perfectly used to adjusting how we are walking to allow other people to go past us, and most sensible people note young person is carrying a white mobility cane, and wears protective dark glasses and give us plenty of room.

Not this driver, oh no, it was a case of "I'll be gone in a minute, can't you cross over to the other pavement?"

Presence of young person (and other young people ahead of us) prevented my full, frank and honest opinion of this as I observed driver cross the road.. where the pavement is wide enough for him to park on the pavement, and let me and visually impaired young person pass with no problem.

Young person commented he could hear me thinking my full, frank and honest opinion after I'd reminded driver it was still illegal to park on pavements.
 
Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on :
 
TICTH my boss, who apparently thinks he knows better than my doctor when I am fit for work and so can ignore the sick note. [Mad]
 
Posted by Rev per Minute (# 69) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by JoannaP:
TICTH my boss, who apparently thinks he knows better than my doctor when I am fit for work and so can ignore the sick note. [Mad]

That appears to be standard approach nowadays, as 'back to work' interviews are required by many places. What use they are - 'Are you better today? Good' - I don't know, but it keeps HR busy [Mad]
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
A friend suffered a late miscarriage at 21 weeks - baby had died and had to be pushed out the usual way. To cut long (horror) story short, she ended up having the last rites at one stage.

Back home 3 days later the first call was from her employer asking when she was going back to work.

Employer? An RC Archdiocese [Mad]
 
Posted by Bob Two-Owls (# 9680) on :
 
TICTH employers who make assumptions based on the limited information they allow you to give to them. I phoned up for feedback on an application that was rejected after they had asked for futher details and a full CV, they said that they don't employ people who have lost their driving license. I replied that I have a visual impairment which means that I have never been able to drive and that I had put that information in a covering letter. They admitted that they had not read the covering letter and only saw the check box for "current driving licence - yes/no". They also admitted that they used it as a screening criteria despite the job not requiring any driving and that other than this I would have been ideal for the job.

Bastards.
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Bob Two-Owls:
TICTH employers who make assumptions based on the limited information they allow you to give to them. I phoned up for feedback on an application that was rejected after they had asked for futher details and a full CV, they said that they don't employ people who have lost their driving license. I replied that I have a visual impairment which means that I have never been able to drive and that I had put that information in a covering letter. They admitted that they had not read the covering letter and only saw the check box for "current driving licence - yes/no". They also admitted that they used it as a screening criteria despite the job not requiring any driving and that other than this I would have been ideal for the job.

Bastards.

Tell them that discrimination against partially sighted people is illegal in the UK and would they like to reconsider their position and give you an interview.

Because it seems to me that they are discriminating in this case.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Bob Two-Owls:
They also admitted that they used it as a screening criteria despite the job not requiring any driving and that other than this I would have been ideal for the job.

Then they are absolute idiots for asking you whether you have a driving licence in the first place. Not only bastards, but remarkably stupid bastards.

And, without claiming any real knowledge of UK discrimination law, I suspect deano may well be correct that they are unlawfully stupid bastards to boot.

[ 27. February 2014, 12:31: Message edited by: orfeo ]
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
Though fhe fact that they would do such a thing gives YOU some information about what it would be like to work there...
 
Posted by Bob Two-Owls (# 9680) on :
 
I am not registered blind so apparently it isn't discrimination. Damn my not-quite-registrable blindness!
 
Posted by Mrs Shrew (# 8635) on :
 
TICTH 'friends' who constantly drop out of plans, only ever agree to things which provide optimum convenience to themselves regardless of the effect on others, and then act like they are doing you a favour when they change their rsvp to events for the third time, two days before said event and late enough that it is really inconvenient to have to up the numbers back up again for them.

And TICTH myself for being too spineless to call them on their bullshit
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
Phones owned by people who don't answer them
 
Posted by Rev per Minute (# 69) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Bob Two-Owls:
I am not registered blind so apparently it isn't discrimination. Damn my not-quite-registrable blindness!

Rubbish. If it has an impact on your life (I paraphrase as I don't have a definition in front of me) then it can be a disability under the DDA/ Equality Act 2010 and discrimination is illegal. As said earlier, you may not want to work for that bunch of idiots but equally you don't have to put up with this crap.
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
TICTH people* who throw trash in my yard especially on the part that isn't level. There are drink cans, plastic cups, fast food wrappers, etc. The latest unusual find is a wineglass, unbroken.

In the past I have found an encylopedia bookcase with about five volumes in it, along with a lot of videotapes. I have also found an ornamental stone, which I suspect a drunk student saw in someone's yard and took a fancy to, and then decided it was too heavy to bother with.

The only thing I have ever found that was worth keeping was a 2½ quart Pyrex bowl. Even that wasn't a pure gain, because it had been turned upside down on the grass and I didn't find it for several days. It took the grass weeks to recover.

Part of my yard bordering the sidewalk is a bank with vines. When stuff is thrown up the bank, it's a problem. I am unsteady on my feet and I have trouble reaching this stuff to remove it.

By and large, I like the students very much, but a few are a real pain.


*I suspect they're mostly students.

Moo
 
Posted by Porridge (# 15405) on :
 
TICTH the !@#$%&!@!!! weather: the snowing sideways, the below-zero F temps, the wind.

That is all.
 
Posted by Beethoven (# 114) on :
 
TICTH having to make tough decisions for furry friends. Today has been just HORRIBLE.
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
The shitsucker whose reaction on seeing a camera priced at £180 in our local Oxfam was steal it. Just to add to the offence, the chap who runs the sales had spent three days cleaning and fettling it first.

Whoever you are, I hope your anus seals up and you die of hideous impaction.

AG
 
Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
TICTH my pay section at work who have seen fit to pay me for four days work in February instead of 28. And when I phone up about it they said, 'well other people had no pay at all.' So the fact they're incredibly incompetent means that I don't need to worry about paying my mortgage?

And I'm still waiting for a resolution from the email I got last May saying they'd overpaid me. Apparently it takes eight months and counting to do the sums to find out how much I've been overpaid. Fuckers.
 
Posted by pydseybare (# 16184) on :
 
FFS.

quote:
Ms Lukyanova said she is converting to Breatharianism, a cult that believes food – and possibly water – is not necessary for human survival.

 
Posted by Majorminor (# 17967) on :
 
Immense sympathy to Beethoven- terrible furry-friends days are horrific. [Tear]
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Okay, this is ridiculous. Overnight temperature was -44°C, and with the windchill it is -62°C right now. We have to keep the water taps all dripping, the downstairs shower has frozen up again, dammit. What's with March this year with the coldest temperatures of the year?! Paid the natural gas bill for February yesterday, $276.00 to heat the house and water for the month. The most expensive on record.

Oh but it's effing sunny out. Need the flaming smiley to warm up with. [Mad]
 
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :
 
C**********, local internet service provider. We tried their service, and it was unreliable, so we cancelled. They said they would reverse all the charges. Bills stopped coming. We thought it was over with.

Then we got a nastygram from a collection agency.

Go to Hell, C. I hope you die a slow, painful death of a million lawsuits, and your place in the service world is taken over by a communications company run by human beings (if there still are such things).
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
Paid the natural gas bill for February yesterday, $276.00 to heat the house and water for the month. The most expensive on record.

not bad, actually. January was over $400 for us, and we use wood in addition.

that being said, your temps sound sucktastic. Hope you get some relief soon.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by pydseybare:
FFS.

quote:
Ms Lukyanova said she is converting to Breatharianism, a cult that believes food – and possibly water – is not necessary for human survival.

That sound you hear is 10,000 biochemists simultaneously choking on their coffee.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
We actually had a bunch of those in the Bay Area a few decades back. Their guru died of starvation. Clearly he wasn't breathing properly.
 
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
Well at least they're self-limiting.
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
TICTH the flash-in-the-pan parish secretary of three years ago who, it transpires, decided to dump ALL file contents pre 2005: my references, CAB clearance stuff, contract, etc, etc among it.

Now some loon from the diocese has demanded that I re-approach my referees to get duplicates of references, despite the fact that I've been in post for 15+ years. [Mad]

At least they accept that my copy of my contract is genuine and will 'do'.

Oh, and all service contracts for boilers, organ blowers, etc are also missing. [brick wall]
 
Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
Paid the natural gas bill for February yesterday, $276.00 to heat the house and water for the month. The most expensive on record.

not bad, actually. January was over $400 for us, and we use wood in addition.
Tempted to say, "Is that all?"
 
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
Just sent off £700+ to RapaciousEnergy.co.uk - and that was good for a Winter bill.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
jesus. how do you people afford to eat?
 
Posted by TonyK (# 35) on :
 
Comet - for information, most payments to energy suppliers are quarterly in the UK - though of course I don't know if this is true for Firenze.

But costs are still high - despite my modern, fairly energy-efficient house, my gas/electricity bill averages over £150 per month. There's only two of us, but that's a typical cost AFAIK.

Of course, the energy companies do seem to make high profits...
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
One reason it's so high is simply because Europeans like heating their indoors to the point where you can just wear a t-shirt and shorts.

First time I went to the UK, it was February but I was warned: take your summer PJs, not your winter ones, because you'll never ever want to wear your winter ones.

[ 03. March 2014, 00:54: Message edited by: orfeo ]
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
I suspect the per unit fuel costs are higher, too. Kwh and litres. Fuel for my car going through Canada (the far northwestern bit) always causes my bank account to beg for mercy. And Alaska has higher fuel costs than the rest of the lower 48; but we're downright thrifty compared to our neighbors.
 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
One reason it's so high is simply because Europeans like heating their indoors to the point where you can just wear a t-shirt and shorts.

My experience is that Americans tend to run their homes warmer than Brits in the winter. Certainly all my (US) neighbours seem to run their homes somewhere in the mid-70s year-round.

I've never been down your way, so I can't compare with what you upside-down folks do.

(Mind you, I don't wear winter-weight pyjamas, I wear a 15 tog duvet.)
 
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
When in Canada, I keep the heat off in the winter. I add layers. It's cheaper.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
We pay 7.7 cents per cubic metre. There are I think 11 kwH per m3. I think our costs per unit are lots lower than EU and UK from a brief check. We warmed up to -24°C. So wearing shorts and sandals tomorrow.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
jesus. how do you people afford to eat?

When times are hard we eat the bills. There's enough of them.

(Stir fried is best, plenty of garlic, chilli and a bit of ginger)
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
you're a tougher man than I am, Uncle Pete.

Sioni - I hate it when the late fees get stuck in my teeth.

ETA: no more tangents! Bad hellions! Thwap thwap!

[Hot and Hormonal]

[ 03. March 2014, 05:30: Message edited by: comet ]
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
One reason it's so high is simply because Europeans like heating their indoors to the point where you can just wear a t-shirt and shorts.

First time I went to the UK, it was February but I was warned: take your summer PJs, not your winter ones, because you'll never ever want to wear your winter ones.

Yep. Several English people who have emigrated here have said to me: "I have never been so cold! I thought this was a warm country!" The lack of insulation and double glazing which still prevails in the housing stock here means that you really would just be throwing good money after bad trying to make your whole house actually warm all the time. We have usually just elected to keep the living areas warm, just in the evenings and the weekends. That works fine in Auckland. It kind of sucked when we lived in Christchurch. I have distinct memories of opening the fridge to get the milk out on a winter morning and it being warmer in there than in the room. Also of sitting on the concrete back step to eat said breakfast, looking at the sun twinkling on the frost, because being outside but in the sun was warmer than being inside in the shade.

All that said, Canada's temps are just insane. That's like living in a deep freeze. Properly incomprehensible. I don't know how anything survives.
 
Posted by Bob Two-Owls (# 9680) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by anoesis:
Yep. Several English people who have emigrated here have said to me: "I have never been so cold! I thought this was a warm country!"

That is because other countries have a better reputation for weather than we do. Our weather is just warm and wet pretty much all year round. When it is sunny it is too bloody hot and when it snows it is too bloody cold because at any other time it is just grey and middling.
 
Posted by cheesymarzipan (# 9442) on :
 
I've started a thread about heating/energy bills to save on tangents
 
Posted by John Holding (# 158) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
you're a tougher man than I am, Uncle Pete.

Sioni - I hate it when the late fees get stuck in my teeth.

ETA: no more tangents! Bad hellions! Thwap thwap!

[Hot and Hormonal]

Pete's not disclosing that he lives in an apartment on the ground floor of a muli-story block. In all likelihood, there's enough ambient warmth on his level that turning off the heat is simply a better option than turning on the air conditioning to get the temperature in his apartment down to a reasonable level.

John
 
Posted by TonyK (# 35) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
...
ETA: no more tangents! Bad hellions! Thwap thwap!

[Hot and Hormonal]

Yes Ma'am - sorry Ma'am!
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Bob Two-Owls:
quote:
Originally posted by anoesis:
Yep. Several English people who have emigrated here have said to me: "I have never been so cold! I thought this was a warm country!"

That is because other countries have a better reputation for weather than we do. Our weather is just warm and wet pretty much all year round. When it is sunny it is too bloody hot and when it snows it is too bloody cold because at any other time it is just grey and middling.
True dat. An average year will probably see a nighttime low of about -5C and a daytime high of about 28C over the most inhabited parts of the country. Nothing homicidal. Yet still people complain.

[ 03. March 2014, 13:48: Message edited by: Karl: Liberal Backslider ]
 
Posted by Caissa (# 16710) on :
 
TICTH Vladimir Putin.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by cheesymarzipan:
I've started a thread about heating/energy bills to save on tangents

hey weather-talking denizens, get thee to the marzipan's thread.
 
Posted by The Kat in the Hat (# 2557) on :
 
TICTH people who had 2 months notice about the closing date, but a month after complain that they didn't have time to consider the topic & get their views known. OK so some of that did cover Christmas, but if it is that important to you, why didn't you do something sooner [Mad]
And don't have a go at me about it, I was only the messenger.

[ 03. March 2014, 20:34: Message edited by: The Kat in the Hat ]
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
FFS.....bloody stupid idiotic...people, who open their mouths before plugging in their brains.......
and
FFS...me for being so ridiculous and as to be annoyed about them
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Manufacturers like this one who want to put DRM* into their products so you are tied to them forever and have no additional options. And while we're at it, the laws that some countries have that make it illegal to break the DRM. This one is about a coffee maker that wants to lock you out of using any other coffee pods than their's in their maker.

*digital rights management
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
Today I condemn to hell passive-aggressive idiots who delight in their ignorance and play the victim if anyone dares correct their blinkered bleatings.
 
Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 
TICTH to the complete jackwagon who almost cause me ( and several other people) to wreck on the 4 lane today. We've had snow and ice. We do not live in an area blessed with much snow removal equipment. There was ONE semi-clear lane on the south bound side of the 4 lane, but this moron, doing 65 MPH in his little sedan decides that he's going to pass me (chugging along at a much safer speed). He hits the slush and ice and temporarily losing control of his vehicle and would have put me into the ditch if I hadn't taken evasive tactics to avoid his moron ass.

The posted speed limit is for ideal conditions, not freakin' snow and ice and slush [Mad]
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTP* the idiots (and lo, there are many of them) who can't manage to spit out the words "I'm sorry" even when clearly in the wrong, yea, verily, even in their own judgement. They prefer to go through the most ghastly life convolutions for years and years and YEARS to avoid those two little words, when ten seconds would see them done and over with, and the whole mess in the past.

* Purgatory, not hell; they are already in hell, and it hurts to watch.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
Manufacturers like this one who want to put DRM* into their products so you are tied to them forever and have no additional options. And while we're at it, the laws that some countries have that make it illegal to break the DRM. This one is about a coffee maker that wants to lock you out of using any other coffee pods than their's in their maker.

*digital rights management

I honestly thought it wasn't possible to end up with 'digital' and 'coffee' in the same conversation.

I know better now.
 
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
LC--

And then there are those who, on receiving a voluntary apology, say "there's nothing to apologize for"--then hold a grudge for years and years.

[Roll Eyes]

Perhaps we could lock both groups in a room together?
 
Posted by Meg the Red (# 11838) on :
 
I finally get the courage up to take a course in a subject that scares the hell out of me - almost to the point of phobia - and the instructor allows the class to be hijacked by a pushy yenta who immediately begins to dictate the mode and content of instruction, turning it into something completely contradictory to the course description.

And TICTH myself for feeling so intimidated that I walked out of the room without speaking up. [brick wall]

[ 05. March 2014, 09:00: Message edited by: Meg the Red ]
 
Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
TICTH being too busy.

We hates it precious, we hates it with a passion...
 
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
Lloyds Bank. Who sent my new debit card to 'my branch' because they decided my perfectly correct address was invalid, and didn't bother to inform me that they had done so. (They were, however, quite happy to give a mortgage on the aforementioned invalid address.)

About 15 years ago they stopped transferring accounts when the account holder moved house, so 'my branch' is 300 miles away from my house - a fact that would have been very, very clear if a human being had so much as glanced at the problematic address.

I suspect that they now regret suggesting to me that in the meantime I should go into my local branch if I need cash, since they have closed my local branch, and the nearest available branches are 20 miles away, in places that I rarely visit, and subject to restricted opening hours.

Way to run a business Lloyds. You're about to lose a 32 year old account, two subsidiary accounts and a nice healthy savings account.
 
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on :
 
I will join you in consigning big banks to hell. Doubly so because sadly enough your bank probably is not particularly sad to lose you, and mine is not sad to lose me. It sounds like you don't run yourself into big fees. Apparently, unless you are rich, normal accounts are not particularly valuable to banks anymore unless they run fees. I remember hear when small bank day was happening that actually the kind of accounts that Chase etc. were losing were the kind of accounts they didn't really care about anyway. We make them a profit perhaps, but not much of one.
 
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
That is true. We are undesirable. [Waterworks]
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Meg the Red:
I walked out of the room without speaking up.

Actions speak louder than words. I just hope you got your tuition money back when you dropped the course.

TICTH the course dropping policy at my local community college. The amount of time between the first meeting of the class, and the last day on which you're allowed to drop the class and get a full tuition refund, is governed by a complex formula based on the number of calendar days (not school days) the class is scheduled to meet (not, of course, including school holidays that happen to fall on calendar days -- and which don't?). If you drop after that deadline, you get no refund, not even a partial refund.

I've found it necessary to drop two courses, and in each case I missed the deadline by one day.
 
Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on :
 
TICTH my veins - it took forever for the (lovely) nurse to get a full sample of blood from them today, and she had to resort to getting it from my hand. There will be one heck of a bruise there, ouch.
 
Posted by Taliesin (# 14017) on :
 
TICTH 'right wing groups'.. Well, every day, really, but today for the usual racial and religious bigotry that led to the closing of [URL= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-26453576]legoland[/URL]
Trying to fix code but I may run out of time..!

[ 06. March 2014, 04:10: Message edited by: Taliesin ]
 
Posted by Taliesin (# 14017) on :
 
this.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Taliesin:
Trying to fix code but I may run out of time..!

I'm as guilty of this sometimes as anyone, but... when doing something like a link, use preview.

I'm not going to use my Hostly powers to fix it because you went and provided the correct link anyway.
 
Posted by Taliesin (# 14017) on :
 
Yes.
Sorry.
[Hot and Hormonal]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Feeling exhausted after not doing very much, really.
Yesterday, I finally got round to part assembling a garden store cupboard. The day before I had finished painting it with preservative.
Yesterday I moved the base and the roof sections, previously painted in the garage with some left over glittery pink Benetton paint left by the previous occupant, together with the roofing felt out to the patio. Then I moved five pieces of rockery stone and a few large flower pots out of the assembly area and started work. I drilled holes in the supporting parts of the framework and screwed screws. The powered driver gave up after a bit, so I need another go on a few of the screws. I couldn't do it with an ordinary one. I got all the three main sides, and the short section of the front fixed to each other, and mounted the triangular pointy bits to the front and back. I tacked the felt onto one of the roof sections, and then felt I had done enough. I put all the rest inside and stapled plastic over the top in case of rain.
Today I haven't done any of it, as I was jumping around, a little, on the side of a swimming pool, trying to get two lads with negative buoyancy a little more confident in the water.
And now I am shattered.
Not fair.
Tomorrow I need to finish my cupboard. Involving a stepladder, this time. And I don't think I'm going to be up to it.
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
Oi you. Chinese restaurant that I usually quite like. Please do not change your recipes without telling anyone. Garlic doesn’t like me. I’ve had a stomach ache all afternoon after eating something that never poisoned me before and it’s All. Your. Fault.
 
Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
These dipshits... Fake pastor arrests
 
Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :
 
TICTH "Important Updates". May those who conceive them spend as long in the fires of Purgatory as my computer spends downloading and installing the bastards.
 
Posted by QLib (# 43) on :
 
Yeah - and its poorer younger sister 'keep checking our website for updates'. Fuck you, you fucking lazy cheapskate bastards. I have got better things to do with my fucking time hanging about on your fucking boring, clumsy and disorganized website checking for updates on any number of pages that might or might not be relevant. It's just not fucking good enough for an exam board - this stuff is about people's futures for fuck's sake. If you need to make an important change - and I fully appreciate that such changes may be down to that misbegotten bastard Gove rather than any deliberate spitefulness on your part - then you know where I am. Put it in a fucking personalised email - preferably with a link that actually fucking works - and/or put it on paper and send it by the snail.

And your search engine is shite.

And putting *essential* on-line standardisation on a system that doesn't work with Android or Linux is not fucking acceptable either.

Get your fucking act together.
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
On a related note, TICTH any program/online page that "only works with Internet Explorer. You are not using Internet Explorer. Please download the latest version of Internet Explorer if you want to continue."

No, dammit, you design for a cross-browser platform instead. Or else have cross users. The choice is yours.

I would have thought designing just for one browser probably contravenes accessibility rules, anyway.
 
Posted by cheesymarzipan (# 9442) on :
 
TICTH burglar alarms which aren't linked to a 'contact the keyholder' system. So they just go on and on making a horrible noise being ignored by everybody except those who are trying to sleep! Especially, business alarms which go off on a weekend. Any alarm which goes off for more than five minutes when people are trying to sleep had better have a good reason.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Metacarpals - particular the one I suspect I've broken*. It's a nice day out there, I've got tickets to go and do interesting things and I've got a foot that needs resting / hurts to walk on, I'm pissed off.

I stepped down onto my dodgy ankle† which decided to go under me, twisting my foot, dumping me on the floor and leaving a few more injuries. This was a fortnight ago, the rest of the stuff is more or less healed. My foot isn't.

* small bone inside the foot - I've googled and I know that this is the most likely answer and that if I strap it up and wear supportive walking boots I can work, which is necessary being on a temporary contract, so no, I haven't taken it to the GP. I'm frustrated I don't have the energy to put up with that level of pain to do fun things.

† Additionally I'd like to CTH the sodding parents who didn't have the time to take the original ankle injury that weakened it for X-ray as "we were going on holiday", otherwise known as them entering a sailing competition and me babysitting my younger sisters for 5 or 6 hours a day, bored sitting on the banks. The GP who strapped it up at the time reckoned I'd dislocated it but couldn't tell as it was so swollen. I was 15.
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
Christchurch City Council for changing the zoning of my house.

Off to a meeting on Monday, for which I was given one working day's notice, to yell at someone.

Bastards,

Huia
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Dear sir, you are loaded with class to be sitting right next to McDonald's Playland and dropping f-bomb after f-bomb. Right behind a petite little 90 year. old woman. Nice touch. That's like sprinkles on the cupcake.

And since you seem to want the world to hear about your situation, allow me to offer my opinion: given your complete lack of restraint around children, I am sure that crazy psycho bitch of a spouse of yours had every reason to put a restraining order on you and call Child Protective Services on your rageoholic ass.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
(Sorry, I should have mentioned this guy was on his cell phone, calling various legal people-- all of whom seemed to be chewing him out, judging by his responses. He wasn't just sitting there cussing.)
 
Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
TICTH Creationists for being so successful in spreading their obnoxious heresy that none of the other kids in Miss Tor's GCSE science classes believe that she can be a Christian and want to be a scientist.

Fuck you, you mealy-mouthed lying bastard spawn of Satan. Fuck you very much.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Oh, HELL no! [Mad]
 
Posted by cheesymarzipan (# 9442) on :
 
TICTH things that happen for no reason anyone can tell which are nobody's fault but which are still. totally. crap. and I hate it
*we hates it my precious*
 
Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH a dilemma regarding an old one-time friend of mine.
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
TICTH idiot lights on my car dash, instead of gauges; gauges give information all the time, rather than only when there is a problem (or a false alarm.)

I drove to Texas about six weeks ago, (It's a 1260 mile drive.) None of the idiot lights showed until I was on the way back; then I got a light indicating that my battery was low. Since I was driving for hours without stopping, I hoped the battery would last until I got home. In fact it did. If my car had had a gauge, I would have seen before I left that a new battery would be a good idea.

I had the battery replaced, but the idiot light kept insisting I had a low battery. I took it back to the repair shop, where the 'low battery' light went off of its own accord, and the 'service engine soon' light went on. This light has malfunctioned for years. The problem is the sensor, which would cost more than two hundred dollars to replace. I ignore the light, since I get my car serviced regularly anyway.

There is another idiot light that annoys me. It is an arrow which indicates I should shift to a higher gear. (My car has a standard shift.) When I am going up a hill and I hear the engine straining, I shift to a lower gear. The arrow comes on immediately. [Roll Eyes]

I long for the good old days when cars had gauges that told you what was going on all the time, rather than lights that signal a problem.

Moo
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
AMEN!!!!!!!
 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Moo:
TICTH idiot lights on my car dash, instead of gauges; gauges give information all the time, rather than only when there is a problem (or a false alarm.)

I recently rented a Mercedes something-or-other with tire pressure sensors. All well and good, except that the stupid thing just tells you "wrong tire pressure". Not even too high or too low - just wrong. And it had a rather narrow window of acceptable pressure.

The routine, according to the folks at the rental place, was to randomly add or remove a little air, and drive it round the block to see if the error cleared. If not, repeat.

The sensor returns an actual pressure. It would be simplicity itself to just display it...
 
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
TICTH cold-callers, especially ones from public bodies such as the police or fire brigade who phone when I'm getting ready for work and ask to speak to D. about a "community project he might help us with" (i.e. they want money). If they know his name (which they do) and phone number, they probably know our post-code, and should be able to work out that if we could afford to give to their charity, we'd live in a different one.
[Mad]
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
TITCH cold callers who tell me everything said is confidential and then add in a mutter that in response to my answers some companies may call me....and is that OK?

NOPE [Mad]
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
And while I'm about it TICTH everyone who decides not to reply to work related phone calls, texts and emails.

The whole lot.

Because I am strictly impartial.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
Hold on a minute. If somebody has the job of "cold calling", they call you, ask you to call back and you don't, have you called yourself to Hell???

Yrs, Baffled, S. Wales
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
[Nope..the two are not related]
 
Posted by Meg the Red (# 11838) on :
 
Family. Family. Family.

Every once in a while I fool myself into thinking you really do want a relationship, then I get a clear message that really nothing has changed and that, in your hierarchy of Things You Give A Shit About, I fall somewhere lower than head lice and roadkill.

Fuck you, and fuck me for still caring.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Hold on a minute. If somebody has the job of "cold calling", they call you, ask you to call back and you don't, have you called yourself to Hell???

Yrs, Baffled, S. Wales

Since when do cold callers leave a message and ask you to call back? All the bastards ever do is hang up before you've got a chance to answer, and if you do answer they're not there for several seconds because it's all being done by fucking computers, lining up calls in advance because heaven forbid there's a few wasted seconds in the cubicle farm.
 
Posted by Porridge (# 15405) on :
 
Oh Keeper of Grants Who Allegedly Welcomes My Help: WTF?!

First I email you a link to a grant opportunity, since everybody in the organization including you agrees that you're in charge of grants.

Three days pass. You email back to say "thanks, but I'm so far behind on grants."

I (fool that I am) offer to help.

Two days go by. You reply "Great!"

I suggest we meet ASAP so I can put together the info & documents usually needed to apply for grants (I have experience at grant-writing), as the grant is due March 31. I name two times.

Two days later you reply you'd love to get together, but when?

I respond by repeating the only time mentioned earlier which is still available.

Three days pass with no response from you. Then you email me to ask when I want to meet. I repeat the time, date, and place. No response.

At the suggested time I make a quick detour to see if perhaps you're there. You aren't.

I email you, repeating the urgent need to get together. Two days pass with no response.

I email again, this time sending a list of items needed (copies of mission statement, 501(c)3 papers, staff list, etc.

Three days pass. Then I get an email with one, (1) attachment. It's the Tax ID number for a different organization, with a note from you saying "Thanks for all your help!"

WHAT THE FUCK!?! We have at least a semi-decent shot at a $20,000 grant which we really need and could make very valuable use of, and THIS IS THE BEST YOU CAN DO????!!!!
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
You know, sometimes I think the only reason some people keep me in their sphere of acquaintance is to have a handy person upon which to unload their negative self-talk. Fuck those people. I am not your angst-sponge. If you are pissed off at life, punch a fucking pillow.

And following it up with a flowery speech about how I am the bee's knees is only gonna piss me off more. If I am so great, why are you so cavalier about your rapport with me?
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
TICTH soap, or the lack of it. Shower Gel by the bucket full but simple lemony soap? Hell no. Sigh. I smell like a perfumed chav ( note to self; must stop using son's gel)
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
A perfumed chav is not without charm . . . . [Biased]

TICTH soap that doesn't float when you drop it (all except Ivory).
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Hold on a minute. If somebody has the job of "cold calling", they call you, ask you to call back and you don't, have you called yourself to Hell???

Yrs, Baffled, S. Wales

Since when do cold callers leave a message and ask you to call back? All the bastards ever do is hang up before you've got a chance to answer, and if you do answer they're not there for several seconds because it's all being done by fucking computers, lining up calls in advance because heaven forbid there's a few wasted seconds in the cubicle farm.
Back when we used to get these calls we did get some who left a number for us to ring back. Never did as we expected it would be a premium rate number.
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
TICTH this woman. So it ate your goldfish. Boo bloody hoo. This is what happens if you keep domesticated predators around the house. You had the choice. The cat didn't.
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
I seem to have missed the part where she is banned from having any kind of pet ever again, surely? Fucking bitch! [Mad]
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
I seem to have missed the part where she is banned from having any kind of pet ever again, surely? Fucking bitch! [Mad]

Further details have now been added to the story, including that one. Also the fact that she was clearly mentally ill. I may have to revise my hell call to encompass the situation in general rather than targeting an unwell individual. (But even so ...)
 
Posted by Mrs Shrew (# 8635) on :
 
Ticth the heating at my office. I'm in the north of the UK, so it is spring here. It was sunny today, but still reasonably long sleeves and jumper weather outside. A coat would not be excessive.

So why was the temperature in my office 25 degrees all day? And this with what is laughingly called air con on maximum cooling all day. We should not need to have fans in order to work in MARCH.
I have a pounding headache, and looming dread of the summer.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH combi-boilers. Yes, they may be efficient but they do this by being so marginally engineered that the slightest change to water or gas pressure sends them off.

This time the water goes off (emergency replacement of some bit of mains valvery) and when it comes back the boiler is dead. Utterly dead.
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
TICTH the dear soul who lets their dog wander down our driveway and shit.

If I ever find out who you are, I will do the same to you. Please note that I don't have a dog, so the gift will be that much more personal.

AG
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
TICTH my next door neighbor who rang my doorbell in hopes of getting me to sympathize with her objections to the fact that people have piled brush in the street in front of her house.

The town makes its semi-annual brush collection on our street next week. People are supposed to pile their brush on the street next to the curb. Parking is legal on most of the street, but not in front of this woman's house. If brush is placed in the no-parking zone, then no parking spaces are blocked.

This woman thinks she owns the street in front of her house. When I failed to agree, she kept telling me that she is an architect who designed her house very carefully, and the sight of this brush is offensive.

I have seen many previous examples of her massive sense of entitlement. I am especially irritated because I was busy when she rang my doorbell, and she kept pressing me to agree with her.

Moo
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Moo:
TICTH my next door neighbor who rang my doorbell in hopes of getting me to sympathize with her objections to the fact that people have piled brush in the street in front of her house.

The town makes its semi-annual brush collection on our street next week. People are supposed to pile their brush on the street next to the curb. Parking is legal on most of the street, but not in front of this woman's house. If brush is placed in the no-parking zone, then no parking spaces are blocked.

This woman thinks she owns the street in front of her house. When I failed to agree, she kept telling me that she is an architect who designed her house very carefully, and the sight of this brush is offensive.

I have seen many previous examples of her massive sense of entitlement. I am especially irritated because I was busy when she rang my doorbell, and she kept pressing me to agree with her.

Moo

You don't have the Daily Mail in the US, but if you did, this woman would be an avid reader.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
We have one of these too. She doesn't want us to park in front of her house (tho perfectly legal) because she says it spoils the view of her garden. Which is viewed by whom? Us, apparently, being her only cross-street neighbors.. And the occasional driver-by who would do better to keep his eyes on the very twisty tiny road.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Tell to her buy very nice curtains and keep them closed.

NEXT!
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
Actually, I'm fairly sure she can't see the brush pile from inside her house; she has many trees and plants in her yard.

I think it's a territorial claim.

Moo
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
Then tell her to mark it in the usual manner.
 
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
Dear lower legs, I'm sorry I made you were those nylon pop socks yesterday evening. Now can you stop itching?
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
Dear lower legs, I'm sorry I made you were those nylon pop socks yesterday evening. Now can you stop itching?

E45 Anti Itch Cream. Half a Clarityn tablet in water.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
TICTH, Rick Del Rio. A New York pastor who speaks of God's miraculous power saving an 80 year old bible from an explosion whilst 5 members of the church who owned it died.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
TICTH Arthritis. Marking 8 years of constant pain. Happy fucking birthday.
 
Posted by Rev per Minute (# 69) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
TICTH, Rick Del Rio. A New York pastor who speaks of God's miraculous power saving an 80 year old bible from an explosion whilst 5 members of the church who owned it died.

Reminds me of a story in one of Pat Barker's 'Regeneration' trilogy, set in the Great War, about the so-called miraculous survival of crosses and crucifixes when the houses (and churches) around them had been blasted to pieces. One British captain, leading patrols behind the trenches, took particular offence at these 'miracles' when so many were dying and so whenever he saw one gave the order - once memorably quoted by the Archbishop of Wales in Llandaff Cathedral - "50 yards to the left, bastard on the cross, ten rounds. Fire!"
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
Dear lower legs, I'm sorry I made you were those nylon pop socks yesterday evening. Now can you stop itching?

Speaking on behalf of all the rest of us undecover fashion-police; another good result.
 
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
Dear lower legs, I'm sorry I made you were those nylon pop socks yesterday evening. Now can you stop itching?

Speaking on behalf of all the rest of us undecover fashion-police; another good result.
Tights would merely have meant itching all the way up. Early March not exactly bare leg weather - so what do you suggest I wear with a dress to a formal dinner? These?
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
TICTH fundie curate
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
TICTH The Walking Dead. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck! [Waterworks]
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
TICTH Holiday companies that rip you off because you're a "single traveller" - that's after they've tried to book you onto some tawdry teen-aimed shag fest. And when you complain they point you towards their "luxury" holidays - which STILL discriminate against the single but with gloves on [Mad] [Mad]
 
Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
Dear lower legs, I'm sorry I made you were those nylon pop socks yesterday evening. Now can you stop itching?

Speaking on behalf of all the rest of us undecover fashion-police; another good result.
Tights would merely have meant itching all the way up. Early March not exactly bare leg weather - so what do you suggest I wear with a dress to a formal dinner? These?
Silk stockings or tights - not cheap I know, but suitable for formal events and no itch! For informal events, cotton or merino tights/stockings. The Sock Dreams website is wonderful: Sock Dreams
 
Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
The company that scammed my parents. [Mad]

Mom thought she was taking a Medicare phone survey about three or four weeks ago. Days later, she received a package with two (incorrect) prescriptions and a container of vitamins. And a bill. Dad called the pharmacy, told them they had not ordered those pills, and the pharmacist told Dad to mail them back. Dad asked them to send him a postage-paid envelope (which I had suggested to my parents previously when I found out about the problem.)

The envelope came, the drugs were returned, then Mom received her Medicare info sheet which had the bill for the returned pills included. They called Medicare and the pharmacy. Medicare called the pharmacy. Those ...people... refused to help.

I called my folks this morning and heard my dad's voice shaking from anger. He caught me up to speed with the problem, which I had assumed was solved with the return of the meds. I asked for the phone number of the pharmacy, and he also gave me the address...which happens to be about a mile from where I work.

After telling the folks at work that I was on a mission (with their blessing, after they knew the circumstances) I went there and spoke with the manager who was very nervous. She told me how a company they hired calls people (from a list of Medicare recipients) to give them the choice of having their meds mailed to them for 'convenience'. She also told me that some of the folks don't remember the next day that they had talked to the pharmacy. Basically they're targeting the elderly. Also, my mom (who is very alert and not eighty yet) later told me that the phone call contained none of the things the manager told me.

I got the charge taken off. (The whole story would be three times as long as this post.) I also called the fraud and elderly exploitation hot line. They are to call me back within 24 hours. If they don't I will call again. And again. If there are any other complaints about this outfit, I want to add my facts to their list. There are a huge number of elderly people living here with no family nearby, and no other advocates. I want to help to stop the scumbags from hurting those folks who have no one to speak for them, and probably don't even know they've been scammed.

Elder abuse is abominable. Abusing my parents is going to get someone a whole heap of trouble.
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
You go JJ, May the Force be with you.

Bastards!
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
The New Jersey Transit concourse in Pennsylvania Station, New York.

Steps, steps, steps! Drag your heavy luggage up these steps, down those steps, no escalators provided.

[Mad]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Thanks. I feel slightly better for typing that at the end of my working day. Professionalism dictates that I can't explain in detail why one of my clients has caused that reaction.
 
Posted by tessaB (# 8533) on :
 
TICTH my sister-in-law.Fucking money-grabbing bitch, do not tar us all with your brush.
That is all.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
"Congratulations you have won an all expense paid trip to the Bahamas....", a repetitive robocall which comes from any number of random numbers starting with 778-654. Everyone is reporting them to the do not call list, and I am now reporting them to Hell. [Mad]
 
Posted by mdijon (# 8520) on :
 
High-priority emails. The sender requests confirmation that you have received. Sent to all.

Every single email you send is obviously very important to you, and vitally important we all confirm immediately that we've read it, but actually they aren't important to the rest of us. Certainly not to me, and I doubt to many of the hundreds of recipients.

In fact this is just internally generated high-priority spam. We could calculate how many minutes of time each individual wastes reading them, add it up, and calculate that whatever good you might do is unlikely to outweigh the time you cost your colleagues in reading spam.

Now back to work.
 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by mdijon:
High-priority emails. The sender requests confirmation that you have received. Sent to all.

I take quite a childish pleasure in clicking "do not send read receipt" for these...
 
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
You are lucky not to have met a friend of mine who not only requests a read receipt for every single one of her emails, but resends the email every 12 hours until she gets it.

I don't know why the internet police don't take away her access rights.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
quote:
Originally posted by mdijon:
High-priority emails. The sender requests confirmation that you have received. Sent to all.

I take quite a childish pleasure in clicking "do not send read receipt" for these...
So do I
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH 'sourcing'.

Why can't people just buy stuff anymore?
 
Posted by FooloftheShip (# 15579) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
TICTH 'sourcing'.

Why can't people just buy stuff any more?

Or "find".
 
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
TICTH the fleas, bed bugs or whatever it is that keep biting me in the night. I don't know what they are or where they are but they can go to hell and stay there. I've had enough of itching.
 
Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on :
 
Third-party utility sharing companies (not sure of the right name?). Basically offering to split the bills equally between occupants in a shared house, you pay them the money and then they pay the utilities company. I'm sure you can see where this is going....

(I was not the one who signed up btw)

Also, Student Finance but I fear they are permanently being condemned to Hell. Still have not had fees or grant paid, and since I still owe uni for my fees I can't use their student welfare emergency fund - and have no money. Urgh. Fortunately I have very kind and patient housemates.
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lucia:
TICTH the fleas, bed bugs or whatever it is that keep biting me in the night. I don't know what they are or where they are but they can go to hell and stay there. I've had enough of itching.

If they're bed bugs, you need to get a professional pest control company in as soon as possible before they get out of control. The little bastards breed. Rey rapidly and spread like wildfire. Back in the days when I worked in pest control, I really hated these buggers as they were the ones I was most worried about inadvertently taking home with me.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
(off to wash EVERYTHING on my bed.)
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
TICTH the people who run the Flexible Spending Health Account stuff for my last employer. Having had to submit the documentation for reimburse 3 times by fax which was deemed illegible and once by a trip to the post office to send it certified since they don't bother to have an actual address, just a Post Office Box, they now inform me a year later if I don't clear up the confusion caused by their multiple failures they're going to change my last year income to include the income of the undocumented first three times. Since they never paid them I don't see how I have income. Looking forward to a long and profitless morning tomorrow requiring long waits due to unusually high call volumes and expecting tons of patience and understanding from me.
 
Posted by Mechtilde (# 12563) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
TICTH 'sourcing'.

Why can't people just buy stuff anymore?

TICTH the phrase "life hacks." What's wrong with "tips"?
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
And "life coach," which I just ran into while job surfing [Projectile] . Can you say, "counselor"?
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
LOL. You realise you said 'job surfing'?
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
I did indeed. Has it got another meaning cross-pond? [Eek!]

While I'm at it, I'll consign to heck (hell's a bit strong) people who don't know the difference between proofreading and copyediting, order you to do the one, and then deny you the job because you've followed orders instead of doing the other. I mean, buy a clue...
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
I did indeed. Has it got another meaning cross-pond? [Eek!]

No, but I found it rather amusing that you employed it in the middle of complaining about the use of trendy phrases.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
Touche! (Trans. "A touch, a very palpable touch!")
 
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
TICTH the manufacturers of a new hair-dye I'm going to try tomorrow: the print on their instruction leaflet is (a) practically microscopic and (b) printed in white-on-black, which doesn't help.

As I haven't got the best eyesight, I asked D. for his opinion, and he agreed that only the bits in bold type were really legible.

At least they printed the time you're supposed to leave it on as a clock-face ... [Eek!]
 
Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :
 
TICT the deepest depths of H, my (former) DIL for the hurt she is causing my Son & grandsons
 
Posted by Sola gratia (# 14065) on :
 
Totally with you on that, Mechtilde, re: "life hacks". They are Not a Thing.

TITCH HR departments who screw with eager young applicants by recommending putting them forward for a job interview and then not giving them the position because 'not enough experience'. But you read my CV [US: resume]! Did that not occur to you at the time?! [Mad] Leading people up the garden path much?

Also those who stipulate a RIDICULOUS number of specific attributes on job adverts which probably only one person in the world fulfils, all because they can, I guess, in these times of high unemployment and insecure job market. Gnnnnnaaaaargh.

*goes away to hammer out another pointless covering letter* [Waterworks]
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
SG: ditto, and I'll push 'em all one circle deeper—especially the university press that called me in for six hours of interviewing with HR, both my prospective bosses, my prospective colleagues (two thirds of whom were working in positions I'd applied for), and the director, all to tell me the search had been canceled and nobody found.

Yeah. Two hundred people applied for this job. I've been doing one functionally identical for two years. You mean to tell me you can't find one person who could do it? Oh, right, internal candidate—do the pro forma national search, call it off, waste our time, then sneak in your own person.

Fuck. You.
 
Posted by Macrina (# 8807) on :
 
TICTH Stuart Broad - England T20 captain for whinging passive aggressively about being fined for whinging passive aggressively.

Seriously? You're a professional sportsman. You should know that you don't metaphorically bend over and moon the match officials and get off with just a warning. Idiot. No one is saying the lightening was fine and dandy. I'd agree with your point if you weren't such an entitled spoiled kid with a chip on your shoulder the size of the Members Pavilion at Lords.
 
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
Touche! (Trans. "A touch, a very palpable touch!")

TICTH keyboards that haven't got an accute accent key. It's fucking 'touché', as in 'too shey', and in English rhymes with 'May'.

quote:
touché, int. E20. [Fr., pa. pple of toucher to touch.] 1 Fencing. Acknowledging a hit by one's opponent. E20. 2 Expr. good-humoured acknowledgement of a valid point or justified accusation made by another person. E20.

(Oxford Talking Dictionary © 1998)


 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Wesley J:
TICTH keyboards that haven't got an accute accent key. It's fucking 'touché', as in 'too shey', and in English rhymes with 'May'.

Wouldn't that be most keyboards, then? At least in the Anglophone world.

On a "normal" (i.e. non Mac) keyboard, hold down the ALT key and type 130 on the numeric keypad on the right (for some reason the number keys at the top of the keyboard don't work). Lo, an é will appear. Have fun experimenting with different numbers for different characters. ASCII codes are there to serve.
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
AltGr+vowel á é í ó ú
 
Posted by Pearl B4 Swine (# 11451) on :
 
The little "o" for degree, as in temperature is
Alt 248. 19° in Pennsylvania this morning.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
If you all want to share ASCII codes or something, I recall there being a tech support kind of thread somewhere other than Hell that would be an appropriate place. That's quite enough pedantry and geekery for here, though. Move along please.
 
Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH the exigencies of fate again. It's no fucking fair. [Waterworks] [Mad]
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
'Flu: unless I'm mistaken, the aching limbs, raised temperature, chills, headache, streaming nose, etc, etc, etc mean I've got the dreaded 'f*u again.
 
Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
'Flu: unless I'm mistaken, the aching limbs, raised temperature, chills, headache, streaming nose, etc, etc, etc mean I've got the dreaded 'f*u again.

Seconded, Flu must be of the devil
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
I'll add the so-called stomach flu to that--well into the second week of intermittent symptoms.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Open letter to-- Oh, everyone who currently has face time with me:

1. It is extremely frustrating to be the designated calm, reassuring person in the situation when everyone else is a fucking drama addict. The calmer I act, the more y'all jones for the histrionics. FUCK!

2. If you really want someone to help you out, and want further help from them in the future, a good thing to do would be to NOT act like the act of them helping you out is fucking up your life.

3. Dear younger family member-- if you are going to speak to your mother the way you just did, I will go back over that essay you asked me to read and reformat my comments from "constructive criticism" to "Harold Ross -Level Vociferous Scrutiny." Suck it, Hemingway.
(I will not do that. And it is a pretty good essay.)
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
I've had it with euphemisms.
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
TICTH the Recycle Police of my city. It's bad enough we have to separate compost and yard waste from garbage and recyclables (for which there's a long complicated list) and watch them toss them in the same bins in the garbage truck.
It's bad enough that they expect us to wash the bottles and cans before putting them in the recycle bin.

They've now announced that all citizens must peel the little stickers off the peels on their fruit and vegetables so the plastic doesn't ruin their compost plans.

At heart I can't see why there's such a damn urgency to minimize landfill from a city in a state that has an active volcano [Mad]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH idiotic conspiracy theorists who have come out of the woodwork in the last couple of weeks like nobody's business to deal with flight MH370.

My latest encounter being with an online comment asserting that the Maldives are close to the border of Somalia. It's three thousand fucking kilometres, you moron.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Oh, FFS. Heartily agreed. The people involved are miserable enough without the crackpots staking claims on the situation.
 
Posted by Anglican_Brat (# 12349) on :
 
In today's version of right wing stupidity:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alaskan-senator-pushes-for-pregnancy-tests-in-bars-9221569.html

What is it about Alaska these days? First it gave us Sarah Palin and now this. Apparently women need to be reminded that they might be pregnant before they can buy alcohol. Can we also remind men that they might be stupid before they buy a drink?
 
Posted by Prester John (# 5502) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
TICTH 'sourcing'.

Why can't people just buy stuff anymore?

It is how some of us earn a living. TICTH two idiots in particular. First the engineer that sends me an email on Friday night expecting me to put a purchasing agreement in place for him by Monday without having notified me he needed help weeks ago like he should have. Damn, engineers can be so stupid.

Second, Senator Leland Yee, Mr. Hypocrite himself. So content to ban guns yet illegally selling them himself. I hope you and Shrimp Boy enjoy prison.

[spelling]

[ 29. March 2014, 04:18: Message edited by: Prester John ]
 
Posted by rufiki (# 11165) on :
 
TICTH a well-known cable company who put their prices up, have intermittent service, and charged me £99 for an engineer to come and maintain their kit. I was specifically told there would be no charge.

My custom is going elsewhere. I might still get a crap service, but at least it'll be cheap and crap.
 
Posted by Japes (# 5358) on :
 
TICTH groups of ten/twelve cyclists on pavements. Officially organised cycle rides whose website I have found, and thus been able to complain about you inconsiderate morons, since you were stupid enough to break the law wearing yellow hi-vis tabards with the name of your group on it.

The cycle lane is the other side of the road - and it is there for the excellent reason there is no room for you and me on that pavement... not that that ever stops most cyclists in my part of the world.

And, whilst I'm at it, I'm also CTH those who insist on sitting on aisle seats on public transport, grumble at having to move to let me sit on the vacant window seat, and then won't stand up properly, just swivel in the seat. Well, I'm not at all sorry if you didn't like my backside in your face - (cue second round of grumbles at my inconsiderateness)I warned you I had little sense of balance on a moving bus and it would be better for both of us if you stood up.
 
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
TICTH TV shows that kill off characters and change plots. so that an actor can leave (or be fired).
 
Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 
TICTH the stupid self-important bitch at my friend's funeral today. If you're going to bother showing up for the service, don't spend the entire time texting on your cell phone . The only reason that phone is not in a zillion small pieces inside your various bodily orifices if that I didn't want to disrupt the service... [Mad]
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
TICTH TV shows that kill off characters and change plots. so that an actor can leave (or be fired).

So what should they do when an actor leaves?
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
TICTH TV shows that kill off characters and change plots. so that an actor can leave (or be fired).

So what should they do when an actor leaves?
Shoot the actor. Looks like fans won't be happy otherwise.
 
Posted by Stercus Tauri (# 16668) on :
 
Possibly not quite to hell - but pretty damn close - because some quite nice people keep doing it: everyone who refers to the gas company (or any other utility) technician as an 'engineer'. If he/she hasn't slaved to get an engineering degree and isn't accredited by one of the engineering Institutions, then he/she isn't an engineer. And 'technician' seems generous for some of them, who I wouldn't trust to identify the working parts of my wheelbarrow.
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
TICTH viruses
 
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
It is with profound regret and embarrassment that I condemn myself to Hell for not putting my own clock forward, and hence arriving at church (at which I was supposed to be playing for the service) when said service was nearly over. Fortunately, there was someone else there who did the job. I slunk out before anyone noticed my late arrival. [Hot and Hormonal] [Hot and Hormonal] [Hot and Hormonal]

Self flagellation a speciality of the house

[ 30. March 2014, 22:03: Message edited by: jacobsen ]
 
Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :
 
TICTH people maul you during the
peace, while running around like crazed hyenas.
 
Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :
 
TI also CTH fucking manipulative narcissistic bastards, AND all the people who first complained to me about said narcissistic bastard, who are now all being taken in by said bastard turning on the charm, and don't want anything to change. So I, who recognize the harm happening to people, and the need to lance the wound, not put a bandaid on it, am going to be the big bad meanie who didn't want to make nice and therefore kicked said bastard out. Plus said bastard has recently switched to my church, so I expect to be bad mouthed up, down, left, right and sideways throughout my own church by said bastard.

Fuck you, the horse you rode in on, and all your manipulative shit about God's calling you and God teaching you. The closest connection you have to God is that you are a shitstain on God's ass.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
AR, thank God you have the guts to deal with it, and lance that stinking boil. I just lost my job because nobody would.
 
Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :
 
Thx, Lamb. I'm not sure Manipulative Narcissistic Bastard has a clue to what I can be like in my full-on "you have pushed things one fucking inch too far and I am on to you and your deceitful shit" furious mode. But boy howdy, did MNB push this shit just one little bit too far, and are they ever going to be surprised.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
Consider: MNB probably = sociopath. You may want to take steps to guard against over the top future retaliation. There are books out there that can help.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Also consider that MNB may have chosen YOUR church with deliberate intent. Sorry to be so negative, but I've been hearing about some other sociopaths since my last attendance here, and I'm a bit cynical.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
I'm pretty sure MNB sociopaths are worthy of their own thread, seeing as they seem to be so common. Why, I imagine we can discuss coping strategies, management tactics, and, when all our rational, All Saintsy style "if you treat them like you should a decent human being, they'll respond" ideas fail, because they're not decent human beings, unhealthy ideas that get us through the day. Why, I'm pretty sure I can add a thing or twelve to that thread myself.

But that's a thread that is not this one. Take it somewhere else.

Ariston, Hellhost
 
Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH snotty teenagers. And unpleasant coincidences.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Watching Hoarders: Animal Edition and just hating so, so many people right now. Some humans don't deserve the DNA God gave them.
 
Posted by JFH (# 14794) on :
 
Depression.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
TICTH TV shows that kill off characters and change plots. so that an actor can leave (or be fired).

Especially when the actor concerned is a female who has been in a nicely developing good relationship with the lead male, and he doesn't seem the least bit upset over her vanishing, and starts another relationship the next week. And never uses the wrong name by accident, or refers to what he used to do with X, or even any irritating habit she had. There are no photos, letters or emails. She is unpersoned and wiped as effectively as a Kremlin drop out under Stalin.

I've been watching old episodes of Bergerac, which seem to be transmitted in the wrong order, so these even less explanation that usual.

And, yes, depression.

[ 01. April 2014, 16:12: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
TICTH all the cold callers of the last three months, who ring up despite my being on an official opt-out list. (I never pick up, and all goes to my answerphone.) Luckily, in this neck of the woods, such proceedings are now illegal, and so I've just spent the best part of an hour denouncing all said callers via a consumer protection website, who are entitled and willing and perfectly equipped to sue their arses off. Most satisfying. [Devil]

Still: BASTARDS, all of them! [Mad]
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
TICTH Thames Water Utilities. Due to their shitty, shoddy equipment at the local pumping station breaking down yet again, I find myself with no water for the third time in 48 hours. This is beyond a fucking joke [Mad]
 
Posted by Alban (# 9047) on :
 
The bitch who has my daughter stressed out, depressed, raging at everyone who loves her. I've heard about the challenge teenage girls can be, but this is hitting right at home. A formerly happy girl butting heads with everyone, on antidepressants, constantly worrying about this bitch. And TICT even hotter places in H the teachers who don't seem to have any real strategies for dealing with the situation. Not that I blame them, but when I see my daughter getting hurt, I'm not happy at all!
 
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
TICTH TV shows that kill off characters and change plots. so that an actor can leave (or be fired).

So what should they do when an actor leaves?
Shoot the actor. Looks like fans won't be happy otherwise.
No killing. But maybe a better contract. I gather they're sometimes renegotiated. Or have a new actor take over the part. (Doesn't seem to be done much, anymore. But was done fairly successfully in the past, e.g. "Dynasty". "Roseanne" even had fun with it: the actress playing the oldest daughter left for a while; another was brought in; the old one came back; and the switch was done mid-episode, with a comment about "you look different".)

Or send the character away, for an indefinite period of time. That leaves room for future visits. One popular series did that in the past year, when an actress decided (somewhat mysteriously) to leave. Fans were very upset--but the show did manage to craft an especially good premise and leave-taking.


{Not meaning to make this a discussion thread. Just answering a question aimed at me.}

Also TICTH shows that make a lot of strange changes, just to shake things up. Grrrrr.

May those responsible all have buckets of green slime poured over them, a la "You Can't Do That On Television".
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
I spent an hour cleaning the Sahara off my car yesterday and making it look like new, then came back to find some evil-minded feathered carrion on a day release from Hell had flown erratically back and forth over the roof, windscreen, bonnet and side door. Brown splodges scattered everywhere.
 
Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :
 
TICTH the little bastard on the moped riding back and forth outside my window. Motoring at what passes for speed on his tiny (but extremely loud) rubber-band powered engine over the speed bumps is clearly ever-so-exciting, but being C-ed to H may be the only thing that gets him out of the range of my itchy trigger finger when my last nerve finally goes twang.

[ 02. April 2014, 20:30: Message edited by: ArachnidinElmet ]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH bitchy, bitchy music fans.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
My reaction to my new neighbours who I have not yet met but who have a peculiar behaviour that is irrritating me more than it should.
Behind our homes is a green, a grass area with a few trees. I have looked at this as a good place to put my telescope, as we have dark skies, but I haven't done this as often as I might since moving in, which may make me a bit of a dog in the manger.
The first night they owned the property, light streamed out across the green rom the house. As they weren't in, I assumed they had accidentally left it on after looking over the place.
But it has been on every night since, from a very small spare room with no curtains, and it is irritating me twice over. Firstly, because I don't know why, and want to find out, and secondly, because I don't want, at some time in the future, to have to trek round and ask them to turn it off when I want to look at something through my scope.
So far, I have the idea that their child may be in that room, and want the light on all night, and the black expanse of the window they can't see out of in order to sleep.
Or, more worryingly, they are going to have a security light fixed, and are using this as an alternative while waiting for it. Totally unnecessary as those who have them, the other side of the green, no longer have them on, as the local foxes are the only things that trip them. The light from the bedroom doesn't really illuminate their garden, but does light the whole of the green, while leaving black edges which any malefactor could utilise to sneak up on them or anyone else. It does look as if they turn it off in the daytime.
But what I really don't like is the way I am obsessing about it.
I don't want the subject to sneak out when I first meet them - Welcome to ........ and can't you turn that ****** light off isn't quite the right sort of neighbourly.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
It's where they keep their sex slave bound, of course. They leave the light on as a torture device.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH bitchy music fans playing April Fool's Jokes.

Don't ask. Just, don't.
 
Posted by Ann (# 94) on :
 
Are you sure they aren't kin to these people?
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
All I get from that link is a bunch of coded SQL rubbish.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
I thought the SQL was us getting trolled at first.

However, it's available elsewhere
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
[Killing me] That is hilarious.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Tee hee!

Meanwhile, last night was dark. Now I'm wondering what they spent time on yesterday.

So, welcome. And do come to the AGM at the end of the month! You had the bumf delivered yesterday, didn't you? (AGM's count as a subset of this place, don't they?)

[ 04. April 2014, 07:45: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
Today, I condemn to hell those websites that partially load, allowing me to see the link I want, but then 'jump' a millisecond before I click the link.

The number of times this happens is ridiculous, nomatter what browser I use. Am constantly clicking on links I don't want. [Mad]
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAlethiophile:
Today, I condemn to hell those websites that partially load, allowing me to see the link I want, but then 'jump' a millisecond before I click the link.

The number of times this happens is ridiculous, nomatter what browser I use. Am constantly clicking on links I don't want. [Mad]

Related to this, I will condemn those websites that don't load at all, hanging because apparently they are "waiting for axolotlviagra.com" or whatever - some add-on that has sod all to do with the page I actually want to look at.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Beat me to it.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Ellen de Generes, a stupid uninformed brain dead celeb who thinks she knows about seals.

Canadian Inuit post 'sealfies' after Ellen DeGeneres donates $1.5M from Oscar selfie to anti-sealing campaign

quote:
“Once in a while, a new pretty blond celebrity comes along and drowns our voice out,” Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, an Inuk from Iqaluit who’s organizing the protest, said Thursday. “I was surprised to see this time it’s Ellen.”
Shut the hell up.
 
Posted by Yam-pk (# 12791) on :
 
TICTH BPD (borderline personality disorder) and the vicious effect it has on those who suffer from it, and on the people who try to love them.
 
Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :
 
TICTH Incompetent pharmacists who manage to confuse the button for:

"fill this prescription right away because your inability to communicate has already cost the customer six times as much time in waiting than you originally told her, on a day when she didn't have time to spare"

with the button for :

"cancel this prescription, because just what the customer wants to do with her already half-wasted afternoon is waste the rest of it by calling the on-call after-hours physician a second time to get this prescription ordered yet again and then haring off to a totally different pharmacy to pick it up because she is never going to do business with you again"
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Can we rig a satellite to pinpoint and laser-blast anyone who uses the word "conversate"? No mercy?
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Aw, but you just used it Kelly. Now can I ask you to hold still for a moment? Correcting aim for parallax...
 
Posted by FooloftheShip (# 15579) on :
 
Please turn that laser on Lambeth Palace. This would be a kindness to all concerned. The current occupant is suffering from severe feebleness of mind.
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
TICTH ......ANYone who stubbornly refuses to file their documents and then creates widespread mayhem when they can't find their paperwork [Mad]
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
Nestlé, for moving in on 3rd world (like Pakistan) countries' only source s of clean water so as to bottle it for sale elsewhere while the inhabitants have to drink sewerage-infected water.
 
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by leo:
Nestlé, for moving in on 3rd world (like Pakistan) countries' only source s of clean water so as to bottle it for sale elsewhere while the inhabitants have to drink sewerage-infected water.

Link, please? Ta.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Wesley J:
quote:
Originally posted by leo:
Nestlé, for moving in on 3rd world (like Pakistan) countries' only source s of clean water so as to bottle it for sale elsewhere while the inhabitants have to drink sewerage-infected water.

Link, please? Ta.
The link would be to a campaign and we are not allowed to link to campaigns.

I could PM it to you if you wish and it is allowed.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
I just Googled "Nestle Pakistan Water" and found dozens of links.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
The young people who attempted to enter houses, including mine, on Thursday night. They only did a little damage to my nice new doorframe which I can sort with some of that paint for repairing white goods. The policeman who came round today to see if anyone had heard anything, and pointed out my damage, reckoned they were not professionals, who know which doors give way to screwdrivers and are not worth trying.

Note, this is the night the light went off. However, the front of the property has public lighting and porch lights.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by leo:
Nestlé, for moving in on 3rd world (like Pakistan) countries' only source s of clean water so as to bottle it for sale elsewhere while the inhabitants have to drink sewerage-infected water.

The company has campaigned successfully to have water defined as a need, not a right, so access is not protected.
I can't boycott them any more than I am already doing.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH pain. Shoulder pain that won't.go.away from an ill-considered attempt to keep Mr. Lamb from doing the snow-and-ice shoveling. Now I gotta go to freaking physical therapy. And hip pain [Confused] from virtuous attempts to get in shape. And brain pain, from trying to figure out Windows 8 point fucking one.

ouchouchouchouch ouchouchouch ouchouchOUCH

ETA: Snarl.

[ 06. April 2014, 00:28: Message edited by: Lamb Chopped ]
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
TITCH insects. Specifically, the rice weevils and pantry moths which are infesting my stored food in record numbers, the slugs and snails which are trying to eat my fresh food before it really even grows, the wasps who come in through any open window and then fly dementedly around all the closed ones trying to find a way out, and last of all, the goddamn bee which stung my foot three days ago. I have a swelling the size of a child's hand, which hurts during the night and itches during the day, and which shows no real sign of resolving at this stage. Ice is my friend. Insects - are not.
 
Posted by ken (# 2460) on :
 
You need more spiders.
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
Buy a Mazda, and you shall have more spiders.

Yes, really.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
Only you, Chast.
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
Only you, Chast.

Well, I am a bear.
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by ChastMastr:
Buy a Mazda, and you shall have more spiders.

Yes, really.

Hah! Actually, I have a Mazda 6 - but I don't keep it in the house...
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
*sigh*

Enough with the pointless spider tangent. TICTH is a cosine only zone. You can discuss spiders, cars, and spiders in cars, but you can't do it here.

Go. Away.

Ariston, Grumpy Hellhost
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Light's back. And it was turned on after 1 am.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Dear Diary,

That strange woman is opening her curtains, checking her watch and taking notes again. In the middle of the night.
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by anoesis:
TITCH insects. Specifically, the rice weevils and pantry moths which are infesting my stored food in record numbers, the slugs and snails which are trying to eat my fresh food before it really even grows,

Since when have slugs and snails been insects?
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
Dear Diary,

That strange woman is opening her curtains, checking her watch and taking notes again. In the middle of the night.

No- I got in late, noted the light was off, woke up later to go to the loo, noted it was on.

What is strange is that I prefer to sleep without curtains so I can see the stars and the trees and the birds when awake! (Shades of Fotherington-Thomas, there.) Oh, and the planes turning at the end of their run up from Heathrow.

Actually, what the room has at the moment is blinds and if they are down, the room looks like an office or a clinic room or something, not a bedroom. Putting up curtains will be a problem.

I found I could sleep without curtains when I had men supposedly coming to fit double glazing to my last place, and they decided to do another task first after I had taken everything down, and I couldn't be bothered to put it back up for one night.

But, security lights should, by law be confined to the intended area, which is implied is the property of the light owner, and this light fails to light their garden. The position on not going out when not needed is not clear when the light can be operated by the owner. (Been checking up on the campaign for dark skies.)

Next good seeing night I'm going out to look at Jupiter, and offering the opportunity to selected neighbours.

[ 06. April 2014, 12:03: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
...that was WAY too much information.
 
Posted by QLib (# 43) on :
 
My ex-neighbour, who I heard on national radio yesterday claiming that modern industrial-scale chicken farms don't smell. Like fuck they don't.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
[Killing me] Has he got no sense of smell?

TICTH me and all my insecurities, which are making me freak out worrying about a part time job which could be a fabulous opportunity and even an adventure. I mean, they won't eat me! [I think. [Paranoid] ]
 
Posted by mark_in_manchester (# 15978) on :
 
Hey LC, I felt like that about mine, and it turned out great - I've really been enjoying it.

TICTH the HR dept who must have read my mind, and offered me a year on top of this 3 month temporary...on 60% of the money, which was already small. Ouch - I could earn more in a burger bar. I am going to play hard to get. It is bound to misfire.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
[Killing me] Are you my long-lost twin? Already I'm saying that it'll all go south on Tuesday, the first day I show up...

TICTH brainwashing bastards and all their works and all their evil ways.
 
Posted by QLib (# 43) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
[Killing me] Has he got no sense of smell?

As he owns and runs the farm in question, I suspect he blocks his nostrils with bank notes.
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by QLib:
quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
[Killing me] Has he got no sense of smell?

As he owns and runs the farm in question, I suspect he blocks his nostrils with bank notes.
If you have the same smell in your nostrils all the time, you stop noticing it or at least notice it less.

Moo
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
That's charitable. Though in the case of chicken shit, I'm amazed that ANYBODY could get used to it.
 
Posted by QLib (# 43) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Moo:
quote:
Originally posted by QLib:
quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
[Killing me] Has he got no sense of smell?

As he owns and runs the farm in question, I suspect he blocks his nostrils with bank notes.
If you have the same smell in your nostrils all the time, you stop noticing it or at least notice it less.
Or maybe something to do with the fact that he lives both upwind and up river. Actually, I am not even sure he lives locally any more - apparently he has Mega-Agri-Business holdings spread across at least three counties. He's married into the aristocracy, too, so perhaps that's why he thinks his shit don't stink
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Dark last night.

Meanwhile, the man who is making me want to find a branch of the militant atheists to join.

Eric Pickles, community secretary, claims those atheists should accept the UK to be a Christian country and get over it, and non-believers should not be able to impose "politically correct intolerance*" on others. Specifically, stopping prayers at the start of council meetings, apparently, which he believes, apparently, he prevented by overruling a judge(but which is argued in one source, he was impotent to do). (Search Eric Pickles militant atheists to select your link of choice, Telegraph, Huffington, Guardian, and read the intemperate comments beneath.)

With friends like this, from a government which enacts and executes policies which do not sit well with the mandates of the founder, does Christianity need enemies?

*I suggest that if something is correct, it cannot be intolerant.

[ 07. April 2014, 12:44: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
TI (happily) CTH our cat who can't aim her peeing into the litter tray. Why? Why sit there balanced on the very edge of a litter tray with your head facing the tray and your damn silly backside hanging all over my beautifully clean floor?
Why were there three chairs and a table between us when i noticed? AND when i cleaned up, why did you sit there and stare at me like i was the one who had lost the plot?

You are one ridiculous moggy and for today i have gone right off you
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH my trapezius muscle in spasm for a month now, and bloody Tylenol and ibuprofen won't shift the pain, and it's my dominant arm. Got a call in to the doctor, hoping for something stronger. No good deed goes unpunished--I'd been shoveling snow and ice to keep Mr. Lamb from doing so. Ha. Ouch!
 
Posted by mark_in_manchester (# 15978) on :
 
Ouch indeed. With luck, the Doctor will prescribe Codeine. Lucky, if you like prune juice, that is...
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
heheheheheheh. with both that and the iron pills, I should be tighter than an owl.

[ 07. April 2014, 21:38: Message edited by: Lamb Chopped ]
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Went to the Dollar Store today, and an elderly Asian woman behind me, with one small box in her hand, asked if she could go ahead of me. I allowed her. The woman in front of me did also, although with a terse, put upon attitude. She and the cashier complained loudly as she walked away, after the 72 second transaction was complete. In the interim, a few people had gathered behind me-- I had been last in line before that, and a string of complains about people moving forward in line ensued.

Humans just suck. If all it takes for people to get pissed off is for one person to be kind to another, I am glad I fucked up your day. Grow a sense of perspective. assholes.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
The Guardian for printing letters which refer not to the paper version, but to the online version of the day before. In this case, Giles Fraser on Eric Pickles - see above. Nice to know he wants to join the militant atheists, too, though.
 
Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :
 
TICTH whoever thought that having cooking programme, the Great British Menu commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D Day landings was a good idea. Sample dish today 'We Are Captains of Your Souls (Soles)'. Hilarious. "Does this dish evoke the Normandy Invasion"? I bloody hope not.
 
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
Yes indeed. Eating pigeon to commemorate the carrier pigeons was rather peculiar, too.

Definitely a big error of judgement for the whole thing.
 
Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :
 
TICTH getting thrown under the bus.

I also CTH people who think email is a place to raise difficult subjects. Fuck you and your "I'm so shitting correct and wronged against, and I'm going to copy the grown ups so they can see how right I am and how horrid AR is. In Christian love of course" shit. How the fuck about "gee, you've been ducking communication with me, are you OK?" How the fuck about "I claimed to have been through a trauma and lost trust in you; I'm wondering if the same happened to you. Are you OK? What do you need?" But I forget, oh high and mighty claiming to be called by God bastard, you haven't got an empathetic bone in your body.

Fuck this shit.
 
Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
to impose "politically correct intolerance*" on others. Specifically, stopping prayers at the start of council meetings,

...


*I suggest that if something is correct, it cannot be intolerant.

I suggest that if someone calls something 'correct' it doesn't necessarily follow that it is.
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Anglican't:
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
to impose "politically correct intolerance*" on others. Specifically, stopping prayers at the start of council meetings,

...


*I suggest that if something is correct, it cannot be intolerant.

I suggest that if someone calls something 'correct' it doesn't necessarily follow that it is.
I have more problems on an ongoing basis with people who think that if you put "politically" in front of "correct" it automatically becomes wrong.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Feel free to start a Hell thread on political correctness, anyone. It could be a bestseller.
 
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
TICTH the ongoing live (!) and then endlessly reported news with sound and video snippets from the ghastly Pistorius murder trial in ZA, unavoidable even on BBC Radio 4, who think it's their duty to let the listeners partake in every minute detail.

No, I am not interested, thank you very much, it's not of any personal concern to me. I am not into voyeurism - let the judicial system do what it has to do. But spare us the constant bloody updates. There's no human dignity or any grace in this, neither for the victim nor the accused.

Gruesome and despicable. [brick wall]

[ 09. April 2014, 17:26: Message edited by: Wesley J ]
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
TICTH, all of Dell's blasted and sodding process for retrieving passwords. I hate all their safe mode and start orbs and the instructions for F8 buttons and all the rest do damn all to start up the rest of my netbook; the majority of the netbook indeed. Blastedness. All of 'em. And it's fish for tea tonight and the laundry's up. Sod it.
 
Posted by Jonah the Whale (# 1244) on :
 
Windows 8
 
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Jonah the Whale:
Windows 8

Preach it, brother!
 
Posted by Mockingale (# 16599) on :
 
Lawyers. Fuck 'em.
 
Posted by Leaf (# 14169) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Mockingale:
Lawyers. Fuck 'em.

Best not to. A girl can get splinters from sliding down a barrister.

(thanks, Dorothy Parker!)
 
Posted by Mockingale (# 16599) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Leaf:
quote:
Originally posted by Mockingale:
Lawyers. Fuck 'em.

Best not to. A girl can get splinters from sliding down a barrister.

(thanks, Dorothy Parker!)

Nice!
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Mockingale:
Lawyers. Fuck 'em.

Lawyers a varied bunch...

*raises lyre overhead with both hands*
 
Posted by mark_in_manchester (# 15978) on :
 
TICTH Ofsted, who two years ago rated my kids' RC primary as outstanding in all areas, and yesterday published a report saying inadequate in all areas. Same staff, same syllabus. What a pile of bullshit.

I spent last night painting 'support your teachers' banners and printing 'tracts' to gain parental signatures along the same lines. My mate, who drives lorries at night, translated it into Polish somewhere on the M6. I'm furious, and ready to hit the playground, not to mention any number of Pharisaical pedagogues. [Mad]
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
But not the same children, Mark. It could be that the children who have joined the school since the last inspection have a greater potential for intellectual progress?

There are plenty of good-ish schools with fair results who reach a stage and plateau - which can be dangerous.

And for children who are very bright not being stretched can lead to boredom, first with that particular school then with the education system as a whole.
 
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
TICTH red ants - vicious little bastards!
 
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
TICTH my own fucking stupidity when I rubbed my eye shortly after I had eaten a chilli bhaji with chilli sauce. Do NOT try this at home!
 
Posted by mark_in_manchester (# 15978) on :
 
quote:
It could be that the children who have joined the school since the last inspection have a greater potential for intellectual progress?
Ahh, that'll be it. There had to be a reason a highly trained inspection team on a two-day visit produced a result at odds with 97% of the parent respondents who reported strong satisfaction with the school and a preparedness to recommend the school to others. Not to mention a similar percentage who have signed a petition in support of the staff, and expressing no confidence in the inspection report - FWIW. What do I know about my kids' education; after all, I was only a lecturer for 20 years.

And sorry to hear about your eye, WW. Manchester eye hospital is near me, and I have guilt-tripped myself into 'sightsavers' donations each time I got myself with an angle-grinder and had to go there shame-faced. Perhaps like me you need to adopt proper eye protection!
 
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
But not the same children, Mark.

And not the same Inspectors, either, I expect. Sometimes you read two reports on the same school and wonder if it IS the same school - different teams can have a very different approach, and pick up on very different things.
 
Posted by Rev per Minute (# 69) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
But not the same children, Mark.

And not the same Inspectors, either, I expect. Sometimes you read two reports on the same school and wonder if it IS the same school - different teams can have a very different approach, and pick up on very different things.
It's quite likely that the inspectors had already decided before arriving at the school 'based' on the information shared beforehand. Or dare I say it may have more to do with a plan to turn all state schools into 'free' (hollow laugh) or academy schools?

I could happily CTH various Secretaries of State and Ministers for Education for the wish to pick and prod at school systems and change everything every few years. But as I work for one of them I should stay quiet... [Mad]
 
Posted by Japes (# 5358) on :
 
Builders who start noisily at 7.30 a.m. every day, including today for the last seven days...

Which is the least of their inconsiderate iniquities so far.

It's going to be a long few months, and a lot of phone calls to their bosses.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Japes:
Builders who start noisily at 7.30 a.m. every day, including today for the last seven days...

Which is the least of their inconsiderate iniquities so far.

It's going to be a long few months, and a lot of phone calls to their bosses.

They aren't building something for you then?
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Japes:
Builders who start noisily at 7.30 a.m. every day, including today for the last seven days...

Any loud building work is against the bye-laws in this city and in several other English cities - you can report them.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH muscle spasms, which refuse to go away and require painful physical therapy (had to get narcotics for aftermath of Friday) and which prevent me from being anything but a slug. There is a house to clean!
 
Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :
 
TICTH ... ah, screw it, you're not even worth the key presses to CYTH. You can go fuck yourself.

And Hallelujah other people see through your shit and I'll only ever have to be in the same room with you one more time ever again.

[Yipee] to the end of agony, you manipulative lying scheming conniving delusional bastard.
 
Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :
 
Bishops.

But I really, really doubt I'm alone in that.
 
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Adeodatus:
Bishops ...

What, all of them? [Eek!]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Bad back. I'm supposed to be at a meeting up the road, and I'm needing the lifting option to get out the chair.

Mind you, I didn't really want to go.

[ 15. April 2014, 19:02: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
quote:
Originally posted by Adeodatus:
Bishops ...

What, all of them? [Eek!]
Yesterday I was struggling to think of one I wouldn't CTH.

Do you think the application form for the job includes the bullet-point
quote:
The successful applicant will display a chronic inability to find his own arse, even when using both hands
?
 
Posted by Qoheleth. (# 9265) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Adeodatus:
Yesterday I was struggling to think of one I wouldn't CTH

Even +Buckingham ?
 
Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Qoheleth.:
quote:
Originally posted by Adeodatus:
Yesterday I was struggling to think of one I wouldn't CTH

Even +Buckingham ?
If you've got the pointy hat, you do the time. There is such a thing as keeping bad company. In this case, I'll let him sit on Welby's shoulders in the lake of fire.
 
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
What about our very own pete173? Can he sit on +Buckingham's shoulders? Might look like this, in the end?
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
I'd go along with at least some of the bishops.

The CofE has far too many - and the insistence on keeping this inflated number only goes to shine a spotlight on how small the pool from which they're chosen is and how little talent is out there.

As I've said in another thread, there should be an immediate freeze on appointing any more suffragans. I can see a case being made for Canterbury, York, London and Oxford having a suffragan by virtue of either other responsibilities (archbishops) or number of parishes.

A serious and urgent review should be made of the number of dioceses and a timetable drawn up to reverse the expansion of their number. The geographical arguments used in time past no longer hold water in the internet age: in fact they've been redundant since the widespread availability of telephones and the development of decent roads.
 
Posted by Jemima the 9th (# 15106) on :
 
TICTH 2 day headaches. And the seeming inability of any of the men in my life not to behave like knobs.

I suspect one problem may possibly be related to the other.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
TICTH people who stick their chewing gum to stair handrails. There are some of us who need these rails to negotiate stairs. And we do not wish to have a mixture of your old gum and saliva stuck to our hands. There should be a tenth circle of Hell for these people.
 
Posted by Porridge (# 15405) on :
 
TICTH the Medicaid personnel who sent back three reports this month as "not meeting standard." Seriously?! WHAT @#$#*%!! standard?! Show me the @#$#*%!! standard in your gazillion-page manual -- oh, wait -- you CAN'T, BECAUSE THERE IS NONE, you semi-headed sloth-toed cave-dwelling feather-witted rubber-elbowed noodle-necked cross-bred gene-splintered excuse for a bureaucrat with dustbunnies for brains.

Over the years, you have accepted reports written in appalling grammar, which plainly indicate nothing whatsoever to do with a person's ISP, which were effing handwritten (before I ever worked here) in cursive (I guess) so deformed as to make it impossible to determine what fucking language they're written in, and these returned reports are lightyears ahead of most of what's in my client files, and you've returned them why, exactly? So now either two of my staff don't get paid, or my agency's meniscus-thin budget goes south for the fucking month? What? Don't you fucking have enough to DO?! Come up here and deal yourself with the client who's keeping a decomposing dead ferret in his living room then, and YOU write the fucking report TO STANDARD MY FUCKING EYE. Fuck you.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH the numpties who have been working on a standard for three months and submit it for QR at 11am for return by 2pm the same day.

I suppose you have some stupid "Must complete it by Easter" target and I hope others join me in giving it an unconditional fail.
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
TICTH old age and the slow decline of cognitive abilities, the shrivelling of horizons, the slow turning away and inwards from friendships or shared activities.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Still the bad back. I'm currently in a recliner chair which can propel me out of it, which I could lower the back of to sleep in, possibly. If I go to bed, it takes forever to get out. There is no loo on this floor. Didn't sleep much last night, having propped myself up in order to make getting out easier.
It's not agony or anything, but it makes moving really difficult, with unexpected twinges, and muscles that usually work apparently off on holiday.
 
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
TICTH BIG red ants - a rather bigger variety than the red ants I called to hell the other day. Yes, I know they are part of God's wonderful creation but I hate the bastards!
 
Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
TICTH oil seed rape and the resulting asthma attacks and hayfever it engenders. Bastarding thing.
 
Posted by mdijon (# 8520) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Porridge:
you CAN'T, BECAUSE THERE IS NONE, you semi-headed sloth-toed cave-dwelling feather-witted rubber-elbowed noodle-necked cross-bred gene-splintered excuse for a bureaucrat with dustbunnies for brains.

That was tremendous. I hope you feel better for that, because I certainly would if I could rant like that.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH the Nine Network in Australia for their complete inability to have a properly working episode player on their 'catch-up TV' website. The other four networks can do it, so why the blazes does yours work so badly?
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
TICTH Facebook.

On one of my rare logins I saw a note on a friend's page; "Why is Facebook wishing her a happy birthday when she died last November?" I didn't know she had died.

[Votive]
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
Why's that Facebook's fault?
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
People have called God to Hell, Erin to Hell, The Ship to Hell and (I think) Hell has been called to Hell.

So long as it doesn't cause a board war, any damn thing can be called to Hell, except I suppose Satan and Nixon, who are already there for sure.
 
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
Sinusitis and hayfever, especially when you forget to take an antihistamine and need to go to a garden centre.
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
Facebook should stop sending messages encouraging people to send birthday greetings to the recently deceased.
 
Posted by Chocoholic (# 4655) on :
 
In fairness, unless they are notified they can't be expected to know.
I understand that they do need some proof however (for understandable reasons). I can understand why you find this a painful experience though.

Ok, ok not very hellish.

(Spelling)

[ 19. April 2014, 18:24: Message edited by: Chocoholic ]
 
Posted by Darllenwr (# 14520) on :
 
MS.

That is all.
 
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Darllenwr:
MS.

That is all.

OH yes. [Mad]
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Darllenwr:
MS.

That is all.

word.

fuck that shit.
 
Posted by Beethoven (# 114) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
quote:
Originally posted by Darllenwr:
MS.

That is all.

word.

fuck that shit.

Yep.
 
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
Sinusitis and hayfever, especially when you forget to take an antihistamine and need to go to a garden centre.

You too? I was at Wisley on Monday. I feel for you.
 
Posted by Bene Gesserit (# 14718) on :
 
TICTH the Finance Monster. May it turn square and fester at the corners!! [Mad]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Bene Gesserit:
TICTH the Finance Monster. May it turn square and fester at the corners!! [Mad]

You got month left at the end of the money?
 
Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :
 
TITCH the digital gremlins that are making my wifi misfire. Evil little bastards. Everything is taking three times as long and I'm ready to take a sledgehammer to my laptop. Aagh!
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
TICTH b/f of a new neighbour.

b/f surreptitiously peeks into each and every car the length and breadth of our street, on a regular basis; his taste in music is appalling and yet generously shared with the entire street; behaviour towards g/f leaves much to be desired.

Does the command to love our neighbours Have to include their Significant Others? [Mad]

[ 26. April 2014, 12:59: Message edited by: Ethne Alba ]
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
quote:
b/f surreptitiously peeks into each and every car the length and breadth of our street, on a regular basis; his taste in music is appalling and yet generously shared with the entire street
Would be much funnier if those two things were really linked.
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
[Would he nick an opera CD .........]
 
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
quote:
surreptitiously peeks into each and every car
This just begs for someone to lie in wait, ready to pop up wearing a monster mask, while another person gets the reaction on camera.
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Twilight:
quote:
surreptitiously peeks into each and every car
This just begs for someone to lie in wait, ready to pop up wearing a monster mask, while another person gets the reaction on camera.
While singing opera.
 
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
TICTH a near sleepless night, which will make today's 8.10-5.40 teaching day crippling. I probably won't make tonight's choral society rehearsal. [Mad]
 
Posted by Ian Climacus (# 944) on :
 
Bloody bipolar. Even a frog quietly croaking in the garden has me screaming in frustration at the low tolerance I have for any noise currently. All things bright and beautiful not.

No online study tonight then.

[ 28. April 2014, 10:11: Message edited by: Ian Climacus ]
 
Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :
 
TICTH hay fever. I normally get fairly mild hay fever sometime around the beginning June. But just yesterday it started kicking in, a month early, and it's the grandmother of all hay fevers. By last night (when it was way too late to go out and stock up on antihistamines) every bone in my body was aching, I had a hammering headache and a head full of phlegm. This morning I've crawled into work where I can happily spend much the day in an enclosed office with air conditioning that filters out most of the Pollen from Hell.

I concur with the previous poster on the subject of all things sodding bright and sodding beautiful. Bastards, the lot of them.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH HMRC

No, not Bernie Ecclestone who is simply doing what any rational person would do, but the craven taxman, showing that the rich can, thanks to their access to legal and accounting talent, avoid tax to an extent than ordinary ""hard-working" people only dream of.
 
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Ian Climacus and Adeodatus - do you know this?
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
TICTH - Electric kettles, normal and rapid boil.

Devil take the lot of them - they arrive in this house and die within 13 months but always just out of the warranty period.

I've bought yet another new one - 6th since 2008 : if this one dies I'll go back to the whistling on the hob variety. [Mad]
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
TICTH (well, not really, but...) the older guy upstairs who seemed have gotten "lucky" last night and decided to make the most of it. They seemed have been all over the room above me with lots of bumping, stomping, furniture shoving-around, and inarticulate groans and cries- possibly some of the BDSM variety. Frankly, I'm in awe of his stamina, but it made for a very long night.

8:30 AM and it's still going on. I'm tired. [Snore]
 
Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Ian Climacus and Adeodatus - do you know this?

I have a new favourite hymn.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
TICTH - Electric kettles, normal and rapid boil.

initially read this as "electric kittens" and the rapid boil option seemed so intriguing. alas.
 
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
TICTH - Electric kettles, normal and rapid boil...........
I've bought yet another new one - 6th since 2008 : if this one dies I'll go back to the whistling on the hob variety. [Mad]

There was a corridor between the kitchen and living room in my previous home. If both doors were shut I couldn't hear the kettle whistling, and burned out two on the hob before giving in and buying an electric one...
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
Tradespeople who don't get back to you when they said they would and are not clear when they are coming. Yeah I have nothing better to do with my day than hang about waiting for you.

The rain. My roof has sprung a leak and is dripping into my kitchen. A friend says there is little that can be done about it but I just may have to ring yet another tradie (sigh).

March was the wettest since records began here and April isn't much better.

Huia
 
Posted by Ian Climacus (# 944) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Adeodatus:
quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Ian Climacus and Adeodatus - do you know this?

I have a new favourite hymn.
Wondrous; thank you WW.
 
Posted by cheesymarzipan (# 9442) on :
 
TICTH clients who don't pay their bills.
 
Posted by Stumbling Pilgrim (# 7637) on :
 
The BNP. (can I say that?) For their broadcast tonight, among other horrors using 'soldiers' at a memorial and the name of Lee Rigby as channels for their vile outpourings. The only reason I'm not C them TH for this is that I don't know for sure that it's true. Surely even they wouldn't stoop low enough to produce something so vile it would inevitably be censored just so they could then play the martyr about being 'denied freedom of speech'?
(Hosts, if I've said anything potentially libellous, please feel free to delete, but I need to vent)

[ 29. April 2014, 19:18: Message edited by: Stumbling Pilgrim ]
 
Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 
TICTH Death. I would have really really liked to have one more beer with my Daddy, you black-robed basterd!!!!
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Trivial, compared with the above.

The external hard drive I use to record programes from my bedroom TV, or possibly the software on that TV.

The TV reports it needs to be reformatted with loss of all recordings, which it will not display. The drive still contains them, and I can view them on my downstairs computer. If I keep it to do that, I can't record any more until I've watched them all. Or else I have to buy another HDD to use instead.

Drat.
 
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
TICTH the thinking that it is acceptable to risk this happening when pursuing the ideology of the death penalty. If you are really convinced you have to kill people (crap idea, but that's another thread) you need to do it fast and clean. This is just barbaric and horrific. Yes, their crimes were too, but the state should not be emulating them.

[ 30. April 2014, 08:06: Message edited by: Lucia ]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
I don't understand why Dignitas can do it so easily and painlessly, and the executioners can't.

A thought crosses my mind as to why, but it's a very nasty one.
 
Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by BessHiggs:
TICTH Death.

Came here to post exactly this. Frankly, Death can go fuck itself.
 
Posted by Stercus Tauri (# 16668) on :
 
TICTH: Virgin Mobile for irretrievably vapourising my phone account (and the cash in it) and cancelling the phone number without telling me, three days before I am due back in Scotland. Phone companies must take up a hell of a lot of space in Hell.
 
Posted by Alban (# 9047) on :
 
TITCH the stupid mindless drones in the payroll department who think the days I rostered myself on as available for work and they didn't give me any count as days I worked for when calculating Public Holiday Leave. That's more than half the "days worked" in the year. Which means I am paid for my public holiday leave at less than half the minimum wage.
A second slap in the face for someone who has been struggling to survive for the past months they have found me no work. Grr. Still job hunting.
 
Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH family squabbles, and the lack of money that is the root cause of the particular one I'm undergoing.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
A charity that sent me the same email no less than 117 times over a 24 hour period.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH lazy journalists. The comparison between this emotive headline (about an issue affecting me, which is why I went checking for news) and the complete lack of strong emotion in the tweets that accompany the story is pathetic.

[ 03. May 2014, 01:37: Message edited by: orfeo ]
 
Posted by Ian Climacus (# 944) on :
 
Management attempts to force...sorry foster...solidarity, purpose and values in companies.

We now have "rules of the game" which we all had to agree to and which must be printed and stuck up on the wall next to our desk. These rules encompass such gems as: turn up to meetings on time and be fully engaged; be respectful; and foster a sense of urgency. The only sense of urgency I had was to run to the toilet and [Projectile]

[I agree "be respectful" is laudable btw, but being told it makes me feel as though I am in kindergarten... And it came from a manager who shoots down in no uncertain terms any idea he does not like!]

[ 03. May 2014, 11:34: Message edited by: Ian Climacus ]
 
Posted by Tubbs (# 440) on :
 
The Evangelical Alliance. For telling me that my belief in equal marriage means I'm no longer an evangelical. For rejecting the idea of open dissent and replacing it with telling others what to do and think. For introducing a fifth pillar of evangelicalism. And for being all over stuff like this and not being interested in other, more serious issues.

The Evangelical Closed Shop

Tubbs
 
Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Well said, Tubbs! [Smile]

[ 03. May 2014, 13:34: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
 
Posted by FooloftheShip (# 15579) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ian Climacus:
Management attempts to force...sorry foster...solidarity, purpose and values in companies.

We now have "rules of the game" which we all had to agree to and which must be printed and stuck up on the wall next to our desk. These rules encompass such gems as: turn up to meetings on time and be fully engaged; be respectful; and foster a sense of urgency. The only sense of urgency I had was to run to the toilet and [Projectile]

[I agree "be respectful" is laudable btw, but being told it makes me feel as though I am in kindergarten... And it came from a manager who shoots down in no uncertain terms any idea he does not like!]

Hear hear!!!!!! No different at all this side of the globe ;[
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
I'll CTH any management behavior that makes employees feel like five-year-olds, including the one I had imposed on me: "Let's go around the table at every meeting and share one insight or success we've experienced in the past week." Great. Thirty minutes of meeting time wasted on faux team building before ever we started the real topic.
 
Posted by tessaB (# 8533) on :
 
TICTH teeth! Particularly broken ones. I look like a freak and will have to pay a fortune to have it fixed. There has to be a better way, don't talk to me about evolution or intelligent design, no-one with any scrap of intelligence would have dreamt these nightmares up!
 
Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :
 
TICTH my fucking broken back door knob which I can't figure out how the fuck to fix. Put the indoors knob back on its axle and screw in two screws, how the fuck hard should that be? Too fucking hard, apparently.
 
Posted by JFH (# 14794) on :
 
Do a lockpick skill check and roll a 10+ on a d20.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
Matrix boards at bus stops - last night, it told me that the next bus was due in 57 minutes.

Can't wait - call a taxi.

As taxi arrives, the bus turns up - the one that was due in 3 mins but which the board neglected to mention.

Do the makers of matrix boards have shares in taxi firms?
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH posts and letters to the papers that begin "So, ......".

It's an immature, passive-aggressive gesture and prevents anything resembling rational debate.

Grow up people.
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by leo:
As taxi arrives, the bus turns up - the one that was due in 3 mins but which the board neglected to mention.

On the bright side, you have a taxi service that turns up within 3 minutes.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
People who think the single word "so" is an adequate answer to an argument (that's the serious non aggressive use of argument).
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lord Jestocost:
quote:
Originally posted by leo:
As taxi arrives, the bus turns up - the one that was due in 3 mins but which the board neglected to mention.

On the bright side, you have a taxi service that turns up within 3 minutes.
Only because the bus stop is next to a taxi rank.
 
Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :
 
This is going to sound like a whining, self-obsessed rant. I don't care.


Dear bishops of the Church of England,

as is well known, you dislike same-sex relationships, particularly among your clergy. As is also well known, this means that many gay clergy, taking seriously their promises of obedience to the discipline of the Church, live solitary and often lonely lives. Many of them have at some point had to make a choice between the comfort of a human relationship and obedience to the Church.

As may be slightly less well known, that's not the whole truth. It doesn't, for example, tell the story of those 'fashionable' gay clergy – those who've attracted the bishop's favour, and are often in positions of considerable preferment – to whom the normal rules don't apply. It doesn't tell the story of those who quite openly live in same-sex relationships and don't attract a murmur from the bishops and other members of the hierarchy, who profess to disapprove of that sort of thing – 'but not for you, dear.' It doesn't tell the story of the same-sex partners who are welcome at all the right Church events, provided the guest list is carefully managed. In a nutshell, it doesn't tell of the favours shown to these, and the threats (often implicit or passive, but real nevertheless) made to others.

Now, don't get me wrong. I think it's wonderful that you're so open and accepting of the relationships of these favoured few. What I don't think is wonderful is that you exercise one rule for them and a very different rule for everyone else. What I don't think is wonderful is that if you know the right people and have the right connections, you're allowed to live in a very different world.

So, bishops, I would like to say this: fuck you. Fuck your hypocrisy. Fuck your two-faced cowardice. Fuck your lies. Fuck you for the times I've felt I've had to choose between human comfort and Church obedience, and have chosen obedience. Fuck you for the times I've been made to feel like a second-class priest. Fuck you for all that I've let go of, for the sake of your rules.

Fuck you for the sacrifice. Because you know what? It wasn't worth it. It wasn't fucking worth it, to sacrifice what I did and then watch from a distance as you turn a blind eye for those who've made no such sacrifice. Fuck every blessing you've given them, and denied me. From the depth of my heart, fuck the whole damned lot of you.

Yours in Christ,

the Revd Adeodatus
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Amen!
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
you tell'em, Rev A! fuck those guys.
 
Posted by Chocoholic (# 4655) on :
 
[Votive] Adeodatus
 
Posted by Mad Cat (# 9104) on :
 
TICTH my fuckwitted line manager.

We start our new timetable tomorrow, with various new classes. The one constant was to be my S4 class, a bottom set and a tricky bunch. This was a promise made for the sake of continuity, given we are implementing a bunch of new exams and new school day timings. I got on with planning the first lessons, 2 periods either side of morning break (first time we've had double periods too - gag). I thought to myself, I know what I'm in for. Steady the buffs. It'll be fine.

OR SO I THOUGHT......

Fuckwit hands out S4 class lists this afternoon, and 8 additional pupils have been added to my list. This is no longer the same class. I don't know the new kids, and I have no idea how some of the really volatile pupils in my class will react. I start to get concerned.

I quickly begin to think through the practical implications of having 24 needy pupils in my room instead of 17. I'm unlikely to have a learning assistant until the exams are over. Provision of IT for extended writing projects will be a headache. This is all quite shit.

But the thing that makes me furious, furious to the point of nausea, is that she made up this spreadsheet last week and waited until today to hand it to me. The fucking coward. If she'd flagged this up last week, I'd have got my head round it. As it is, I've come home, had a meltdown about the emptiness, had a meltdown on the phone to my mum, made a list, had a word with myself and now all that remains is the fury. The cold, hard fury.

The net result of her cowardice will either be that she goes back and reworks her class lists, or that fire and brimstone rains down from a darkened heaven for 40 days and 40 nights (over an area restricted to the coast of Scotland east of Edinburgh. Wouldn't want to inconvenience anyone else too much. Or block the A1.)

In any event, she's lost any goodwill she had stored up for her. I already got her out of a tight spot with the new timetable by taking the lower ability seniors when she couldn't give me the Higher class she said I'd get to teach this year.

Fuck that shit.
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
you tell'em, Rev A! fuck those guys.

I think part of the problem is he can't (or won't).
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH those online pop quizzes - which Simpsons character are you? which Ben & Jerry ice cream flavour are you? etc etc.

I just did one, and really liked the result because of the explanation that went with it. So I posted it on my Facebook. Only to find that on Facebook, it just showed the result and not the explanation.

Delete post 4 minutes later. Bunch of frauds who just want the web traffic.
 
Posted by Rosa Winkel (# 11424) on :
 
Fucking right, Adeodatus man.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Adeodatus:
This is going to sound like a whining, self-obsessed rant. I don't care. Dear bishops of the Church of England,

If only they were forced to read this.

I doubt very much that most bishops have any understanding about this. It's obvious from the misuse of statistics in The Pilling Report, which none of them has challenged, and from their badly, insensitively-worded 'Pastoral' letter re- same-sex marriage that they don't know much or care.

Maybe it is a duty to disobey them in such circumstances.
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
So, the husband of a lady from church is doing time for sex offences committed 20 years ago but only recently brought to light.

His wife and 1 year old son are playing in the garden. Next door their neighbour's 3 year old granddaughter, who has played with the little boy before, asks neighbour if she can play with the baby. And is very firmly (and loudly) told, "no, we don't play with nasty people. You're not to ask that again."

Did I mention the little boy is 1? Can you calculate that the offences were committed 19 years before he was born? Can you infer that he is growing up without a daddy and could do with some friends?

[Mad]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
Lord Jestocost, I can forgive you the "So, ..." in that.
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Lord Jestocost, I can forgive you the "So, ..." in that.

Thank you. It's the stress.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
you tell'em, Rev A! fuck those guys.

I think part of the problem is he can't (or won't).
I don't understand Hell but I do think that this response is insensitive, even for Hell.

Ad.'s post sounded like a cry for help.

I'd rather share his anger than make light of it.
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lord Jestocost:
So, the husband of a lady from church is doing time for sex offences committed 20 years ago but only recently brought to light.

His wife and 1 year old son are playing in the garden. Next door their neighbour's 3 year old granddaughter, who has played with the little boy before, asks neighbour if she can play with the baby. And is very firmly (and loudly) told, "no, we don't play with nasty people. You're not to ask that again."

Did I mention the little boy is 1? Can you calculate that the offences were committed 19 years before he was born? Can you infer that he is growing up without a daddy and could do with some friends?

[Mad]

I can tell you who I think the nasty people in that scenario are - and it's not the people who happen to be related to a sex offender. It's the victim blamers, the ones who are content to heap hurt on top of hurt, to bolster their own sense of decent-citizenry. Dreadful.
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
quote:
I don't understand Hell
Think of it like when we have coffee and you keep telling me to "fuck off."

quote:
but I do think that this response is insensitive, even for Hell
Funny though.

quote:
Ad.'s post sounded like a cry for help.

A cry for something no doubt.

quote:
I'd rather share his anger than make light of it.
Why don't you just send him some chocolate and flowers?
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
The Proportional Representation, single block vote system in the forthcoming Euro elections. (I have a postal vote because I wil be away at a conference on polling day).

Has it changed? I think I remember being able to vote for 6 candidates of my choice - I want the 2nd and 4th people on the Labour list but not the others.

Then I want the Libdem who is excellent.

But I can only vote for one party and all 6 on its list.

I can't vote tactically to keep UKIP out.

TICH also the Lib Dem phone canvasser whom I asked to explain the system. When I told her that I wanted to support the LibDem candidate but felt unable to because of the system, she thanked me for supporting him and put the phone down having not really listened!
 
Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
Why don't you just send him some chocolate and flowers?

This.

And, pertinent to the thread, as far as I'm concerned the bastards can still go to Hell for their flagrant hypocrisy and carefully selective application of their own rules.

About 15 years ago a diocesan bishop told me in private conversation that whereas privately he was very liberal on certain DH issues, he couldn't say so publicly. One of the reasons he gave was, "I'm sure you'll understand - there are parishes in my diocese that would cut off our funding!" I told him then that if he didn't have the spine to say publicly something that he believed privately, I wasn't interested. And I'd say exactly the same to any of the bastards today.

Still, if the Lord spares me I'll be retiring next year. And then they can take their rule book and stick it where the sun don't shine.
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
Today, I condemn to hell my boss' indecisiveness. They mooted a possible change to our work for this month, but they haven't decided whether or not they want us to process it. Meanwhile, we're twiddling our thumbs, wasting time while the deadline for our final work to reach the CEO looms closer. [Mad] [Help] [Waterworks]
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
quote:
I don't understand Hell
Think of it like when we have coffee and you keep telling me to "fuck off."
Next time I'll have something stronger to drink and then i can be REALLY rude.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
you tell'em, Rev A! fuck those guys.

I think part of the problem is he can't (or won't).
I can't think of any of them who would be remotely attractive enough to get my equipment working strongly enough.
 
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
One vicious fucker of a headache: three days and counting.

(To any concerned Shippies: I've had it before - it's not serious, just analgesic-resistant and bloody tenacious).
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
Oh ffs, TICTdeepestH electronic forms which take on a mind of their own and refuse to agree with other pages of their entities.
The damn information is there, Right there.

What the hell do you Mean it's not the same?
"Oh yes it Is!"
'Oh no it isn't'

Well damn you and the whole flippin schbang lot of you. Paper. Pen. Caves. Dinasaurs. Please bring them back Now.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
Misleading instructions on the postal ballot paper for the Euro Elections:

It tells you to post sections A and B separately in the provided envelope.

once you have detached them and pout in the envelope, you read the back of it that says 'do NOT detach them'

So maybe i have spoiled my ballot paper, having made a special effort to get a postal vote because i will be away on polling day.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by leo:
once you have detached them and pout in the envelope

I don't see how pouting would help.
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
It doesn't really, but pouting is an understandable reaction when you look down the list of candidates and realize that none of them really represent your views, and you are having to vote for the least worst option.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
It doesn't really, but pouting is an understandable reaction when you look down the list of candidates and realize that none of them really represent your views, and you are having to vote for the least worst option.

Holding your nose is usually needed too.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
It doesn't really, but pouting is an understandable reaction when you look down the list of candidates and realize that none of them really represent your views, and you are having to vote for the least worst option.

Well, the 2nd and 4th on the Labour List would have.

But I know they won't get a look in an the first nonentity will.

As for pouting, sorry for typo but may mean something, Freudian slip wise.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH finding out that some of the better TV shows on free-to-air television last year are shifting to bloody Foxtel this year. The Americans and Hannibal, both gone. Meanwhile I can watch as many pointless, drawn-out 'reality' television shows as I please.
 
Posted by Japes (# 5358) on :
 
TICTH basses who think they can sing, think they can dictate the speed, and don't know the difference between enthusiastic singing and a drunken rugby brawl.

Gentlemen, in my current mood, I am considering you all into castrati so you won't be tempted to massacre Cwm Rhondda again.

In the meantime, if I weaken and let that tune back onto the hymn lists before 2035, just expect me to pull out all the stops to drown you out.

[ 11. May 2014, 11:33: Message edited by: Japes ]
 
Posted by Desert Daughter (# 13635) on :
 
TICTH the depressing chimes of "tolerance won" upon the winning of the European Song Contest by an utterly disgusting hermaphrodite monster. I normally do not agree with Russian politicians, but for once they are right in saying that it is a sign of European decadence. It is indeed. And all those weakbrained idiots of the PC thought police who "celebrate" "diversity" [Projectile] can go and take a hike. As much as the simpleton brigades (ie the "public mainstream") have gobbled up the most outlandish theories voiced by pot smoking postmodernists in the 60s and 70s, there **are** things that are abnormal, disgusting, and unnatural. But most people are just too stupid to realise that - they cheer at yet another absurd monstrosity and love to feel good ("tolerant", "open") about it.
All I can say is, why don't you just go and bury your noses in shit? For it seems you have no sense of what is disgusting.
Decadent morons

[Mad]
 
Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
TICTH (in no particular order):
- Back pain, caused by moving a concrete slab all by myself
- Me, for being stubborn enough to move said slab without asking for help
- Me again, for taking up gardening in my late forties and stupidly thinking it would involve a little light pottering, rather than humping enormous growbags and concrete around
- My bed, which used to be a refuge and is now a torture chamber that stinks of Deep Heat
- Any normal, everyday activity that seems harmless at the time, but reactivates the back pain later on - turning over in bed, driving, picking things up...


[Mad]
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Clever little smartphones. Mine wasn't sitting quietly in my pocket while I travelled home. Quite unknown to me, it was busy sending no less than 44 text messages of garble to my doctor's surgery. I'm probably now on a blacklist and will never be able to phone them again. [Hot and Hormonal]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Oh boy, I didn't think they did that any more. My first brick once called the DR of the person in my car who was discussing said DR's behaviour with me and left the conversation all over the recorder.

A reminder to be very, very careful.
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Yes, a few months ago mine also phoned a friend of mine 27 times early one morning. Reminder to me never to keep it in my pocket - I don't normally but was in a hurry trying to catch a train and had jammed it in thinking it would be safe. Ha.
 
Posted by Zacchaeus (# 14454) on :
 
Mine does this when it is not in a case... SO I had to spend a fortune on a decent case to stop it making unilateral calls..
 
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
TICTH when people don't turn up for meetings (especially meetings in the evening) and don't bother giving their apologies, meaning that there's not enough people to have the meeting and it's a waste of time for those that did turn up...

...especially when one of those who does turn up is the one who lives furthest away (like 6-7 miles away, when everyone else is really local).

... and especially especially when there's really important, urgent stuff that needs to be sorted out at that meeting that can't be because hardly anyone's turned up, meaning extra work now trying to chase it all up.
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Zacchaeus:
Mine does this when it is not in a case... SO I had to spend a fortune on a decent case to stop it making unilateral calls..

I have one but the magnetic clasp proved so powerful that it nuked my season ticket 6 times this year by just looking at it from what I hoped was a safe distance...
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
TICTH Passive Agressive emails and especially the sender thereof.

Sod Off.
 
Posted by Darllenwr (# 14520) on :
 
Bullying bosses.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Airports. They are set out like shopping malls obstacle courses when all you want is the get the hell on to the plane.

Toronto airport in particular. And the routing of far too many flights through this "hub" er "hell".
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
"Comet! I was supposed to get this paperwork done today before our meeting. I didn't do it. Nor did I bring my car or bike in today so i can't go get it. So I'm going to email you this thing that I was supposed to do, and you can do it. it will only take an hour. Needs to be done before our meeting. Thanks!"

ARGH! furthermore, FUCK YOU!
 
Posted by Ad Orientem (# 17574) on :
 
Cable companies. Fuck you! We'll be round between 08-20 and then show up at the last minute. Couldn't you be a little more precise? Got a problem? Phone this number and we'll keep you on hold for half-an-hour. Cunts!

[ 13. May 2014, 19:07: Message edited by: Ad Orientem ]
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
I have one but the magnetic clasp proved so powerful that it nuked my season ticket 6 times this year by just looking at it from what I hoped was a safe distance...

Make that 7 as of this morning. I'm sick of this and wish they'd invent a season ticket with a strip that can actually cope. Bank cards and other things can cope with the (accidental) proximity of a mobile phone a few inches away.
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
I would CTH this tit https://www.politicshome.com/uk/story/42145/ - but hopefully he's done more harm than good to the Tories.
 
Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :
 
TICTH myself, for agreeing to "it's only a test system, we don't need to back up this table". Grrrr. It's a test system and we're trying to figure out what to do, so we're *especially* likely to blow out all the records in the table by accident.

I'm an idiot.

(We think we're going to recover by copying down another copy from Production, but I'm still an idiot...)

[ 14. May 2014, 19:31: Message edited by: Autenrieth Road ]
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
TICTH the animal(s) that dug up my flowers a week after I planted them. [Mad]

Moo
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
TICTH the mail order pharmacy my insurance company runs. Not only have they been sitting on my prescription for a week despite having their issues cleared up once, but they always have a long phone wait while a voice repeatedly thanks for my patience during their unusually high call volumes. That will be playing nonstop for eternity in their circle of hell.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
And don't you hate when they pause for a moment and fake you out making you think someone answered?

Faking people out ain't nice.
 
Posted by Mamacita (# 3659) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Palimpsest:
TICTH the mail order pharmacy my insurance company runs.... they always have a long phone wait while a voice repeatedly thanks for my patience during their unusually high call volumes. That will be playing nonstop for eternity in their circle of hell.

And they aren't the only ones deserving of this fate.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
If you think you can write a better play than Shakespeare, then write your own damned play rather than massacring his.
[Mad]

(I'm not talking about adapting, I'm talking about butchering.)
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
Today, I condemn to hell people who are not clear in what they ask for, so that when you give them the fruits of 2-3 hours' worth of work, they say, "no, I know I asked for X, but what I meant was Y." [Mad]
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAlethiophile:
Management

FIFY
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
quote:
Originally posted by TheAlethiophile:
Management

FIFY
I also condemn to hell the use of undefined acronyms!
[Snigger]
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
posted by Pigwidgeon
quote:
If you think you can write a better play than Shakespeare, then write your own damned play rather than massacring his. [Mad]
Oh, I don't know...

My school had complete sets of Shakespeare as edited by the Bowdlers and some of the changes were quite interesting: for example She played the trumpet in his bed makes the strangling of Desdemona perfectly understandable. [Snigger]
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAlethiophile:
quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
quote:
Originally posted by TheAlethiophile:
Management

FIFY
I also condemn to hell the use of undefined acronyms!
(Snigger deleted because I fucking hate animated icons)

LMGTFY
 
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
Hm, that wasn't actually the right acronym. FIFY Ariston.

[ 16. May 2014, 14:34: Message edited by: Lucia ]
 
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:

My school had complete sets of Shakespeare as edited by the Bowdlers and some of the changes were quite interesting: for example She played the trumpet in his bed makes the strangling of Desdemona perfectly understandable. [Snigger]

Please Miss, does that mean she farted a lot?
 
Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
TICTH this fecking weather. I had to turn on the heater today and we're under a frost warning for tonight. Yeah, it's Minnesota, but damn it all it is MAY!
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
TICTH Police Scotland for shattering my illusions about police procedure.

Two weeks ago, overnight, some toerag(s) came into our back garden, went into our (unlocked) garage and nicked a bike, plus a bottle of Lambrini we'd won on a bottle stall. I reported it to the police mostly in the hope that the bike would be abandoned somewhere, end up in lost property and we'd get it back.

This week, overnight, a near neighbour had some toe-rag(s) go into her back garden, go into her (unlocked) garage and steal two bikes.

The police are investigating the latter, but they can't link the two because they happened 14 days apart.

The police have explained to me that they can't link the overnight theft of a bike from an unlocked garage with the overnight theft of two bikes from an unlocked garage in any way, shape or form, because they happened 2 weeks apart, and if the police went around linking crimes with similar modus operandi, they'd be swamped. Plus, a crime in Quiet Street, Small Village, North East Scotland on 1 May can't be connected with a crime in Quiet Street, Small Village, North East Scotland on 14 May because, in the fast moving world of village street names, they might not be the same place.

WTF? I'm not that bothered by the loss of the bike, and positively grateful for the theft of the Lambrini, but seriously? Police can't link crimes if they happen 2 weeks apart??

I read crime novels and fictional police link apparently separate crimes all the time. And fictional police link current crimes to cold cases and all manner of clever things.

But in real life, there's a 14 day rule. I may never read crime fiction in the same light again.

(Also, because this is a small village, and rife with gossip, everyone knows the most likely suspect for the thefts, except the police who are entirely mystified.)
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
3 a.m. and I am up again. As they say in Ireland where we last were, fecking jet lag.
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:


...

(Also, because this is a small village, and rife with gossip, everyone knows the most likely suspect for the thefts, except the police who are entirely mystified.)

Is the usual suspect related to a police officer?
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Palimpsest:
quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:


...

(Also, because this is a small village, and rife with gossip, everyone knows the most likely suspect for the thefts, except the police who are entirely mystified.)

Is the usual suspect related to a police officer?
Oh, no, nothing like that at all. It's a teenager who was caught in the back garden of my next-door-neighbour-but-one two nights before our bike was nicked. Apparently he was showing off to a girlfriend.

I thought he'd woo'ed said girlfriend with the Lambrini he nicked from us, and would cycle about a bit on the stolen bike, then abandon it - which is why I reported it to the Police. I thought it would turn up in Lost Property. But it hasn't. Also, we had three bikes in the garage, two of which were pretty worthless, and he nicked one of the worthless ones. Which suggests it's more likely to have been a daft laddie than a hardened criminal.

I've been more bothered by the Police explaining that they don't link identical thefts if they happen 14 days apart than by the theft itself. I don't know if the police person just wasn't explaining very well, or if they really do think that they'd be "swamped" with work if they started making connections.
 
Posted by Tulfes (# 18000) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:
quote:
Originally posted by Palimpsest:
quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:


...

(Also, because this is a small village, and rife with gossip, everyone knows the most likely suspect for the thefts, except the police who are entirely mystified.)

Is the usual suspect related to a police officer?
Oh, no, nothing like that at all. It's a teenager who was caught in the back garden of my next-door-neighbour-but-one two nights before our bike was nicked. Apparently he was showing off to a girlfriend.

I thought he'd woo'ed said girlfriend with the Lambrini he nicked from us, and would cycle about a bit on the stolen bike, then abandon it - which is why I reported it to the Police. I thought it would turn up in Lost Property. But it hasn't. Also, we had three bikes in the garage, two of which were pretty worthless, and he nicked one of the worthless ones. Which suggests it's more likely to have been a daft laddie than a hardened criminal.

I've been more bothered by the Police explaining that they don't link identical thefts if they happen 14 days apart than by the theft itself. I don't know if the police person just wasn't explaining very well, or if they really do think that they'd be "swamped" with work if they started making connections.

Surely if it was two murders, two weeks apart next door to each other with similar modus, they couldn't NOT link them?
 
Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
You clearly need the help of ether PC Plum from Balamory and/or Hamish MacBeth from Lochdubh.

Mind you, they might not want to move to the East Coast - much too dry.

Perhaps you should bring Logan McCrae up from Aberdeen although he is probably much too "big city" for a rural community such as years. [Smile]
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMM

 
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
Samsung Trying to enter an international number - it hates the + signs that it tells me to use.

[Mad]
 
Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 
I'm about ready to call this entire year to Hell. Buried another friend today, he was only 39 [Eek!] . That makes 3 friends and my dad this year... What the ever-loving-fuck? Just stop already!!!!!!
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
Southern Rail

Going back to a mate's on the south coast yesterday evening after a meal in London should have taken and hour-and-a-half so in by 11pm - instead we crept in after midnight.

No explanations, nothing. [Mad]
 
Posted by Yorick (# 12169) on :
 
If there's one thing more ugly than bigotry it's hypocrisy.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH a shitty paint job on a renovation that was otherwise going really well. Why? Why would you do all that good work and then not cover it with anything while you splashed paint and wood stain around?
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Courier companies. It has been out out at the depot for delivery. The courier has received it. I am stuck at home in limbo. I cannot find where said depot is. It might be West Thurrock. It might be Maidstone. It might be somewhere totally different. If I knew I was near it, I would expect either an early, or a very late delivery. If I knew I was near the courier's home, I would expect a late delivery. If it is WT or M, I can expect sort of middle of the dayish, but they can't let me know, can they? I am the one who takes in everyone else's deliveries. Everyone else is out.
Bah. am or pm would help. Have helped. The clock strikes 12.

[ 22. May 2014, 11:01: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Yorick:
If there's one thing more ugly than bigotry it's hypocrisy.

Awesome catch. Thanks Yorick made my day.
 
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Forgive me for being repetitive but:

TICTH bloody, bloody, bloody red ants!

Bastards, the lot of them!

 
Posted by Meg the Red (# 11838) on :
 
Control freaks. Can't keep their grasping little claws out of everyone else's business, and make life fucking miserable for my entire workplace.

(Wodders, can you spare a few of those red ants? There's someone I know who might benefit from a wee infestation. [Devil] )
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Forgive me for being repetitive but:

TICTH bloody, bloody, bloody red ants!

Bastards, the lot of them!

Amen. The welts have only just gone down after a week.
 
Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on :
 
TICTH the occupational health department at work. After talking to one of the "advisers" yesterday, my mood collapsed and I am feeling worse than I have done for a couple of weeks. [Mad]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH the teacher at a Welsh medium school who described a seven year old girl as a "snail" at reading.

Good to see that the old-fashioned values of sarcasm and intolerance are alive in some parts of the education system.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
TICTH the Conservative Councilor in Trafford who Told a man with learning difficulties that he should not be voting.
 
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by balaam:
TICTH the Conservative Councilor in Trafford who Told a man with learning difficulties that he should not be voting.

Mostly, not for him!
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH and oblivion the British National Party.

If anyone thought the LibDems had done badly they ought to look at your performance. In 2009 over 940,000 (6.3%) voted for you but this time out a mere 168,000 (1.16%).

If you add that to the fall in the LibDem vote you get, as near as dammit, the UKIP gain.

Is UKIP's gain a combination of a new home for the (traditionally LibDem) "protest vote" plus a slightly more respectable one for the racist vote? It's a bloody weird mixture: home-made sandals and beards meet bovver boots and shaved heads.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Watching the HBO adaptation of Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart."


Fuck Ronald Reagan. Just fuck him.
 
Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
I have been under the care of the community mental health team for about seven years now. On the whole they've supported me well and kept me out of hospital.

Today I saw the new psychiatrist. She told me she wanted to discharge me. I asked her why in that my mentalness has not decreased significantly in recent years and they have noted that the next year is going to be a very difficult one for me and liable to make me quite ill.

Her response - 'because then you'll be under someone else's budget.'

Clearly all the bollocks about patient centred care is just that. They just want to offload those of us that cost money so they can pick and choose cheap patients that are easy to deal with. Instead I am clearly a drain on tax payers money and should just be taken out and shot so then I'll be on nobody's budget and everyone will be happy.

Fuckers
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:
TICTH Police Scotland for shattering my illusions about police procedure.

Two weeks ago, overnight, some toerag(s) came into our back garden, went into our (unlocked) garage and nicked a bike, plus a bottle of Lambrini we'd won on a bottle stall. I reported it to the police mostly in the hope that the bike would be abandoned somewhere, end up in lost property and we'd get it back.

This week, overnight, a near neighbour had some toe-rag(s) go into her back garden, go into her (unlocked) garage and steal two bikes.

The police are investigating the latter, but they can't link the two because they happened 14 days apart.

The police have explained to me that they can't link the overnight theft of a bike from an unlocked garage with the overnight theft of two bikes from an unlocked garage in any way, shape or form, because they happened 2 weeks apart, and if the police went around linking crimes with similar modus operandi, they'd be swamped. Plus, a crime in Quiet Street, Small Village, North East Scotland on 1 May can't be connected with a crime in Quiet Street, Small Village, North East Scotland on 14 May because, in the fast moving world of village street names, they might not be the same place.

WTF? I'm not that bothered by the loss of the bike, and positively grateful for the theft of the Lambrini, but seriously? Police can't link crimes if they happen 2 weeks apart??

I read crime novels and fictional police link apparently separate crimes all the time. And fictional police link current crimes to cold cases and all manner of clever things.

But in real life, there's a 14 day rule. I may never read crime fiction in the same light again.

(Also, because this is a small village, and rife with gossip, everyone knows the most likely suspect for the thefts, except the police who are entirely mystified.)

[Hot and Hormonal] Today I nominate the Police for a swift removal from Hell and rapid elevation to Heaven. They have found our bike!

The Police [Overused] [Overused] [Overused]
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
were the toerag(s) caught?
 
Posted by Gareth (# 2494) on :
 
The latest update of the BBC iPlayer iOS App.

Hell is too good for whoever came up with this.
 
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by chive:
I have been under the care of the community mental health team for about seven years now. On the whole they've supported me well and kept me out of hospital.

Today I saw the new psychiatrist. She told me she wanted to discharge me. I asked her why in that my mentalness has not decreased significantly in recent years and they have noted that the next year is going to be a very difficult one for me and liable to make me quite ill.

Her response - 'because then you'll be under someone else's budget.'

Clearly all the bollocks about patient centred care is just that. They just want to offload those of us that cost money so they can pick and choose cheap patients that are easy to deal with. Instead I am clearly a drain on tax payers money and should just be taken out and shot so then I'll be on nobody's budget and everyone will be happy.

Fuckers

Indeed.

Out of the blue, my son's MH clinic of ten years sent him a letter that said, "We are dismissing you as our patient." That was all. We went in and asked questions and found out they weren't going to have a psychiatrist anymore, just some counselors who had full case loads. He's getting his meds from our family doctor now and no therapy at all. I just couldn't get over sending letters like that to people with schizophrenia. If he had still been living alone I can't even imagine the interpretation he would have put on it.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
Wow, Twilight, that is seriously fucked up. I hope you were able to tell them so in very clear terms.
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
were the toerag(s) caught?

Yes, and it wasn't the toerag I thought it was. Therefore TICTH myself for jumping to conclusions.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Chive and twilight, I can feel the potential for a whole 'treating people like numbers' thread developing from your stories. Disgusting behaviour from those responsible for health care.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Whatever woke me up at 3, and defeated the camomile tea and the ancient Bergerac episode, and entering my food inventory into my new device, all chosen to bore me, so that it is now 5.30 and I am even more awake, and it is light outside.
 
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
Tonsilitis, which our 3 year old has for the second time in 6 weeks. [Mad]

And those "winsome", "meaningful", "authentic", "stripped-down", cloying, annoying, wussy, versions of decent pop songs that are clogging up adverts at the moment: the ones where it's just a weedy, half-hearted, quavering "I'm such a dear little lamb" voice with a piano or acoustic guitar and which suck all the life, energy and meaning out of the songs they "cover", which back up bleached-out, "life-affirming" visuals where everyone's smiling in perfect, lens flare-added sunlight and the whole thing's so "meh" and wet and floppy that it should make you just quietly despair, but actually it makes you really, really angry: "PUT SOME LIFE AND ENERGY IN YOUR SINGING! SING IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT!!!!" Or better, just playing originals.

I know I should be more [Mad] about the former than the latter (and I probably am), but we can do something about the former - anti-biotics, sadly, won't clear up the latter.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
I used to have tonsillitis before penicillin was available to the generality of people, and I was administered a pink stuff called M & B. I had ages off school.
It must be awful at 3, though, even with antibiotics, without the options of reading old comics and other pleasures.
 
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
I used to have tonsillitis before penicillin was available to the generality of people, and I was administered a pink stuff called M & B. I had ages off school.
It must be awful at 3, though, even with antibiotics, without the options of reading old comics and other pleasures.

It's not pleasant and her first bout was quite traumatic for us all, and especially her.
We're hoping we've caught it early enough this time, since we know what we're looking for, that we can stop it in its tracks before it gets that bad again.
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
Mr Hughes, my Rugby and Maths teacher from 1979 to 1981. Because you're the only person I've ever vicerally hated in my life, and because I still hate you now, and because you shouldn't be able to make me even remember you after thirty years.
 
Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
TICTH causes on social media.

If I want to hear the news I'll turn on the TV. Social media should be about YOU.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
TICTH causes on social media.

If I want to hear the news I'll turn on the TV. Social media should be about YOU.

Bollocks. Social media should be about ME.
 
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
TICT the deepest circle of H the vile, evil-minded scumbags who created the "ransom" virus that infected my computer at w*rk and made virtually all my files disappear into the ether, with no chance of recovery unless they are given money, which my bosses aren't going to give them.

Dream on, scumbags - it's not going to happen. [Mad]
 
Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
TICTH causes on social media.

If I want to hear the news I'll turn on the TV. Social media should be about YOU.

Bollocks. Social media should be about ME.
Fine. Even YOU would be better than causes. [Razz]
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
TICTH nose-hair.

Now let's be clear I'm hirsute and have been shaving, plucking and mowing with various machines since the age of 13.

I got it from my Dad, the monkey, whose hair & beard I cut and trimmed not last week. I noticed that he had hair all over his face and I thought "Ah Well he is in his 80'."

Also I am utterly used to nose hairs on the INSIDE of my nose but today at the age of 51 I found one on the side / outside.

If anyone is looking for me I will be out searching for a quiet place to slip gently from this mortal coil. Sigh.
 
Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
Also I am utterly used to nose hairs on the INSIDE of my nose but today at the age of 51 I found one on the side / outside.

You haven't lived until that sore patch on the end of your nose coalesces over the course of a month into a livid, painful mass. Which, because you can't stand it any more, you stab with a needle, and out bursts an unspeakably long, tough hair that looks for all the world like it's grown from the inside, out, through the lining of your nose on its way to freedom.

Just sayin'
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
And I thought it was bad enough when the testosterone started to beat the female hormones and the odd bristles on my chin turned out to be long enough, when tweezed out, to have grown through from inside my mouth. Which they haven't. Is there some quantum wormhole down a follicle that should be in that skin diagram one does in secondary school biology?
 
Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
Which they haven't.

Are you sure? ARE YOU SURE?
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Ha - I would be able to feel them, wouldn't I? Given that the tongue feels a poppy seed as if it were one of those great stone balls rolling through a tomb in Indiana Jones.
 
Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:


Also I am utterly used to nose hairs on the INSIDE of my nose but today at the age of 51 I found one on the side / outside.

If anyone is looking for me I will be out searching for a quiet place to slip gently from this mortal coil. Sigh.

Receding hairline gives precedence to moving hairline?
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
It's the ear hairs that bother me the most.
 
Posted by JonahMan (# 12126) on :
 
TICTH the Jim Clark rally.

Noisy, disruptive waste of petrol.

And they don't even publish an online map of which roads will be closed when.
 
Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :
 
Perhaps not as simple as one would think. Given those facts the roads closed might have very little to do with the roads that were supposed to be closed due to the event.

Jengie
 
Posted by Gareth (# 2494) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
Mr Hughes, my Rugby and Maths teacher from 1979 to 1981. Because you're the only person I've ever vicerally hated in my life, and because I still hate you now, and because you shouldn't be able to make me even remember you after thirty years.

My maths teacher was only a drunk. I have no problem with that.

It was the head teacher who beat me so severely I pissed myself and had nightmares about 35 years later I have a problem with.
 
Posted by JonahMan (# 12126) on :
 
In light of this accident it deserves to be CTH even more. I posted before I knew about it - in previous years you could download a map showing what the closures would be; this year they generously offered a programme for £5.

Maybe these spectator deaths will mean this year is the last ever. Frankly I hope so, though I would rather that price hadn't been paid.
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
TICTH whatever gremlin is causing the bath overflow water to come out of the central light fitting in my sitting room - the bathroom floor is bone dry ...

&£??&)@?@@&(&;;,?&£?<€>~%#|%#~$<*%|%%\€><$^<€>?'!!!!!!!!!

Is my last word on the subject.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
TICTH whatever gremlin is causing the bath overflow water to come out of the central light fitting in my sitting room - the bathroom floor is bone dry ...

&£??&)@?@@&(&;;,?&£?<€>~%#|%#~$<*%|%%\€><$^<€>?'!!!!!!!!!

Is my last word on the subject.

/tangent

Water supply/CH pipe under bathroom floor?

tangent/
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
I think I'll be having the plumber out Monday, yay [Frown]
 
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
TICTH whatever gremlin is causing the bath overflow water to come out of the central light fitting in my sitting room - the bathroom floor is bone dry ...

&£??&)@?@@&(&;;,?&£?<€>~%#|%#~$<*%|%%\€><$^<€>?'!!!!!!!!!

Is my last word on the subject.

Water was coming out of the light fixture in my bedroom ceiling during heavy rains. The builder came over, went up on the roof and twisted a doo hickey. It's been fine ever since. So maybe it's naught to do with the bath.

Twilight's DIY advice.
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
We had a downstairs neighbour who had water come through her light fitting. She "knew" that we must be letting our bath overflow, despite being invited into our flat to inspect our dry bathroom floor. She didn't see any reason to call out a plumber as she "knew" it was us, and thought if she complained to us often enough and loudly enough the problem would go away.

Sigh.

In the end it was something bizarre - the slate next to her TV aerial had slipped and water was tracking down it, neatly skirting round our flat, and coming through her light fitting.
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
Water getting into light fixtures can start a fire. A local natural foods store was destroyed that way a few years ago.

This definitely needs to be checked out.

Moo
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
TICTH myself, for not reading my home insurance policy and seeing it has a rescue service I could have called out on Sunday - instead of having to take an annual leave day.
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
I had that the other week. I had water gushing out of the extractor fan in the bathroom. We found one piece of rotten flex-piping underneath the sink of the upstairs neighbours which has been replaced.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Yeah, lovely. That'll be enough "that water is in an odd place" stories for now, unless you want me to supply you with an excruciatingly long and detailed account of the great New Year's Eve 2006 hailstorm. Or go start a dedicated thread on matters residential and aquatic.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Measure the doorways before buying a major appliance like a fridge. Particularly after hauling it 400 km. A friendly tip from Satan.
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
TICTH myself, for not reading my home insurance policy and seeing it has a rescue service I could have called out on Sunday - instead of having to take an annual leave day.

Aaaaaargh !!! Waited in all day for plunber - he arrives at 19:45 pm - diagnoses a repair (for which he does not have a part), then tells me insurance doesn't cover either checking the electrics or fixing the problem cos I could use the shower instead of the bath (assuming he is right about the cause of the problem.). Oh, and he can give me a quote.

Fine so can he come back at a specific time to do the repair if I accept the quote ? No - only morning or afternoon.

Well, that was a complete and total fucking waste of time.

I could just have called out the guy who fitted the damn thing in the first place, who would have known what sodding part to bring and turned up at a specified time.

(Will ring up and rant at insurance company later.)
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH fat pictures in the media. For always being of women, and always, always, always, cutting off the face.

Look at any popular news article dealing with the subject of obesity. It doesn't matter what the slant on the article is, the pic will always show a faceless woman's butt or stomach. Never, ever, ever men. [Mad]
 
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
Seems about equal to me. I don't see why we need pictures at all. I know what fat looks like.
 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Twilight:
Seems about equal to me. I don't see why we need pictures at all. I know what fat looks like.

Online news is full of fairly pointless pictures. Any time someone is attacked, we are treated to a few photos of some cops and paramedics standing around an ambulance. It's a visual thing - nobody wants to just put up a big block of text, but for stories that are about trends and concepts rather than individual people or places, there's no obvious need for a photo, so we get a couple of filler stock photos.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
Twilight, that is seriously the only male photo I have ever seen used. And LC, sure they're stock photos--but some jerks are choosing the female ones by a huge margin IMNSHE. I darkly suspect it's because fat women are considered more visually disgusting.
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
This ghastly, ghastly idea along with anyone from any church who participates.
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lord Jestocost:
This ghastly, ghastly idea along with anyone from any church who participates.

I wouldn't condemn anyone desperate enough to try it. I would just feel sorry for them.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
I think the people being condemned to Hell are the church members who would do such a thing to their unwitting fellow Christians--on TV.
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
I think the people being condemned to Hell are the church members who would do such a thing to their unwitting fellow Christians--on TV.

Quite. The point of the show is that the ones being set up for dates aren't aware of it. This does nothing for the genuinely lonely, and it makes those single-and-happy-with-it bachelors and bachelorettes within the church the legitimate target of every interfering, compulsive wannabe-Emma matchmaker who is secretly hankering for a front row seat at the wedding.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
And the website bypasses my popup blocker!
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Sod bolts from the blue. I don't need any more thanks. I've got a collection already, you want them back?
 
Posted by Robert Armin (# 182) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lord Jestocost:
This ghastly, ghastly idea along with anyone from any church who participates.

Do you think it will include single gay Christians?
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
[Snigger]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Robert Armin:
quote:
Originally posted by Lord Jestocost:
This ghastly, ghastly idea along with anyone from any church who participates.

Do you think it will include single gay Christians?
It will almost certainly include closeted single gay Christians, yes. Which is just one aspect of why it deserves to be down here in Hell. Almost, it seems, to the point of generating its own thread don't you think?
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Whoever tried to jack my Facebook account in Tacoma, WA today.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
I'm on the threshold of calling GEICO* to hell. I canceled my motorcycle policy two weeks ago after I sold the bike. GEICO said I'd be getting a refund of the policy premium (or part of it), but as of today the credit still hasn't appeared. I called GEICO and they said it had been posted "just today". Hey, that was two days ago. I won't hold my breath -- and I won't buy any more insurance from them either.

* For the benefit of our overseas friends, an insurance company that uses an animated anthropomorphic talking lizard with a Cockney accent (well, a gecko (GEICO, gecko, get it?)) to advertise its low rates and allegedly speedy service.

[ 07. June 2014, 15:54: Message edited by: Amanda B. Reckondwythe ]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Whatever stopped me dropping off to sleep properly last night, and then woke me to a state when I didn't even do that "I know I haven't been asleep, how come it's 3 when it was 12 a few minutes ago" thing, before 3, so I had to make camomile tea - didn't work - make a sandwich, read, listen to non-stop D-Day.... and the dawn chorus. One blackbird at the front of the house. One blackbird at the back of the house. (Could at least have had a proper chorus.)
I've spent the week getting over the last bout, and now I'm heading for another.
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
Today I condemn to hell "Anne & Ian" who, in spite of the note they sent through the door last week, have not kept the noise level of their party to a respectable level, which is why I am wide awake at nearly 1am, having first tried to go to bed 2 hours ago.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Oh boy, that is bad. Been there, had that. Even from the one flat in the block that had no direct connection with mine. I came to the conclusion that it was like levels of chilli. They don't realise it isn't reasonable. They've knocked out half their hair cells. It doesn't help, though.

Some can be very apologetic afterwards, when met with a raised eyebrow and the comment "Good party last night, then?" Others will take it as a challenge for next time.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
The time it takes for that sleepless night to be recovered from. Today I should have been able to go to Meeting, and then, this evening to a folk singaround. Haven't been able to. And on Friday, my friend and I had arranged the weekend so that I could, while he went to a party yesterday (these happen regularly, and mess up our usual Saturdays, which give me late nights so no Meeting.) So negative, for me, all round.
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
The council gave them a warning at about 4am, so I was finally able to go to bed. Though by that time, the sun was coming up. Struggling to stay awake now.
 
Posted by Net Spinster (# 16058) on :
 
Just a minor one. The heat. Just shy of 99F (37C) at the highest today. No AC in the house. Dashing from shadow to shadow when walking earlier.
 
Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :
 
TICTH the level of service a certain parcel services think is adequate for my flat.

Jengie
 
Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on :
 
TICTH Texas Republicans.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
It never ceases to amaze me how human beings who call themselves rational can vote Republican.

(I call to Hell thread software that starts a new page when you think you can get away with not having to quote the previous post.)

[ 09. June 2014, 21:16: Message edited by: Amanda B. Reckondwythe ]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH one of the most badly designed and organised cafe counters I've ever encountered, not least because it's by far the closest and most convenient place for me to buy lunch.

I suppose that as it gets worse and worse it creates more and more incentive for me to be organised enough in the morning to make sandwiches.
 
Posted by GCabot (# 18074) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
It never ceases to amaze me how human beings who call themselves rational can vote Republican.

And vice versa.
 
Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
TICTH my back which has "gone" again ... all I did was put a very light plastic bowl in a drawer last night and: OUCH!

Slept on the floor, did my exercises but it's still painful. Grrr!
 
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
TICTH my back which has "gone" again ... all I did was put a very light plastic bowl in a drawer last night and: OUCH!

Slept on the floor, did my exercises but it's still painful. Grrr!

[Votive]

TICTH money: just money in general, really, and all the problems and shit it causes, especially when you haven't got enough of it.

There must be a better way of doing things then this...
 
Posted by Beethoven (# 114) on :
 
TICTH today. And friends moving away.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
TICTH the Thai fishing industry, the retailers who they supply and the people who will continue to eat cheap prawns/shrimp despite knowing what happens.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
A person who has wormed his way into someone else's charitable project and job under the guise of helping him to keep it going, and having set up some sort of board is going to eject the founder. Who has had a lot of external troubles over the past few years, anyway. Legal advice is being sought.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Some days, the urge to use a large plank of wood to whack someone in the skull is almost overwhelming.
 
Posted by Beethoven (# 114) on :
 
Telemarketing people who claim it's not a sales call, then try to tell me that the company I work for will get a discount on our next utility bills, while not knowing what contract we already have with which provider.
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Beethoven:
Telemarketing people who claim it's not a sales call, then try to tell me that the company I work for will get a discount on our next utility bills, while not knowing what contract we already have with which provider.

... and who have already shown their contempt for your own interests by calling despite you being registered with the TPS.
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Beethoven:
Telemarketing people who claim it's not a sales call, then try to tell me that the company I work for will get a discount on our next utility bills, while not knowing what contract we already have with which provider.

This reminds me of the many calls I received some years ago on behalf of "your local law enforcement". They wanted money, which I never gave. It didn't occur to me until it was too late to ask whether they knew the name of my local law enforcement.

Moo
 
Posted by sophs (# 2296) on :
 
Depression took another of my friends and I am fucking angry. I can't get out of my bitchy blaming of her parents which means that I'm biting my tounge every time someone says "her poor parents". Her poor parents should have thought about this before being abusive fucking twats.

I know is a tragedy for all concerned, and have no doubt her parents loved her in their own special way, but right now I want to punch someone.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Moo:
quote:
Originally posted by Beethoven:
Telemarketing people who claim it's not a sales call, then try to tell me that the company I work for will get a discount on our next utility bills, while not knowing what contract we already have with which provider.

This reminds me of the many calls I received some years ago on behalf of "your local law enforcement". They wanted money, which I never gave. It didn't occur to me until it was too late to ask whether they knew the name of my local law enforcement.

Moo

Sounds like a protection racket.
 
Posted by Darllenwr (# 14520) on :
 
TICTH our spineless Site Manager who is prepared to allow my boss to put lives at risk through sheer arrogance. Since when has my boss had qualifications in high pressure liquefied petroleum gas installation? Since when has he known sufficient about the subject to be entitled to order the workforce back into the building where there is a suspected (subsequently confirmed) LPG leak, having first restored LPG and electrical supplies to the building (that I had cut off as part of the evacuation of the building). Having, in the process, applied power to an insect killer that, by its very nature, produces 3kV electric sparks inside the very room where the gas was leaking? [Mad]

And our Site Manager just stood aside and let him! [Mad] [Mad] [Mad]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Flour beetles. I keep thinking I've eradicated them, and then another flush appears. I've just had to clean out one of my cupboards, at 11 pm, and found they've been devouring the turkey gravy granules and some healthy seeds, which I've chucked out of the window. I suspect there are some in the OXO cubes, which I will have to ditch as soon as I've seen the ISS go over.
 
Posted by Macrina (# 8807) on :
 
TICTH renting in freaking Christchurch (lovely Christchurch it's not your fault) but I am paying along with two other flatmates close on $330 a week to stay in a place with no heating, no double glazing and no proper ventilation.

So we have our flat inspection today and are told that the mould on the windows and damp on our carpets is our fault and that we need to clean the doors as this is making the door leak and the mould develop. Bullshit. Also we have asked about and been denied a dehumidfier to make the place less fucking damp.

Renting blows. It really, really, blows. And it blows more knowing that even saving all my income for the next three years so that I eat but don't exist I MIGHT, MIGHT just be able to afford a box of my own in a less desirable part of town in which I will be able to install some semblence of heating. But hey, by then house prices will have risen wiping out all my saved deposit anyway so a big fucking whoop te do to that.

I earn a good wage. I can afford a mortgage as Westpac kindly informed me, I could afford a house of $265,000 on the rent I can pay on a place. But no, before I can have that I need a deposit of about $50,000 which is going to take me until I am 40 to save by which time houses will be EVEN MORE out of reach than they are now.

Fuck this shit.
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
TICTH drivers who ignore road signs. There are some steep mountain roads around here with sharp curves. These roads have signs saying that trucks more than 28 feet long are prohibited, unless they are making local deliveries.

Yesterday a tanker truck with 4800 gallons of embalming fluid had an accident on one of these roads. The tanker split open and all the fluid leaked out. Everyone in the area had to be evacuated because the fumes are so toxic. Fortunately this was a rural area, so the number of households affected was only about twenty-five. The authorities also had to find a safe place for the farm animals grazing in the area.

A few years ago on this same road a truck carrying fifty-eight cattle crashed. Almost all the animals that were not killed instantly had to be put down because of major injuries.

What makes truck drivers assume that they are the exception to the regulations?

Moo
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
You are assuming they are literate in the local language, and have the nous not to trust their satnavs.

Round here there are notices now on the lanes to announce limits, and they get more and more places to put them up, and have started this scheme... Lorry Watch which seems pretty useless. And still they come.

[ 12. June 2014, 14:58: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
quote:
Yesterday a tanker truck with 4800 gallons of embalming fluid had an accident on one of these roads.
Well at least the police did not have to preserve the evidence.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
You are assuming they are literate in the local language

Ability to understand road signs is a fairly fundamental requirement of getting a driver's licence.

Or if it isn't in your local area, it should be.

Anyway, it's far more likely that drivers can read the signs perfectly well and choose to ignore them. God knows enough people do. Why? Because they all think THEY are superior drivers who don't need to pay attention to any kind of warning or requirement, whether it be a speed limit or otherwise. I still remember the survey where 70% of people rated themselves as above-average drivers, meaning at LEAST 20% of people on the road are deluded about their abilities.
 
Posted by JFH (# 14794) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
[QUOTE]I still remember the survey where 70% of people rated themselves as above-average drivers, meaning at LEAST 20% of people on the road are deluded about their abilities.

It could be that all 70 % are far better than the lowest 30 %. You're confusing average/mean with median.

TICTH boredom.
 
Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :
 
TICTH whoever edited out the verse from Scripture that said
quote:
And he saith unto them, "Truly, truly I say unto you, my Church shall be made up of the knuckle-draggingly stupid, the downright annoying, and those who, if wits were dynamite, wouldn't have enough to blow their hats off. And lo, I'm really sorry about that. My bad."
If that verse had been left in (somewhere, I think, in Matthew's gospel) it would have saved a lot of people a lot of trouble.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by JFH:
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
[QUOTE]I still remember the survey where 70% of people rated themselves as above-average drivers, meaning at LEAST 20% of people on the road are deluded about their abilities.

It could be that all 70 % are far better than the lowest 30 %. You're confusing average/mean with median.

TICTH boredom.

TICTH people who think there's some kind of quantitative measure of drivers that would enable a median to be calculated. Along with people who fuck up their quoting code. Now get off my lawn.
 
Posted by Tulfes (# 18000) on :
 
TICH my newspaper, Glasgow Herald. Today its published yesterday's cryptic crossword,which I finished except for two clues (the solution published is the day before's). I'm getting all tensed up without a crossword to do over lunch to calm me down. Bugger.
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
There was more in today's paper about the accident. The truck was going from the North Carolina coast to Roanoke, which is in the mountains. I assume that the driver looked at a map and thought he had found a good shortcut. There is something that all truck drivers need to know.

IF A MOUNTAIN ROAD IS SHOWN ON THE MAP AS A SQUIGGLY LINE, IT IS UNSUITABLE FOR LARGE TRUCKS. If building a straight road had been feasible, they would have done it.

All the wells in the area are being tested to make sure there is no formaldehyde in the water.

Moo
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
We had a crash, on the motorway, with a spill of hydrofluoric acid. Thank goodness he hadn't come off down the lanes to avoid a jam. Or fallen off the viaduct he was on onto the cottages below.

Our language problems arise from European drivers travelling from Channel crossings into the rest of the UK whose satnavs are not mapped with British road widths. (Though that doesn't apply in the Cotswolds.)

I suspect that they come off the motorway for some reason, and then find they can't turn, so carry on regardless.

That formaldehyde spill sounds appalling - it's stopped being a joke, hasn't it? Though its being volatile should help with the water contamination problem, I suppose.

[ 13. June 2014, 13:05: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
It isn't exclusively overseas drivers. A couple of years back a coach got wedged across a tight corner in Caerleon, and effectively shut the place for the day (the road system hasn't improved since the Romans built the place).
 
Posted by John Holding (# 158) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
It isn't exclusively overseas drivers. A couple of years back a coach got wedged across a tight corner in Caerleon, and effectively shut the place for the day (the road system hasn't improved since the Romans built the place).

Even when told.

We have friends who live south of Cowbridge (nearish to Caerleon but further south and west). Their hamlet is reached via a very long single track lane (between 12 foot high hedges) and at one point the lane crosses a narrow bridge and at once turns sharp left.

Even when told in advance that no lorry longer than a certain length can get into the hamlet, removal companies habitually send much longer vans, which get stuck, and if lucky are able to reverse 3 or 4 miles to get back to the normal road. It not, they block until someone can tow them out backward.

John

[ 13. June 2014, 15:53: Message edited by: John Holding ]
 
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Tulfes:
... I'm getting all tensed up without a crossword to do over lunch to calm me down. Bugger.

[advice alert ON]

If it happens again, go the Guardian's web-site (don't worry if their politics isn't to your liking - you don't have to read the paper) and download their crossword - it's free and wonderfully devious.

I learned how to do cryptic crosswords with the Glasgow Herald, then progressed to the Daily Telegraph and the Times. When our membership of their crossword clubs expired, we moved to the Grauniad and got completely hooked.

[/advice alert OFF]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
My sister lives in a Cotswold village in what was once a village pub. There is, therefore, a path down from the village towards her front door. Google Maps and the sat navs have the idea that this is a road. It is closed, at her end, by a bollard, but has a fairly wide opening at the other. It is narrow. Very narrow. And has bends in it. Yet a car driver managed to get down as far as the bollard. Somehow, with the help of the locals, he managed to reverse up. But he must have realised, part way down, that it was not possible. Or passable.*
Maybe the driving test should include some simulations for drivers to test out their intelligence on. Maybe those of us who have been driving a long time should have a refresher on such simulations.
*Google has now updated itself. It is not seen as a road any more.
 
Posted by saysay (# 6645) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Moo:
What makes truck drivers assume that they are the exception to the regulations?

Moo

The problem may be the difference in how different states sign. Up north, about the only place they put the yellow warning signs (the only traffic signs you are legally allowed to disobey) is on freeway entrances and exits where the problem is generally traffic, not the fact that the curve couldn't be safely taken at a faster speed. I always warn people that when driving in Virginia and West Virginia, they need to obey those yellow signs or they'll likely wind up falling off the edge of a mountain.

On the other hand, there's apparently no telling truckers driving through Wyoming that they have to change the way they drive because the wind really will knock their 18-wheeler over.

Though my favorite recent accident involved bees.

[ 13. June 2014, 21:41: Message edited by: Ariston ]
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
And my favorite recent post involved someone who used preview post and checked their links so I didn't have to fix them.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
My neighbour's son and friends who dutifully go outside to smoke so her house doesn't fill with fumes. I've got the windows open, it being a warm night. Mine no longer smells of philadelphus.
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
The thing that irritates me so much is that accidents of this type are quite common, although they do not usually result in embalming fluid spills or a large number of dead cattle.

If a truck carrying steel girders has an accident on a mountain road the driver should never have attempted, there may be a small paragraph about it somewhere inside the paper. I learn about far more of these accidents from people who live near the places where they happen.

Every time I get angrier.

Moo
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
TICTH a particular kind of aggressive, shrill, smug approach to atheism that is always ready for a fight, has a chip on its shoulder, and--if one says that one disagrees with a notion expressed by someone with this attitude, no matter how politely--leaps like a rabid dog for one's throat, and treats one as if one is the most stereotypical kind of over-simplistic fundamentalist, hates science, etc.

(This was not on the Ship at all, but it's part of why I haven't wanted to get into internet debate very much over the last batch of years.)

TICTH a somewhat similar kind of approach to atheism (again, smug, but more passive-aggressive this time) which assumes that belief in God is one of those silly superstitions that Science! (the capital and exclamation point are essential) will eventually cure us of.

For those who don't know me, please note that I am not CTH atheism or atheists--just a kind of rude, off-putting approach to such things that builds walls rather than bridges of understanding. I feel the same (or even moreso) when I run up against the same attitude with theistic religious matters.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
TICTH Friday the 13th. Well, this one just past anyway. No, I am not superstitious about that. Just a series of small missteps, by me, that took the polish off what was really a pleasant day.
So, I suppose, it is more CTH me.
 
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
TICTH pollen (sniff, splutter) and the misery it causes (sneeze, snort) this time of year (rub eye, blow nose).

Don't care how much plants needs it to breed - I hate the stuff! (and yes, I am being overly human-centric or, to be more specific, Stejjie-centric in this).
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
TICTH exactly the kind of thing I posted about above (re a certain type of atheist), only applied to people debating politics. When I specifically say that I do believe I have reasons to believe as I do, but that I don't want to derail the thread, that is not the same thing as saying that I don't have reasons. Gah. And no, I will not be baited by personal attacks into continuing to fight. [Mad]

Can't anyone discuss areas of disagreement without being personal, rude, and combative about it?? [Waterworks]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by ChastMastr:


Can't anyone discuss areas of disagreement without being personal, rude, and combative about it?? [Waterworks]

And yet you ask this question in Hell?

(seriously though, it's good to see you back!)
 
Posted by Macrina (# 8807) on :
 
TICTH the mouth breathing idiot who stole my bike lights off my bike leaving the mounts in place. Congratulations, you have now obtained two usb rechargeable lights which will be useless after 5 hours and you've endangered my life and cost me $180. Fucker.
 
Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Stejjie:
TICTH pollen (sniff, splutter) and the misery it causes (sneeze, snort) this time of year (rub eye, blow nose).

Don't care how much plants needs it to breed - I hate the stuff! (and yes, I am being overly human-centric or, to be more specific, Stejjie-centric in this).

This 10x
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Dementia, that's three relatives this year. Damn it to hell.
 
Posted by Poppy (# 2000) on :
 
The young man who came into our evening service tonight and stole the purse of a very elderly parishioner.

If there was cursing involved there would be boils and weeping sores and general deep unpleasantness. [Mad]
 
Posted by Qoheleth. (# 9265) on :
 
[Mad]
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
The idiots who are doing the road and footpath works between home and the supermarket. Bloody drongoes put "use other side" on both the footpaths! Am I meant to walk down the middle of a very busy road that has both lanes of traffic squished into one normal lane (plus cyclelane) or somehow hover over the top?

Huia [Mad]
 
Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
TICTH the current fad of social trinitarianism.

God isn't three people.

Nice idea, but it's like listening to a good song on the radio too often. Enough already.

[Projectile]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH football (soccer) commentators who have no understanding of perfectly easy to understand goal-line technology. Or who, alternatively, feel the need to 'create' controversy when there isn't any.

It wasn't a goal when it hit the post. It was a goal shortly after that. It's an own goal because it wasn't going in until a defending player deflected it in. Why is any of that difficult for you four morons??
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH football (soccer) commentators who have no understanding of perfectly easy to understand goal-line technology. Or who, alternatively, feel the need to 'create' controversy when there isn't any.

It wasn't a goal when it hit the post. It was a goal shortly after that. It's an own goal because it wasn't going in until a defending player deflected it in. Why is any of that difficult for you four morons??

To condemn them to hell is to condemn them to an eternity of listening to their own commentary, isn't it?
[Devil]
 
Posted by MrsBeaky (# 17663) on :
 
Cockroaches.

I have nothing more to say.
 
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on :
 
B for marking all the edits in the documents she works on as accepted. B, did you really think you were the only person working on those documents, dearie? Yes, you do have the right to reject any of those edits. That doesn't mean that you were the only one who needed to see them. Believe me your grammar and punctuation skills alone are not nearly good enough to pass without an editor, nevermind syntax. Thanks for ensuring that one way or another I will have to comb through looking for all the changes in a more painful way.

P.S. Considering your generally patronizing attitude is also delightful. One can tell that you don't think editors are very useful and that you think I'm a sweet girl. Nevermind that I am your age, if I were not, I would still expect to be treated like a professional.

[ 16. June 2014, 17:03: Message edited by: Gwai ]
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
TICTH wasting 3 hours of my life on a church committee on which I was the youngest by such a large margin that I might as well have been speaking a different language.
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:
TICTH wasting 3 hours of my life on a church committee on which I was the youngest by such a large margin that I might as well have been speaking a different language.

Your primary mistake was a attending a committee, any committee, age be damned. Run away, run away, run away!
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:
TICTH wasting 3 hours of my life on a church committee on which I was the youngest by such a large margin that I might as well have been speaking a different language.

At a recent Bishops Council one of our members was bemoaning the removal of the Classics from the teaching curriculum. Apparently the kids are being told to read Beyoncé's biography.

I thought of saying "A typical example of a move to the Left" but realised that only one other person would get the joke. And I'm 51, sigh.

Pyx_e
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH Sir Michael Wilshaw and Michael Gove, for some truly pathetic grandstanding on the pretext of improving education.
 
Posted by The Silent Acolyte (# 1158) on :
 
The fucking narcotics laws: that require I drag my suffering ass out of bed, setting back my recovery, to go in to the doctor's because they cannot renew over the phone a prescription for codeine cough syrup, which they have been routinely prescribing for me every few years for decades. It is the only thing that will knock down the cough. Fucking narcotics laws.
 
Posted by MrsBeaky (# 17663) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by me:
Cockroaches.

I have nothing more to say.

I lied.
Today it was a rat.
 
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
Cockroaches live in India and Africa. As do rats. Adopt feral cats. They'll take care of rats. Cockroach spray is needed. Cockroaches are not the sign of a dirty house. There is no shame in having cockroaches in South Asia.
 
Posted by MrsBeaky (# 17663) on :
 
Rats live everywhere, everywhere I tell you!
They are the one thing I am really scared of and I hate them....
But thanks, Pete I need to regain my sense of perspective and find a cat.Pronto.
 
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
The computer guy who consistently fails to turn up when he has promised he will be there - he is now on a last warning!
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:
TICTH wasting 3 hours of my life on a church committee on which I was the youngest by such a large margin that I might as well have been speaking a different language.

At a recent Bishops Council one of our members was bemoaning the removal of the Classics from the teaching curriculum. Apparently the kids are being told to read Beyoncé's biography.

I thought of saying "A typical example of a move to the Left" but realised that only one other person would get the joke. And I'm 51, sigh.

Pyx_e

Ann Atkins, a classicist herself, spoke very approvingly of topical/modern books being on the curriculum, pointing out that Shakespeare was regarded as trivia in its day.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
The computer guy who consistently fails to turn up when he has promised he will be there - he is now on a last warning!

Oh the joys of "Best effort" service [Disappointed]
 
Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
The computer guy who consistently fails to turn up when he has promised he will be there - he is now on a last warning!

Oh the joys of "Best effort" service [Disappointed]
It's called 'just in time' service - i.e. just in time for us to avoid being taken to court by Microsoft, not in time for the customer.
 
Posted by Jemima the 9th (# 15106) on :
 
TICTH people who refer to themselves in the third person. You're a grown adult, adopting the speech patterns of a 2 year old isn't winsome and charming, it's weird. Now stop it immediately, or Jemima will thcream and thream and thream until she's thick. Or stamp on your toes.
 
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
I have just neatly and carefully sewn the sleeve into a jumper. Wrong side to right side. Oh sod it.
 
Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
Management. Who couldn't be bothered to attend the funeral of a man who had worked for their organisation for 40 fucking years. How hard would it have been to take an hour out of their fucking up their job time to do the right thing and go? [Mad]
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
To be fair, if any of my management turned up at mine should I suddenly pop my clogs I'd bloody well haunt them.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
The Tory education policy in the wake of 'extremism'.

They abolished Citizenship lessons.

The removed Community Cohesion' from inspections.

They marginalised Religious Education.

Now they want to 'teach Magna Carta.'
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
TICTH "A," who has recently become Treasurer of the Board for a non-profit of which I am also a Board officer. She seems to think she was heaven-sent to straighten out us poor dummies, even though we all have more experience than she does. As Treasurer, she is making unilateral decisions about personnel -- and getting away with it! I feel like a voice crying in the wilderness when I complain.
[Mad]
 
Posted by Erroneous Monk (# 10858) on :
 
Dress codes. Why would I care about "making the right impression" on someone who is impressed (or not) by someone's choice of clothes, FFS?
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Erroneous Monk:
Dress codes. Why would I care about "making the right impression" on someone who is impressed (or not) by someone's choice of clothes, FFS?

I agree in principle. In reality, manipulating stupid but powerful people who are impressed by a someone's choice of clothes can be to your personal advantage.
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Jemima the 9th:
TICTH people who refer to themselves in the third person. You're a grown adult, adopting the speech patterns of a 2 year old isn't winsome and charming, it's weird. Now stop it immediately, or Jemima will thcream and thream and thream until she's thick. Or stamp on your toes.

I'm not sure whether that's more annoying or less so that people addressing you in the third person. "And how's Jemima today?"
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH Helen Grant, a junior minister with responsibility for Tourism, for suggesting that people should opt to stay in the UK for their holidays. Rotten timing Ms Grant, who is in Brazil at the moment (yes, she also has the Sport portfolio: does she have the BBQ, Street Party and Rock Festival portfolios too?)
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
Today, I condemn to hell the Conservative MP Michael Fabricant who threatened to punch a woman in the throat.

He later issued a non-apology, trying to pass the blame onto anyone who might mistakenly think threatening to punch someone in the throat is offensive.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
He seems to think saying sorry makes it OK. I spent my working life trying to teach that that is not a correct way of dealing with the issue. But I was in a state school, so what do I know.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
TICTH rain. It needs to stop. 3.5 inches on Wednesday, 2 inches on Tues, 3 on Monday, it goes on. Today we're 2 inches in and it keeps raining. Also flooding.
 
Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAlethiophile:
Today, I condemn to hell the Conservative MP Michael Fabricant who threatened to punch a woman in the throat.



Is saying 'I couldn't do X because I might then do Y' the same as 'threatening to do Y'. Possibly, possibly not. But anyways.

quote:
He later issued a non-apology, trying to pass the blame onto anyone who might mistakenly think threatening to punch someone in the throat is offensive.
That's not how I'd describe this tweet:

quote:
So just for the avoidance of any doubt: I am v sorry for tweet. It was wrong to joke abt punching + I completely withdraw and apologise.
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
But I was in a state school, so what do I know.

Perhaps as much as Michael Fabricant? He also appears to have attended one.

[ 20. June 2014, 20:46: Message edited by: Anglican't ]
 
Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
cactus-fucking hypertext links that have infiltrated my computer (especially on Ship of Fools) overnight
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
TICTH the very messy results of a refusal to discuss options.
Head in the sand, bum in the air, resulting in a damn fool silly pile of nonsense. Bllx
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
*tornado-whirling by*

goddamn cheese-shitting futhermucking procupine-groping crazyasshorseshit fucking crappy pants busyshit weekend from hell blarpfftghgarphblat!

*tornado-whirl away*

[ 23. June 2014, 06:07: Message edited by: comet ]
 
Posted by M. (# 3291) on :
 
TICTH the person who first decided to pack tights in scratchy cardboard packaging.

M.
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
TITCH people who just can't seem to learn the use of the BCC function when emailing. [Mad] Childcare providers and schools seem to be particularly egregious offenders in this regard. I have just received yet another reminder email about something largely irrelevant, which has been sent to some forty recipients, all having had their email addresses just dumped in the to: field. To them I say - if I want to share my email address with the whole world - I'll do it myself! It makes me wonder what other information about me and my own, which I have been required to provide you with, you would just hand out willy-nilly to anyone, if you can't grasp this sort of very, very, basic information hygiene...
 
Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :
 
TICTH software. I've been working on this upgrade for months, through testing it in two test environments, and there's still broken shit.

Wasn't it enough that I tracked down "javne mape" (*) as indicating we were missing a table entry for Slovenian fergodssake? How much more troubleshooting have I got to do to satisfy the voracious Gods Of Broken Software?

(*) "Public Folders"
 
Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :
 
TICTH city councils and utilities companies.

Since at least last September, a road I use on my way to work has been in dreadful condition - seriously, stretches of it were literally more hole than road. Most traffic (except butch 4x4s) was reduced to about 15mph trying to navigate a course that wouldn't wreck the suspension. It was in this condition because over a period of time, it had been dug up by various people who hadn't then repaired it properly.

Last week, the council resurfaced the worst stretch of it.

This morning, the gas company dug it up again.

Is it really too much to ask that in the 21st century these things can be better coordinated?
 
Posted by The Rhythm Methodist (# 17064) on :
 
TICTH....myself, for being too dull, unimaginative and unspiritual to appreciate this ground-breaking outreach initiative. Or perhaps I'm just jealous because I never thought of it. These guys are just so innovative....best scheme for getting bums-on-seats I ever came up with was child sacrifice, and even that was vetoed by the leadership group.
 
Posted by ExclamationMark (# 14715) on :
 
TICTH any member of the British Royal Family who meets unrepentant terrorists who ordered the killing of said nation's soldiers and subjects.
 
Posted by Rosa Winkel (# 11424) on :
 
TICTH the sadness that has over decades occasionally enveloped me, and at the same time, the bible which often offers no help at all, rather, texts about twats being twattish to others, or some twattish rules, or the "things are shite for us Lord because we have been acting like twats" psalms; to add to this, prayer that often gives me a sense of aloneness and also frustration with myself for not managing my sadness and prayer better, I mean, surely I can get pray myself out of sadness.

Yours very conscious about where I have posted this
Rosa Winkel
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Rosa Winkel:
I mean, surely I can get pray myself out of sadness.

To paraphrase slightly the words of the talented Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half ; Trying to pray oneself out of depression "is like a person with no arms trying to punch themselves until their hands grow back." Have a drink, instead. It's counterproductive and self-sabotaging, so it will feel like the right thing to do...

Anoesis - NOT having a drink tonight, for once, and cross with it...
 
Posted by South Coast Kevin (# 16130) on :
 
TICTH Shipmate CL. Why do you waste your time here, good sir? What pleasure or satisfaction can you possibly get from your occasional outraged splutters at the heresy which is rife on the Ship? It's not even that you seek to cross metaphorical swords with people, like say IngoB does.

EDIT - Sorry, here is the relevant post.

[ 24. June 2014, 11:21: Message edited by: South Coast Kevin ]
 
Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by South Coast Kevin:
TICTH Shipmate CL. Why do you waste your time here, good sir? What pleasure or satisfaction can you possibly get from your occasional outraged splutters at the heresy which is rife on the Ship?

He's a troll. Simples.
 
Posted by SvitlanaV2 (# 16967) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by South Coast Kevin:
TICTH Shipmate CL. Why do you waste your time here, good sir? What pleasure or satisfaction can you possibly get from your occasional outraged splutters at the heresy which is rife on the Ship? It's not even that you seek to cross metaphorical swords with people, like say IngoB does.

EDIT - Sorry, here is the relevant post.

I thought the comment you're referring to was more of a critique of Evensong's praise of Britishness than it was a critique of any particular 'heretical' theology.

There are plenty of well-informed people from all sorts of backgrounds who challenge positive readings of British history. I don't know about CL's theology or politics, but as a Catholic in Ireland it's not altogether surprising that s/he's less than admiring of British history....
 
Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
TICTH the person who thought it was a good idea to park a shredding lorry outside a roomful of people who take phone calls for a living and shred documents very loudly for nearly an hour on one of the hottest days of the year. Fantastic.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
and people who mow school grounds during the exam season.
 
Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :
 
TICTH, the idiot in the pick-up truck who revered into the front of my car at a junction this morning
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by South Coast Kevin:
TICTH Shipmate CL. Why do you waste your time here, good sir? What pleasure or satisfaction can you possibly get from your occasional outraged splutters at the heresy which is rife on the Ship? It's not even that you seek to cross metaphorical swords with people, like say IngoB does.

EDIT - Sorry, here is the relevant post.

Too lazy and unimaginative to call a fellow shipmate to Hell? or are you just shitting-yourself scared of creating a thread where CL will actually see what you say and can therefore respond?

Grow some balls and start your own thread.
 
Posted by South Coast Kevin (# 16130) on :
 
*Shrug* I didn't think it was worth a thread of its own. Besides, I've called CL to Hell at least once before (actually twice, I think) and I'm sure he didn't respond.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH Luis Suarez. The man should be banned from football. How is biting your opponent, in front of a billion people no less, remotely acceptable?
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
I think my colleague might have condemned me here.

During a bit of office banter, I referred to a colleague (to his face) as occasionally dressing "like a mid-like crisis". Is that hell-worthy?

Bear in mind he's a misogynistic, racist FiF anglo-catholic.
 
Posted by wanderingstar (# 10444) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kitten:
TICTH, the idiot in the pick-up truck who revered into the front of my car at a junction this morning

Was there much bowing and scraping?
 
Posted by The Intrepid Mrs S (# 17002) on :
 
TICTH dementia in all its forms.

Robbing not only the sufferer but often their family and friends of what should be happy times together.
[Mad] [Mad] [Mad]

Mrs. S, unable to add anything to the above.
 
Posted by Antisocial Alto (# 13810) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH Luis Suarez. The man should be banned from football. How is biting your opponent, in front of a billion people no less, remotely acceptable?

Someone on Twitter (presumably American) said "Who cares about Suarez biting someone? Our football players murder people."

I kind of got a kick out of that.
 
Posted by Amazing Grace (# 95) on :
 
TICTH people who constantly "micromanage" other people's work (especially volunteer work) at the church, and not in an affirming and constructive way.

Scare quotes because they aren't actually the people who are charged with overseeing that particular work. They're just complainy busybodies.
 
Posted by QLib (# 43) on :
 
Wilkinson Sword's TV advert: allegedly celebrating spontaneity, but actually telling you can't take your clothes off and jump in the pool at a party unless you are "beach ready .... down there". Fuckwits.
 
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
May they fall on their own swords, QLib.
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
TICTH members of the Ordinariate who KEEP bleating on about those clergy who despite espousing similar beliefs to you (on blogs, at meeting and in drinks) in the LONG run up to the leap of faith didn't jump.

Go find a shit ton of wood, build yourselves a bridge and get over it.

If they were going to come they would have come by now. Your constant sniping, cajoling, whispering, pleading and threatening just make you look pathetic. Some of you are reasonably clever and certainly can turn a word but you can't hide the bitter heart of your felt betrayal.

As an aside you are breaking the hearts of some who despite wanting to come with you CAN'T because what has gone on in their lives before.

Everyone I know is very happy for you, you have found your home. Everyone acknowledges it was an April shower of departure rather than the hoped for (by you) deluge. But it is over. You have got all you are getting, if you feel the need for more numbers to stave of your assimilation into the Borg then go and do some mission FFS and stop writing stupid letters, blogs and articles that just make you sound like whiney adolescents whose friends won't join their new gang.

Sigh.

Pyx_e
 
Posted by CL (# 16145) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
TICTH members of the Ordinariate who KEEP bleating on about those clergy who despite espousing similar beliefs to you (on blogs, at meeting and in drinks) in the LONG run up to the leap of faith didn't jump.

Go find a shit ton of wood, build yourselves a bridge and get over it.

If they were going to come they would have come by now. Your constant sniping, cajoling, whispering, pleading and threatening just make you look pathetic. Some of you are reasonably clever and certainly can turn a word but you can't hide the bitter heart of your felt betrayal.

As an aside you are breaking the hearts of some who despite wanting to come with you CAN'T because what has gone on in their lives before.

Everyone I know is very happy for you, you have found your home. Everyone acknowledges it was an April shower of departure rather than the hoped for (by you) deluge. But it is over. You have got all you are getting, if you feel the need for more numbers to stave of your assimilation into the Borg then go and do some mission FFS and stop writing stupid letters, blogs and articles that just make you sound like whiney adolescents whose friends won't join their new gang.

Sigh.

Pyx_e

The least you could do is to have the honesty to name Msgr Broadhurst and Fr Hunwicke as the targets of your ire rather than hide behind oblique references to certain blogs and certain letters.
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
CL firstly my understanding of ship policy is we are not encouraged to allow/create inter board ructions. So I have not named names, it is all out there to read, I'm not going to make it easy for you or hard for the ship.

Secondly, you ought not to mention words like "honesty."
 
Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
Pyx_e

As a member of the Ordinariate I am so with you. I don't understand people looking back. You've made your decision, move forward, meld into the church you've joined, learn the intricacies of Catholicism. Stop looking over your shoulder and sticking out your tongue. It makes you look like someone who is still trying to convince yourself that you're doing the right thing. People are not stupid and will make up their minds on the basis of their own personal situation and relationship with God. Having someone come across as a self satisfied wanker is not going to change anything.
 
Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
Except perhaps confirm your decision to stay in The One True Church™
 
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Amazing Grace:
... complainy busybodies ...

Every church has complainy busybodies: they're the people who make sure that everybody knows just how much volunteering they do.

Whether the churches could function without them is probably worthy of the dissertation for a Ph.D. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by The Kat in the Hat (# 2557) on :
 
Pedestrians who can't wait the couple of minutes it takes for the pelican crossing to change, but must dash across in front of the cyclist who has just built up a nice load of momentum. And talking on your phone at the same time [Mad]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH a bloke called Claude Michy for confirming, by suggesting that a woman was irrational, exactly why said woman found him impossible to work with.
 
Posted by Snags (# 15351) on :
 
TICTH passive aggressive fuckwits who think the world revolves around them and send me snarky emails the morning after I've been up most of the night Doing My Bit.[1]

If you don't get involved, you don't talk to me, and you don't ever, ever, ever volunteer to help in a particular area, how the flippity flipping flop am I supposed to know that you would have liked to have been included in a circular about something that SOMEONE ELSE is organising and which YOU NOW KNOW ABOUT ANYWAY, IN PLENTY OF TIME.

And why on earth would the church maintain a comprehensive list of every skill, hobby and interest its attendees lay claim to, just in case it ever proves useful? We're not the bloody NSA[2].

And why the hell am I having to give you info when you've spoken to the person who's ACTUALLY organising it?

Bloody narcissists.

[1]OK, you couldn't have known, but this isn't about being reasonable

[2]Although sometimes one could be forgiven ...
 
Posted by South Coast Kevin (# 16130) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH a bloke called Claude Michy for confirming, by suggesting that a woman was irrational, exactly why said woman found him impossible to work with.

"She's a woman so it could be down to any number of things … it's an astonishing, irrational and incomprehensible decision. She's developed a confidence problem, but I don't know what it was that caused this."

That's hysterically, tragically misogynistic! [Eek!]
 
Posted by saysay (# 6645) on :
 
TICTH certain former female friends for being stupid, selfish, spoiled sluts who can't seem to stop lying.

And TICTH certain men for making me so afraid of how something is going to be interpreted that I'm afraid to act. I'd like to do the decent honorable thing right now, but you people are all fucking crazy up there.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
The sort of person who moves in to a project someone else has started, and is their livelihood, with the pretence of support, alienates the supporters of the founder, and ejects them, leaving them with very little, and themselves with a profit.

I know of three now. The first lost their case in court. The second completely failed with the project (unless their aim was to run a tax scam and money laundering) leaving bits of it scattered about and removed from the founder. What will happen in the case of the third is up in the air at the moment. Ah, I recall a fourth, in our Meeting, who had his business moved in upon.

And I am fuming with no prospect of having anything useful to do when someone already vulnerable through illness is well and truly kicked while he is down.

How do these ******* (substitute suitable plural noun, possibly from Klingon) live with themselves?
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
Maybe trying this aloud in the relevant places, to the relevant people ?
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
At the moment, I am bound by the wishes of the victim, who taking advice. When the bonds are loosened, then things will be said and done, and not just by me.

But it does seem to be a general problem, as well. It should be possible to identify these people in advance. (A friend did, in this case, but was not believed as he had no evidence for his antennae twitch.)

[ 29. June 2014, 17:56: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
When I get home, I'm cutting up my old Rolf Harris t-shirt. Haven't worn it in months, but now that he's been found guilty, I can see no reason for that t-shirt to continue in existence. He's a man who did evil.
 
Posted by Erroneous Monk (# 10858) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAlethiophile:
When I get home, I'm cutting up my old Rolf Harris t-shirt. Haven't worn it in months, but now that he's been found guilty, I can see no reason for that t-shirt to continue in existence. He's a man who did evil.

Are you going to scream "Can you tell what it is yet? Can you?? CAN YOU???" as you do it?
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Erroneous Monk:
Are you going to scream "Can you tell what it is yet? Can you?? CAN YOU???" as you do it?

The spontaneous and embarrasingy hard to explain giggle at work that got out of me is definitely worth a call to heck at the very least, EM!

AG

PS Usual comments on your sig. [Snigger] OK, love-in over, time to get hellish again.

[ 30. June 2014, 15:42: Message edited by: Sandemaniac ]
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
TICTH Hobby Fucking Lobby. [Mad]
 
Posted by Chocoholic (# 4655) on :
 
Ruth W has given this it's own thread
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH the thoroughly stupid middle-aged blonde woman who, this morning:

approaching traffic light 1, zoomed up behind a van, than abruptly switched lanes to tailgate me while I was slowing down because the light was red and I had the nounce to look a hundred metres up the road and see it was red;

approaching traffic light 2, swerved out from behind me so that she could accelerate off at a great pace, even though the light was red at the time and there were cars waiting at the lights (so that when the light switched to green, she had to slow down anyway because those cars were taking off from 0 km/h, not her 90 km/h);

at traffic light 3, several kilometres down the road from where I first encountered her grand prix-inspired behaviour, ended up one car-length BEHIND me in the neighbouring lane. A more perfect demonstration of the sheer pointlessness of driving in traffic in a manner that endangers lives, I could not have wished for.
 
Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
TICTH the men - and they were all men - who decided they had the right to comment on what my daughter wore when she went into town shopping, and made her so uncomfortable that she felt she had to buy a skirt to change into.

FFS, the problem is with your mind, not her legs. Unless you are an actual police officer who has reason to believe she's outraging the public decency, then your choices are going home or shutting the fuck up. And if you ever, ever, try this on her when I'm out with her, I will make such a public spectacle of you that your already microscopic penis will require all the facilities of CERN to find it again.
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
TICTH system developers. Get off your bloody high horse. Once I've written the specifications, told you the inputs and shown you what the outputs need to look like, it is not up to you to decide that the outputs need to exclude data you don't like. Don't act all surprised that when I test the system I complain that there's data missing.

If you want to design a system from scratch, then do it in your own time. If you get given a clear set of step-by-step instructions then learn to bloody well follow them. You're not the one using the data so don't presume you know how it ought to look. You already wasted weeks building a fancy widget that wasn't on the design spec and won't be used by anyone.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doc Tor:
TICTH the men - and they were all men - who decided they had the right to comment on what my daughter wore when she went into town shopping, and made her so uncomfortable that she felt she had to buy a skirt to change into.

FFS, the problem is with your mind, not her legs. Unless you are an actual police officer who has reason to believe she's outraging the public decency, then your choices are going home or shutting the fuck up. And if you ever, ever, try this on her when I'm out with her, I will make such a public spectacle of you that your already microscopic penis will require all the facilities of CERN to find it again.

YES.

and I hope you had a good version of that rant RIGHT IN FRONT of her so she knows it was their fault and not hers and papa has her back.

raise hell, papa!
 
Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
and I hope you had a good version of that rant RIGHT IN FRONT of her so she knows it was their fault and not hers and papa has her back.

Damn right.

"It's fine..."
"It's not bloody fine. I'm furious."
etc, repeat to fade.

The thing is, I know they wouldn't have tried it if I'd been there with her, but go on, pick on the girl out on her own, you bastards.

Still furious.
 
Posted by Otter (# 12020) on :
 
TICTH the stupid sexist nincompoop who told a group of women that they shouldn't do the task they were doing successfully, and called on some men to take over.

Sexist nincompoop also thought it would be ok to remove the structural supports from something, because Artistic Froo-Froo Blather. Mr. Otter put the supports right back, because I wasn't there to bludgeon her with them first.

[ 01. July 2014, 20:03: Message edited by: Otter ]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
And the bonds are off! Anyone use West Dulwich station?
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
And the bonds are off! Anyone use West Dulwich station?

West? I'm not that rich. East Dulwich for me.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Oh come on, haven't you seen the estates off Croxted Road south of the South Circular? It's more mixed than you think.
(Fun can be had making up areas of London that don't exist. Such as East Norwood, North Dulwich...)
Anyway, there is a good social project just outside West Dulwich station worthy of support.
 
Posted by JonahMan (# 12126) on :
 
Job Interviews. I hates them.

Waiting for the result is fine as I have, in ego-protetion mode, usually already convinced myself I don't want the job anyway!
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
(Fun can be had making up areas of London that don't exist. Such as East Norwood, North Dulwich...)

Erm...I passed North Dulwich this morning. I might use Peckham Hill instead.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
Hotmail - every time they 'improve' it, something goes wrong.

Currently, I seem to have lost 10 years of backed up files in OneDrive, formerly Skydrive.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAlethiophile:
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
(Fun can be had making up areas of London that don't exist. Such as East Norwood, North Dulwich...)

Erm...I passed North Dulwich this morning. I might use Peckham Hill instead.
I know there's a station, but I checked before writing, and various sites say there is no area of that name. But maybe a bad choice. Is there a North Peckham?
 
Posted by Celtic Knotweed (# 13008) on :
 
TICTH the e-learning system at work, which insists that I do not have a user ID on it. I could understand needing to re-set my password, as I haven't had to do an online course since 2011, but deleting the ID is unexpected. [Mad]

Especially as I'm meant to do this module before a training course at the end of next week, which I got back from holiday on Monday to discover I'd been allocated to. The boss is chasing up Training to find out what's happened to my account...
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Listen, sunshine, if you want me to make a donation to your charity, do not step deliberately in my path just in front of the ticket barriers at the railway station when I have barely 3 minutes left to get through, sprint up and down flights of steps and across bridges to the other side and into a train.

And emphatically DO NOT ask "Can I borrow you?" I realize this is a gambit designed to provoke a response, but the only response you'll get will be me snarling "No you bloody can't. I'm not an item in a library and nobody owns me. And use proper grammar next time and meanwhile move yourself, you infuriating idiot."

And even if I did have time I absolutely would not sign up to a standing order giving you a double figure sum every month.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH the local eatery (same disorganised one as previously mentions) that drowns its pasta dishes in so much sauce, they require drainage before consumption.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
The hellbound putsch person and his minion have shown themselves to be capable only of expelling the founder of the scheme, with the base*, and the name, and the web presence, and the contacts, and the goodwill; while being utterly incapable of running anything more complex than putting a paper bag in a bin. This includes not knowing that you can't earn money while on JSA, and not insisting on H&S while carrying out volunteer horticultural work with students.
Hardly worth making someone else's life hellish. Hopefully the scheme will keep going without them.
*at that station.

[ 03. July 2014, 08:43: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by Erroneous Monk (# 10858) on :
 
Rapists. (Today I've read the most harrowing piece written by a young man who was drugged and repeatedly raped by someone he thought he was about to begin a relationship with [Waterworks] )
 
Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
TICTH the flytippers who have dumped piles of their crap on the alley of my road. Everyone else either goes to the cowp or puts it out for the binmen but no, you're so important you don't need to, you can just dump it anywhere you want.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
"cowp"?
 
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
"flytippers?"
 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
Cowp: Rubbish dump. Usually run by the local municipality, providing large skips for people to deposit their rubbish in, and these days also separate places for recyclables. I don't know where chive is from, but I think of it as a Scots word.
Used when householders have old furniture, DIY waste, or other things that don't fit in their roadside bin.


Flytippers: people who can't be bothered to haul their rubbish to the cowp, but find a convenient scenic country lane or farm gate, and fill it with old mattresses, bottles and rubble. May well be more common where municipal dumps charge for access.

Hence, they tip on the fly.

[ 03. July 2014, 19:25: Message edited by: Leorning Cniht ]
 
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
TICTH Ramadan driving. When Ramadan first came about the fastest thing people were driving was a camel. Now when they have been up all night, have low blood sugar, are dehydrated after a day in upper 30's heat with no drink, and have nicotine and caffeine withdrawal they get behind the wheel of vehicles of various sizes and attempt to drive on the road. Concentration and judgement is definitely impaired in this situation. As proved by the guy who just drifted sideways into our car with his yesterday, denting and scraping all down the doors on one side. Oh well, at least it was no worse than that...

Edited to add that I live in an Arab country so we are talking about most of the drivers on the road....

[ 04. July 2014, 09:08: Message edited by: Lucia ]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Thanks LC. (Like the moniker, BTW. I like to use words from the AS dictionary myself.)

My usage in the SE of England is "dump" or "tip". I'd like to know the derivation of cowp, though. (The meaning is what I thought it was.)

There a notice round here "FLY TIPPERS WILL BE PROSECUTED" which brought to the inner eye a truck slanting up and depositing a buzzing crowd of bluebottles.

The worst flytipping I've seen was when Bromley for some reason left unlocked the gates to the old caravan site on the site of the Crystal Palace, and within twenty minutes there wasa stream of lorries leaving building rubble which, from the heading on some of the paperwork in it, came from Dickens and Jones. (Difficult to report it, as we shouldn't have been there reading it.)

[ 04. July 2014, 10:30: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH Philip Nitschke. Either you're a doctor or you're not.
 
Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
quote:
Originally posted by TheAlethiophile:
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
(Fun can be had making up areas of London that don't exist. Such as East Norwood, North Dulwich...)

Erm...I passed North Dulwich this morning. I might use Peckham Hill instead.
I know there's a station, but I checked before writing, and various sites say there is no area of that name. But maybe a bad choice. Is there a North Peckham?
There used to be a North Peckham (council) Estate, now I believe demolished.
 
Posted by Mechtilde (# 12563) on :
 
TICTH the Fourth of July. Brings out the crazy "'Murica is the greatest country in the world" shit from people who've never seriously considered any objective metrics of "greatness." Since people in every country think theirs is the best, it always seems to boil down to "it's the greatest because I live here."

ETA: It is a great excuse to have friends over and fire up the grill, though.

[ 04. July 2014, 15:18: Message edited by: Mechtilde ]
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Mechtilde:
TICTH the Fourth of July. Brings out the crazy "'Murica is the greatest country in the world" shit from people who've never seriously considered any objective metrics of "greatness." Since people in every country think theirs is the best, it always seems to boil down to "it's the greatest because I live here."

ETA: It is a great excuse to have friends over and fire up the grill, though.

And it's always another opportunity for Hobby Lobby's propaganda. (This was a full-page ad in many newspapers around the U.S. today.)
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Has Hobby Lobby caused the closedown of independent suppliers of craft materials, as it is my impression that a large supplier has here, so that boycotting them is a bit of a problem?
 
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
My curse attend tiny, invisible bitey things that have brought me out in itching sores. Normally it's August before I have to douse myself in Autan before going outdoors, but it's been a warm, wettish summer so far.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Sodding bloody boss who has not heard my repeated response that moving my work base from East London to West London (when I start as far east as you can get) makes my commute too long and too expensive to be sustainable but has continued to juggle the kids around with her plan. So next week I am expected to introduce new tutor to ASC student with zero preparation so they can take over. While said ASC student has both parents away. Sodding sodding bosses.

And then I am supposed to start getting to know new student who I am not going to work with because actually, even the Government websites say that I can refuse to change location if the travel becomes too expensive or takes too long. And 2½ to 3 hours each way plus £20 a week additional cost is too expensive and too frigging long.

I hate, hate, hate bloody job hunting with a passion and that is what I will have to spend my weekend doing.

[ 04. July 2014, 21:01: Message edited by: Curiosity killed ... ]
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
quote:

Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar (Mark Twain)



TICTH the idiots uphill from me in my neighborhood as I prepare to spend an evening with hose in case a roman candle shell lands on my roof or car.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Water. From the sky. In the rivers and lakes. Making lakes in fields.

And "states of emergency". On account of water.

And flooded highways. On account of water.

And power failures. On account of water.

And mosquitos. Which love effing standing water.

And horseflies. They are bastards.

While I'm at it. Golf. Just because.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
And it's always another opportunity for Hobby Lobby's propaganda. (This was a full-page ad in many newspapers around the U.S. today.)

That is absolutely appalling.

Judging by the dates of most of those quotes, I'm guessing they also miss the good old days when Negroes weren't so uppity.

[ 05. July 2014, 00:20: Message edited by: orfeo ]
 
Posted by Antisocial Alto (# 13810) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
That is absolutely appalling.

Judging by the dates of most of those quotes, I'm guessing they also miss the good old days when Negroes weren't so uppity.

I notice they also left out the part where Thomas Jefferson cut up the Bible with a razor blade.

According to David L. Holmes the Founding Fathers were almost universally less religious than their own wives. (Except Abigail Adams, the Deist hussy.)
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
They've also been selective in leaving out the thoughts of Alexander Hamilton, or Aaron Burr's come to that: I seem to recall that Hamilton is regarded as a founding father and Burr should qualify since he was the third VP (yes, I know the duel and the later charge of treason is awkward but...).
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
Or the Treaty of Tripoli, unanimously passed by the Senate (although the full body was not present at the vote) and signed by President Adams. An excerpt:
quote:
[T]he Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion . . . [and] has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen. . . .
Musselmen being Muslims, of course.

But we should really start a new thread on the topic and let TICTH get back to C'ing to H.
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
A warm thank-you to the somewhat merry lads who decided to play balloon football in the small hours underneath my window for a while. I appreciate your trying to do this quietly, but in the stillness of the night, the expletives, giggles, crashes into the railings, scurries and sound of running feet are clearly audible wherever you might be in the car park.
 
Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :
 
Priests who refuse to use mobile phones, email, or even voicemail.

No, Father, your refusal to drag yourself into the 20th century, let alone the 21st, does not make you whimsically old-fashioned. It makes you a tosser.
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
Idiot companies sidelining the poor, intellectually impaired and homeless even further because they can't see further than the ends of their own noses.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Oyster cards are very widely available - from the machines in tube stations and newsagents even if the counters don't exist. Cash fares on the buses and Tube are weighted to make it cheaper to have cards (Bus: £2.40 cash, £1.45 on Oyster, Tube Zone 1 fare £4.70 cash, £2.20 on Oyster). Day travel cards are available from all stations too - from the machines that are pretty much everywhere, and accept cash, and those are at Oyster rates.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
Idiot companies sidelining the poor, intellectually impaired and homeless even further because they can't see further than the ends of their own noses.

They're not alone. New York City subways and the Los Angeles metro are cash-free (one can still use cash on the buses, however). You have to purchase a card from a vending machine to use in the turnstiles. LA's work pretty well, but NY's are notorious for having to be "swiped" multiple times before the turnstile recognizes them.

And in both cities, senior citizen reduced fare cards must be specially applied for. Fine for residents, but what about tourists?
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
They require organisational skills, and being able to manage a level of abstract concept. Crosspost

[ 06. July 2014, 17:22: Message edited by: Doublethink ]
 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:

And in both cities, senior citizen reduced fare cards must be specially applied for. Fine for residents, but what about tourists?

Perhaps the cities feel (not necessarily unreasonably) that people who can afford to be tourists are not those in most need of a senior citizen discount? Plus, of course, tourists don't vote.
 
Posted by Fineline (# 12143) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
They require organisational skills, and being able to manage a level of abstract concept. Crosspost

More organisational skills are required to ensure you always have change for the bus. People with disabilities can get a concessionary pass, so they don't need to pay. This has been the case for quite a while, and it makes organising travel a lot easier.
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Fineline:
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
They require organisational skills, and being able to manage a level of abstract concept. Crosspost

More organisational skills are required to ensure you always have change for the bus. People with disabilities can get a concessionary pass, so they don't need to pay. This has been the case for quite a while, and it makes organising travel a lot easier.
It depends on the person, and I know many of my clients who would not do well with this system.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Buses are free on the concessionary passes, disabled, elderly, children under 15 - just need showing on entry. They just have to carry a card. And if someone begged for a fare I'd buy them an Oyster with enough cash on it more willingly than I'd give them cash for drugs or alcohol.
 
Posted by Fineline (# 12143) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
It depends on the person, and I know many of my clients who would not do well with this system.

What, they'd prefer to pay for their bus fare than have a free pass that they just swipe? I work with teenagers with severe learning disabilities, many of whom don't understand money, but they can generally grasp that their card with their photo on is to be shown on the bus.

I also have a free bus pass, because of being on the autism spectrum, and I can't conceive how paying with money is easier. Your bus pass is always in your purse, same as your money is, but unlike your money, you don't have to count it out, or make sure you have enough beforehand. I don't have an intellectual disability, but I do have difficulty with organisation, and also I don't have much money, and the bus pass makes things a lot easier for me.
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
I hope no one even thinks about bringing
a similar system in here. What happens if someone loses their card?

I mislaid my concession card last week (it's normally chained to my backpack, so I haven't done that in ages), but at least it was only a kilometre away, so I could walk.

Huia

[ 06. July 2014, 20:06: Message edited by: Huia ]
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Fineline:
What, they'd prefer to pay for their bus fare than have a free pass that they just swipe? I work with teenagers with severe learning disabilities, many of whom don't understand money, but they can generally grasp that their card with their photo on is to be shown on the bus.

Money in the hand is a tangible thing that people can understand and relate to. It's a finite thing: you spend it, it's gone. A swipe card has a less visible effect, if you know what I mean, and if it's something that you have to keep topping up with credit, this is where difficulties can start.
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
Perhaps we should start a separate thread.
 
Posted by Fineline (# 12143) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
Money in the hand is a tangible thing that people can understand and relate to. It's a finite thing: you spend it, it's gone. A swipe card has a less visible effect, if you know what I mean, and if it's something that you have to keep topping up with credit, this is where difficulties can start.

You don't have to top it up. It's a free bus pass. Like a library card. Or an ID card. It remains the same, and therefore is easier than money. Many people with severe learning disabilities don't understand numbers and quantities and the idea that different coins represent different numbers, and many have difficulty with language, so can't process the cost that the bus driver tells them. But they can relate to a card with their photo on, which says who they are, and which they show the bus driver when they get on the bus. It requires no language, no counting, no exchange, no abstract concepts. Just the same thing to do each time. An easy action to learn.
 
Posted by Fineline (# 12143) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
Perhaps we should start a separate thread.

Yeah, probably. Although I'm going to bed now.
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
Can anyone tell me, when do kids start to get the first, faintest, fucking idea about anything at all? Here is a scenario from my day: Younger child (2) falls out of chair at dinner. Spectacularly, crashing through a large potplant on the way down and ending up tangled in amongst a heavy wooden dining chair. Naturally, very upset, frightened, and hurt. I scooped him up and sat on the couch cradling him and murmuring to him until he had calmed down enough to actually be checked for injuries - still crying though. Through all this (several minutes), older child, a shade short of six, kept up a more or less continual litany of, 'When can I have my pudding?' , 'Could you get me my pudding now?' , 'I am so bored of waiting for my pudding' , 'I can't believe how long he is taking to stop crying - can't I have my pudding now?' I mean, what the hell? No empathy at all? Still? Can I expect it to develop at some point, or does she have a great future as a prizewinning self-absorbed airhead waiting around the corner?
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
Mid to late teens I'm afraid, there is research ...

[ 07. July 2014, 08:58: Message edited by: Doublethink ]
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
Also, although your younger one was crying, the elder probably assumed that there was no actual problem, because there was a trusted adult (you) dealing with the situation.

It might have been less a lack of empathy and more a belief that nothing really bad can happen when Mum / Dad is there....

Trust me, such high regard for your parenting abilities will wear off [Biased]
 
Posted by Curious Kitten (# 11953) on :
 
The Tour de France. I want to cross the empty high street now not after four hours of mind numbing tedium and staring at people's backs ocassionally interrupted by advertising boards.
 
Posted by Mrs Shrew (# 8635) on :
 
Fucking earache. Which has now gone to my jawbone, as it always does. So I'm again panicking at the thought of maybe having to see a dentist because ohmygodIcan'tfuckingcope with the pain anymore, regardless of my terror of dentists or indeed the fact that since this definitely started with my ears and with dizziness, the jaw pain is a result not a reason.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Tonight, the first episode of a new Australian series of the family history show Who Do You Think You Are? included an interview with Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of the Treblinka II death camp.

Today and every day, I condemn to Hell those responsible for the careful planning and implementation of a process that could kill 12 to 15 thousand people per day.
 
Posted by The Intrepid Mrs S (# 17002) on :
 
Bad drivers.

Specifically, drivers who -

turn right from the left-hand lane at roundabouts (what do you think the right-hand lane is there for, you wombat?)

drive their large vehicle on to a roundabout, in front of other drivers, KNOWING that that will make said other drivers stand on their brakes, bang their heads on the steering wheel in frustration, and possibly have the guy behind run into them;

drive on to a hatched yellow area, again knowing full well that said area is there to stop idiots in council-owned trucks stopping ordinary motorists in small, well-maintained cars from having to drive over the kerb to get through the traffic lights;

etc, etc, ad nauseam
[brick wall] [brick wall] [brick wall]

Mrs. S, blood pressure through the roof [Mad]
 
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
Bad drivers.

Specifically, drivers who -

turn right from the left-hand lane at roundabouts (what do you think the right-hand lane is there for, you wombat?)

drive their large vehicle on to a roundabout, in front of other drivers, KNOWING that that will make said other drivers stand on their brakes, bang their heads on the steering wheel in frustration, and possibly have the guy behind run into them;

drive on to a hatched yellow area, again knowing full well that said area is there to stop idiots in council-owned trucks stopping ordinary motorists in small, well-maintained cars from having to drive over the kerb to get through the traffic lights;

etc, etc, ad nauseam
[brick wall] [brick wall] [brick wall]

Mrs. S, blood pressure through the roof [Mad]

That's pretty normal driving where I live...
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
People who you absolutely must get ahold of but keep getting their voice mail, only to have them call back when you're not at the phone. Phone tag is a game created by the devil.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Canadian MP Robert Goguen.

quote:
Conservative MP asks witness whether she would have worried about her Charter rights had the police been able to save her during her gang rape.
Fire the bastard.

{edit, thought link was wrong, it appears its up and down, maybe too many hits?}

[ 08. July 2014, 20:03: Message edited by: no prophet ]
 
Posted by The Intrepid Mrs S (# 17002) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lucia:
quote:
Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
Bad drivers.

Specifically, drivers who -

turn right from the left-hand lane at roundabouts (what do you think the right-hand lane is there for, you wombat?)

drive their large vehicle on to a roundabout, in front of other drivers, KNOWING that that will make said other drivers stand on their brakes, bang their heads on the steering wheel in frustration, and possibly have the guy behind run into them;

drive on to a hatched yellow area, again knowing full well that said area is there to stop idiots in council-owned trucks stopping ordinary motorists in small, well-maintained cars from having to drive over the kerb to get through the traffic lights;

etc, etc, ad nauseam
[brick wall] [brick wall] [brick wall]

Mrs. S, blood pressure through the roof [Mad]

That's pretty normal driving where I live...
Did I say anything to make you think it wasn't exactly like that around here?

Mrs. S, still spitting blood
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
They're fun around here as well. The ones who tow caravans and assume that once the passenger window is past you, they're past you, are particularly entertaining.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by anoesis:
Can anyone tell me, when do kids start to get the first, faintest, fucking idea about anything at all?

yes, it will get better.

it will get better faster if you make sure and give her a good, sharp talking to (after the little guy is chill) about what shitty and greedy behavior that was. with nicer words, of course.

hope the little dude is unscathed.
 
Posted by QLib (# 43) on :
 
Sharp doesn't necessarily work. Depends on the kid. Depends on the family. Depends on your interpretation of sharp.
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
Americanisms. Not when used by an American, but when used by 12 year old English boys! My lad and his friends want to watch a movie, put things in the trash and tell me and his mum to stop fighting!

They are films, rubbish and arguing! I told him many, many times and will now resort to punching him in the face if he does it again*. Too much yank telly! Not TV, Telly!

*not really but I will make him write out films, rubbish and arguing out one hundred times.
 
Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on :
 
That sucks, Deano. Where have they gotten this from? Tell them to stop already.
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
If you read The Tempest you'll discover that trash was in English usage, in England, circa 1600...

AG
 
Posted by jbohn (# 8753) on :
 
You do, I trust, see the irony in bitching about "Americanisms" with a Waylon Jennings quote in your .sig, deano.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by deano:

*not really but I will make him write out films, rubbish and arguing out one hundred times.

Now wonder your lad watched so much telly as he was never allowed on the lawn.
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by jbohn:
You do, I trust, see the irony in bitching about "Americanisms" with a Waylon Jennings quote in your .sig, deano.

Yeah, but Waylon Jennings is American, saying American stuff. However, if deano ever uses the word "good" when he means "well", feel free to smack him upside the head. [Biased]

[ 10. July 2014, 14:07: Message edited by: Lyda*Rose ]
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by deano:
Americanisms. Not when used by an American, but when used by 12 year old English boys! My lad and his friends want to watch a movie, put things in the trash and tell me and his mum to stop fighting!

The right words used in arguing can damn well turn it into a fight. I know people who can use "with respect" or "darling" like Inigo Montoya uses a sword.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Anglican't:
That sucks, Deano. Where have they gotten this from? Tell them to stop already.

Threaten them with yard work and stop their allowance.

[ 10. July 2014, 15:33: Message edited by: Sioni Sais ]
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Yes, isn't globalization interesting? People pick up other forms of English as we get to hear how other people speak and write.

There. Tangent over. Back to your usual one-off whining.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
I thought "with respect" was ALWAYS used like Inigo Montoya's sword. With the occasional refinement of "with the greatest respect".
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH the "liar's allowance" which most people around me seem to make every time they hear about something distasteful. Which means that when I tell the straight truth about a situation they automatically discount at least %25 of it as exaggeration--and then are shocked and horrified to find out it was all true (much too late to be of any fucking help, of course). Do I have to exaggerate by 25% just to get you idiots to estimate the situation rightly?
 
Posted by The5thMary (# 12953) on :
 
TICTH our obnoxious, evil downstairs neighbors. We live in a housing co-op and these people are just nasty beyond all bounds of human decency. They're always fighting and yelling at their eighteen month old son, slamming each other into the walls, etc. When we call the police on them, they retaliate by stomping as loudly as they can through their apartment. Today they got a letter from the co-op management telling them their membership in the co-op has been cancelled and they have until September 10th to get out. They blame us, of course but it's not our fault. Right now, as I type this, they are screaming and one of their friends is howling like a dog...I have no clue why...just for the fun of it, I guess. Their stereo is so loud that our walls are shaking. They are determined to be as obnoxious as possible until the time they move out. I hate them. I hope they pack up their meth lab and their pot plants and dirty diapers they leave in the apartment building's vestibule and get the fuck out. God, I am consumed by hatred of these brats.
 
Posted by Alex Cockell (# 7487) on :
 
TICTH George Carey - for following the Nazi playbook on "assisted suicide" or Mercy Killing.

It's basically Action T4 being replayed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4

Carey went public today - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10963195/Lord-Carey-I-support-assisted-dying.html

Does he want to look ME in the face and tell me that as an autistic man that I am less than human? because I am disabled? Does he view Mr Nicklinson as less of a human? Because that is the logical outcome.

quote:
Although officially started in September 1939, Action T4 might have been initiated with a sort of trial balloon.[24] In late 1938, Adolf Hitler instructed his personal physician Karl Brandt to evaluate a family's petition for the "mercy killing" of their blind, physically and developmentally disabled infant boy. The boy was eventually killed in July 1939.[25] Hitler instructed Brandt to proceed in the same manner in similar cases.[26] The Reich Committee for the Scientific Registering of Hereditary and Congenital Illnesses was established on 18 August 1939, three weeks after the killing of the mentioned boy. It was to prepare and proceed with the registration of ill children or newborns identified as defective. Secret killing of infants began in 1939 and increased after the war started. By 1941, more than 5,000 children had been killed.[27]

Hitler was in favour of killing those whom he judged to be "unworthy of life". In a 1939 conference with health minister Leonardo Conti and the head of the Reich Chancellery, Hans Lammers, a few months before the euthanasia decree, Hitler gave as examples of "life unworthy of life:" severely mentally ill people who he believed could only be bedded on sawdust or sand because they "perpetually dirtied themselves", or who "put their own excrement into their mouths, eating it and so on".

When did we become a fascist country?

[ 12. July 2014, 10:19: Message edited by: Alex Cockell ]
 
Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Might of course cause a few 'liberal' supporters of the proposals to rethink their position. Hope so, anyway.
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
TICTH Twats who conflate comments like the following with nazi forced killing...

quote:
"I would have paraded all the usual concerns about the risks of “slippery slopes” and “state-sponsored euthanasia”.
"But those arguments which persuaded me in the past seem to lack power and authority when confronted with the experiences of those approaching a painful death.”

And who do it in a thread where debate is forbidden instead of having the balls to create a separate thread in purgatory where their arguments could have been dissected fully and completely.
 
Posted by Arethosemyfeet (# 17047) on :
 
Now look what you've done, Alex, you've made me agree we deano.

Fuck. [Mad]
 
Posted by Alex Cockell (# 7487) on :
 
Sorry - I wasn't sure where to put it - just re my reaction when I heard about it on the news..
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Alex Cockell:

Does he want to look ME in the face and tell me that as an autistic man that I am less than human? because I am disabled? Does he view Mr Nicklinson as less of a human? Because that is the logical outcome.

I'm sure he would quite happily look you in the face, because what you are accusing him of is NOT what he is advocating. OK, so Carey is a dick of the first order and I've always thought so, but even more so since he became a rentagob for the Daily Mail, but although I disagree with his stance, your reaction is hysterical to say the least.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Why does this sound like a perfectly good Hell thread with about three issues to sort out and multiple angles of approach? Oh, right, because it would be.

Shut up or make it so.

[ 12. July 2014, 19:22: Message edited by: Ariston ]
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Shiny new thread for Carey

I've copied over the comments above
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Once again the slimy b'stards who have worked over the friend who was doing good with his project. I can't, at the present, go into complete details, and some of what they have done seems to verge on incompetence, but the intention is clearly to destroy his livelihood for him and seize it for themselves. a) When told that his wife was qualified to teach the relevant courses they had offered, and had had inquiries from prospective students, they expected him to turn over the contact details. b) They told him to write to all the contacts for whom he had been working and who he expected to work for and tell them that he was "moving on" and to engage their new start up company. Which he has not, of course, done. There has been no agreement about the transfer of goodwill, which would involve them paying him for it. As it is, money is being drained the other way, and he has had, for the first time in his life, to sign on.
They think they are higher up the society range than him. That he should be doing the Ronnie Corbett part and looking up to them. My feeling is that in most parts of life, it is not cream which rises to the top, but scum. Hellspawn.

[ 13. July 2014, 11:38: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:

They think they are higher up the society range than him. That he should be doing the Ronnie Corbett part and looking up to them. My feeling is that in most parts of life, it is not cream which rises to the top, but scum. Hellspawn.

Think of society as a septic tank. Isn't it always the really big chunks that rise to the top?
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Depends on the diet, I suppose.

One of them has titles (the lesser sort, not aristo, not Debrettish) to prove his position.

[ 13. July 2014, 11:55: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Couldn't put this bit in AS, where I've done the proper bit. That the bad karma of which there are already signs arrives fast.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
TICTH the self-absorbed dickheads who keep setting off fireworks late in the night, and have decided Independence Day is Independence Month.

My lovely dog has been frightened off and hasn't returned all night.

1) find dog.

2) feed asshole neighbors to the bears.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
And you don't even have the excuse that there are other festivals around this time, as we have with November the 5th. We know a guy who was in the forces who finds them a terror as they go on over many nights.
There's some clot round here who likes to set off a single explosion late at night. It's not even pretty.
Do you have any laws about them?
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
And you don't even have the excuse that there are other festivals around this time, as we have with November the 5th.

They can start with Canada Day (1 July), continue through U.S. Independence Day (4 July), and end with Bastille Day (14 July). Maybe even celebrate Bahamas Independence Day on 10 July.
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
TICTH cellphones. [Mad]

At least Starship Children's Hospital* are benefitting, so it's not all bad.

*Starship collect unwanted and broken phones which they sell for recycling as part of their fundraising.

Huia
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
Do you have any laws about them?

yes, of course. almost unenforceable in a rural area like this. they could do a little more enforcing, however. or, you know, the borough could give the infraction a fine so people will actually respect it. as it stands, they get a serious talking to from the cops and that's it. useless.

and as pigwidgeon said, we have it start with the solstice, actually, then we get Canada Day (Yukoners weekend down here) and the 4th. We don't usually have Bastille Day parties, however. maybe next year. [Biased]

FYI Frodo was picked up and taken to the Big House to do some hard time (about 16 hours before we found him) and we weren't charged because a whole bunch of neighborhood dogs had the same problem. Hopefully the hard working cops realize they would save some effort going after the fireworks shitheads rather than rounding up hysterical dogs all over town. We don't have dog catchers, it's our local PD scooping up the errant pooches.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
I'm so glad Frodo has been found and is o.k.
[Smile]
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
]Think of society as a septic tank. Isn't it always the really big chunks that rise to the top?

Anyone who believes that it's the cream that rises has never lived off of mains sewerage.

AG
 
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Fuck you ads at the beginning of YouTube videos. I can understand that if I want to watch a video for free, they're going to ask me to see an ad first. But they're too fucking loud. Either they startle the shit out of me, or I have to run to my speakers to turn them softer every time someone sends me a YouTube link. I didn't ask for any of this.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
I have mentioned the floating detritus above, who have made a hostile take over for another persons project. Last meeting but one, they promised that he could keep the core shop, with murals of famous scientists, and the garden showing the development of flowering plants. Now they have said that this, and them paying what he is owed, is contingent on his writing to all the clients he has worked with to endorse the bottom feeding slugs as his successors. (OK, they can't be both benthic organisims and scum simultaneously, unless it's a very shallow bog, but who expects rationality from someone who is steaming mad.)
Since the shop is owned by someone else who has leased it for peppercorn rent to the named founder, and since the garden is owned by Network Rail, ditto, I don't think they can do this.
It looks like withholding money with menaces.
The name they have chosen for the new company is already in use in the vicinity, and on a networking website used by them, so they are treading unfairly there, as well.
I still can't name names or publicise properly, but we are gearing up to involve public media.
Currently trying to make sure that he does everything through a solicitor. But they have his money.

[ 16. July 2014, 12:55: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by Chocoholic (# 4655) on :
 
Although that doesn't mean he can't write the same people a second letter saying something else!
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
TICTH....people who go round making life unbearably difficult for other people.....Oooooops.....withOUT checking out the f-a-c-t-s first.

You are now off the Christmas card list
Numpty

[ 16. July 2014, 17:23: Message edited by: Ethne Alba ]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Chocoholic:
Although that doesn't mean he can't write the same people a second letter saying something else!

Thought of that. But I think a first letter or phone call, or even visit might be better. Hand the letter over personally, with the remark "I have been ordered to give you this, or lose the shop, the garden, and the money I am owed."
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Stalinist rewriting of history going on now. Person B, the cuckoo, has put, on a networking website, that he is the founder, and used a photo which has person A, the actual founder disappearing off the edge, and him standing in the door in a proprietorial fashion.

Fortunately, the links on the site go to the bona fide sites to which he does not have access (I believe), with the real history on them.

This afternoon, instead of a quiet peaceful watercolouring session at Art Club, I painted a thunder storm, with strokes of lightning striking on a huddled figure (in the correct position fro surviving a strike). Very satisfying. But not helpful. (I cheated for watercolour, using Chinese White.)
 
Posted by Jahlove (# 10290) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ethne Alba:
TICTH....people who go round making life unbearably difficult for other people.....Oooooops.....withOUT checking out the f-a-c-t-s first.


That would reduce almost every opera to just the opening song.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH free shopping catalogues and newspapers wrapped in non-recyclable plastic. You think occasionally protecting your stuff from rain is worth the environmental cost? It ain't.
 
Posted by Jane R (# 331) on :
 
TICTH the Conservative Party, who apparently think that the way to win the next election is to promise to get rid of the Human Rights Act and refuse to obey ECHR rulings.

These are the same people who just steamrollered over our right to digital privacy in the name of "national security".

I hope they're wrong about the election.
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
TICTH - knee jerk 'socialists' who blithely assume that their every instinct is correct and those of the rest of us wrong if it doesn't chime with their shibboleths and prejudices.
 
Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Jane R:
TICTH the Conservative Party, who apparently think that the way to win the next election is to promise to get rid of the Human Rights Act and refuse to obey ECHR rulings.

Sounds like a vote winner to me. Roll on 2015!!
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Jane R:
TICTH the Conservative Party, who apparently think that the way to win the next election is to promise to get rid of the Human Rights Act and refuse to obey ECHR rulings.

These are the same people who just steamrollered over our right to digital privacy in the name of "national security".

I hope they're wrong about the election.

They will be hard pressed to beat the Blair and Brown government's record for ignoring the HRA and ECHR. Judges ruled against David Blunkett and Charles Clarke a number of times.

I suppose the difference is that the Conservatives make a big noise about it, while the Labour government went right ahead, hoping no one would notice.

How about a new thread about the perfidy and cheeap opportunism of political parties, especially as it's less than ten months to the next UK election. Yippee!
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
TICTH the inhuman bastards who shot down a passenger plane on the Ukraine-Russian border with a surface-to-air missile.
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Anglican't:
quote:
Originally posted by Jane R:
TICTH the Conservative Party, who apparently think that the way to win the next election is to promise to get rid of the Human Rights Act and refuse to obey ECHR rulings.

Sounds like a vote winner to me. Roll on 2015!!
Ditto! While they're on a roll, they can finish doing something about some of the more bonkers Health and Safety legislation.
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
quote:
Originally posted by Anglican't:
quote:
Originally posted by Jane R:
TICTH the Conservative Party, who apparently think that the way to win the next election is to promise to get rid of the Human Rights Act and refuse to obey ECHR rulings.

Sounds like a vote winner to me. Roll on 2015!!
Ditto! While they're on a roll, they can finish doing something about some of the more bonkers Health and Safety legislation.
Quite right! Let's do away with Health & Safety legislation completely. After all, working people are dispensable and probably don't vote Conservative anyway, so nobody would miss them.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
This looks more like a thread in its own right.
 
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
Having just posted ecstatically on the Priase and Thanks thread in All Saints, I now confess grumpily to a gripe. TICTH the bloody uncomfortable compression stockings which I've been told to wear for six. whole. weeks after my hip replacement. 24/7, and we are having a heat wave. [Mad]
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
Jacobsen:
Tip from a friend who had similar problems: keep rotating the pairs of compression stockings and when they're not on put them in the freezer.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAlethiophile:
TICTH the inhuman bastards who shot down a passenger plane on the Ukraine-Russian border with a surface-to-air missile.

TICTH the utterly idiotic inhuman bastards who, most likely, can't tell the difference between a Ukrainian plane, a Russian plane, and a plane that just happens to be flying over Ukraine and Russia but doesn't have a bloody thing to do with whatever it is you think is important enough to justify taking potshots at planes.

Jesus H Christ. It's bad enough being evil, but incompetent and evil is a combination that can't be beat.
 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH the utterly idiotic inhuman bastards who, most likely, can't tell the difference between a Ukrainian plane, a Russian plane, and a plane that just happens to be flying over Ukraine and Russia.

And if the allegations I am reading are correct, TICTH also the people who thought "let's fly our passenger plane through a de facto war zone to save on fuel costs" was a smart move.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH the utterly idiotic inhuman bastards who, most likely, can't tell the difference between a Ukrainian plane, a Russian plane, and a plane that just happens to be flying over Ukraine and Russia.

And if the allegations I am reading are correct, TICTH also the people who thought "let's fly our passenger plane through a de facto war zone to save on fuel costs" was a smart move.
Sounds like bullshit to me. All the reports I'm seeing say that flying over this part of Ukraine was still perfectly normal procedure until this happened. There were only warnings about Crimean airspace, and that was because 2 different air traffic control systems were claiming jurisdiction.

Anything I've seen saying "THERE WAS A WARNING" had to quietly add "(nearby)".
 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
All the reports I'm seeing say that flying over this part of Ukraine was still perfectly normal procedure until this happened.

Yes, this is probably right (there were a couple of other flights within 20 miles of this one at the time it was shot down.)
 
Posted by Stercus Tauri (# 16668) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by jacobsen:
Having just posted ecstatically on the Priase and Thanks thread in All Saints, I now confess grumpily to a gripe. TICTH the bloody uncomfortable compression stockings which I've been told to wear for six. whole. weeks after my hip replacement. 24/7, and we are having a heat wave. [Mad]

You'll get used to it, and it can even feel good at times. The hot weather is a swine, I agree, and a really enterprising mosquito can get through them (something did, anyway). After a year of it, with the rest of this earthly to follow, I'm gambling on the stockings being CTH and me going to the other place if they have any vacancies. Hell would be eternity wearing the damn things.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Floods, washed out roads, millions of acres under water, mosquitos, and if those weren't enough, now heavy forest fire smoke in the air from thousands of miles away, high humidity, and electrical power failures.

This is a summer made for hell.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
If they find the fuckers who are sending out the faked recorded phone calls offering $999 credit on air travel, I hope they spend the next several decades in a cell with a copy of their message being constantly looped through the sound system. Let the punishment fit the crime. [Mad]
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
Well in the U.S. the government is working on it. They just announced a new zapping Rachel Robocall contest to get hackers to try and identify robocalls.

I finally found out why my phone keeps ringing. The latest technique for sleazy call centers is to auto-dial a bunch of calls simultaneously. The call center slave answers the first pickup and the others are dropped and dialed again later. I know that their circle of hell will have a phone ringing for all eternity with no one on the line.
I get far too many of these calls.
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
TICTH "coffee americano". £2-whatever for a cup of well over-diluted something that tastes of nothing but water, basically because the alternatives are the same but disguised with milk. Espresso is going to have to be the way forward when having coffee out.
 
Posted by Snags (# 15351) on :
 
You'll can pour it after the lackwits that generally serve it.

"Black coffee please"
"Eh?"
"Black coffee please"
<blank look>
"<sigh>An Americano please"
"Do you want milk with that?"
...
"NO I DON'T!!! I ASKED YOU FOR BLACK COFFEE TWICE, YOU INSIST ON CALLING BLACK COFFEE 'Americano' and 'Americano' IS SUPPOSED TO MEAN TWO SHOTS TOPPED UP WITH WATER AND NO FUCKING MILK YOU STUPID ARSE SO NO I DON'T WANT FUCKING MILK, I DON'T EVEN WANT A FUCKING AMERICANO, I **WANT** A BLACK COFFEE!!!!"

I sometimes say in my head.
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
Park In The Right Place Please!.....which is in the acres of space inside your gate and outside your own house ......

[ 19. July 2014, 11:00: Message edited by: Ethne Alba ]
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
.... because you own the public highway outside your own gate.
 
Posted by Raptor Eye (# 16649) on :
 
TICTH the people who do things like this claiming that they are serving God. May God deal with them appropriately.
 
Posted by Cod (# 2643) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH the utterly idiotic inhuman bastards who, most likely, can't tell the difference between a Ukrainian plane, a Russian plane, and a plane that just happens to be flying over Ukraine and Russia.

And if the allegations I am reading are correct, TICTH also the people who thought "let's fly our passenger plane through a de facto war zone to save on fuel costs" was a smart move.
I've flown over the Eastern Congo a few times. Mrs Cod flew over Mozambique during its civil war in a Cessna.

The problem is not with Air Malaysia, but with those who supplied powerful military hardware to a bunch of swivel-eyed idiots who were, alas, evolved enough to have opposable thumbs.

[ 20. July 2014, 10:53: Message edited by: Cod ]
 
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on :
 
No, I am not "ripening." The very suggestion makes me want to throw up and I'm well past that point. No I also don't need you to tell me when I going to drop a baby. You know a fuck ton less than I do about when deliver my son. You're also full of shit, by the way, when you tell me he'll be big. Since he'll come early,* he'll be small.


*Sorry, dearie, even the doctor's agree, so you can shove your darling little old wives' knowledge back through that hole no children ever came through.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Insufferable target, but awesome rant. [Overused]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
The manifestations of schistosomiasis organisms are now going round accusing the founder of the organisation of embezzling funds, which is not true. It is notable that they want to wrap up the company before its accounts are due. At least one purchase has been made to give a sub-parasite a laptop from company funds without its going through a meeting.
The founder, who has loads of praise on the internet, is now finding that his contacts, with whom he thought he had friendly relations, are treating him as a pariah.

Why do these people, of whom versions can be found in many organisations, including churches, manage to persuade so many to their side? Why don't more people see that they are dealing with manipulative creeps? (The description offered by the mother of one of the volunteers, who left because of the manipulative stuff.)

[ 20. July 2014, 18:38: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Forgot to add the bitter twist to this campaign. The prime mover in all this nastiness has a degree in, and has taught in school and as a private tutor, Ethics.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
Look up sociopathy. Also malignant narcissism. I have some great book recommendations if you really want to wade deeply into this particular cesspool...
 
Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
TICTH my hamster, who chewed a hole in her new cage less than two weeks after moving into it. I haven't even paid for the damn thing yet - it's on my latest statement, which arrived yesterday. That's just great. Thanks.
 
Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
PS (missed edit window) - The reason I had to buy the new cage was because she chews the bars on the old one. So what do I do now? Double fuck.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Starbug:
PS (missed edit window) - The reason I had to buy the new cage was because she chews the bars on the old one. So what do I do now? Double fuck.

How about a glass terrarium? They can't chew through the glass, and they're protected from drafts. They make screen tops for them (which have to be fastened down.) Something like this.

(Some pet shops will sell you "leakers" at a discount -- tanks that have a small leak so that they can't be used as fish tanks but are fine for small critters.)
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH the "colleagues" who are going to turf me out of my office so that they can sit together. What is this, high school?
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Furreal.

TICTH fucking head colds. Not again.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
LC, thanks for that reference. I might take you up on it. Do the books give advice on preventing their depradations?

Problem is, that may explain these particular people being the manipulative ichneumon wasps they are, but it doesn't explain why so many people welcome them in and feed them like the victims of the cuckoo.

Meanwhile, it looks as if one has lost a friend, as a recipient of a particular remark was so shocked by it they have moved to active support of the victim.

These are sociopaths with serious weaknesses in the social skills department.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
The books basically explain how to identify such people before they make your life hell (too late there, but still) and how to survive them once they go into full attack mode. They also explain why so many otherwise intelligent bystanders believe their shit, even when it's unfuckingbelievable. The books are written most of them for church leaders who are being attacked, but the strategies are easy to transfer to the corporate or academic world, since the same phenomenon happens in every field of life. (there is a corporate one, but I found it the least helpful of the three/four)

Shall I PM you, or would anyone else like the list here? And will the Hosts of Hell descend upon me in feeding frenzy if I do so on TICTH? [Eek!]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
The Hosts of Hell won't descend on you for that, but do remember that the 10C's all apply in PM's.
 
Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
I'd like the list too, please.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Yes, please. We have collected the experience to spot them, but not of how to defang them. I think that those who have suffered them very often don't talk about it much, for a whole collection of reasons, such as not having a version of Gaydar for each other, before you even get to being afraid of bringing them down like a load of bricks, or not wanting to feel a fool. Or, indeed, alerting a new lot that you might be a sucker.
Nice to know there are books. When I was teaching, and went on a course about classroom management, the bookstall had stuff about classic boy bullying and dealing with it. But nothing about what they called "female relational bullying" which I had two lots of in my class. They said a book was due out the following year. Not helpful in dealing with what was going on between the two groups and then the other girls who were neither queen bees nor sycophants and didn't know how to cope.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Separate issue. I was landed with a hamster in school and was able to keep it in a couple of plastic fishtanks covered with chicken wire and connected with tubes made from old plastic bottles (the small ones, the size of commercially available tubes.) We then built up an adventure network using Rotostak as well, and he had so much to do that chewing didn't seem a problem. We used to put the food all over the place so he had to spend time finding it and taking it back to his larder.

Initially, I put him in a glass fronted cupboard (standard schoolroom issue), and during the day had the doors open with a tube connection to a different shelf - neither the one at the bottom with a bit in front of it. I had seen a programme showing that they would not cross a visual void where a glass sheet lay over what appeared to be a drop off a table, and he didn't try it, remaining confined. I wasn't totally convinced though, so it was temporary. And the second hamster we had fell off the table one night when one of the stoppers on the system had been left off. (Got him back though. I can out-think a hamster easy. He wants his larder and his nice bed chamber more than the space under the sink cupboard.)
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
TICTH the people who do not follow the carefully plotted script in my head. Things would be ever so better if they did.
Bastards.
 
Posted by Meg the Red (# 11838) on :
 
Shitheads who take pains to ensure that no hint of positive feedback escapes their tightly pursed lips, but grab a bullhorn when there's any reason (real or invented) for criticism.

Please feel free to ask me for help the next time you're swamped due to your own arrogant incompetence; you probably won't enjoy my response, but I sure will.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Had that earlier in the week. Felt like any contributions I made-- and I have, I went back and looked over the situation-- were less important to the people involved than anything they could frame as a misstep.

Actually it was like my contributions never happened.
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH the "colleagues" who are going to turf me out of my office so that they can sit together. What is this, high school?

If they mention the word "agile" run like the wind. The next step is to have you share a desk and the final step is hoteling; you have to get your stuff out of your school locker every morning and find an empty desk spot.
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Furreal.

TICTH fucking head colds. Not again.

Oh yeah. AGAIN. But then, you spend your life surrounded by disease vectors (otherwise known as preschool children) - which is certainly where mine are coming from. (I've also just had f**king school sores - wonderful! - thanks, kids - and mine needed two courses of (different) antibiotics to shift them.) I have been sicker these past six years than since I was six myself, pretty much...
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Gwai:
No, I am not "ripening."...

ew. ew. ew. dreadful.

A word probably also used by those who (it fits in nicely, when you think about it) call fertility "fruitfulness", and refer to semen as "seed". Ick.
 
Posted by Meerkat (# 16117) on :
 
TICTH... the people I hear who pronounce 'something' as 'sunnink'. I can understand 'sumfing', 'sumfink', but 'sunnink'!? It winds me up, just 'sunnink orful'. [Ultra confused]
 
Posted by Meerkat (# 16117) on :
 
That condemnation is followed by the condemnation of those who use the word 'like' like a hundred like times like in a fragmented like sentence, like! ”I was goin' downa rode, like, annee sedda mee, like ”Wossya dooin' ’sevenin', like?"" I" said, like... " "We woz, like, chillin', like... ". "I was, like, pissed-off, like..."

Is it 'like' or 'really', what you are bleating on about! Do you have a braincell?
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
TICTH misleading mattress advertising.
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
TITCH Things that don't work.

At present, in my place of employment, these include: The heating system, the in-house training system, the voicemail system, and the process for registering a complaint about any of these things.
 
Posted by duchess (# 2764) on :
 
TICTH Acts 29 powertrip mandates and the hell that they have unleashed on their people. Not to say that ALL of them are bad, but the one that I left back in 2010 left me emotionally scarred for life. And now I am finally praise to God in the Highest, reading article after article exposing the abuse OUT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT IN FRONT OF GOD AND EVERYONE that MarkyD and his influence unleashed on the world. Note: I DO NOT TTCTH the churches. The people that are wounded, I pray for them. I weep when I read these articles. I just saw the name of a family that I met in person more than once and am afraid to Google and see for sure if it's them, that got black-listed. Probably not. But all of these folks, I am only 1 degree from knowing them. It's awful. I just rejoice that finally people are not shutting up. Even the couple in SF that was told "sign this NDA and we'll give you your severance". Nope. They did not sign.

I am still friends with a couple that were so burned by the way Acts 29 leadership in the church I left treated them...4 years later, they are still scared *&less to say anything out-loud and bold about it. Nobody wants to gossip but speaking truth, darkness into light, HELPS not hinders.

And it's not $%^ing gossip! Gossip is slander, made up stuff meant to hurt somebody. It's not hateful, vindictive nor mean to talk about your pain.

I shut up for years about my pain. Nobody wanted to hear it really (I do drone on though). I ended up in the church I grew up in. I like the sermons and I like most things. But I missed the quietness. I missed the fact that "the power" doesn't lie in the hands of a one man, but it lies in the Body of Christ in the people.

[eta: Acts 29 is not a book in the bible, because a man got in a time travel machine and saw the abuse that Mars Hills made viral in the future, so he took that book out before the canon...]

[ 23. July 2014, 02:25: Message edited by: duchess ]
 
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
TICTH misleading mattress advertising.

Is that the one where they tell you to go into the store and choose your comfort rating, then when your mattress arrives and is completely different they tell you it's inevitable because so many people have tried the one in the store that the rating no longer means what it's supposed to?

For some reason they can't see that there's anything wrong with this system. [Roll Eyes]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Courier companies who can move a parcel from one end of Germany to Essex in a single day, from Essex to Kent in half an hour deep in the night (after sitting on it for 12), and then sit on it again in the depot while I am sitting at home waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and have other things to do. And when I ring up for a prediction, I listen all through the menu, press the button for something else, and find myself back at the beginning of all the options which don't fit again.
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
TICTH people I come across during my lunchbreak.

First of all, we have the inconsiderate pavement walkers. I walk alone. The pavement is only wide enough for two people. So when two people come in the opposite direction, side-by-side, the reasonable thing to do is to go single file for a few feet, not force me to step into the oncoming traffic.

Secondly, shop staff who insist on putting all paper into your hand and then putting the coins on top when handing you your receipt and change. With one hand holding the bag that now contains my lunch I only have the one hand spare. Is is too much to put the loose change in my palm and allow me to grip the paper with my opposable thumb and forefinger, allowing easy passage to put things in my wallet, rather than making the receipt into some kind of slide whereby the coins slip off and start rolling around on the floor, testing my dignity by how long I will spend scrabbling around trying to pick up a rogue 20p coin.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAlethiophile:
First of all, we have the inconsiderate pavement walkers. I walk alone. The pavement is only wide enough for two people. So when two people come in the opposite direction, side-by-side, the reasonable thing to do is to go single file for a few feet, not force me to step into the oncoming traffic.

Secondly, shop staff who insist on putting all paper into your hand and then putting the coins on top when handing you your receipt and change. With one hand holding the bag that now contains my lunch I only have the one hand spare. Is is too much to put the loose change in my palm and allow me to grip the paper with my opposable thumb and forefinger, allowing easy passage to put things in my wallet, rather than making the receipt into some kind of slide whereby the coins slip off and start rolling around on the floor, testing my dignity by how long I will spend scrabbling around trying to pick up a rogue 20p coin.

My pet hates too - except that I've developed the habit, when 2 walk towards me, of simply standing stock still where I am so that THEY have to move.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Courier companies who do not update their tracking site so that when one has rearranged one's day to accomodate a lot of necessary activities for the rest of the day, their guy turns up at the door while the package is supposedly still at the depot. So back to plan A, which has now become inconvenient.
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAlethiophile:

Secondly, shop staff who insist on putting all paper into your hand and then putting the coins on top when handing you your receipt and change. With one hand holding the bag that now contains my lunch I only have the one hand spare. Is is too much to put the loose change in my palm and allow me to grip the paper with my opposable thumb and forefinger, allowing easy passage to put things in my wallet, rather than making the receipt into some kind of slide whereby the coins slip off and start rolling around on the floor, testing my dignity by how long I will spend scrabbling around trying to pick up a rogue 20p coin.

I know this is hell, and you should be allowed to rant about anything you like, but the reason they come into your hand in this order is to do with the way change is counted. If the cash register tells a till operator you are owed £11.85 in change, they don't start counting the amount beginning with the five pence. They go, 'Here you are sir, that's ten, eleven, fifty, seventy, eighty, aaand five. Have a nice day.' No malice involved. It's just harder to count change the other way...
 
Posted by Meerkat (# 16117) on :
 
Sorry, but I disagree. As someone born in the 50's and who knew how to behave as I grew up in a small shop environment, we did it sensibly. OK, in this example which I am about to give, I know we went decimal in 1971, so will use current currency values.

Customer comes in and purchases goods to the cost of £4.85 and proffers a tenner.
Shop assistant (me or my parents) : all counted into their hand... "Thank you. That's £4.85, 15p to make £5 and there's £5 to make the £10". The £5 note laying on the top in their hand. Only sensible way to do it!
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
Ken Ham. God, what a git.
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Meerkat:
Sorry, but I disagree. As someone born in the 50's and who knew how to behave as I grew up in a small shop environment, we did it sensibly. OK, in this example which I am about to give, I know we went decimal in 1971, so will use current currency values.

Customer comes in and purchases goods to the cost of £4.85 and proffers a tenner.
Shop assistant (me or my parents) : all counted into their hand... "Thank you. That's £4.85, 15p to make £5 and there's £5 to make the £10". The £5 note laying on the top in their hand. Only sensible way to do it!

Interesting. I have genuinely not encountered anyone doing it that way around. Maybe it's because I was born in the 70's, or maybe it's because we do things all backwards underneath the equator...
 
Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
Once upon a time, that's the way it was done - back when cash registers simply registered the total. But for quite a while registers have told cashiers how much change to give back (as you originally noted), and cashiers go by that and thus count change starting with big bills and working down to coins rather than doing it the old way because it is faster for them and more likely to be accurate -- and speed and accuracy are important to their supervisors.

[ 23. July 2014, 22:33: Message edited by: RuthW ]
 
Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
TICTH software vendors who promise the earth when tendering for work, but then drag their heels and start to mutter about 'charging for consultancy' when they can't complete our requirements on time. it's not 'consultancy' when you told us in the tender that your software could do it, you greedy bastards!
 
Posted by M. (# 3291) on :
 
I think it's a lot easier to get the notes first and the coins on top, so the coins weigh the notes down and they don't go everywhere.

M.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH Shippies who hijack this thread for a purpose that deserves its own thread.
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
ICTH BT and its YouView box - and BT engineers who keep telling us that the fault is because we have a 'phone line that comes into the house in a different place from where the main TV is.

This is the UK and older houses often have the main telephone point either in a hallway or somewhere similarly inconvenient: get to grips with it and organise a solution that works, damn you [Mad]
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
FiFtH public transport, this journey takes 1 hour door to door in a car - so far I have been traveling for 1 and three quarter hours and I still haven't got to work yet.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
I'm in Puerto Rico this weekend, where the very extensive public bus network in San Juan is served by buses that run no more frequently than once each hour, or at the whim of the drivers, which ever occurs last.
 
Posted by Ad Orientem (# 17574) on :
 
Long distance trains. Grrr! Making my commuter train late. From some reason the dickhead controllers give priority to the long distance trains even though it's us commuters who pay everyday to go back and forth from work.
 
Posted by Ann (# 94) on :
 
Which idiot put this guy on the Science and Technology Committee? [Mad]
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ann:
Which idiot put this guy on the Science and Technology Committee? [Mad]

I presume we could also kill a goat and examine its entrails to diagnose illness...

What a twat.
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
quote:
Originally posted by Ann:
Which idiot put this guy on the Science and Technology Committee? [Mad]

I presume we could also kill a goat and examine its entrails to diagnose illness...

What a twat.

I think he's killed off his career and probably his reselection for his constituency. I bet he didn't see that one coming! Geddit??? Did you see what I did there? Eh? Eh? Did ya?
 
Posted by passer (# 13329) on :
 
Having just read this, and with the distaff side having been peripherally involved in something somewhat similar in the last week or so, TICTH people who try to conceal their own lack of ability or competence by playing the race/gender discrimination card, thus doing a great disservice to those who actually are subject to race/gender discrimination. I despise the selfishness of those people, with their false sense of entitlement.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
People who embark, on weekend afternoons when the heat means that everyone else's windows are open, on lengthy and noisy pressure washing their flagstones. I keep thinking they've finished. And then they start again. And again. I was asleep. But I couldn't listen to anything if I was doing any more active Saturday pm stuff.

If they had been cutting their newly laid grass (and kudos for replacing over half the flags with that) they would have finished by now.

And again. Still, at least now it's been done, they won't have to do it again for ages.

And again. I suppose I might get used to it. Like the murmur of innumerable bees in immemorial elms.

That was a really long gap. And that.
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
TICTH......racism wafting over the back fence
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
TICTH cars, insurance companies and commuting - in one big 'orrible mess.
 
Posted by QLib (# 43) on :
 
TICTH The (Scum) Sun and its creepy, stupid and dangerous 'BOY, 4, HAS MARK OF DEVIL' headline and photo.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
I have seen that mark identified as a hairdryer burn.
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
TICTH the worst Congress in the history of the United States. [Mad]
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by ChastMastr:
TICTH the worst Congress in the history of the United States. [Mad]

The worst Congress yet.
It's going to be a thrill if the Republicans get control of both houses in the next election and move on impeaching Obama.
 
Posted by passer (# 13329) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by ChastMastr:
TICTH the worst Congress in the history of the United States. [Mad]

Absolute bunch of nutters, howling at the moon. Like a gang of Veruca Salts who only want what they want. From this BBC report, this observation:
quote:
In his six years in office Mr Obama has issued 183 executive orders, compared to 291 across George W Bush's eight years and 381 for Ronald Reagan, according to a study by the American Presidency Project at the University of California-Santa Barbara.

 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by ChastMastr:
TICTH the worst Congress in the history of the United States. [Mad]

TICT a hotter and lower depth of H the people who voted them in -- and those who would have voted otherwise but stayed home.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by passer:
From this BBC report, this observation:
quote:
In his six years in office Mr Obama has issued 183 executive orders, compared to 291 across George W Bush's eight years and 381 for Ronald Reagan, according to a study by the American Presidency Project at the University of California-Santa Barbara.

Nice quote passer. One would almost think that El Presidente and his aides have made the error of mistaking activity for effectiveness.

Still, look how many posts there are on this thread alone. On the same subject even.

[ 31. July 2014, 12:25: Message edited by: Sioni Sais ]
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
Cold callers again - I had 5 different ones today.
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by leo:
Cold callers again - I had 5 different ones today.

Keep 'em talking. That's what I do, after all it's their phone bill, not mine. I had one once who got so pissed off he ended up accusing me of wasting his valuable time [Snigger]
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
quote:
Originally posted by leo:
Cold callers again - I had 5 different ones today.

Keep 'em talking. That's what I do, after all it's their phone bill, not mine. I had one once who got so pissed off he ended up accusing me of wasting his valuable time [Snigger]
I used to do that till I was desperate for work and went to a place that did that sort of thing. (It was a magazine sales thing.) The people there were similarly desperate (there was a sense of fear and sadness from just about all of them), and after a few hours of training I realized I ethically could not do that job; but the kinds of rules and penalties they had there made me realize that when I would play mind games with the people who called me, I was doing nothing but to harm the desperate people on the other end of the line (who get penalized or fired if they don't make enough sales, at pitiful wages)--and not the company which was making them do it--so I don't do that anymore. The most merciful and effective thing to do is tell them no thank you and hang up--they literally are not allowed to end the call themselves, at least at this place they weren't, so they're a captive audience which has to keep trying to sell their crap as long as you have not hung up the phone, and of course their calls are monitored for "quality control" which means that they are really trapped. [Frown]

It's been a couple of years now but TICTH companies like that, my own mistreatment of the callers over the years, and the lack of a social safety net here which means people have to take even unethical and horrible jobs like that just to survive.

[ 31. July 2014, 23:09: Message edited by: ChastMastr ]
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
TICTH the easily offended, and further those seeking offense. It's like a trump card in a debate, nowadays.

"you can't call that an orange! it's a satsuma! I find that terribly offensive!"

and really the only response is, well, gosh, I didn't know it was offensive, I'm so sorry *abashabashabash*

and the Offenderati get to stalk off feeling all fucking superior.

you know what? sometimes you're just full of shit. until I manage to read minds, there is no way for me to know that you're a Friend of Citrus and that I just said something offensive. because let's be honest, here - every ten minutes something else fairly common becomes an offensive term. I can't keep up. nor will I try to speak so super carefully so as to never offend anyone anywhere ever.

you'll have to just take my word for it that I'm not a misocitrusist and take your fragile little shell home to polish it. Real people take their lumps. real people have the conversation and enlighten others. fragile little two-dimentional beings wear their offense on their sleeves.

(for the record, I told an aquaintance she looked beautiful today. apparently I'm oppressing her. but that is just one of a number of things lately. including on the Ship.)
 
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
"Not to worry, eh? Few more years and nobody'll be oppressing you in the slightest."
 
Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Re. Comet's post: also the easily "upset" (in church contexts). I'm sure we've all met them ... IMO this can actually be a power-seeking ploy, or a mask to cover intransigence.

Not always, of course.

[ 01. August 2014, 08:06: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
 
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
... I told an aquaintance she looked beautiful ...

You can tell me I look beautiful any time you like, Comet. You'd be mistaken, but I shan't feel in the least oppressed or offended. [Big Grin]

eta: Why would she feel oppressed when the compliment was coming from another woman? [Confused]

[ 01. August 2014, 14:43: Message edited by: piglet ]
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
TICTH the easily offended, and further those seeking offense. It's like a trump card in a debate, nowadays.

"you can't call that an orange! it's a satsuma! I find that terribly offensive!"

and really the only response is, well, gosh, I didn't know it was offensive, I'm so sorry *abashabashabash*

and the Offenderati get to stalk off feeling all fucking superior.


So you're not making a complaint about those who post on this thread?
[Big Grin]
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
eta: Why would she feel oppressed when the compliment was coming from another woman? [Confused]

I'm one for handing out praise when I see it's justified. We (as a society) seem awfully quick to find fault and are often very stingy with our praise. So when someone deserves some praise, I give it.

but apparently I'm judging her on her gender and superficial appearance and not her "inner truth". unfortunately, it was not a social situation where I felt free to tell her that I praise her outer beauty because her "inner truth" is as ugly as a bald dog's ass.
quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
You can tell me I look beautiful any time you like, Comet. You'd be mistaken, but I shan't feel in the least oppressed or offended. [Big Grin]

Darling, you are beautiful, and I say that having never seen your picture. Some things are more important.

Now stop fishing for compliments or I'll have to let Evil Comet out. and it's too nice a morning for that.
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
TICTH the couple responsible for this situation, who would probably claim they don't believe in eugenics if you asked them.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
TICTH the woman who left her child locked in a hot car, and then ran over the woman who called 911 to report it.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Jesus, It's becoming an epidemic. People suck!
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
I hate taking kids shopping so I always leave one of the windows open a little bit to let the smoke out.
 
Posted by irish_lord99 (# 16250) on :
 
TICTH automotive manufacturers who design their cars to be impossible for the average consumer to maintain.

In order to change the parking light on our family Subaru, I had to start by removing the fecking grill off the front! Seriously? It took me almost two hours to change a $.99 light bulb! And I was quoted one hour by the mechanic... at a rate of $70 an hour, for a light bulb that wasn't even one fucking dollar!

I'm convinced that the manufacturer has engineers specially tasked to make these cars near impossible to work on yourself so that you are forced to take the car back to the dealership and pay them to do the work. Seriously, if you're going to make the bulbs that inaccessible, wouldn't the responsible thing be to make them a 50 year LED instead of incandescent?

Fuckers.

That, and what we really want is for you to take those engineers and direct them towards the fuel-efficient engine and drive-train department, not the see-if-you-can-find-a-way-to-fit-the-relays-between-the-radiator-and-the-cooling-fan department.

And in replacing the grill I broke off two of the clips that hold it in place, so it looks like I have to go to the stealer-ship anyways to get some replacements. [Mad] [Mad] [Mad]
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
[Killing me]

Apropos of jack shit, I just figured out a way to make Siri read the above post aloud. She's magnificent when she is pissed off.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by irish_lord99:
And in replacing the grill I broke off two of the clips that hold it in place, so it looks like I have to go to the stealer-ship anyways to get some replacements. [Mad] [Mad] [Mad]

dude. zipties.
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
TICTH the couple responsible for this situation, who would probably claim they don't believe in eugenics if you asked them.

On a more positive note, public fundraising has achieved nearly 200,000 Australian dollars and got him moved to a specialist hospital.

Additionally CTH to the surrogacy agency, who haven't even paid the whole of the agreed fee to the mother - and have now phoned the family in a vague attempt to look like they care.

[ 03. August 2014, 11:20: Message edited by: Doublethink ]
 
Posted by FooloftheShip (# 15579) on :
 
TICTH the use of congregations as arenaa for fantasies. Particularly when this involves horrendous amounts of backseat driving
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
TICTH clergy who, having decided on one theme for a Sunday then announce before the first hymn a theme they'd previously told me they wouldn't be using.

Relief organist called me gibbering to report that the PinC announced "today we mark the Transfiguration of the Lord and our readings and music will reflect that".

The minutes of the last planning meeting state "Fr X has decided to keep Sunday 3rd August as Trinity 7 - a hymn may be included on Sunday 10th to mark the Transfiguration but this is not strictly necessary."

Its hard enough to persuade colleagues to play so I can have time off without clergy going off-piste inducing fits of the vapours [Mad] [Mad] [Mad]
 
Posted by irish_lord99 (# 16250) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
quote:
Originally posted by irish_lord99:
And in replacing the grill I broke off two of the clips that hold it in place, so it looks like I have to go to the stealer-ship anyways to get some replacements. [Mad] [Mad] [Mad]

dude. zipties.
Good idea. Ever consider a career in automotive design?
 
Posted by ExclamationMark (# 14715) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
TICTH clergy who, having decided on one theme for a Sunday then announce before the first hymn a theme they'd previously told me they wouldn't be using.

Relief organist called me gibbering to report that the PinC announced "today we mark the Transfiguration of the Lord and our readings and music will reflect that".

The minutes of the last planning meeting state "Fr X has decided to keep Sunday 3rd August as Trinity 7 - a hymn may be included on Sunday 10th to mark the Transfiguration but this is not strictly necessary."

Its hard enough to persuade colleagues to play so I can have time off without clergy going off-piste inducing fits of the vapours [Mad] [Mad] [Mad]

But Father ALWAYS knows best ....... he's the priest not the organist. The priest is there to lead and serve, the organist to serve.
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
Ah the world is a magical place full of people who can't wait to be offended and upset.
 
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
I curse the skin that starts to peel.
I curse the cream that's meant to heal.
Because of this confounded salve
I curse the grip I do not have.
I curse the coffee scalding hot
From greasy fingers slops a lot.
And with every sting I feel
I curse the skin that starts to peel.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
...oh bother, did someone make a ruling that Eighth Day was only for nice poetry?
 
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
No. It's just that my brain has the verselock on.
 
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
From the pen of dear Firenze
Acidulous verse will always Flo
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
I curse the skin that starts to peel.
I curse the cream that's meant to heal.
Because of this confounded salve
I curse the grip I do not have.
I curse the coffee scalding hot
From greasy fingers slops a lot.
And with every sting I feel
I curse the skin that starts to peel.

I think it has a nice OT feel to it.
 
Posted by MrsBeaky (# 17663) on :
 
TITCH the rats which have returned....a mother with eight, yes eight I tell you, babies
Shudder [Eek!]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
The rats responsible for the drafting of laws which denied an ex-soldier who had become the carer of his mother as she died of dementia, and who was then denied the money to pay for the electricity to keep his insulin refrigerated, and the food necessary to keep a diabetic alive.

Local paper report


The rats responsible for the funding changes leading to the closure of women's refuges (in some cases because of the demands that they be open to men.)

This is not the Britain I grew up in.

Then I watch the subversive stuff in the Commonwealth Games ceremonies, and remember that in the Olympics, and think of Melvyn Bragg praising John Ball and Tom Paine, and think maybe it is still out there, somewhere. (With part of it about to float off towards Ultima Thule, and who can blame them.)

How do we get it back from the rats?

[ 04. August 2014, 16:49: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Refuge Closure

And the rats who decided to collect a woman for deportation just before her daughter's wedding, and then to take her to the plane from Yarl's Wood at midnight in her pyjamas.

Seizure from wedding

Removal

I realise that had we been invaded by a certain mid century political party, they would have had no trouble finding people to staff the less savoury places they would have set up here.
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
posted by Exclamation Mark
quote:
But Father ALWAYS knows best ....... he's the priest not the organist. The priest is there to lead and serve, the organist to serve.
No; the servers serve, the organist plays the organ.

But if Father wants music for the Transfiguration he'd better give some notice - that or learn to play the instrument himself. And since he's pretty much tone deaf I don't expect that to happen anytime soon.
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
TICTH the person down the street who in the hot weather when all windows have to be open has decided it's time to do vocal exercises in hopes of fixing the wobble in her soprano.

and I don't mean Offenbach's Hades either.
 
Posted by iamchristianhearmeroar (# 15483) on :
 
Estate agents and conveyancing solicitors for screwing us around.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Whatever it is in my bedroom TV which decides, on an apparently random basis, that the hard drive to which it records things is no longer in a supported format and it cannot access the existing recordings.

This means a very long copying process to my computer (it is lying when it states the files are lost). Then I have to open each file and identify it, and change the name from a meaningless string of numbers (ciphered date info) to the name of the programme. But the downstairs TV, which can read the computer wirelessly and show videos from it, cannot read the changed file name, only the supposed lost numeric one, which can still be shown in Media Player, so I have to find the file under the name in one folder in MP, identify the the opening shot, find the numeric view of that shot, and then bring up that number on the TV. The TV cannot rewind or fast forward.

I am, you will note, complaining over facilities which I did not dream of when I had an analogue TV and no recording possibilities in the bedroom. But I wish the inventors of these marvellous toys ensured they worked sensibly before releasing them on the public. (And I did not dream of them when I went out to get a better TV, but having read the manuals, I did want to use what was on offer.)

[ 05. August 2014, 20:08: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by tessaB (# 8533) on :
 
TICTH piles! Nuff said!
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
I'm sorry, those must hurt.
 
Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on :
 
TICTH the mini-despots in my employer's HR department. Apparently, if we still have the keys to our flat on Monday the sky will fall in and it will the end of civilisation as we know it. [Ultra confused]
They will be paying rent for the flat until mid-September and know that we will have no furniture in our new flat until Wednesday but to let us stay over for a couple of days will contravene their processes. We have offered to pay the rent, but it makes no difference; we must be out by the end of Sunday. [brick wall]
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH assholes who get their rear bumper touched (at 2 mph) on a rainy, oil-slick day, causing NO damage whatsoever to either car, and immediately think: "Ah ha! I can claim 500 fucking dollars worth of damage, get myself a nice new paint job plus clear coat, and medical costs besides!" Assholes.

And who the hell does 15 mph when they're six feet behind a stationary car waiting at a light? 2 miles an hour, if that, assholes. Don't give me that shit. Don't give my insurance company that shit, either.
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
Of all the things I've lost
I miss my mind the most. [Waterworks]
 
Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :
 
Believe me Huia you have not lost it.

Just off the phone from my parents. My mum has dementia and was berating my Dad for not caring for her (he is, 24/7) while she looks after him (she has a cracked pelvis so no ability to cook and such). I know it is just a mix of frustration and tiredness, but it is like watching your mother turn into a spoilt two year old toddler.

Jengie
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
Cubby's mother had Alzheimer's and my own mother was, ah, always crazy (Cubby met her and thinks it was some form of schizophrenia). Love and prayers for all those dealing with parents or loved ones who have such things.
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
Just to be more hellish, but also because it was weighing on my mind earlier tonight, TICTH the way old friends drop you for probably religious reasons but they never actually tell you so, they just don't bother to respond to attempts to contact, and you can make some educated guesses but they don't have the fucking balls to say "because you're gay" or whatever it is, or maybe I'm too Catholic for them since my last contact with one of them had him saying, with some sort of concern but not made too explicit, that I should read Martin Luther, and you go on never quite knowing what it is they really think of you because maybe you're being formally "shunned" or something like something out of the Amish or whatever. [Frown]

And TICTH Michael W. Smith for "Friends are friends forever" because obviously, and most troublingly especially with some of my old Christian friends I was (or thought I was) closest to (see above), they're not. But Michael went on tosupport Rick Santorum whose name has become synonymous with trying to fight against equal rights, so, there you go. [Frown] Can't listen to MWS without thinking of that anymore... [Frown]
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by ChastMastr:
But Michael went on tosupport Rick Santorum, whose name has become synonymous with trying to fight against equal rights... [Frown]

I thought Rick Santorum's name had become synonymous for something else...
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by ChastMastr:
But Michael went on tosupport Rick Santorum, whose name has become synonymous with trying to fight against equal rights... [Frown]

I thought Rick Santorum's name had become synonymous for something else...
Well, yes... [Devil] [Killing me]
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
Aircraft noise overhead - a new jet bomber that cost £21 million.
 
Posted by argona (# 14037) on :
 
On which point, waking too early when the planes have started flying into Heathrow. Especially the little whiney ones. eeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeee... Pillow over the head helps not at all. To Hell with them.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
The stone that hit my windscreen, up at the top edge, hidden by the black pattern, so I thought the damage was a little chip lower down which I would get repaired. Whereas it has developed into a long gash across the passenger side and I need a new screen, which can't be done until Thursday. Last time I had a broken screen, they did it that day, in a few hours.

And if I had seen it at the time, I could have gone round to the builder's merchants off whose lorry the stone flew and possibly got them to cough up the excess I'm going to have to pay.
 
Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
TICTH the ice cream truck parked out front right now. I don't even recognize the ditty, but of course whatever it is, it's the same 16 tinny bars repeated again and again and again.

And it makes me want ice cream. No matter how much I tell myself that it will be crappy ice cream not worth the name, I still want it.
 
Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
I take it back -- the ice cream sandwich was yummy, and the truck has moved off.

But how on earth do these people make a living selling ice cream sandwiches for a buck apiece?
 
Posted by basso (# 4228) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by RuthW:
TICTH the ice cream truck parked out front right now. I don't even recognize the ditty, but of course whatever it is, it's the same 16 tinny bars repeated again and again and again.

In my neighborhood, which I'd guess is not to dissimilar to yours, they all play ¨Turkey in the Straw¨. Over and over, as you say.

Running that truck must be like being trapped in a musical greeting card, stuck on auto-play.
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
I love you to bits but there is no point in my paying for Automobile Association membership for you if you leave the card at home.
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
Ah that is sweet, the card was in the glove compartment all along. Sigh.
 
Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
I can't find the Black Dog thread from my iPad so TICTH depression for taking so, so many people.

RIP Robin Williams [Votive]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH the abrupt increase in my tinnitus at about 9:40 this morning. I know at least some of the reasons why it's happening, but that doesn't mean I have to like it, and I'd be a darned sight happier if I had a meaningful strategy to PREVENT it.
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
The racist and pig ignorant politicians standing for election in NZ.

Personally, I don't support the current Prime Minister, but to label him with a racist term and then claim you didn't know it was is just thick.

And then there is the usual anti-Chinese "joke"from someone who should know better.

Fuckwits!

[ 12. August 2014, 05:38: Message edited by: Huia ]
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
The guy in the purple top in this video.

Way to get involved, purple top guy.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lord Jestocost:
The guy in the purple top in this video.

Way to get involved, purple top guy.

Call me a cynic, heartless or something but where was mum when the buggy rolled?
 
Posted by Darllenwr (# 14520) on :
 
The dog that killed our 8-month kitten Gwenny at around 4 o'clock this afternoon. End.
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
[Tear] [Votive]
 
Posted by QLib (# 43) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
quote:
Originally posted by Lord Jestocost:
The guy in the purple top in this video.

Way to get involved, purple top guy.

Call me a cynic, heartless or something but where was mum when the buggy rolled?
Helping elderly family members down the stairs, apparently.
 
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Darllenwr:
The dog that killed our 8-month kitten Gwenny at around 4 o'clock this afternoon. End.

If Darllemwr hadn't, I would have. RIP Gwenny
 
Posted by passer (# 13329) on :
 
This guy.

Not to mention the writer of the comment under the article. From bad to worse.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH Facebook, for the twice-daily harassment if I don't use it for a bit.

Listen, you fuckers, I've already set the controls as to which kinds of events warrant a notification on my iPhone or by email. You don't get to suddenly bypass those controls because I've decided not to scroll through the increasing number of pointless ads and likes that you're chucking in my feed. You wonder why people are giving up on Facebook? BECAUSE YOU ACT LIKE A FUCKING STALKER, THAT'S WHY.
 
Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on :
 
TICTH people who insist on following standard processes rigidly even in unusual circumstances. We are in this mess because I AM NOT WELL, therefore I am not getting things done in the usual timeframes. Is that really so hard to understand?
 
Posted by Mrs Shrew (# 8635) on :
 
Ticth colleagues.
I appreciate that telling management that a couple of you were spending forty, fifty minutes a day, EVERY DAY FOR Months, particularly tellingly, always including the time when all management leave together for a meeting each week, away from your desks chatting (note, not chatting AT desks but chatting away so UNABLE to do your jobs) was a breach of etiquette.

So was your being rude to me when I tried to confront you about it in person prior to deciding that managers had to be made informally aware.

I appreciate that you are pissed with me. However, this is now three weeks in. You have given malicious feedback to my manager, you have cast aspersions upon the fairness of a recent recruitment that led to me getting a secondment, you have DRAWN ON MY FUCKING CHAIR IN BIRO, you are waging a campaign of not talking to me and of snide remarks on half voices whenever I pass. Your point is made. The lesson is learnt.

It is my father in law's funeral tomorrow. Can I just have a fucking break for twenty four fucking hours?
 
Posted by passer (# 13329) on :
 
You snitched on a bunch of colleagues and now they're getting their own back? What did you expect them to do - thank you for setting them back onto the straight and narrow? They weren't doing their jobs properly (in your opinion) so you gave malicious feedback and now they're feeding back maliciously about you? You've now decided that their point is made and the lesson is learnt, and now you have a funeral to attend so you'd like them to suspend enemy activity to accommodate your personal situation? I'm afraid you need to take a reality check.
 
Posted by Mrs Shrew (# 8635) on :
 
I think you misunderstand the concept "malicious feedback" .
I had a quiet word with a manager mentioning that they may like to keep an eye because a large amount of time was being misspent.

I appreciate that "snitching" is frowned upon but can't see any other way you could resolve such a situation. If timing is deliberately made such that no managers are in sight when things happen, then how will they know unless someone tells them? Or are the rest of us expected to just cover their work for them endlessly?

I don't understand this cultural obsession with it being wrong to be the person who blows the whistle on wrongdoing.
 
Posted by passer (# 13329) on :
 
quote:
I appreciate that "snitching" is frowned upon but can't see any other way you could resolve such a situation.....

I don't understand this cultural obsession with it being wrong to be the person who blows the whistle on wrongdoing.

Wrongdoing? Pardon me if I misunderstood, but I thought that you had shopped them for slacking, not wrongdoing. Deciding how hard and how effectively an individual performs their role is the responsibility of the supervisory/management team, not co-workers. I agree that if they had proactively been engaged in wrongdoing (such as stealing, vandalism, or something that might bring the employing entity into disrepute) you would have a corporate/team responsibility to draw that to someone's attention. With regard to effort and productivity however, it's a management function to assess and measure the performance of the other staff, not yours.

To be clear, I sympathise with your plight, but it's of your own making. If you poke a wasp nest with a stick, you must expect a response. I'm pleased you've got the secondment, and hope it will lead to an exit strategy for you from somewhere where you appear to be unhappy.
 
Posted by ExclamationMark (# 14715) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by passer:
[QUOTE] Wrongdoing? Pardon me if I misunderstood, but I thought that you had shopped them for slacking, not wrongdoing.

....proactively been engaged in wrongdoing (such as stealing, vandalism, or something that might bring the employing entity into disrepute) you would have a corporate/team responsibility to draw that to someone's attention.

Slacking = wasting time when there is an expectancy that you will be doing productive work. It's therefore theft or fraud.

Yes it is about scale but 80+ minutes lost each day is a rather more concerning issue than 5 minutes once a month. It does point to a certain attitude that I'd rather not have on a team.

If you prevent whistle blowing at this stage then you'll have problems in exposing bigger issues.

[ 13. August 2014, 14:09: Message edited by: ExclamationMark ]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
I hope you guys are all at home and not surfing on the company's time.
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by passer:
Deciding how hard and how effectively an individual performs their role is the responsibility of the supervisory/management team, not co-workers. I agree that if they had proactively been engaged in wrongdoing (such as stealing, vandalism, or something that might bring the employing entity into disrepute) you would have a corporate/team responsibility to draw that to someone's attention. With regard to effort and productivity however, it's a management function to assess and measure the performance of the other staff, not yours.

Where it's the individual's productivity that's measured, that may be so. In this case it sounds like it's the team's productivity that is measured, and that is only being maintained by other colleagues picking up the slack. That's harder for management to pick up on, especially if they're not very good in the first place. Nor do we know (a) the organisation's management policy or (b) what other steps Mrs Shrew might have taken to get to this point. So I can certainly see situations where Mrs Shrew was entirely justified.

And, regardless, she can quite reasonably expect her co-workers to act like adults, FFS.

Lord Jestocost, who is at work but has achieved his objectives for the day and feels justified in a little Ship browsing ...
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
And none of you even had to tattle to someone in charge for someone to notice this tangent developing into something threadworthy.

Hint. Hint hint.
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
The bastards nicking from the Italian Chapel.

The guys who built that place had more soul in their little fingers than you have all told, and I hope that every deed you do comes back to haunt you. And fuck you too.

AG
 
Posted by ExclamationMark (# 14715) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
I hope you guys are all at home and not surfing on the company's time.

When the company I used to work for first allowed staff to surf the net, productivity decreased by over 10%, They soon stopped it,
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Oh, TICTH human beings who think they know other human beings.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
orfeo, I'm glad you did that, I was about to find a link to call those morons to Hell too
 
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
The bastards nicking from the Italian Chapel.

Yea and amen - may they rot. [Mad]
 
Posted by AmyBo (# 15040) on :
 
Separate from from the awesome Black Dog thread, TITCH my asshole acquaintance for using Robin Williams' death to reach out about how bad depression is and you should talk to someone if you're suicidal. It would just be obnoxious and not infuriating if you weren't a COMPLETE SHIT to me when I was on the really-depressed-but-not-suicudal-YET slide, thanks bitch.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH the person or persons unknown, working in another government agency approximately 15 years ago, who had some downright bizarre ideas about how legislation works and who left festering messes on the statute book as a result.

Messes. Plural. And I know it was the same people, because the same bizarre ideas keep underlying every provision on this particular subject created in a particular period, but not the ones created before or after that period.

[Help]

[ 14. August 2014, 09:08: Message edited by: orfeo ]
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by AmyBo:
Separate from from the awesome Black Dog thread, TITCH my asshole acquaintance for using Robin Williams' death to reach out about how bad depression is and you should talk to someone if you're suicidal. It would just be obnoxious and not infuriating if you weren't a COMPLETE SHIT to me when I was on the really-depressed-but-not-suicudal-YET slide, thanks bitch.

Oh yeah. Got one of those, too. "listen, I'm going through a bad funk, so could you back off with mean jokes for a bit?" "Yeah, I've noticed, and I wish you'd snap out of it and be fun again."
 
Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on :
 
Apologies if I am getting boring but TICTH the bastards again. They have found a way to dock me most of this month's pay. [Mad]
Knowing I am not well, they seem to be doing all they can to prevent me getting well and then punish me for not being well.
I almost wish I could believe it was done with malice aforethought; at least that would mean they saw me as a real person but I fear it is just mindless application of the rules.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH the person or persons unknown, working in another government agency approximately 15 years ago, who had some downright bizarre ideas about how legislation works and who left festering messes on the statute book as a result.

Messes. Plural. And I know it was the same people, because the same bizarre ideas keep underlying every provision on this particular subject created in a particular period, but not the ones created before or after that period.

[Help]

Nothing to do with the pollies around at the time then? They are usually worth a mention.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Nothing to do with the pollies around at the time then? They are usually worth a mention.

Nah. Frankly, pollies don't go into the level of detail I'm talking about here. And in the case of my latest discovery, the change the pollies would have been asked to sign off on looks completely plausible on its own. It's only when you try to combine it with another provision in a related law that you realise it makes no sense whatsoever in context.
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
TICTH a specific university's admin nonsense that's left a friend with NO idea of what's happening.....
 
Posted by FooloftheShip (# 15579) on :
 
TICTH bovine, unthinking, unreflective, brick wall stupid complacent people. They can all fuck off, repeatedly until they are utterly exhausted and then do it all over again.
 
Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
TICTH my narcissistic boss, who high-jacked a meeting I was supposed to be chairing and, when I confronted him, said he'd done it 'for him'. WTF?
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Personal watercraftholes.
Horseflies.

Someone may explain the difference between.
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
Having to go through with a fine-toothed comb over the new semester's Course of Record and make sure that every link works, that every assignment is set up correctly, and so on, and I haven't even gotten to setting up the actual syllabus yet. [Waterworks]

Feeling like people think I'm a horrible person for believing the way I do. [Waterworks] [Waterworks]
 
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
TICTH being completely unable to concentrate on what I'm supposed to be doing, even though it's really rather important (like preparing for Sunday's service). Dunno if it's tiredness, my brain already gearing up for a week off next week or what, but I just can't focus today (or most days, at the moment, TBH).
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
TICTH the M3, the M25, the A3, the A308, in fact EVERY FUCKING ROAD between Southampton and South London that made my life Hell and turned a journey that should usually take about an hour and a half into a trip from hell that took over FOUR FUCKING HOURS!

Oh, and the level crossing at Motspur Park can go fuck itself as well
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
That sounds like a great obstacle course for one of your students. Especially if you charge by the hour. [Biased]
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
Learner drivers aren't allowed on the motorway. God knows why though, because by today's experience they'd never get out of first gear anyway.
 
Posted by Oscar the Grouch (# 1916) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
TICTH the M3, the M25, the A3, the A308, in fact EVERY FUCKING ROAD between Southampton and South London that made my life Hell and turned a journey that should usually take about an hour and a half into a trip from hell that took over FOUR FUCKING HOURS!

Oh, and the level crossing at Motspur Park can go fuck itself as well

Ha! I'm guessing that the A30 was also stuffed, then. I've got plenty of friends who live along that road - when the M3/M25 clogs, their lives become sheer hell. It can take an hour to do a journey which would normally take no more than 5 minutes.

Four hours to do Soton to London? Hmm - you got off lightly. I've known it worse, to be honest.
 
Posted by Oscar the Grouch (# 1916) on :
 
(I don't know if this is the right place for this, but can't think of where else to put it)

I went into a Thrift store today and whilst browsing the book shelves (as you do), came across almost the entire collection of Left Behind books. I couldn't resist the chance to look at them. Now I feel dirty, dirty, DIRTY!

(But on the positive side, on the next book shelf along was a complete collection of Armisted Maupin "Tales of the City" books. I considered putting them alongside the Left Behind series and seeing which ones burst into flames first!) [Snigger]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH the Jewish Chronicle, its craven and cowardly editorship and some of its readers for failing to appreciate that there could actually be a difference between disaster relief for the people in Gaza and terrorists based there.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
It's the thin end of the wedge I tell you. Any sign of treating opponents like human beings must be immediately stamped out, or it could spread.
 
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Oscar the Grouch:
(I don't know if this is the right place for this, but can't think of where else to put it)

I went into a Thrift store today and whilst browsing the book shelves (as you do), came across almost the entire collection of Left Behind books. I couldn't resist the chance to look at them. Now I feel dirty, dirty, DIRTY!

(But on the positive side, on the next book shelf along was a complete collection of Armisted Maupin "Tales of the City" books. I considered putting them alongside the Left Behind series and seeing which ones burst into flames first!) [Snigger]

Tell me, what kind of books are these? Are they any worse than Barbara Cartland's ?
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by jacobsen:
Tell me, what kind of books are these? Are they any worse than Barbara Cartland's ?

The Left Behind books are worse than Barbara Cartland's (though, I must admit I've read none of either), because some people take them seriously.
 
Posted by Oscar the Grouch (# 1916) on :
 
I must admit that I thought most/all Shipmates would have at least heard of the Left Behind franchise.

Armisted Maupin's books are about San Francisco in the 70's & 80's and focus a fair bit on the gay community at that time. He was also one of the first people to write seriously and sympathetically about the impact of AIDS.

The worlds of the two different sets of books could not be further apart.
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
Maupin is excellent, actually, though I've mainly been seeing the filmed adaptations.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by ChastMastr:
Maupin is excellent, actually, though I've mainly been seeing the filmed adaptations.

I've read three of Maupin's books and found them trivial. Then again, they started off as newspaper serials - but then again so did Dickens' books.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Hm. Isn't there a book thread in Heaven you all can discuss this no doubt extremely important tangent on?

Why yes. I rather think there is. It's where you can even find other people who don't come down to the nether regions to discuss books with! Who knew?

Aren't I helpful? Now go away.
 
Posted by luvanddaisies (# 5761) on :
 
"Do you think all birds working on boats are as ugly as her?"

"Nah, some of them are quite fit, we just got an ugly one".

Fuck you, both of you. It might be true, but I'm not a piece of meat, you could've waited to discuss how much of a dog I am until you weren't right behind me.
Hope you had a shit night out.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
[Disappointed] How fucked up .
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
If any of these idiots die from Ebola, I won't be especially sorry. They'll have learned something.
 
Posted by passer (# 13329) on :
 
TICTH St. Julian of Assange, as he is so aptly labelled in this article.

Just wish he'd piss off, the dubious twat.
 
Posted by Macrina (# 8807) on :
 
TICTH ISIS

I am a peaceful person and I can normally rest content to live in apeaceful and diverse society. I also know ISIS are not representative of all Muslims. But I am angry right now. I have never in my life been happy at the thought of someone elses death but they are tempting me to be.

ISIS are monsters. They have no respect, no compassion, no integrity. They are cowards and fanatics. They murder and persecute innocent people. I want nothing to do with their god. If they are so sure that they're right and a martyrs heaven awaits them they should fucking show their faces when they butcher someone in cold blood and post the video online. Cowards.
 
Posted by Oscar the Grouch (# 1916) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
Hm. Isn't there a book thread in Heaven you all can discuss this no doubt extremely important tangent on?

Why yes. I rather think there is. It's where you can even find other people who don't come down to the nether regions to discuss books with! Who knew?

Aren't I helpful? Now go away.

Jeez! What a douche.

(Happy now?)
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Our local library computer system, which doesn't issue receipts for reservation payments, and has just charged me, again, for reservations made last year, which problem I had addressed with the librarian last visit, and been told it would be corrected. Not the usual librarian, English not her first language. Will address the problem again on Friday with real librarian. Meanwhile, I have paid £2.65 I didn't owe them, because it wasn't until I walked out that I realised that £4.40 is not a multiple of £0.35.
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
ICTH the young man from the UK who butchered in cold blood a journalist, James Foley, from the US live on camera.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
He and his ilk already have a spot reserved in hell's hottest depth. No need to call him there. May he only go soon.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Macrina:
ISIS are monsters. . . . I want nothing to do with their god.

Rightly so. Their god is the devil himself. They are the antichrist (so I heard a priest call them a short time ago).
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
They are already in hell, but don't know it.

If ever I was to be persuaded to believe in possession, they could do it. They have opened their minds to believe that evil is good and will not accept that those who teach they are wrong are expressing the will of Allah.

Apparently, their talk, when not of beheadings, is very ordinary - missing Mars bars sticks in my head.

I gather that some Muslims believe that the djinnee can be saved. May these young men come to repentance. And those who have led them astray (though not without some suffering).
 
Posted by Jemima the 9th (# 15106) on :
 
Embarrassingly trivial given beheadings, but TICTH headlice. Evil little fuckers.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH trolling on a massive and damaging scale.
 
Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
TICTH the guy across the street who is using pressurized water to remove old paint from a fence. We're in a drought here, mister -- sand the fucking thing. No waste of water that way, plus the surface will actually be adequately prepared for re-painting.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH the Welsh Assembly Government, Newport City Council, Gwent Police and South Wales Police (amongst others) for attempting to host the NATO conference when they couldn't host the Ryder Cup without buggering up the district.

If the Brynglas tunnels get blocked, which is a regular event, I expect the Plod will close everything in an effort to get the Obama & co home.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by RuthW:
TICTH the guy across the street who is using pressurized water to remove old paint from a fence. We're in a drought here, mister -- sand the fucking thing. No waste of water that way, plus the surface will actually be adequately prepared for re-painting.

Pressure washing works far better and much easier than sanding, plus you don't breathe in the dust. Probably an eighth of the time. Having just done painting after pressure washing which took about 3 hours over 2 days which took me 2.5 days the last time. The amount used by mine in 30 mins is less than the average shower. Maybe you could offer to hellp. With 7 friends if you're set on this.
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
posted by Sioni Sais
quote:
TICTH the Welsh Assembly Government, Newport City Council, Gwent Police and South Wales Police (amongst others) for attempting to host the NATO conference when they couldn't host the Ryder Cup without buggering up the district.
[Eek!]
Thanks for the heads-up on that SS: I'm visiting some aged aunts at the time so will adjust my journey accordingly.

Of course, its much better to come over the Beacons and down the valley but it will add about and hour and a half to the journey in each direction.
 
Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
quote:
Originally posted by RuthW:
TICTH the guy across the street who is using pressurized water to remove old paint from a fence. We're in a drought here, mister -- sand the fucking thing. No waste of water that way, plus the surface will actually be adequately prepared for re-painting.

Pressure washing works far better and much easier than sanding, plus you don't breathe in the dust. Probably an eighth of the time. Having just done painting after pressure washing which took about 3 hours over 2 days which took me 2.5 days the last time. The amount used by mine in 30 mins is less than the average shower. Maybe you could offer to hellp. With 7 friends if you're set on this.
What part of drought is so hard for you to understand, you mouth-breather? It's also easier to wash down the sidewalk than sweep it, but we're in a fucking drought.

But seeing as the oil companies fracking in the area are wasting a metric buttload more water than the guys using pressure washers all over town, I could re-direct my ire.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Yes please do, and stop showering, do your dishes by hand etc. Maybe your friend could paint some other time. Or come and live on the Canadian prairies, where we have flooding. 9 .75 inch rise on the lake from July flood, with rain to start this afternoon with 4 inches expected and yes, another flood warning. Third year in a row like this.
 
Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :
 
It is not clear that doing dishes by hand makes any difference.

Jengie
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
TICTH scorpions! Just got my first sting. I've called poison control and pretty much just have to endure the symptoms for six hours or up to 24 hours.
 
Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
Yes please do, and stop showering, do your dishes by hand etc.

I was using less water than a lot of people around here even before the drought.

quote:
Or come and live on the Canadian prairies, where we have flooding. 9 .75 inch rise on the lake from July flood, with rain to start this afternoon with 4 inches expected and yes, another flood warning. Third year in a row like this.
And this means precisely what to those of us in the third year of a drought?
 
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
quote:
RuthW:
quote:
Or come and live on the Canadian prairies, where we have flooding. 9 .75 inch rise on the lake from July flood, with rain to start this afternoon with 4 inches expected and yes, another flood warning. Third year in a row like this.
And this means precisely what to those of us in the third year of a drought?
That it's part of the same problem.
 
Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
TICTH Universities that claim to be "flexible" and "innovative" but when push comes to shove are neither.

[Mad]
 
Posted by QLib (# 43) on :
 
Dear Auntie, you know I love you really, but wt-the ever-living-f??
The French Government resigns and it doesn't make the 10 o'clock headlines on Radio 4?

Fog in Channel, Continent Isolated?
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
You know who you are, stupid car drivers pretending to be overly polite. You try to wave cyclists through intersections, refusing to take your right of way, thereby endangering us. We slow down so you will get to the intersection before us, but you still insist on trying to wave us through, completely unconscious that there are other lanes and drivers who don't understand that you're trying to make yourself feel good at the expense of cyclists' safety. So I will yell "go!" at you and if you fail to understand that will have to simply wait until you do go. Of course, it won't teach you anything because some cyclists won't fight your false courtesy and go themselves.
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
TICTH Universities that claim to be "flexible" and "innovative" but when push comes to shove are neither.

[Mad]

Essay deadline crisis? "My baby ate my homework and you being part of a patriarchal regime would not understand." didn't work?
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by QLib:
Dear Auntie, you know I love you really, but wt-the ever-living-f??
The French Government resigns and it doesn't make the 10 o'clock headlines on Radio 4?

Fog in Channel, Continent Isolated?

(Puts down metaphorical Big Mac)

The French Government resigned?

In despair over the Napa Valley Wine Crisis. i presume? ( picks up Big Mac. )

(Off to go educate myself. And NP, I wish bikers around here had the kind of intersection common sense you do. Most of them kill themselves accelerating to an intersection when the only way they would be affected by simply maintaining their speed is Not Getting There First.)
 
Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
TICTH Universities that claim to be "flexible" and "innovative" but when push comes to shove are neither.

[Mad]

Essay deadline crisis? "My baby ate my homework and you being part of a patriarchal regime would not understand." didn't work?
Close. No option for part-time teacher training practicums. Twelve hours a day, five days a week for eleven weeks is standard.

Ridiculous unless you're 19 and single with no other commitments.

[ 26. August 2014, 00:34: Message edited by: Evensong ]
 
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :
 
TICTH YouTube, for shoving a 15-second commercial for an R-rated movie, complete with loading and shooting guns, explosions, and shouting people, in my face before I could watch a little soothing Mussorgsky. What the hell were you thinking? What if some little kid dialed up that kind of violence? Totally unacceptable.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
TICTH Universities that claim to be "flexible" and "innovative" but when push comes to shove are neither.
<snip out Pyx_e>
Close. No option for part-time teacher training practicums. Twelve hours a day, five days a week for eleven weeks is standard.

Ridiculous unless you're 19 and single with no other commitments.

You think teaching is going to be much different? When you're going to parents' evenings, all the other lovely extras? Teaching practice is tough, but not unrealistic.
 
Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
Full-time teaching in the first few years will not be different. I understand it gets easier as you get more experienced and resourced.

But I'm not planning on teaching full-time, only part time, so that reason does not hold for me and a part-time internship is all I need.

Meeting with the Dean to kick up a stink shortly.
 
Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
You know who you are, stupid car drivers pretending to be overly polite. You try to wave cyclists through intersections, refusing to take your right of way, thereby endangering us. We slow down so you will get to the intersection before us, but you still insist on trying to wave us through, completely unconscious that there are other lanes and drivers who don't understand that you're trying to make yourself feel good at the expense of cyclists' safety. So I will yell "go!" at you and if you fail to understand that will have to simply wait until you do go. Of course, it won't teach you anything because some cyclists won't fight your false courtesy and go themselves.

Some moronic drivers do this to pedestrians too. And then get upset when I don't cross into the path of a car zooming along the other lane. [brick wall]
 
Posted by QLib (# 43) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
Full-time teaching in the first few years will not be different. I understand it gets easier as you get more experienced and resourced.

Up to a point, Lord Copper.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
The lovely person, a dog owner, who has decided to drop* onto a neighbourhood path a carrier bag, which has spilt out the collection of other bags containing the faeces of their dear little pet. Before our very heavy rain, so the whole thing is a sodden disgusting mess.

The village has some signs declaring that there is no Dog Poo Fairy. I think in this case we need a Dog Poo Troll.

*or lob over the wall of their garden...
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
Rub their noses in it. By which I mean, the owners'.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Unfortunately, there is no way to identify them - it may not have come from the adjacent garden.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
This is always a problem to a degree I think. Someone drops the bag accidently and it splits so they leave it, someone overloads the bin in the park or by the path and it bursts. People let dogs poo and don't clean up. The best we can do is to pick up your own dog's poo and if there's another one from another dog, include it too.


I am not sure who or exactly what I'm calling to hell with the following. But I don't like it at all. Is there a pre-hell panel to decide who gets it?

We have reports this week of a person who decided to start trapping cats which were then loaded up into boxes and dumped in the country. This is apparently not illegal because if a cat is on your property you have the right to catch it. It is certainly not very nice for the cat owners. No doubt its the usual complaint of cat poo in the flowers. I am never sure of the line between manicured gardens and nature, and the line between tolerance and the intolerable.

In the same light, I have considered that catching teenagers and releasing them in the country might be the next logical thing to consider. And maybe the elderly who block walking paths with electric wheelchairs and walkers. And those pushing babies around while jogging, and more particularly those with this bicycle tire equipped buggies. And anyone wearing brightly coloured spandex and plugged into an iPod and doesn't hear bicycle bells on shared paths.
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
TICTH ineffectual child protection in Rotheram, and grooming gangs.
 
Posted by Rosa Winkel (# 11424) on :
 
You can add the SYP to that.

They have previous.

[ 26. August 2014, 21:31: Message edited by: Rosa Winkel ]
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
A fucking men to that. Reprehensible.
 
Posted by luvanddaisies (# 5761) on :
 
This patronising sexist fuckwittery. The 'Better Together' campaign seem to be more adept at making the case to vote 'yes' than to vote 'no'. "The guy off the telly"? pfft. If that's their view of ordinary voters and of women, it's not exactly inspiring of confidence, and is a triumph of patronising fuckwittery, middle-class stereotyping of "the common people", and an indictment of any of us who thought feminists' striving for equality of genders was over.

It's this sort of little woman not-quite-as-good-as-a-man thinking that breeds and validates people like the guys passing the bus stop at Trafalgar Square as I waited for a Night Bus home after work, who walked past looking at the women there and numbered us off "fit, fit, fit, euurggh, fit". I was the "euurggh". For the second time in, I think, two weeks blokes I've never met have seen fit to comment on how ugly I am in public in my earshot. I know I'm a fucking dog, I do own a mirror, but I'm also not a piece of meat, and I do have feelings (which I know shouldn't be hurt by cretins like them, but it's not exactly happy-making).
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
TICTH the political consensus in Rotherham that decided it was preferable to suppress complaints about paedophile rapist gangs in the name of "community" cohesion.

Whose community exactly?
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Luvanddaisies -- that commercial was so vapid and mealy mouthed I had to stop watching it. Ye Gods. [Roll Eyes]

As for the guys-- don't let the bastards grind you down-- as David Henry Hwang suggested, the uglier a guy is (or is afraid he is), the more strictly and unforgivingly he evaluates the appearance of women. That kind of assholery is classic projection.

[ 27. August 2014, 14:22: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by luvanddaisies:
This patronising sexist fuckwittery. The 'Better Together' campaign seem to be more adept at making the case to vote 'yes' than to vote 'no'. "The guy off the telly"? pfft.

In fairness, him off the telly's only been First Minister since May 2007. You can't expect an ordinary women voter to have picked up his name in that time. Quite rightly, she focusses her attention on supervising her husband's breakfast, lovingly encouraging him to "eat his cereal." Her husband, his head full of manly political thoughts, might forget to eat if she wasn't around to look after him.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
The meme counteroffensive is freaking fantastic, though.
 
Posted by Jack the Lass (# 3415) on :
 
As usual, there's a marvellous twitter account that shows the ad for what it is: PatronisingBT
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH everyone being obsessed with the colour of Obama's suit. For God's sake, he's still in a suit!
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
So what colour was it??

We are in the middle of one of the dirtiest political campaigns ever here* and don't really hear much about what's going on eleswhere [Roll Eyes]

* maybe it's just the most obviously dirty.

Also CTH the blogger who called Christchurch people pondscum. FGS is it our fault we had a frigging series of quakes??!!! And Yes, it may cost the country money to bail us out, that's countries and communities work.

Ignorant bastard. [Mad]
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Huia:
\
Also CTH the blogger who called Christchurch people pondscum. FGS is it our fault we had a frigging series of quakes??!!! And Yes, it may cost the country money to bail us out, that's countries and communities work.

Ignorant bastard. [Mad]

Oh, FUCK HIM. (fault line solidarity)

And Obama's suit was tan. Perfectly fitting for summer.
 
Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Haven't seen the pics but what was it, gaberdine? Just the thing for Washington in August, I'd have thought. but if I am going to conemn anything in this area to hell it is the half-arsed efforts of world leaders to look casual- as at the G8 in 2013. (Look at them- it was at Lough Erne, FFS- what's wrong with some decent Irish thornproofs?)
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
TICTH the President of the Republic.

François Hollande is not my friend.

Like many other people in France, I have top-up medical insurance provided by my employer (basically the Social Security pays 70% of your medical costs and you need insurance for the rest). The conditions of my work contract stipulate that I am not allowed to opt out of the scheme (even if, as will soon be the case, I am already covered by spouse’s insurance).

In January this year, our friendly Socialist government decided to consider employer medical insurance contributions as taxable income, and - here’s the really fun bit – make the move retroactive for the previous year, so there would be nothing you could do about planning your finances around it.

Fast forward to today, I receive my tax notice and discover that the retroactive reintegration of my medical insurance has pushed me up into a higher tax bracket and now I have a whopping great tax bill that I could do nothing to plan for.

Vote for the left, everyone. [Mad]
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
A lefty that doesn't like high taxes? Is this opposites day?
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
Glad to see that your stellar intellect grasps sarcasm, deano.
 
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
Vote for the left, everyone. [Mad]

What other options would we have if a general election is called tomorrow?
[Paranoid] [Ultra confused] (and do you get a vote - yet - anyway?)
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Eutychus:
quote:
Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
Vote for the left, everyone. [Mad]

What other options would we have if a general election is called tomorrow?
[Paranoid] [Ultra confused] (and do you get a vote - yet - anyway?)

True. The really depressing thing is that if an election was called tomorrow, Marine LePen would probably come out on top (although I'm assuming she'd lose in the second round, whoever she was up against). The centre has exactly no worthy candidates and the Socialists are having a kamikaze moment AFAICT.

I am very depressed about the politics of this country.

(I could apply for a vote already, having been here for ten years, but I'm going to wait a bit longer and apply on the basis of marriage. It involves less paperwork.)
 
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on :
 
Marine Le Pen can't come top, in person, of a general election, which is far more likely to happen sooner than a presidential election. Her Front National would probably hugely increase their number of seats in a general election, conceivably enough to muscle in on a coalition.

(It took us three years to get French natonality after 20 years here).

[ 29. August 2014, 11:38: Message edited by: Eutychus ]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by deano:
A lefty that doesn't like high taxes? Is this opposites day?

There are plenty of lefties that don't like high indirect taxes, eg VAT, petrol duty, TV licence fees and council tax. I could add passport fees and that's another cash cow. These are difficult to avoid so rich and poor plus those of us in between pay them.
 
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
quote:
Originally posted by Eutychus:
quote:
Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
Vote for the left, everyone. [Mad]

What other options would we have if a general election is called tomorrow?
[Paranoid] [Ultra confused] (and do you get a vote - yet - anyway?)

True. The really depressing thing is that if an election was called tomorrow, Marine LePen would probably come out on top
As discussed, impossible, but she is apparently happy to be prime minister, um, under Hollande (link in French)
[Help]

[ 29. August 2014, 20:11: Message edited by: Eutychus ]
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Cher Monseurs et Madames:

Vous may deescuss ze politic Francais at the length le elsewhere, but is it not permitted here? No, it is not.

—A.
 
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on :
 
You're right. Hell's too good for French politics.

[ 30. August 2014, 06:35: Message edited by: Eutychus ]
 
Posted by luvanddaisies (# 5761) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Eutychus:
You're right. Hell's too good for French politics.

[Killing me]
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Insomnia. Fouling up my entire weekend.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH Websites that have no means of you deleting an account. I don't want a relationship with you for the rest of my life. It turns out I only wanted a relationship with you for about 10 minutes.
 
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
Is this your way of leaving the Ship, Orf?
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Hardly. I've had a relationship with THIS place a hell of a lot more than 10 minutes!
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
But for how long did you want it?
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
I've got over 13,000 posts and I signed up to be a host. That isn't exactly an exit strategy. Join the dots.
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
Bugger. Bugger bugger bugger.

I run 12km into work. And when I get here, what do I find? The shower is out of order and they didn’t bother to tell any of us about it.

I have washed VERY thoroughly in the sink and doused myself in generous amounts of scented products. Apparently it worked because my colleague commented that my perfume smells nice, ergo I don’t stink. But I am Not. Happy. Nor do I feel deeply professional. [Mad]
 
Posted by Stumbling Pilgrim (# 7637) on :
 
TICTH not this oaf himself, he may yet be redeemable, but his attitude and whatever life experiences have led him to think it's acceptable. And I expect the fact he will be sentenced by a female judge will just reinforce his sense of victimhood. [Mad]

[ 02. September 2014, 18:31: Message edited by: Stumbling Pilgrim ]
 
Posted by luvanddaisies (# 5761) on :
 
Tony's Cronies at GQ magazine - Philanthropist of the Year my arse. Self-publicist, self-promoter of the year, maybe.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by luvanddaisies:
Tony's Cronies at GQ magazine - Philanthropist of the Year my arse. Self-publicist, self-promoter of the year, maybe.

Kim Kardashian got "Woman of the Year". Puts it all in perspective.
 
Posted by luvanddaisies (# 5761) on :
 
True.

I suppose though, that one would expect GQ magazine's "Woman of the Year" to mean "female with nice breasts who's not too shy about showing them".
 
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
TICTH my phone and internet provider. They did some work on my line today, which involved turning it off for a few hours, and which was duly announced. But of course, as nearly always with the bastids, when I got back home much later, the entire thing was still off. No bleedin' dialling tone, nowt, long after the announced interruption.

And the idjets of the fairly useless helpline keep advising me to 'turn the router off, and then on again after a minute' - although I keep telling them that the entire bloody line is down, as there's no dialling tone. This somehow just doesn't compute with them!

So I'm sitting here at night, waiting for the service guy to ring me back on the mobile. Which he may do when I'm off to work again tomorrow and can't answer the call. Don't fecking ring me - JUST TURN THE FUCKING THING BACK ON!!

Jeebus!! [Mad]

[ 03. September 2014, 21:34: Message edited by: Wesley J ]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
I can't see as sharply as I'd like because I'm wearing my old glasses while the optometrist fixes the prescription in the new ones, I can't put my contact lenses in because one eye decided to be itchy and watery when I woke up (early spring and it's windy), lots of muscles are aching because I finally went back to the gym for the first time in months, on account of admitting that I'm getting an unappealing middle-aged paunch, and my ongoing ear trouble is currently causing a stabbing earache on the right hand side.

Enough with all the annoying niggles! Give me my full health back, you bastards!
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Afuckingmento that.
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
Vod****e for being complete fuckwits.

For refusing to note on screen that other family members can discuss their own 'phones without me there to hold their hand.

For humiliating my sons in public - employee saying to crowded shop 'just because you say its been arranged doesn't make it true with me'.

For being almost impossible to reach by 'phone.

We have to stick with them because other mobile signal where we live is almost non-existent.

[ 04. September 2014, 12:57: Message edited by: L'organist ]
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
Vod****e for being complete fuckwits.


We have to stick with them because other mobile signal where we live is almost non-existent.

And I suspect they know that.....
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
Vod****e for being complete fuckwits.

For being almost impossible to reach by 'phone.


Hey, me too. It's interesting to know their lack of service applies in other countries too. [Mad]

For a company that specialises in communication they are remarkably bad at it.

Huia
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
On the other hand they are prolific senders of emails that make it obvious that they didn't read the answer they were last given. [Roll Eyes] (I've had 7 in 3 days)

Huia
 
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by JoannaP:
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
You know who you are, stupid car drivers pretending to be overly polite. You try to wave cyclists through intersections, refusing to take your right of way, thereby endangering us. We slow down so you will get to the intersection before us, but you still insist on trying to wave us through, completely unconscious that there are other lanes and drivers who don't understand that you're trying to make yourself feel good at the expense of cyclists' safety. So I will yell "go!" at you and if you fail to understand that will have to simply wait until you do go. Of course, it won't teach you anything because some cyclists won't fight your false courtesy and go themselves.

Some moronic drivers do this to pedestrians too. And then get upset when I don't cross into the path of a car zooming along the other lane. [brick wall]
Sorry to dredge this up from the depths, but a similar thing happened to me this morning when I was taking my daughter school. We were waiting to cross a fairly busy road and one car stopped to let us cross; which was very kind, except a white van was coming the other way and clearly wasn't going to stop and let across (and I wasn't particularly expecting it to). So we let the van go passed, then when I looked around again, the guy in the car that had stopped was still waving us across as if we hadn't noticed and were just stood there because we were complete eejits who were unaware of what was going on.
However kind your waiting for us was, I'm not going to cross the road with my 7 year-old when there's a van coming the other very quickly. If you were keen to go, why didn't you when it was clear we weren't going to cross the road?!

[ 05. September 2014, 08:55: Message edited by: Stejjie ]
 
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Wesley J:
TICTH [...]

So I'm sitting here at night, waiting for the service guy to ring me back on the mobile. Which he may do when I'm off to work again tomorrow and can't answer the call. Don't fecking ring me - JUST TURN THE FUCKING THING BACK ON!!

Jeebus!! [Mad]

They just have. [Devil] A full 48 hours after they said they would! So I've cancelled the engineer person's appointment who was 'sposed to come round on Saturday morning, PLUS... have told them in no uncertain terms what I think of them, and how much compensation I want. Which was more then they offered initially. And I got it. (Told them I could prove every single penny I've spent extra on my mobile phone lines, which I don't use much otherwise.)

It helps to insist, even though it does take a lot of persistance. [Snigger]

(Oh, and my internet does indeed seem faster now, after all their fumbling mayhem.)
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Teachers Assurance, who have completely changed their online log-in process and won't let me in. They used to have a user name, a log-in number and ask for random characters out of my password (but never used the end of it). Now they want my email and my password, but don't recognise it.

Having slowly sent me a reset link, it has now rejected my new password when I try to login.

Here is a variant of something I read in the Oldie yesterday. I am sorely tempted. Password
 
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
TICTH emotional manipulation and stupid little power games.
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
Kids - who apparently thought that a good Father's Day present would be to wake up extra early, and be extra loud and extra demanding and extra obstreperous along with it...
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
Its father's day ?
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
It is here. We do everything backward down this way, you know...

And I also CTH my cat, who won't stop fighting, and is on antibiotics again, and leaking pus all over the show...
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
...aaaand we rounded out the day thusly: I am grinding up the cat's evening pills when I hear panicked shrieking of Mumeeeee!! Mumeeee!! from the bathroom, and I rush through there to find a three-year old*...holding a poo in his hand, with the clear expectation that I am going to do.something.with.it.

*Three, for fuck's sake! And as with the other one, the only one left of his peer group not to have achieved anything resembling continence...
 
Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH the cold equations of living expenses that make it impossible for my lover and dear friend to continue to live in this state anymore and thus causing the end of our physical relationship.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
My right lung, which has been hoarding mucus like a kid hoards jellybeans for nearly two freaking months.

Expelloramus, for fuck's sake!
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
today I consign to the absolutely lowest possible depths of hell (and then the sub basement) the computer "system" belonging to a certain international car rental company who shall remain nameless but their true name is The Suckiest Sucktastic Suckfest Car Rental Company.

Inc.

handing out shiny new cars to people is a very small part of my job. an afterthought, even. YET! I'm getting a weirdass case of PTSD, where whenever someone walks up and says the word "car" I get the shakes and begin uncontrollably weeping and looking for the exits.

should be simple. you want a car? check. you got a license? check. you want extra insurance? check. Got money? check. here's the keys and GTF outta here, youcrazykids.

but NOOOOOOOO we have to use a computer system created in 1984 by the demented lovechild of an engineer and an automated phone system.

"fill in all the fields correctly and perfectly or I will freeze up and require you to call fucking Nashville or whatever and wait on hold for a year to get some loser to walk you through a reboot. but this will only happen if your customers are 12 deep and in a fucking rush! MWAHAHA! and that field that requires you to list the RZ/CA/I5/FU fields? (and of course you know what the fuck that is!) if you don't fill in the random arbitrary combinations of numbers and letters absolutely perfectly, I will blow liquid dog shit right out of my printer onto your crotch and make you start all over again! Oh hey, is that an international driver's license you just entered? HAHA! FUCK YOU!"

I love my job. I love my co-workers. even, a good 30% of the time, I love the fucking tourists who spend obscene amounts of money to visit our rain and mosquitos. But this goddamn computer system has had me one step from quitting about 5 times today, and It's not even a futhermucking cruise ship day! so TOMORROW when we get our weekly visit from another whole fucking city I'll get to do it all again, only faster and with three times the anal dickhead factor. fucking WHEE!

to top it all off, my car, which is like pimping out supermodels all day only to go home to jabba the hut, decided to die on me when I finally was able to make my escape.

dear technology: KISS MY ASS!

[ 09. September 2014, 22:42: Message edited by: comet ]
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
PS: if it wasn't for Hell I'd be in prison by now.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
[Killing me] [Killing me] [Killing me]
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
I'm cool I'm a "preferred customer". That means I get to fill in your dumb ass form for you.

BTW awesome rant, your boyfriend must be a quivering wreck.
 
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by anoesis:
...aaaand we rounded out the day thusly: I am grinding up the cat's evening pills when I hear panicked shrieking of Mumeeeee!! Mumeeee!! from the bathroom, and I rush through there to find a three-year old*...holding a poo in his hand, with the clear expectation that I am going to do.something.with.it.

*Three, for fuck's sake! And as with the other one, the only one left of his peer group not to have achieved anything resembling continence...

Did he give his poo a name? Like, Winnie?
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
I'm cool I'm a "preferred customer". That means I get to fill in your dumb ass form for you.


It's like the US State Department's "Most Favoured Nation" status. Last time I looked the only countries lacking this designation were North Korea and Iran.
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
TICTH the money-changing machines in the laundromat.

I had four crisp one-dollar bills and one limp five-dollar bill. The machine accepted one of my ones, and rejected everything else. I finally went to a nearby store and asked if they could give me some quarters. They only had four, which they gave me in exchange for one of my ones. They also exchanged my battered five-dollar bill for a crisp new one.

I tried several more times, and the machine wasn't having any. Finally I turned the fiver over and fed it in face-down. It worked.

The moral appears to be, 'Ignore all instructions.'

I was trying to get a lot done today, and I didn't need that hassle.

Moo
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:

BTW awesome rant, your boyfriend must be a quivering wreck.

I try to balance out the evil by being amazing in bed.
 
Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
TICTH Lloyds Bank. This is the third time I've filled out this form now, with exactly the information you need to be able to change the signatory on a charity account.

The first time, I wasn't a signatory, despite signing the cheques for the last five fucking years and you not spotting that you'd got the wrong signature on your records.

The second time, despite the combined efforts of an award-winning author and scientist, a senior manager with a multi-national drugs company and a lawyer with thirty years experience, we apparently "didn't understand the form".

This is the third time. If you fuck up now, I will staple a copy to your CEO's forehead and unleash the Financial Conduct Authority on your sorry arses. Incompetent and unhelpful? Yes. Yes you are.
 
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
TICTH the world wide unwritten rule that says famous athletes are allowed to beat or murder their women unless actually caught on camera while doing it.
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
I would rather CTH a society in which it is considered normal to keep guns under your bed, and acceptable to blast to pieces anyone who broaches your perimeter fence. In my mind, there is at least a shadow of doubt that this was premeditated murder of his girlfriend, but still, whoever it was thought to have been in that bathroom, the outcome of his actions could hardly have been in doubt. How many of these cases go on in South Africa each year, that we never hear about, because the target was the 'correct' one, ie: someone undesirable?
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
TICTH those shipmates who raise issues in TICTH that merit their own threads so we can have a more balanced debate on, say, black women judges in South Africa who may or may not have given the right verdict on a white disabled man.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
1. The criminal who charged up $1000 on our credit card on the internet.

2. The criminal who phished my elderly father and wrecked his computer operating system.

3. Me, for taking away my elderly father's downtown off the balcony pigeon hunting equipment and disposing of it, because I need it just now.
 
Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Pistorius is a gifted and hard working athlete but I've always thought he might be one of the people that Spitting Image sang about.
 
Posted by saysay (# 6645) on :
 
TICTH spoiled, selfish, rich white women who do not understand that not everyone is like them and that people react very differently when people of a different race, class, or gender say and do the same things that they do.
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by deano:
TICTH those shipmates who raise issues in TICTH that merit their own threads so we can have a more balanced debate on, say, black women judges in South Africa who may or may not have given the right verdict on a white disabled man.

TICTH shipmates who complain about others who don't start threads on subjects that the complainers think merit "balanced debate". IOW, start your own damned thread, dude. [Razz]
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
To my marvellously wonderful spiffingly gorgeous butthead razorblades in my eyeballs day, may I now add dog diarrhea on the carpet. Which is hell incarnate with a hot poker in my nose.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Twilight:
TICTH the world wide unwritten rule that says famous athletes are allowed to beat or murder their women unless actually caught on camera while doing it.

Oh yeah, because we all KNOW it was murder as opposed to reckless stupidity, right? Why bother with a trial.
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
I don't see how anyone can maintain, as the judge did, it is not reasonably foreseeable you will kill a person if you repeatedly fire a pistol at them. What would you expect to happen, cosmetic surgery ?
 
Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
TICTH evil filing cabinets that decide, purely from their own evil and without any input from me, to slam the drawer shut while my finger is still there. Well, I might have had something to do with it. But I've still got a very sore finger and I want to blame someone else.
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
TICTH lightning. We are in a storm and my slightly drunk wife is on the balcony trying to take pictures of it.

It's to fast! it's also freaking hilarious. All I can hear is the rumble of thunder, the click of a camera phone an the "Oh you fucker!"

I suppose you have to be here but I'm crying with laughter.
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
If you were nice, you'd point out the video function to her .....
 
Posted by FooloftheShip (# 15579) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
If you were nice, you'd point out the video function to her .....

Spoilsport
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
It will still stop recording by itself just before the next bolt.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
I don't see how anyone can maintain, as the judge did, it is not reasonably foreseeable you will kill a person if you repeatedly fire a pistol at them. What would you expect to happen, cosmetic surgery ?

Firing at a door with a person behind it is not the same as firing at a person. More in the Purgatory thread.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Arriva Buses who have arranged that all the few evening buses to my village leave the possible railways stations either exactly as a train draws in, or one minute before. The next, last, bus being two hours later. (There are other trains, but there are long waits, in dark places. There are only three buses at each station. One is much too early, one is much too late, and one is nearly, but not quite, right. With the added refinement that two routes meet at one station, and the two buses at the nearly but not right time are one minute apart, the others being well apart.)

[ 13. September 2014, 20:43: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
Oh I'd just CHT the company ....full stop. They provide a service: but not necessarily one that is helpful to the people it serves. Ever.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Prescription that has risen in price to $405 per dose. That's $100 more than last month. Also effing D effing N effing A which is the reason I need this crapola.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ethne Alba:
Oh I'd just CHT the company ....full stop. They provide a service: but not necessarily one that is helpful to the people it serves. Ever.

It has occurred to me, too late, that I should rename them Leevabus
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
Urban Outfitters. [Paranoid] [brick wall] [Projectile]
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by ChastMastr:
Urban Outfitters. [Paranoid] [brick wall] [Projectile]

OMG! [Eek!]
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
TICTH Kanye West. The man is a prime horse's ass and a narcissist of the first order. Everytime you turn around he aggrandizing himself as God's gift to contemporary culture. It was bad enough when he barged up on stage to preempt Tyler Swift while she was receiving a major award, to tell her that she didn't deserve it. Now the jerkwad has bullied a handicapped person by demanding EVERYONE stand up for his song or he wouldn't sing. He spotlighted a seated fan and taunted him for staying seated and got the other audience members to taunt him until one of his bouncers assured him the young man was in a wheelchair. Okay then, he'll sing. But no apology. And then he ranted about the media storm over his asshattery at his next concert. "I'm a married, Christian man with a family, pick another target." Well then he is a married, Christian family man who is a wart on the ass of humanity. [brick wall]
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
Vodaphone again.

The broad band is wonderful but no one told me i would lose my landline. This is bad because I can't hear my cellphone when it rings unless I stick it down my bra.

Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase being wired for sound

Huia
 
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
TICTH humidity and heat that should be gone by this time of year and my own inability in this sticky, lethargy inducing weather to get on with the mountain of stuff that needs doing.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Huia:
I can't hear my cellphone when it rings unless I stick it down my bra.

Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!

phone down bra (especially while out dancing or doing some other active endeavor) can cause damage to the phone from boob sweat. potentially fatal (to the phone) damage.

Don't ask me how I know this.

just trust me.
 
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
At least you have a storage space. I never hear my cellphone beeping. It's a good thing I have it for my convenience, not anyone else's.
 
Posted by luvanddaisies (# 5761) on :
 
I learn so many things from The Ship.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
What concerns me is that so many other people are doing what I'm doing.

It's a business opportunity for someone, that's for sure.
 
Posted by Emma Louise (# 3571) on :
 
Oh Comet I'd love to see you put that on an insurance claim form *grim*.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
we go with "water damage" and tell no tales, folks.

except when we admit the truth to those nearest and dearest who use it to tease us in public settings for the rest of our natural lives.

don't try this at home.
 
Posted by Mad Cat (# 9104) on :
 
TICTH the referendum and all the bullshit, sentiment and outright fucking lies associated with it.

I particularly CTH the thugs and bullies of the Yes camp. Both sides have been tarnished by bad behaviour during the campaign, but only Yes supporters consistently heckle, jostle, phone people at hustings, vandalise cars, front door, call people traitors and Quislings.

Shame on you and the people who let this fucking genie out the fucking bottle.
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
Bad day ?
 
Posted by Mad Cat (# 9104) on :
 
'ckin up to here with it.....
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
Guess who? I've just has a text from Vodaphone giving me a password I need to acess the internet, which is a bit strange.
since I am already accessing the internet with a password the nice computer bloke I hired sorted out for me [Confused]

I have a theory that telecommunications companies make it so difficult to change so that when next you want to change you'll remember what a pain it was and will stay where you are.

Huia [Mad]

[ 17. September 2014, 22:25: Message edited by: Huia ]
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Mad Cat:
TICTH the referendum and all the bullshit, sentiment and outright fucking lies associated with it.

I particularly CTH the thugs and bullies of the Yes camp. Both sides have been tarnished by bad behaviour during the campaign, but only Yes supporters consistently heckle, jostle, phone people at hustings, vandalise cars, front door, call people traitors and Quislings.

Shame on you and the people who let this fucking genie out the fucking bottle.

Ever consider that some of it might be the "no"s trying to piss off people still on the fence and to create ill-feeling against "yes"? Or did that sort of thing only happen in the US under Nixon?
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
quote:
Crap spouted by Lyda*Rose:
Ever consider that some of it might be the "no"s trying to piss off people still on the fence and to create ill-feeling against "yes"? Or did that sort of thing only happen in the US under Nixon?

Nixon's been gone for forty years, and it still happens.

Moo
 
Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
BBC Radio 3 for still giving 'Free Thinking' hosting gigs to Anne McElvoy- superficial, smart-alec, not as clever as she thinks she is, pretentious voice, guaranteed to bugger up discussion of the most promising and interesting topic.
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
TICTH Air France’s hold music. And Air France generally. Workshy lazy slackers who go on strike at the first available opportunity.

(It’s not even my own flight l’m trying to cancel [Roll Eyes] )

ETA: and while l'm at it, why didn't you book with Easyet in the first place like all sensible people do who want to go to Toulouse? More reliable service and half the price. [Disappointed]

[ 19. September 2014, 10:21: Message edited by: la vie en rouge ]
 
Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
TICTH Ariston. Reckon it was his idea to turn the boards blindingly, ouchingly red.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
quote:
Crap spouted by Evensong:
TICTH Ariston. Reckon it was his idea to turn the boards blindingly, ouchingly red.

Oh * W***. Looks properly Hell***, doesn't it?
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
Aaaaaaaaand it gets worse.

The AF hold music is a precious little three-chord song that asks me what is on my mind today (in Ënglîsh, natch). At this stage l must have listened to it at least forty times. It goes round and round and round and they tell you an advisor is going to take your call but no one ever does and it goes round and round and round some more.

l’ll tell you what’s on my mind, shall l? Whether anyone would come and visit me in jail if l committed a very bloody homicide. l already spent about three years on the phone to them yesterday modifying the flight. THEN the boss decided that he didn’t want to go to Toulouse after all for reasons that have nothing to do with the strike so can l get it refunded.

Except that the ticket isn’t refundable. Had he just got a refund yesterday he would have got his money back on account of the flight being cancelled. But instead he went for the other option (transfer to another flight) so now l have to spend the rest of my life listening to AF’s bloody annoying song asking me what’s on my mind just so that in the unlikely event that someone finally answers me they can tell me to bugger off because the flight he’s now on isn’t cancelled and he can’t get a refund on a non-refundable reservation.

Tl:dr: TICTH rich people who assume that they can and should get whatever they want just because they are rich.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
quote:
Crap spouted by Albertus:
BBC Radio 3 for still giving 'Free Thinking' hosting gigs to Anne McElvoy- superficial, smart-alec, not as clever as she thinks she is, pretentious voice, guaranteed to bugger up discussion of the most promising and interesting topic.

We were in the audience and struggled to keep awake - it was all so promising, a discussion on abstract art at the Tate Modern. There were so many ways they could have done it, even in a gallery surrounded by some art to discuss, but it was in a lecture theatre with one picture projected as illustratio and the discussion almost all Pseuds' Corner.

(We went to another Radio 3 talk in the Queen's Gallery on the legacy of the Georgians, and it was delightful: accompanied by harpsichord music of the period and time afterwards to wander round the galleries to check out the pictures they were discussing.)

[ 19. September 2014, 20:38: Message edited by: Curiosity killed ... ]
 
Posted by Yangtze (# 4965) on :
 
TICTH TNT, For giving me an extension number to call and the main switchboard number which had three options, none of which were 'enter extension number now'. Then kept me on hold for 10+ mins before cutting me off. This happened three times. Never did get through.
 
Posted by Curious Kitten (# 11953) on :
 
quote:
Crap spouted by Albertus:
BBC Radio 3 for still giving 'Free Thinking' hosting gigs to Anne McElvoy- superficial, smart-alec, not as clever as she thinks she is, pretentious voice, guaranteed to bugger up discussion of the most promising and interesting topic.

As someone who was in the audience it was at least a fairly comfortable auditorium to sleep in.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
That part of my brain which assumes that, because I want to put something somewhere where any random person with criminal intent, having gained access to my house while I'm away, won't find it, I don't want to remember where I put it myself.

I'm going to have to run a major search of every inch of my house. Hopefully I'll find the other things as well.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
This whole fucking planet is full of a few too many unpleasant people right now.
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
And a whole lot of them were re-elected to the NZ Parliament last night.
 
Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
Ruddy numpties dealing on our street......don't think so.

Yes, i am a grumpy old git and no they don't like me.
Tough S***.
 
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
They better deal with it!
 
Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :
 
TICTH dickwads who don't know how to ask for computer help. Don't just tell us you have a problem. Tell us the fucking command you ran, and show us the fucking computer output, and while you're at it have you noticed how often we ask for operating system, software version, and graphical interface version? So tell us those fucking numbers too.

And while we're at it, when you're posting for technical support for a problem with the online course interface, have you noticed that EVERY FUCKING TIME someone posts in the technical support forum, the first staff response is to ask you to clear your cache and cookies and try again, and also try another browser, so even if you don't think that can be the cause, just fucking do it and post that you've tried it and what the results were so staff can get on to the second step of support. But you wouldn't think to do that because you think you're the only precious flower who has ever had a technical problem, so it would never occur to you to read the other technical problem requests thinking that there might be something you could fucking learn from them, would it? Fuck no. Of course not.

And furthermore, just take the fucking whining about how you missed a deadline and why aren't there any fucking late days allowed when the course already gives you twice as much time for assignments as any other fucking course on this platform, and no matter what the late policy, there's always someone who needs more days than allowed and will whine about it anyway: take that fucking whining and shove it so far up where the sun doesn't shine that it comes out your mouth. The courses are fucking free and you can take them as often as you fucking want, so if life gets in the way for this offering, just suck it the fuck up, keep working on the course materials, and take it the next time to get the official (but completely fucking meaningless to everyone except you, you dickwad) statement of completion.

And for the dickwads who whine that they missed a deadline and now they can't get a good mark in the course (a mark that no-one else is ever going to look at) so they have no motivation to continue, just suck it the fuck up and acknowledge that you have no fucking self-motivation or interest in learning, but if you need external deadlines to make you feel motivated to take advantage of all these learning resources offered online for abso-fucking-lutely free, for a small fee I'd be happy to oblige and send you by email weekly statements of "what you lazy fuck, skipped the coursework again?" as motivation in any week when you don't send me proof you did the coursework.

The whole lot of you whining dickwads can go jump in a fucking heap of steaming excrement and go fuck yourselves while engaging in mutual masturbation about how it's no fucking fair. I'll give you no fucking fair, is what I'll do, until you're fucking screaming for mercy and wondering why the fuck you didn't notice the opportunities you had for free and excellent learning, right up until you turned into a bunch of whining dickwads with no fucking perspective and decided that everything should only work the way exactly you want it to, you fucking precious flower whining piece of shit asshole.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
Having a normal day, then, aren't you? [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
Remind me never to take an online course. [Eek!]
 
Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :
 
No, no, online courses are great. It's just that when you have 80,000 people in a course, that translates into a lot of stupid. And those of us helping are always very nice. We never say:

RTFM

or

Just fucking Google it

or

In your dreams, you whiny self-centered pustule
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
Remind me never to take an online course. [Eek!]

Sometimes you have no choice. Sometimes, you have to roleplay working in a virtual legal firm, and you realise that it being virtual means you can't pop your head into someone's office and clarify things. You're working in an 'office' where all the doors are closed and locked and the corridor is empty.

Which means that when your particular virtual 'boss' actually gets something a bit wrong, instead of being able to explain in 5 minutes why they've misunderstood that particular point and that what you've written is fine, so as to sort it out then and there, you waste 2 weeks and at the end of that you explode and demand the coordinator get rid of tutors who don't actually know the legal doctrines you're supposed to be exhibiting knowledge of.

I'm sure that if anyone digs through the history of the Ship in... late 2011 I believe... you'll find me exploding about that particular online course on a regular basis. It was a nightmare. One of the worst things I've done in my life, not helped by the fact that I felt, with some justification, that I had no choice but to complete it in order to save my job in the long term. The only way I could cope with it was to get angry rather than get depressed. I may well be the only student in the course who spoke personally on the phone to 2 different subject coordinators in that course. In one of those cases, my pointing out of the confusion and error in the course led to a lengthy detailed email to all students to sort out the mess.

Whereas other online courses, including other smaller units within the same overall course of study as that appalling experience, were pretty alright.
 
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
Tony fucking Bliar. The idiot's still around, still spouting the habitual nonsense, unrepentant as always (except having converted to RCism in an attempt to save his soul). Still being interviewed by the BBC, despite not having lifted a finger (though quite possibly the middle one!) in his role as a so-called UN envoy for the Middle East.

Absolutely fucking incredible!
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
Yes, it does rather perplex me why anyone still takes him seriously on the subject of foreign policy in Iraq.
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
Songs of Praise (BBC TV programme)

Don't HTB and the Alpha Course have their own advertising budgets to spend, that they have to take over a prime slot on mainstream TV to deliver a hagiography of Nicky Gumbel interspersed with the most appalling selection of syrupy worship songs, culminating with In Christ Alone.
[Mad] [Devil] [Mad] [Devil]
 
Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
Yes, it does rather perplex me why anyone still takes him seriously on the subject of foreign policy in Iraq.

Does anyone?
 
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
TICTH management-speak. Last week, I had to go to some conference organized by a semi-government institution. Usually I'm rather good avoiding those, but my current contractual relations mean that I really couldn't get away from this one.

The first hours, I was rather bewildered by the Powerpoint presentations I didn't understand, but then it dawned to me: these words don't actually mean anything.

Just for fun, I tried this out. At one of the group sessions, I ended up saying stuff like "We need to subjectivize the project variables, using the kitchen for more than just preparing a meal, but without too many baroque ornaments" and they loved it! During the break, various people complimented me on my input [Ultra confused]

What a strange world, where words can have no meaning except for career advancement. I wonder what Plato would have thought of that?

(PS I'm planning on offering a two-day workshop on 'Subjectivizing Project Variables' to this institution. Just use some of these words, do some Powerpoint presentations and include some 'projectograms'. I think € 60,000 would be reasonable for that? [Devil] )
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
I'm planning on offering a two-day workshop on 'Subjectivizing Project Variables'.

Just be careful of what you prepare in the kitchen. Some attendees may end up eating it. [Eek!]
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
If they'll pay, take it. Fools and their money sometimes deserve to be parted.
 
Posted by Snags (# 15351) on :
 
LeRoc, many moons ago when my dear departed father worked in academia, he once got so tired of all the BS that, on being introduced to some visiting luminary by the Dean he made up a completely fictitious subject in which he was the expert tutor. The Dean nearly voided his bowels with rage.

Imagine Father Snags' surprise when within 18 months the college was offering a course in said subject, claiming many years experience in the field ...
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
Did he have to teach it? Or tutor in it? That could get sticky.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
Unless you invent a new school of thought within it of which you are the leading proponent, and subjectivize your jargon to the point that everyone bows down and worships at your feet.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
Oooh, meantersay--

I once did a version of that for a graduate class where the professor was entirely sold on incomprehensible sesquipedalian postmodern literary theories and disdainful of earlier critical methods. He insisted on me doing a postmodern antipatriarchal reading of the Tempest. I asked (in a polite way) whether he minded my writing bullshit, and he basically said it would be fine by him just as long as it was the right kind of bullshit.

I got an A.

[ 22. September 2014, 20:08: Message edited by: Lamb Chopped ]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
'Ello, 'ello, 'ello, what do we 'ave 'ere? A Tangent! That's what we have.

Now then merry denizens, move along or create a thread for this pseudo-academic bollocks, but don't clutter up TICTH, or we'll have another H&A Day, and you wouldn't want that now, would you?
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
yes, I would!

Er, moving right along...

TICTH my dreadful memory, which means a) I don't know if LL has piano today or no, b) I didn't print out the right draft and turn it in, c) there is no rice in the house so now I've got to go to the market, and d) I have no memory of what LL said he needed at the music store and must run there now.

Seriously, brain cells, can't you keep up?
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
Yes, it does rather perplex me why anyone still takes him seriously on the subject of foreign policy in Iraq.

Ditto the loathsome evil toad (may God have mercy on him, but OMG the evil he has done) Dick Cheney, who's trying to give advice on it as well. [Mad]
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
a graduate class where the professor was entirely sold on incomprehensible sesquipedalian postmodern literary theories and disdainful of earlier critical methods

And while it is a bit late, TICTH that whole realm of BS. It made me not want to pursue my dream of becoming a college professor because I thought I'd be arguing for the rest of my life with those people. Ha, who's laughing now, you pretentious nihilistic false and, critically, no longer trendy theories? [Snigger]

(He said, posting on the Ship while grading freshman papers.)

I WIN!!!

[Snigger]
 
Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
The US is bombing ISIS in Syria. Can you say "quagmire"?

TICTH Obama and his advisors -- back in August, he said our military action in that neighborhood would only be protecting Americans in Iraq and persecuted religious minorities. Now we are smack in the middle of Syria's civil war.

Betcha the Nobel committee wants their prize back.
 
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
TICTH some idiot on Facebook who decided my Profile picture violated community standards on nudity and reported it to the faceless big brothers on said site.

It's a shadow picture FFS! Taken in India by our inestimable Wodders. I was fully clothed and outdoors at the time.

Sorry if that is importing an issue from another board.
 
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
On the same tack, the envious and malevolent fuckwit who reported a certain literate and witty blog as 'spam'. And to Hell with FB who acted on this bit of spite, and have ignored the many representations to them to lift the ban.
 
Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :
 
The spiteful, adulterous bitch who my son had the misfortune to marry
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by PeteC:
TICTH some idiot on Facebook who decided my Profile picture violated community standards on nudity and reported it to the faceless big brothers on said site.

It's a shadow picture FFS! Taken in India by our inestimable Wodders. I was fully clothed and outdoors at the time.

Sorry if that is importing an issue from another board.

Nah, fuckwittery is fuckwittery. On this occasion it happened on another board, rather than in a business, on the street or at an academic institution, but the boneheaded fuckwittery is the primary feature.
 
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
Myself - for being stupid enough to knock my gin and tonic over my laptop computer last night.

(If you have any helpful suggestions please come and talk to me here. )
 
Posted by cheesymarzipan (# 9442) on :
 
This stupid cough that doesn't want to go away just yet and is more annoying than the cold that preceded it - just made myself some honey and lemon to make my throat less itchy, and scalded my tongue due to drinking too much at once! The scalding did stop the coughing briefly though...
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lucia:
Myself - for being stupid enough to knock my gin and tonic over my laptop computer last night.

(If you have any helpful suggestions please come and talk to me here. )

What a waste of gin
 
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
Indeed, that as well!
 
Posted by Dark Knight (# 9415) on :
 
Idiots who try really, really hard to be offended. Fuckers.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Dark Knight:
Idiots who try really, really hard to be offended. Fuckers.

Yeah, we've got C5 to look after that very problem on The Ship, but there are times you would be hard-pressed to tell.
 
Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :
 
TICTH people taking a statistics course who won't read and won't add. The project template lists for each section how many points that section is worth. So why do we get questions like "how many points is the project worth, and are the points assigned by section or just for the project over all?" [brick wall]

Ms. AR Nice Person usually thinks of all sorts of mitigating reasons why people have these questions, but Ms. AR I Have Had It Up To Fucking Here And Beyond With Questions About Information That's Right In Front Of You has, well, had it up to fucking here and beyond.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
...you're REALLY not enjoying this stats course, are you?
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Now you know how a GM feels. [Devil]
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
I forebear to comment.
 
Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :
 
I see what you did there.

<AR goes off to rewrite her databases so that NULL == 'YES'>
 
Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
Choirs.
[Mad]
THAT. IS. ALL.
 
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
What, all of us? [Eek!]
 
Posted by St. Punk the Pious (# 683) on :
 
TICTH all those who consign all choirs to Hell. [Razz]

(Some choirs merit light singeing. But all?!? Heck, no.)
 
Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
Ha! present company excepted. I'm sure you're all wonderful.

Rant over, anyway.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
TICTH HR departments everywhere.

Everywhere.
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
This massive tour party of yanks who are slowing up the queue for breakfast by pointing at all of the strange Scottish foods such as mushrooms and scrambled eggs and asking each other"I wonder what that is"

Aaaaarrrrgghhh!

Get out of the way! There is a lovely train at Waverly waiting to take me back to Gods Own Country.

When this lot left the US it must have shoved up the national IQ by fifty or sixty! It's a fucking sausage you moron!!! Put it on your plate and shift.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
One day, I may wish to sell my house.

I'm beginning think it's time to create a list of real estate agents I won't use, based on whether they've put flyers in my letterbox offering to sell my house (at least 3 this month - today's offered to do it by Christmas). This house will be for sale when the resident wants it to be sold. In the meantime, back off!
 
Posted by St. Punk the Pious (# 683) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by deano:
This massive tour party of yanks who are slowing up the queue for breakfast by pointing at all of the strange Scottish foods such as mushrooms and scrambled eggs and asking each other"I wonder what that is"

Aaaaarrrrgghhh!

Get out of the way! There is a lovely train at Waverly waiting to take me back to Gods Own Country.

When this lot left the US it must have shoved up the national IQ by fifty or sixty! It's a fucking sausage you moron!!! Put it on your plate and shift.

Further, TICTH all those who hold up lines oblivious to those behind them. Those who do not bother to consider what food to order UNTIL they get to the counter and THEN greatly deliberate come to mind. Those who pause and then pull away oh-so slowly when traffic lights turn green are another. [Mad]
 
Posted by luvanddaisies (# 5761) on :
 
Fuckwit councils whose idiocy makes them unable to link empty housing with homeless people and put the two together. The questions "Why?" and "What the fuck?" spring to mind.

On the flipside, big bags of yay for the Focus E15 Mothers though. ( their Facebook page is here ).

(I wasn't sure if there was enough in this to merit a thread, hence posting about the Council's fuckwittery here. Maybe someone cleverer than I can can wring a discussion out of it. But not here. That would be wrong. I learned that at our little chat.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
One day, I may wish to sell my house.

I'm beginning think it's time to create a list of real estate agents I won't use, based on whether they've put flyers in my letterbox offering to sell my house (at least 3 this month - today's offered to do it by Christmas). This house will be for sale when the resident wants it to be sold. In the meantime, back off!

And the same for landscapers, pizzerias, and everyone else who leaves flyers on my front door, fully visible from the street. Why not just put up a big sign saying "Guess who's not home! Come on in and help yourself!"?
 
Posted by Caissa (# 16710) on :
 
TICTH H & A days. Self-indulgent twaddle it be.
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Caissa:
TICTH H & A days. Self-indulgent twaddle it be.

Now I obviously can't start a tangent in this thread but I would like to agree with you but I can't think of a way round it without incurring hostly wrath.

But totally unrelated and apropos of nothing...

TICTH those who would disagree with Caissa's statement above.
 
Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
Daylight saving. A total wank.
 
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
Auto-playing videos on websites... just... don't, please?
 
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
TICTH the murderous bastards who killed Herve Gourdel in Algeria and all their associates here in north Africa.
 
Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by deano:
TICTH those who would disagree with Caissa's statement above.

Happily volunteers to be CedTH on this basis.
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by St. Punk the Pious:
Further, TICTH all those who hold up lines oblivious to those behind them. Those who do not bother to consider what food to order UNTIL they get to the counter and THEN greatly deliberate come to mind.

On the other hand, if everyone in line in front of you is much taller than you are, you won't be able to read the menu until you reach the counter.

Moo
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
One day, I may wish to sell my house.

I'm beginning think it's time to create a list of real estate agents I won't use, based on whether they've put flyers in my letterbox offering to sell my house (at least 3 this month - today's offered to do it by Christmas). This house will be for sale when the resident wants it to be sold. In the meantime, back off!

I'm actually compiling a list of ones i won't use, on that very basis. And if it's just flyers in your letterbox you're getting, it could be worse... paid schmucks acting for real estate agents who are too important to do their own direct marketing are the main source of our dinnertime-telephone-interruptions. I hear from as many of them as from house washers, carpet cleaners, ventilation-system-installers, insulation consultants and sky-fucking-TV all put together!
 
Posted by Leaf (# 14169) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Caissa:
TICTH H & A days. Self-indulgent twaddle it be.

Umm... Yar. I be disagreein' wit ye.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
There is plenty of opportunity to discuss Host and Admin days in the Styx, and indeed Caissa has already taken up that opportunity several days ago.

We do NOT need a re-run of the whole freaking thing here.

orfeo
Hellhost

 
Posted by Caissa (# 16710) on :
 
TITCH Hellhosts who object to people's comments in Hell.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Cut the passive-aggressive bullshit and take it to the Styx if you have a problem with the Ship's crew.
Ariston, Hellhost
 
Posted by Caissa (# 16710) on :
 
Just so that I am clear. It is inappropriate to comment on a hosting or admin decision in hell? In other words, hosts and admins are off-limits for hell calls when they are acting in their hostly or admin capacity? I want to know because some of teir responses in Styx are desrving of a hell call.
 
Posted by Alan Cresswell (# 31) on :
 
TICTH people who don't object to what I say. I want people to post and say "that's a load of twaddle". Purgatory would get deadly tedious in about 3 seconds if no one objected to what anyone else wrote. "That's nice, I agree with all you've said". [Projectile]

Object, tell us when we're wrong. Stir things up and be Unrestful. Go for it. Don't leave it all up to the hosts.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Caissa:
It is inappropriate to comment on a hosting or admin decision in hell?

Yes.

Reacquaint yourself with the Ten Commandments. Particularly Commandment 6. The fact that you have to ask indicates you've forgotten them.

quote:
Originally posted by Caissa:
I want to know because some of teir responses in Styx are desrving of a hell call.

That remark in itself is remarkably close to precisely what you've been told not to do.

orfeo
Hellhost


[ 25. September 2014, 13:31: Message edited by: orfeo ]
 
Posted by Alan Cresswell (# 31) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Caissa:
Just so that I am clear. It is inappropriate to comment on a hosting or admin decision in hell? In other words, hosts and admins are off-limits for hell calls when they are acting in their hostly or admin capacity? I want to know because some of teir responses in Styx are desrving of a hell call.

OK, slipped in while I was posting. Probably totally improper, but ...

Your question is a matter of Ship policy and so should really be asked in the Styx. I'm feeling naughty so here goes. Host rulings or other official actions should be raised in the Styx. If a host posts officially in a manner that you think is inappropriate it's best raised in the Styx if you feel you can question it without getting personal yourself. If the only way you think you can respond to an official post is to rant and swear and call the host/admin in question nasty names then don't do that in the Styx. Bring it to Hell. But, you'll be painting that big target on yourself ... may the Lord have mercy on your soul.

Of course, if you're objecting to something said without any official status then treat it like a statement by any other Shipmate.
 
Posted by Alan Cresswell (# 31) on :
 
I should, of course, add that I can't imagine a situation where something posted by a host or admin in their official capacity would actually warrant a call to Hell. A gratuitous call to Hell for a host/admin posting in their official capacity would certainly qualify as not showing due respect to the Crew.

And, we're now well into Styx territory ... so, as always, if anyone wants to carry on the discussion of whether you can disagree with hosts and admins, do so in the Styx.
 
Posted by Mad Cat (# 9104) on :
 
Okay.... <Consults Hellish list>

Yes, that would be you - today's first consignee: the dentist who persuaded me to have bleaching on my discoloured front tooth. To enable this bleaching, you undertook a lot of scraping of the root canal and interior of the tooth, yes? This weakened it catastrophically and I now have to have a crown. You've now left the country (clearly knew I'd consign her to hell when I realised) and I am light 100 bucks four days before payday. So, down you go, you incompetent wankspangle.

Next. You again. My boss: this one always finds that the kids are really accomodating when one has lost one's voice. Let's be real here. You don't *speak* to the kids. You put a text book in front of them and woebetide any poor creature who dares to ask a question. However, you comments give me guilt, so that I feel I shouldn't phone in sick, and foolishly attempt to teach with laryngitis. I accept my part in the farago, but really, be a better manager, would you? Put your staff's welfare before what you perceive as inconvenience to yourself. Move along down please, you insufferable cockwomble.

Ah. Next in line: Car Share Colleague. Now, O Exalted One, I know you are a very important person. It's clear that we're all here just to make life easier or possibly more entertaining for your illustrious self. It's a shame for you, really, that you've reached almost thirty years of age with such an inability to tolerate disappointment. Let's review: Tuesday, your Lift To Work (that would be me) is ill and needs to go home. Your Lift To Work, shouldn't have come in at all (see above) but hey ho, life's disappointing sometimes. You, it would seem, are in a bad mood about some other shit - sorry, I try really hard to care but you're just such a spoilt brat - so when you Lift To Work comes into your class to say: I need to go home, your reply is.... what? .....Sorry to hear that? ....Hope you feel better soon? No. Your reply, as befits a brat of your standing, is: How am I going to get home?

Now, we are at this moment standing in front of your fifth years, so I *don't* suggest that you get home by teleport, or skipping.... or various other grosser suggestions. No, I say, well, one of the other people going back to Edinburgh.
"Let's go into the corridor." You reply.
Once there: "I'll have to do a whole staff email." You say.
"OH DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN!!! A WHOLE STAFF EMAIL!! YOU MEAN, YOU'LL HAVE TO EMAIL THE WHOLE STAFF???!"

I am, by this stage, lost for words. I'm an English Teacher. How often do you think *that* happens? All I can think of saying is:
"Well, I've got the dentist on Thursday, so I'll let you know if I'll be available to be Your Lift To Work on Friday. Otherwise, I will not exist, clearly, and will spend every moment on my sickbed berating myself for the horrific inconvenience I caused you. Ye gods. A whole staff email! <bites knuckles>

We part, you with a face that would turn milk, me, feeling quite hurt to be treated with such disdain. *Then* what you did was, you went back into your classroom and slammed the door. That probably makes you look like a massive dick in front of, let's see, the kids in that room (who I taught last year and really liked me - HA!), the boss and decent chap in the rooms opposite, and the department mammie two doors down.

How about this then? You fuck off to hell via the A1 in a shopping trolley from Asda (*), doing the macarena because you're SO. FUCKING. SPECIAL. you two-faced, self-absorbed thundercunt.

<checks list> Marvellous.

* Other supermarkets have shopping trolleys. Thanks also to Buzzfeed contributors for the swearing.
 
Posted by luvanddaisies (# 5761) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Mad Cat:
...wankspangle...
... cockwomble...
...thundercunt...


That your post contains three such words as these has enhanced my evening far more than should be for an [alleged] grown-up. I'm sorry you've had dealings with such fuckmuppets & asshats, but thank you for making me laugh out loud. I now need to explain my immature and uncontainable chortling and choking over my keyboard though. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
Wow - way to rant Madcat.
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
Is it wrong that I read that and think, "I wish I had a thundercunt" ? It sounds so much more exciting than the default model ...
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
What kind of mess does a 'cockwomble' clean up [Ultra confused]
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
I dunno, a thundercunt sounds like it would produce a fart in media res...
 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
Is it wrong that I read that and think, "I wish I had a thundercunt" ? It sounds so much more exciting than the default model ...

I'm envisioning some kind of NSFW version of Thundercats.

Feel the magic, hear the roar...
 
Posted by Mad Cat (# 9104) on :
 
That would be a queef, apparently.

I work with teenage boys.....

..... and now I feel a song coming on!

I have a mighty thundercunt,
And Mavis is it's name...


ETA: ah the majesty of my cross-posing!

[ 25. September 2014, 20:17: Message edited by: Mad Cat ]
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
To spiderman music

Thundercunt, thundercunt,
Does whatever a real cunt daren't
But LOUDER !!!
 
Posted by Louise (# 30) on :
 
Fuck Iain Duncan Smith, the fucking soul-eating Nosferatu, whose benefits policy is destroying a good friend.

[ 25. September 2014, 23:09: Message edited by: Louise ]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
We've got enough tension surrounding the Muslim community right now, without morons lying in an attempt to inflame the situation.
 
Posted by Tubbs (# 440) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Louise:
Fuck Iain Duncan Smith, the fucking soul-eating Nosferatu, whose benefits policy is destroying a good friend.

And his evil bunch of mates. May the fires be extra toasty for all of them

Tubbs
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
Mad Cat - the Force is strong with you, young paduwon.

Welcome to the Bitch Side.

it's funner here.

(damn fine rant, babycakes)
 
Posted by luvanddaisies (# 5761) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
Is it wrong that I read that and think, "I wish I had a thundercunt" ? It sounds so much more exciting than the default model ...

I'm envisioning some kind of NSFW version of Thundercats.

Feel the magic, hear the roar...

[Killing me] , both of you.
I love the people here sometimes.*

*Some of them.
Terms & conditions apply.
 
Posted by Snags (# 15351) on :
 
TICTH Windows Fucking Update.

Coupled with my feckless festering shitheap of a brain, which never learns.

Every Friday. Already late. Want to leave. Shut down client laptop. Forgot to look for That Bastard Shield.

"Installing update 1 of 10,000,000 ... kiss any chance of time with Mrs Snags good-bye before heading out to Street Pastors".

Fuckity fucking fuckballs.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Snags:
TICTH Windows Fucking Update. . . . "Installing update 1 of 10,000,000".

And if you're on battery power, better hope that the battery lasts until the updates are done. You certainly don't want to plug the power supply in now, as the battery will "learn" to confuse its semi-discharged state with total discharge necessitating the power supply, and before you know it you'll be charging it every 30 minutes.

Windows XP didn't used to delay shutdown in order to install updates. It just waited till the next reboot or power-up. When will Microsoft learn not to ruin a good thing by "updating" it?
 
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Mad Cat - [Overused]

TICTH aeroplane flu, which D. is just getting over and, being the kind, sharing soul that he is, appears to have handed on to me.

[Frown]
 
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
TICTH whatever caused two 12 year old girls to plan for months to murder a friend (best friend of one of them) at a slumber party, all to impress an evil fictional character off the Web. Fortunately, their victim survived her 19 stab wounds.

[Votive] [Hot and Hormonal]
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Oh shit, was that one of those "thin guy" things? [Mad]
 
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
Kel--

Yes, though I think the name was slightly different. "Slender man"?

I'd heard about the case, in passing. Watched account on "20/20" tonight. Evidently, the idea of this fictional creep is really widespread, with tons of people contributing to the online story. And a lot of kids think he at least *might* be real.

The girls may be tried as adults. (Wrongly, I think. Not generally in favor of doing that.) If convicted as adults, they'll go to prison for a very long time. If as juveniles, they'll Kel--

Yes, though I think the name was slightly different.

I'd heard about the case, in passing. Watched account on "20/20" tonight. Evidently, the idea of this fictional creep is really widespread, with tons of people contributing to the online story. And a lot of kids think he at least *might* be real.

One girl has been found unfit to stand trial. One said she could feel both the bad and good possibilities, and one said she was surprised to feel no remorse. (Have a hard time remembering which was which.)

The girls may be tried as adults. (Wrongly, I think. Not generally in favor of doing that.) If convicted as adults, they'll go to prison for a very long time. If as juveniles, they'll be out at age 25--which might give them a chance to get well and have a life.

Peyton, the girl they attacked, crawled out of the woods where she'd been abandoned and found help. She nearly didn't survive. However, she's going to school this term.

I have a hard time understanding how 12 year olds could get so deeply into that kind of fantasy.
 
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
Sorry for the typos I really did look at Preview.
[Hot and Hormonal]

And I even used the wrong smiley in the first post, rather than the "mad" one.
 
Posted by MrsBeaky (# 17663) on :
 
TICTH (or perhaps not Hell as I wouldn't want even him to really go there but he's a pillock for all that but I need to rant) the bloody evangelist who is shouting into a microphone at some rally in the middle of town and his ravings are being carried on the still evening air into my sitting room.
I HATE stuff like this!

Thank you for listening and goodnight.
 
Posted by luvanddaisies (# 5761) on :
 
People who're rude, complainy and shouty for no reason at all. I'm doing my job, and I'm trying very hard to be nice and helpful to everyone, but because something crawled up your arse and died you have a nasty pop at me. More than once. Go fuck yourself with a hedgehog's overcoat, asshats.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Word up on that.

TICTH these two fucking tools.
 
Posted by luvanddaisies (# 5761) on :
 
I loved that story!
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Love the story, hate the attitude.

I spent an afternoon this week teaching little four year old boys how to drive their trikes around each other rather than crashing head on and screaming at each other to move. By the end of an hour, they had caught on faster than a lot of adults I know. Yeah. Check yourselves.
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
and that last batch of Microsoft Updates apparently included some that broke things and had to be uninstalled.

As did the Update 3 to Visual Studio that causes it to crash frequently. Very clever of MS to decide to lay off all the testers since their process is so automated and dandy.
[Mad]
 
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
quote:
Kelly Alves: I spent an afternoon this week teaching little four year old boys how to drive their trikes around each other rather than crashing head on and screaming at each other to move.
Spoilsport.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Any time you want to practice conflict resolution with four year olds in Hunter's Point for an afternoon, be my guest. I will sit in a beach chair sucking on a mai tai while I watch the fun. Hell is a paintball fight in comparison.

[ 27. September 2014, 20:31: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
quote:
Kelly Alves: Any time you want to practice conflict resolution with four year olds in Hunter's Point for an afternoon, be my guest. I will sit in a beach chair sucking on a mai tai while I watch the fun.
Sure, just give me a bigger trike. And a huge water gun. Now, where did you say that beach chair was?
 
Posted by luvanddaisies (# 5761) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Love the story, hate the attitude.

Exactly - That's what I meant, sorry. It was a brilliant illustration of how silly they were - motorways and towns built around them, and those sulky arrogant faces...
Dr Seuss was a genius.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
quote:
Kelly Alves: Any time you want to practice conflict resolution with four year olds in Hunter's Point for an afternoon, be my guest. I will sit in a beach chair sucking on a mai tai while I watch the fun.
Sure, just give me a bigger trike. And a huge water gun. Now, where did you say that beach chair was?
And when they stop shouting, physically pull each other off the bikes, throw each other on the ground, and start clawing each other's cheeks bloody, what will you do with the squirt gun?

Look up Hunter's Point. Given your attitude, I give you a half hour tops in ine if the schools around there before you start having heart palpitations and start looking around wildly for a 65 year old lady veteran "spoilsport" to bail you out.

Sorry, I know you were just kidding, but I am not a fucking baby sitter, and helping kids figure our other methods of dealing with conflict besides drawing blood is vitally important in many of the places I work. I would never dream of telling you I was better at your job than you are, but it seems like when you work with kids in a group setting, everyone thinks any moron can do it, so I really do have to consign that attitude to Hell as well. Nothing personal.
 
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
(I was just kidding. Do it however you want.)
 
Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :
 
One down side of the fall in the Pacific Northwest is that generally benign little garden spiders bloat up into giant leggy versions of Satan's left testicle. This is worsened by their apparent collective will to congregate in their thousands around the domiciles of arachnophobes. It is still puzzling to consider why they also develop a propensity for attempting unlikely web construction across doorways and human-sized pathways.

What is truly awful, though, is the sound of my wife's cackling wafting down from the bedroom window after my bloodcurdling screams. I tried to be brave, whistling the theme from Indiana Jones as I fought through my own garden-y version of the Temple Of Doom to get to my truck. But there's ALWAYS. ANOTHER. FUCKING. SPIDER. Carefully clear them away to pass, and creep forward - only to feel the invisible twang of a filament across the cheek and see peripherally the scurrying of Satan's leggy testicle.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Last week on FB i boasted about living in harmony with black widows, and within a day I had tracked down and killed four of them, just wandering across my room. One right across my chest as I lay on my back watching my IPad. The sillouhette across the screen... [Ultra confused]
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
ICTH Stewardship Sunday and the diocesan decision to try to wring yet more money out of parishes, using emotive expressions such as 'cut to the bone' and 'we all must make sacrifices'.

The central structures of the CofE needs to learn to live within its means. More, it must understand that the top-heavy hierarchy is not affordable.

Suffragans were introduced when church attendance was high and it was assumed that churchgoing would remain fairly steady. In fact numbers are now roughly half (being generous) of what they were in the 1960s.

Yet the number of bishops hasn't fallen - in fact many suffragans have been added since the mid 60s.

Taking an average weekly attendance of 1.6m in the 60s there was one bishop (of any type) per 14,500 people; in 2013 that figure has changed to one per 7,230.

If you call the numbers in the pew 'product' then it is clear that productivity has halved over the past 50 years - and the workforce on the shopfloor (in parishes) has fallen with it; but management numbers have remained the same, or in some cases has even increased (there are also more archdeacons).

Quite apart from being unaffordable this is unnecessary - demonstrably so since the church at national level is no better run than it was, it just costs more.

I'd say to any lay person they should NOT increase their giving until such time as it becomes clear that the people in Church House and wearers of mitres show clear evidence that they will cut their cloth according to their means.
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
Hmmm. Our area (suffragan) bishop covers a larger area, geographically, in the number of parishes and in population, than the entire Diocese of Portsmouth.
 
Posted by basso (# 4228) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
One down side of the fall in the Pacific Northwest is that generally benign little garden spiders bloat up into giant leggy versions of Satan's left testicle.

I saw this link yesterday, and thought of the Ship. I was able to resist the urge to share it until now.

Serious beauty there, except for the phobic. The phobic should Not Click There.
 
Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
TiCtH Brooks Newmark for a sleaze ball, and also the reporter doing a sting in the first place.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
TiCtH Brooks Newmark for a sleaze ball, and also the reporter doing a sting in the first place.

You missed the Stupid Tory Name. You couldn't make it up could you? I call Grant Shapps, who also sounds like an advertising agency, on the same basis.
 
Posted by Rev per Minute (# 69) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
TiCtH Brooks Newmark for a sleaze ball, and also the reporter doing a sting in the first place.

You missed the Stupid Tory Name. You couldn't make it up could you? I call Grant Shapps, who also sounds like an advertising agency, on the same basis.
I will happily CTH Grant Shapps who is also called Michael Green, at least when he is promoting 'get rich quick' schemes. The Guardian explained this in its own way.
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
posted by Spike
quote:
Hmmm. Our area (suffragan) bishop covers a larger area, geographically, in the number of parishes and in population, than the entire Diocese of Portsmouth.
Portsmouth is still a small diocese.

And various things are around to make communications easier than in the 19th century - telephones, metalled road surfaces, the internet, mobile 'phones, etc, etc, etc.

Fact is the management layer is bloated and only ever seems to increase - for example Chichester now has 4 archdeacons.
 
Posted by Dark Knight (# 9415) on :
 
Would have been my 11th wedding anniversary today. TICTH my horrible ex-wife and my former mother-in-law. Just drove past the latter's house, giving a middle finger salute. It's the little things.
 
Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
I'd go with l'organist on structures. In the old days suffragan bishops were sometimes incumbents or Cathedral canons who lent a pair of 'purple hands' when required, archdeacons had parishes or residentiary canonries, and there wasn't this flood of advisors on this or that. But was the CofE any worse, in general, than it is now? Don't know whether we could trim things further here in Wales, which is a small province by pretty much any standards: there is periodic talk of amalgamating the North Wales dioceses (in fact, there has been since the 1840s) but we have no suffragans, one assistant Bishop for Llandaff (which has 40% of the population of Wales in it)and AFAIK no full time Archdeacons. We manage well enough.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
I started a thread in Purgatory to discuss the vexed question of bishops.
 
Posted by luvanddaisies (# 5761) on :
 
Unfairness and inequality. What a waste of a life, just because of poverty. I'm sure there are people in similar situations in the UK as well. Why can't there be better ways to support people in minimum-wage jobs?
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
Albertus
The Church in Wales has always used manpower more sparingly - the CofE could learn much from looking over the dyke.

For example, in 1951 the incumbent of Peterston-super-Ely, Richard Jones, was also Archdeacon of Llandaff, Assistant Bishop, DDO and Rural Dean.
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
TICTH George Osborne for being a malignant, uncaring, pathetic excuse for a human being who thinks that those who have the least income should be punitively penalised whilst giving a free ride to those whose greed precipitated the debt which he has wholly failed to manage, while he continues to tell us that his economic plan is working when he has increased debt by more in 4.5 years than his predecessors did in 13.

And I also condemn any Tories who support his ideological war against the poor. There is a word for such people: evil.
 
Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAlethiophile:
And I also condemn any Tories who support his ideological war against the poor. There is a word for such people: evil.

Out of interest, did you call Ed Miliband to Hell earlier this year? Or do non-Tories get a free pass for this sort of thing?
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
Anglican't, it is a matter of great regret to me that the two major parties these days are both Tory.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Could we please stop discussing boring shit like bishops and ecclesial polity here? Of all the tangents that have made me pull my hair out lately, that one's pretty high up there.
Ariston, Hellhost
 
Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
Anglican't, it is a matter of great regret to me that the two major parties these days are both Tory.

I suppose we could debate this at length without resolution, but I'm afraid of all the things I could call the two Eds, 'Tory' is really not one of them.
 
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on :
 
Veterinarians - okay, one in particular. And the lack of choice when one lives in a place with only one office and therefore must suck it up and play nice when what I want to do is scream.
 
Posted by The Scrumpmeister (# 5638) on :
 
TICTH consumers of hot beverages who treat those of us who don't take part in their custom as though we were aliens.

It really isn't that difficult to understand. If I politely decline your offer of tea, and I ask for fruit juice, indicating that water will also be fine, please don't offer me coffee instead. If you do, and I explain that I don't like hot drinks, please don't look at me as though I've just told you that I offer human sacrifices to the sun-god, and proceed to ask me whether this also includes tea and hot chocolate. (Yes, it does, for the benefit of anybody still wondering). Please also feel free to explain why you think that telling me how cold it is outside has any relevance to the conversation.

I've had to have this conversation in one form or another since I was a small child and it's just getting a little wearisome now.

Just accept that not everybody likes the same things as you do.
 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by The Scrumpmeister:

If I politely decline your offer of tea, and I ask for fruit juice, indicating that water will also be fine, please don't offer me coffee instead. If you do, and I explain that I don't like hot drinks, please don't look at me as though I've just told you that I offer human sacrifices to the sun-god, and proceed to ask me whether this also includes tea and hot chocolate.

Where do you stand on iced tea? [Two face]
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by The Scrumpmeister:
TICTH consumers of hot beverages who treat those of us who don't take part in their custom as though we were aliens.

It really isn't that difficult to understand. If I politely decline your offer of tea, and I ask for fruit juice, indicating that water will also be fine, please don't offer me coffee instead. If you do, and I explain that I don't like hot drinks, please don't look at me as though I've just told you that I offer human sacrifices to the sun-god, and proceed to ask me whether this also includes tea and hot chocolate. (Yes, it does, for the benefit of anybody still wondering). Please also feel free to explain why you think that telling me how cold it is outside has any relevance to the conversation.

I've had to have this conversation in one form or another since I was a small child and it's just getting a little wearisome now.

Just accept that not everybody likes the same things as you do.

Bovril's nice. What about Bovril?
 
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
TITCH the British postal system. A young friend of ours has a birthday tomorrow, and we knew that her riding crop had disintegrated, so bought her a new one - not an expensive one. In order to ensure it would arrive in one piece, I wrapped it up and put it in a cardboard tube, the inner from a roll of wrapping paper, which was just long enough. I then wrapped it in brown paper in order to send it.
I went to the post office to post the package to find that because the tube was over 61cm long, even though the whole thing was light, I would have to send it parcel force which would cost me £11.99! In other words, it cost me double the cost of the present to send it to our friend.
Next year I'm simply going to send her money!
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
The parents that produced this delicate English flower...

Complete with classy morals...

quote:
As A-level exam results this month, she tweeted: 'Good luck to everyone getting your A-level results today. Girls don't worry if ur results are poor - you can always have a career getting your t***s out or escorting. (Obviously if your over 18)
The common british chav, alive and well.
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by deano:
The parents that produced this delicate English flower...

Poor woman. She thought she had landed a trophy lover, and she was cheated. [Waterworks]

Moo
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
AIU the 'poor woman' was told repeatedly by other people (on twitter and FB) that the chap she was sleeping with was an impostor and chose not to believe it.

She also admits that it was not an 'exclusive relationship' rather someone she slept with, a fact she seems to think gave her some status.

This will be her third child - although previously she debated whether or not to terminate the pregnancy so she could do Celebrity Big Brother. Previously she sold tickets to the birth of one of her children.

I could go on.

Moo, I think your sympathy is misplaced.
 
Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :
 
People like her are the reason I could never be a socialist.
 
Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
People like her are the reason I could never be a socialist.

Why? Clearly, she's a shining example of free-market capitalism and neo-liberal economics.
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
Moo, I think your sympathy is misplaced.

I was being sarcastic, hence the phrase 'trophy lover' and the [Waterworks]

Moo
 
Posted by Dark Knight (# 9415) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Moo:
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
Moo, I think your sympathy is misplaced.

I was being sarcastic, hence the phrase 'trophy lover' and the [Waterworks]

Moo

Yeah, that was actually pretty obvious.
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Dark Knight:
quote:
Originally posted by Moo:
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
Moo, I think your sympathy is misplaced.

I was being sarcastic, hence the phrase 'trophy lover' and the [Waterworks]

Moo

Yeah, that was actually pretty obvious.
Well, to thee and me it was...
 
Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doc Tor:
quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
People like her are the reason I could never be a socialist.

Why? Clearly, she's a shining example of free-market capitalism and neo-liberal economics.
...who gets all her "make me look like an even cheaper tart so I can snare some footballer and live off his money" plastic surgery paid for out of my taxes.
 
Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
quote:
Originally posted by Doc Tor:
quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
People like her are the reason I could never be a socialist.

Why? Clearly, she's a shining example of free-market capitalism and neo-liberal economics.
...who gets all her "make me look like an even cheaper tart so I can snare some footballer and live off his money" plastic surgery paid for out of my taxes.
You've made it abundantly clear over several threads you're only in it for what you can get out of it. You don't like because because she's holding a mirror up to your own philosophy. Ugly, isn't it? (and I'm not referring to Ms Cunningham)
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
I was about to post a lengthy critique of free-market capitalism in response to Marvin and the whole Josie Cunningham story, but then I realised this is TICTH and we have yet another bleeding tangent!

You know the routine. Haul it back from the boondocks, now.

Sioni Sais
Hellhost
 
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on :
 
Dear You Have No Idea You're Annoying,

Please stop it with the hiring a dog and then barking yourself. There's a really good reason that I am supposed to approve changes before they become final, and it's because you are always creating typos! I'm sure you don't think anyone will notice, but believe it or not they're pretty blatant. I just found one and I "knew" there were no changes to look for. And damn your eyes for being such a sweet person that I probably will be too nice to yell at you for approving your own changes.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
What’s being called, in some circles, the Michaelmas Massacre at General Seminary in New York City (the oldest seminary in the Episcopal Church). There’s been a lot of friction between the Dean and some of the faculty. Apparently, when the faculty asked for a meeting with the Dean they were fired. (Before this they had called a strike.)

Of course the Seminary’s official announcement says their “resignations were accepted.”

WTF?

(If people know more of the details, this might merit a thread of its own somewhere.)
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Thanks to LA Dave, there is now a thread in Purgatory on the situation at General Seminary.
 
Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
quote:
Originally posted by Doc Tor:
quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
People like her are the reason I could never be a socialist.

Why? Clearly, she's a shining example of free-market capitalism and neo-liberal economics.
...who gets all her "make me look like an even cheaper tart so I can snare some footballer and live off his money" plastic surgery paid for out of my taxes.
Actually her surgery was for medical reasons - she had no breast tissue whatsoever and the surgery was to rectify that. It was not surgery for purely cosmetic reasons.

I mean if you want to be misogynistic and classist about a young woman, at least get your facts right first.
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Jade Constable:
quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
quote:
Originally posted by Doc Tor:
quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
People like her are the reason I could never be a socialist.

Why? Clearly, she's a shining example of free-market capitalism and neo-liberal economics.
...who gets all her "make me look like an even cheaper tart so I can snare some footballer and live off his money" plastic surgery paid for out of my taxes.
Actually her surgery was for medical reasons - she had no breast tissue whatsoever and the surgery was to rectify that. It was not surgery for purely cosmetic reasons.

I mean if you want to be misogynistic and classist about a young woman, at least get your facts right first.

To save you from SS's hostly pissed-off-ness, go to Purgatory where I have raised a thread and the tone in one fell swoop!
 
Posted by Dark Knight (# 9415) on :
 
TICTH Big Tobacco. Cockroaches.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
People who think that printing chequer patterns and the word POLITE in big police font on their hi-vis jacket give them some sort of licence. What's wrong with "CAUTION - HORSES", or "PLEASE PASS SLOWLY"?

There was something in very small letters under the word polite, but I had no way of reading it. Then large letters again with "GO SLOW".
 
Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on :
 
TICTH my recently acquired allergy to scent etc. I am building a collection of hypo-allergenic deodorants that bring me out in a rash. [Mad]
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
People who think that printing chequer patterns and the word POLITE in big police font on their hi-vis jacket give them some sort of licence. What's wrong with "CAUTION - HORSES", or "PLEASE PASS SLOWLY"?

There was something in very small letters under the word polite, but I had no way of reading it. Then large letters again with "GO SLOW".

They've found, as have some cyclists and motorcyclists, that it's the only thing that works with some motorists. So the answer to "what's wrong with CAUTION - HORSES or PLEASE PASS SLOWLY" is the people you should be calling to Hell - impatient clueless motorists.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
People who think that printing chequer patterns and the word POLITE in big police font on their hi-vis jacket give them some sort of licence. What's wrong with "CAUTION - HORSES", or "PLEASE PASS SLOWLY"?

There was something in very small letters under the word polite, but I had no way of reading it. Then large letters again with "GO SLOW".

They've found, as have some cyclists and motorcyclists, that it's the only thing that works with some motorists. So the answer to "what's wrong with CAUTION - HORSES or PLEASE PASS SLOWLY" is the people you should be calling to Hell - impatient clueless motorists.
There aren't any of those round here. And no room to do anything but go slowly where the horses are involved. The best notice I have seen is RIDER UNDER INSTRUCTION. What would be nice would be the riders, some of whom look too young to be out on the road without an adult, behaving politely themselves. Pulling in where possible, and understanding that drivers must be assured themselves (as in the Highway Code) that the road is clear before passing, and not merely accept the assessment of someone to young to drive, who then expresses irritation when the driver does not respond to their hand signals. (And for there to be decent places for them to ride off road. I simply cannot see what pleasure there is in walking along busy tarmac. But I learned at a school on the estate of a landowner where there plenty of bridleways.)
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
You must live in unique area, Penny. I encounter an impatient motorist who's apparently willing to risk my life to shave a few seconds off his journey about once every twenty miles.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
As do I.

I also seem to be encountering a tangent every five posts lately. Which is strange, because most of them are six posts long, with a seventh from one of us telling you to go bugger off.

Knock. It. Off.

Now.

—Ariston, Very Irate Hellhost
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
To be accurate, I have seen no drivers behaving badly in the vicinity of horses, on the roads which the horses use - and the POLITE notice has only appeared in the last month. There are other roads, and people on them who I would not want to be near horses. Especially the ones on quadbikes.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
um, Penny? *cough* look up. see that host, that really scruffy one right there with the red face, the sharp teeth, and the drool? The one threatening you with a wicked set of handlebars and the rusty tire iron? He says to shut the fuck up.

I recommend doing so.
 
Posted by Mamacita (# 3659) on :
 
TICTH the sick, sick fuckhead who
called in a bomb thread to Sandy Hook elementary school.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
um, Penny? *cough* look up. see that host, that really scruffy one right there with the red face, the sharp teeth, and the drool? The one threatening you with a wicked set of handlebars and the rusty tire iron? He says to shut the fuck up.

I recommend doing so.

You forgot my copy of the 10 C's written in fire and signed in blood.

But, just so you know, c, there are reasons I like having you around.

[ 01. October 2014, 20:12: Message edited by: Ariston ]
 
Posted by Mamacita (# 3659) on :
 
TICTH Death. Yeah, I'm not the first. I'm just jumping on the bloody bandwagon. Move over, it's my turn.

You left my son a widower at the age of 26. You took his father away less than two years ago, and now you take his partner, the man he had loved, after only a few years together.

You whisper in my ear that you were merciful. The internal organs were so slow to heal, you tell me. If you were so fucking merciful, why did you let him hold on for three weeks? You floated the spectre of brain damage out there, just long enough for my son to have to have Do Not Resuscitate conversations at the age of twenty-fucking-SIX. On what planet, in what universe, is that acceptable?

You held out false hope like a cat playing with a mouse before the final kill. And then you took your big cosmic eyedropper and let a dose of sepsis fall into the mix, and it was all over without time to say good-bye.

And while I'm CTH, let me throw in for good measure the cardiologist who said B's heart was just fine less than two weeks before the artificial valve blew and everything went to shit.

TICTH every well-meaning relative who spouts the platitude that this was God's plan. If's a plan, it sucks. And ICTH my own arrogance that deigned to think that after 19 months of widowhood I had finally come to terms with death.

Because you have drained me of whatever shreds of purported wisdom I thought I had left, and revealed me as someone who has nothing, nothing she can say to comfort her child. Fuck you and the dark horse you rode in on. May you crawl into a fetid corner of Hell and never again wound the people I love.

And a pre-emptory CTH for anyone who post hugs, smilies, or suchlike. I've been traveling on this barge for long enough to know this is not where to look for them.
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
I'm sorry this shitstorm has fallen on you and yours, Mamacita.
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
TICTH the bicyclist who almost ran me over while I was hobbling over the dedicated bike lane to get to the new parking spaces which are no longer next to the sidewalk because of the new bike lanes.

Why did he not see me until the last minute? He was busy texting while he pedaled and thus had more important things to do than watch where he was going.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
um, Penny? *cough* look up. see that host, that really scruffy one right there with the red face, the sharp teeth, and the drool? The one threatening you with a wicked set of handlebars and the rusty tire iron? He says to shut the fuck up.


And that's the nice one you'd take home to your folks.
 
Posted by Dafyd (# 5549) on :
 
Mike and the Mechanics. The Living Years. I really do not need it as an earworm right now.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
um, Penny? *cough* look up. see that host, that really scruffy one right there with the red face, the sharp teeth, and the drool? The one threatening you with a wicked set of handlebars and the rusty tire iron? He says to shut the fuck up.

I recommend doing so.

You forgot my copy of the 10 C's written in fire and signed in blood.

But, just so you know, c, there are reasons I like having you around.

And sorry from me.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Mamacita:

And a pre-emptory CTH for anyone who post hugs, smilies, or suchlike. I've been traveling on this barge for long enough to know this is not where to look for them.

Suck it up, Babycakes. We love you anyway.

I wish I could take this pain from you and your son. But I can't. So I'll wave my middle finger at all of this bullshit along with you. And perhaps break some shit later on at the house site.

and Mama? [Axe murder]

Bite me.
 
Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
um, Penny? *cough* look up. see that host, that really scruffy one right there with the red face, the sharp teeth, and the drool? The one threatening you with a wicked set of handlebars and the rusty tire iron? He says to shut the fuck up.


And that's the nice one you'd take home to your folks.
if I tried to describe you two I'd make babies cry and startle the horses. Which would be awesome but gets horse shit everywhere.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Dafyd:
Mike and the Mechanics. The Living Years. I really do not need it as an earworm right now.

Dafyd, may you be slowly lowered into a tank of hungry piranhas for passing that earworm on.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
A truly great song. Deal with it.

Meanwhile, TICTH all the people with such poor imaginations they weren't provoked into thought by thought-provoking art. How the everliving fuck could anyone be so stupidly literal-minded to think that this was racist?
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
A truly great song. Deal with it.

Meanwhile, TICTH all the people with such poor imaginations they weren't provoked into thought by thought-provoking art. How the everliving fuck could anyone be so stupidly literal-minded to think that this was racist?

Easy. They are themselves racist. In that part of the world our blessed deano would be regarded as a bleeding-heart leftie.

(edit: grammer)

[ 03. October 2014, 00:00: Message edited by: Sioni Sais ]
 
Posted by Mamacita (# 3659) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
quote:
Originally posted by Mamacita:

And a pre-emptory CTH for anyone who post hugs, smilies, or suchlike. I've been traveling on this barge for long enough to know this is not where to look for them.

Suck it up, Babycakes. We love you anyway.

I wish I could take this pain from you and your son. But I can't. So I'll wave my middle finger at all of this bullshit along with you. And perhaps break some shit later on at the house site.

and Mama? [Axe murder]

Bite me.

OK, that made me laugh, Miz Nanook. I needed that.
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
Manufacturers and purveyors of fake bomb detecting equipment, which proved slightly less useful than consulting your horoscope to gauge your chances of being blown up today. (Hey, the horoscope might accidentally get it right.)

And may they be joined by those officials who can't bear to admit they were scammed and so continue to put their faith in these things.

And a general hell call for the scientific illiteracy that let so many people be taken in at all.
 
Posted by The Silent Acolyte (# 1158) on :
 
Wind up merchants who can't be arsed to do more than point and grunt to initiate a thread. The fact that is was a drive-by makes it worse.

FFS, George Spigot, can you generate a thought of your own? Or, are you content merely to thrill to those produced by your fellow shipmates?
 
Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH not having heard today from someone I hear from every day without fail. Don't know what's up or wrong.
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
FU Jeremy Clarkson, you misanthropic, bigot. You call to the worst and the weakest in people for the sake of your own pitiful ego and a few more dollars. You meretricious excuse for a human.

He did it again in Argentina, and yes again it was not his fault. I have never written the BBC or anything so daft but I will never watch anything he is in ever again (nor have I for over a year, since eeanymeany-gate).

A pustule and example of the corruption of pride. Shameful.
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
FU Jeremy Clarkson, you misanthropic, bigot. You call to the worst and the weakest in people for the sake of your own pitiful ego and a few more dollars. You meretricious excuse for a human.

He did it again in Argentina, and yes again it was not his fault. I have never written the BBC or anything so daft but I will never watch anything he is in ever again (nor have I for over a year, since eeanymeany-gate).

A pustule and example of the corruption of pride. Shameful.

Great bloke. I love Top Gear. He and Hammond and May speak for people who are despised on the Ship.

Long may they continue to do so.

[ 05. October 2014, 14:42: Message edited by: deano ]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
News follows.
 
Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
I have never written the BBC or anything so daft but I will never watch anything he [Jeremy Clarkson] is in ever again (nor have I for over a year, since eeanymeany-gate).



So in essence, then, you're totally unaffected by all this? (Apart from, perhaps, your blood pressure.)

quote:
A pustule and example of the corruption of pride. Shameful.
I thought it was pretty funny. Not quite sure why they're denying it.
 
Posted by George Spigot (# 253) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by The Silent Acolyte:
Wind up merchants who can't be arsed to do more than point and grunt to initiate a thread. The fact that is was a drive-by makes it worse.

FFS, George Spigot, can you generate a thought of your own? Or, are you content merely to thrill to those produced by your fellow shipmates?

Awww after so many years I get my very own hell call. Shame it's such a wimper. C'mon guys you can do better than this.
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by George Spigot:
quote:
Originally posted by The Silent Acolyte:
Wind up merchants who can't be arsed to do more than point and grunt to initiate a thread. The fact that is was a drive-by makes it worse.

FFS, George Spigot, can you generate a thought of your own? Or, are you content merely to thrill to those produced by your fellow shipmates?

Awww after so many years I get my very own hell call. Shame it's such a wimper. C'mon guys you can do better than this.
And interesting for TSA to issue a pseudo Hell call on a thread where neither of you can thoroughly thrash it out.
 
Posted by Jemima the 9th (# 15106) on :
 
TICTH people offering "helpful" advice to me about how to look after my kids when out and about today. Listen, Sir, granted my offspring are not the sparkly pieces of angel fart drinking water and eating organic nibbles that your grandchildren, you know, the ones you pushed infront of us in the queue to join, so evidently are. It's true that the 2 older kids are a bit whingey and tired, and the 2 year old is. Well, a bit 2. And very tired, what with having been awake since 5.30am. Which is why he ran off. He almost never does that.

I'm not the most patient or perfect mother in the world. But this week I've worked, dealt with distinctly wobbly mental health, and just generally done my best. It's not that the things you suggest hadn't occurred to me, I've just weighed them up and decided not to do them, based on my own knowledge and experience.

So, Sir, take those nuggets of wisdom, mix them with something rather sharp and rusty, and stick them up your arse.

Thank you.
 
Posted by MrsBeaky (# 17663) on :
 
TICTH whatever it is that is hiding somewhere in the house and making weird noises.
Not sure I'm going to sleep too well tonight....
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
(Notes location)
Do check in later, so we know an anaconda hasn't et you.
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
FU Jeremy Clarkson, you misanthropic, bigot. You call to the worst and the weakest in people for the sake of your own pitiful ego and a few more dollars. You meretricious excuse for a human.

He did it again in Argentina, and yes again it was not his fault. I have never written the BBC or anything so daft but I will never watch anything he is in evter again (nor have I for over a year, since eeanymeany-gate).

A pustule and example of the corruption of pride. Shameful.

It's interesting that he posted on Twitter that in this case " for once we've done nothing wrong". By saying "for once" is he admitting that all the offensive comments he made in the past that he claimed were unintentional were, in fact, deliberate?
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
The dude really fucking hates Latinos.

I plan to carry his pic around to my job sites. "Ok , kids, most English people are really, really cool, but this guy? Huge douche. Can you say ' douche'? I knew you could."
 
Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Clarkson's an appalling and very silly man and the BBC management are utterly contemptible in continuing to make excuses for him just because Top Gear brings in lots of money. That said, I thought that pissing off the Argies over the Falklands was about the least offensive thing he'd done for a long time.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
I'm sure there's enough pro- and con- material to make a 'Should Clarkson live?' thread viable.

Sioni Sais
Hellhost

btw Kelly, 'Huge douche' rhymes. Almost.
 
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
I would soooo like an autumn that didn't start with a visit from the Scottish Gas engineer. I do hope he can kick the boiler into cooperating for another winter. I can not really afford this at the moment.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by George Spigot:
C'mon guys you can do better than this.

Why should we? You never do.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
I fear this is my nearly annual TICTH to Newport Bus, for changing (read: increasing) fares with no warning.

Pillocks. Inconvenient, arrogant pillocks at that, especially as they don't give change so anyone with Friday's correct fare puts the cash in on Monday only to be told that the single fare is up 10p to £1.70. The result is frustration and delay.
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
ICTH Slugs

Stepped on one in the garden, slipped and nearly broke my neck.

I'm thinking if one added a little Bicarbonate of Soda to salt and then poured it on they might fizz a little as they shrivel up?
 
Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
ICTH Slugs

I'm thinking if one added a little Bicarbonate of Soda to salt and then poured it on they might fizz a little as they shrivel up?

Never tried it with bicarb before. But salt will do it. A generous sprinkling should ensure an unpleasant death and a sticky mess left over. I used to a-salt quite a few slugs when I was a little boy.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH organizations where I have to throw around my doctorate in order to get help. Seriously, you'll give "Dr LC" an option you won't offer to ordinary LC? I'm glad to have the option, which is very necessary to the person I'm trying to help; but I feel like a PhD-whore having to do this in order to get it.

Must go wash.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
My friend was refused the pay he had earned because the place would not recognise his doctorate unless he showed them the actual certificate - a confirming letter from the awarding institution would not do (actual London, not some odd address in the Appalachians). (Don't ask why he can't access the cert at the moment.)
 
Posted by Mad Cat (# 9104) on :
 
*BANG!*

<Jumps out of skin> Fuck's sake....?

*BANG!*

You're fucking kidding me.

*BANG!*

Car Share Colleague: part the second.

A pupil slammed a door on me on monday. The head teacher attended as duty head and appraised the the sneery-faced wee tube of the aggressive sound made by a slammed door.

This incident was later discussed in our staff base, where, in the hearing of Car Share Colleague I recounted the Heidie's words. She, let me remind you, was so appalled that I should go home sick (when the only important thing I had to do that day was give her a lift home) that she slammed the door on me.

So now that she knows the heidie would call such behaviour aggressive, she's slamming every door she goes through, because, we should understand, that's just how she shuts a door.

Can there be any behaviour more spectacularly retarded? Does she imagine that she can in some way change the past, such that the noise door made when closing last Tuesday does not make her a massive, not to say bad tempered, wank?(*)

So, y'know, alternatively,....

*BANG!*

.... bitch could just fucking apologise.

*BANG!*

I thought I told you to GET TO HELL, you utter minge-pimple.

(*) It occurs to me that she taught "1984" last year. Maybe she's started believing in the mutability of the past.... [Ultra confused]
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
Housemate, you are a piece of work.

Y’know, you could just honestly admit that you misunderstood how habitation tax was calculated and you that hadn’t realised it was going to be so high. And that means your budget is much tighter than you expected and that sucks. I can sympathise with that. I got a nasty surprise on another part of the taxes too. It’s ok. You’re allowed to make a mistake.

Alternatively, you could pretend that being perfect as you are, you’re in complete control of the whole situation, and suggest that I pay the whole bloody lot but don’t worry, you’ll pay it all next year.

Oh, that noise you heard? It’s my head spinning round from sheer disbelief. It would be like a down payment, would it? Well, I suppose that’s one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is that you are trying to manipulate me into giving you a 375€ loan to cover your sorry derrière so you don’t have to admit to stuffing something up. You’re out of luck because I don’t have the money, but even if I did? It would be making interest in my own bank account or getting spent on fun stuff, not paying your taxes for you because you miscalculated. By the way, between you and me, your salary is higher than mine and I’m the one who has a wedding to pay for, which is just about the most bloody expensive thing a person can do. How the HELL could think that’s an appropriate request? But you’re the one who’s behaving offended because I don’t want to take a massive financial hit so you can get out of your fiscal responsibilities for the next twelve months.

Yes, I’m going to be moving out before I strictly have to because you are a SELF-CENTRED PAIN IN THE ARSE.
 
Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
Today I consign myself to hell for responding to the disingenuous SusanDoris in purgatory on the scientism thread.

Usually I'm so good at scrolling through the bullshit.

So weak, so weak.
 
Posted by Uncle Pete (# 10422) on :
 
That'll larn ya! Maybe.
 
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Professionals who really are crap at what they do, so that they have too much time, so they criticize everyone else, wallow in their failures and bath in cesspools of delusional narcissism.

Prayer for the day: May tumours form in their armpits, goitres in their faces, gout in all their joints, and may they slip and fall down the stairs, bursting their foetid pus all over themselves. And may everything be done to them as they have done to others.
 
Posted by Mrs Shrew (# 8635) on :
 
Ticth This Shit. Fucking fuck it, the whole fucking lot. Also please can my stress levels get fucked with it so that I can actually fucking concentrate and do my motherfucking job al-fucking - ready.

(this post brought to you by "I don't fucking care enough to fucking invent imaginative bloody swearing")
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
TICTH Birthdays and the power mad fools who feel they can upset the order of the universe on theirs.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Careful, babe, mine's coming up next month.
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
Today I consign myself to hell for responding to the disingenuous SusanDoris in purgatory on the scientism thread.

Usually I'm so good at scrolling through the bullshit.

So weak, so weak.

What a pathetic passive aggressive attack. I'm sure you have years of practice scrolling through the bull shit from reading your own post modern postings.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Careful, babe, mine's coming up next month.

Doublethink has changed her name at least twice already! Ah, but it is a cruel joke all at my expense. Go ahead, do your worst. By then I'll be too confused to remember who anyone is.
 
Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Fuckin UKIP
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink.:
Fuckin UKIP

Do you mean them or do you mean the people who voted for them insteand of Labour (I can't imagine you mean instead of the Conservatives [Roll Eyes] ).
 
Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Palimpsest:
quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
Today I consign myself to hell for responding to the disingenuous SusanDoris in purgatory on the scientism thread.

Usually I'm so good at scrolling through the bullshit.

So weak, so weak.

What a pathetic passive aggressive attack.
Not at all. I was genuinely disappointed in myself and used this medium to express it.

But perhaps that's too postmodern for you?

Suck it up princess.
 
Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Careful, babe, mine's coming up next month.

And mine the month after [Snigger]
 
Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :
 
Amateurs: need an excuse to abuse your powers. Ha!
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
TICTH Birthdays and the power mad fools who feel they can upset the order of the universe on theirs.

I condemn those who, on my birthday earlier this week (thanks for the congrats folks!) decided that at 6pm they were going to make some changes to the numbers I rely on, making me stay late and redo the entire day's work.
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
quote:
Originally posted by Palimpsest:
quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
Today I consign myself to hell for responding to the disingenuous SusanDoris in purgatory on the scientism thread.

Usually I'm so good at scrolling through the bullshit.

So weak, so weak.

What a pathetic passive aggressive attack.
Not at all. I was genuinely disappointed in myself and used this medium to express it.

But perhaps that's too postmodern for you?

Suck it up princess.

What you call post-modern I call hypocrisy.
So yes, your bleating is excessive.

What you call an expression of disappointment in yourself is just a cowardly way of making a few insults about Susan and then claiming that's not what you're doing. Just another turd from Evensong.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
Amateurs: need an excuse to abuse your powers. Ha!

No, just one too many people thought I was you the last time I played Cthulhu, and that made me stare in the mirror in horror for hours and thoroughly rexamine my life.

[Axe murder]
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
(note to Hosts--Sorry, I genuinely thought this was a different thread. To compensate, I will restart TICTH--)

Dear IPad message board-- The guy who asked about how to clear the clipboard did so for a reason. THe guy who offered a link to an app to solve the problem did so for a reason. So when you give snide answers like "Duh, just copy a blank space " or "Duh, just copy something else" it doesn't fucking help. BECAUSE WE TRIED ALL THAT AND THE CRACKPOT, UPDATED OS WON'T LET GO OF THE LAST THING WE COPY-PASTED NO MATTER WHAT WE DO. NOW SHUT UP AND GO BACK TO BEATING OFF TO XENA COMICS.

Also, to the phone spammers with the Cambodian area code who keep calling me. Let it go. I will never pick up that phone.

Cambodia?

[ 11. October 2014, 02:58: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 
Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Palimpsest:
What you call post-modern I call hypocrisy.

I'm not sure whether you're calling post-modernism hypocritical, or me hypocritical or both, but whichever way, you'd be right. Tis the human condition after all.

Or perhaps you're referring to the fact that I'm not a postmodernist. In which case you'd also be right: I've moved on. I'm now a post postmodernist. [Big Grin] Hence the tag title change.


quote:
Originally posted by Palimpsest:

What you call an expression of disappointment in yourself is just a cowardly way of making a few insults about Susan and then claiming that's not what you're doing. Just another turd from Evensong.

Have your superpowers of mind reading developed recently or just since the X-men came out? Perhaps you should sign up for Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters?
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Or perhaps, if you're going to make a Hellcall, you should zip up the flameproof suit and make a call, rather than this half-assed sniping you're doing here.

Take it elsewhere or knock it off.

A, HH
 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by deano:
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink.:
Fuckin UKIP

Do you mean them or do you mean the people who voted for them insteand of Labour (I can't imagine you mean instead of the Conservatives [Roll Eyes] ).
No, I think DT is CTH the act of producing a new generation of UKIP voters. [Devil]
 
Posted by saysay (# 6645) on :
 
Fucking scammers. And their fucking never-ending lies and misrepresentations and manipulations that make you feel like a horrible human being if you take them for a scammer or even wonder if they're a scammer while they're scamming you.

Is it really that hard to leave me the fuck alone?

I'm about to go live in a cave somewhere.
 
Posted by Majorminor (# 17967) on :
 
TICTH those members of my congregation who can't, if won't listen to simple instructions. There is very little hope of them actually responding to the Gospel, because they don't listen!! Bugger the lot of them, and more fool me for thinking I could actually minister to them.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Majorminor:
TICTH those members of my congregation who can't, if won't listen to simple instructions. There is very little hope of them actually responding to the Gospel, because they don't listen!! Bugger the lot of them, and more fool me for thinking I could actually minister to them.

Always good to see TICTH used for its intended purpose.

(btw, keep hammering away. One sheep saved, etc, etc)
 
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Majorminor:
TICTH those members of my congregation who can't, if won't listen to simple instructions. There is very little hope of them actually responding to the Gospel, because they don't listen!! Bugger the lot of them, and more fool me for thinking I could actually minister to them.

Jesus, is that You?
 
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
Seems that Labour have at least one Cunt of their own.

TICTH the (Tristram) Cunt who is in Labour, and who has given birth to this fucking drivel.

A hippocratic oath for teachers?
quote:
Such a symbolic statement when teachers qualified would help to "elevate" the status of the profession, he says.

The pledge would emphasise the "moral calling and the noble profession of teaching".

As one comment on the BBC website puts it:
quote:
[What about] an oath when you become an MP?
Such as..no lying to the voters? [...]

Labour's Cunt's fucking bleedin' lost! [Mad]
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
I too heard this drivel.

The starting point seemed to be that it was done in Singapore and that Singaporean children are usually at the top of international league tables for achievement.

Leaving aside the difference in teaching methods, etc, what no one mentioned was that by-and-large children in Singapore are sent to school by two parents, both of whom see school and education as vital for their child: this cannot be said of many UK school children, especially at primary level. Similarly, I didn't hear anyone say that Singaporean teachers are treated with respect by parents of their pupils - again, not something teachers in the UK can say.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
When I started teaching, way way back, under the influence of my parents, a teacher and a chartered accountant with a Protestant work ethic about his dealings, the ideals that are implied in the suggestion of an oath were, I thought, tacitly understood and taken on board as part of being a professional. They didn't need an oath. They were what one did as a teacher.
Enforcing an oath implies that you don't trust the person to live up to the standards of the profession without it.
Which obviously none of them do: the i had a front page about the Tories purging inadequate teachers - they haven't gone yet? The Tories are always purging them.
 
Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
Maybe parents should take an oath concerning the way they bring up their children before sending them to school.

The current magazine of my professional association has an article outlining current person profiling used to screen applicants for teaching - it wants people who don't complain, who put up with any bad behavior or excessive workload. In short, anything the government throws at teachers. It is always the teacher's fault when things aren't perfect.
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
What the actual fuck? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29594091
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
The scummy b'stard(s) who has/have compromised my credit card so I'm stuck without one for a week or so, can't access my account online to find out who the likely suspect is and am generally discommoded. They got my 3 figure security number, so it had to be done on the phone. I rang up the most recent place (10p per minute) and was assured in an accent not native to these shores that their procedures were secure - and they sounded anything but to me. The operators only get to see part of the long number (so they aren't trusted), but the computer (which doesn't save the 3 digit one) has to send the whole thing, so somewhere along the line could be hacked. I rang them to alert them to the possibility. Purchases there will now be not made.
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
Jobhunting.
 
Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :
 
TICTH fucking having to fucking find someone to fucking take me home from the day surgery because of the fucking anesthetic, and I doubly fucking consign the doctor's office to hell for fucking not saying what they mean because when I asked if I could have a cab take me home (fine I'll spring for the fucking $140 round trip fare) they said no it had to be someone who could watch me and I don't mind if the fucking requirement is to fucking have someone with me for X hours after the anesthetic but that's not what they fucking said, is it now, when they just said "someone to take me home" and if I had an obvious person to have asked to do that I'd just have had them drop me at home and not stay and watch me, thereby evading all unknowingly whatever-the-fuck safeguard the fucking doctor's office is trying to be sure is in place for me.

Fucking hell. It reminds me of once when I was admitted to the hospital and they wanted a contact so I gave them a relative in another state and then they said no, they meant someone local so I gave them a friend and then they said no, they meant someone local who is a relative, and I yelled at them that all my relatives are out of state so I just can't give them that, so quit fucking bugging me for it. (Slightly more politely than that, but not by much.)

So just plain fucking fuck.
 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Autenrieth Road:
I doubly fucking consign the doctor's office to hell for fucking not saying what they mean

Ah, AR, I will joyfully fuck with you on this front. It's not even like it's hard to say "this is what we actually mean"...

Oh, and also TICTH bullshit union rules. I have a guy doing a job for me. I'm happy to pay him a couple of hours overtime to get it done tonight, but you operate a strict overtime rota, and he's not top of the list. So if I want my job done tonight, I have to send the guy who's in the middle of doing the work home, wait for the guy who is on the top of the overtime list to get here and unpack his stuff, while I'm paying everyone else to sit around and watch.

That's daft. No OT for you - we'll do it tomorrow.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH Lunchtime. You're supposed to be a relaxing break, not a source of trauma.
 
Posted by Patdys (# 9397) on :
 
I can't open juice boxes either.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
I'm trying very hard to hate you, but it's a struggle because that was actually funny.
 
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
My HoD. Too young, too self important and too damned insecure to consult with experienced staff.
 
Posted by Macrina (# 8807) on :
 
People who can't spell prophylaxis.

I've seen prophalaxis, prophalyxis, prophilaxis...

It makes my pedant itchy.
 
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
I don't even know what profilacksis means.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
I always thought it was spelled prophylactics.
 
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
Isn't prophylaxis the property that prophylactics have?
 
Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
TICTH how the ever living fuck this catalog of errors was allowed to happen.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink.:
TICTH how the ever living fuck this catalog of errors was allowed to happen.

Best healthcare system in the world, they said.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink.:
TICTH how the ever living fuck this catalog of errors was allowed to happen.

Best healthcare system in the world, they said.
System? Did someone say system?

TICTH the best healthcare business in the world.
 
Posted by marzipan (# 9442) on :
 
sideways rain. Fuck off, rain.
 
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on :
 
Dear jerk,

There are reasons why you are a writer and not an editor. One of them seems to be that you don't know shit about our style guide. In fact, the project you are in charge of keeps flaunting the styles we are in theory using to such a degree that I wish people would send me memos about when my project is going to have to start being wrong to fall into step with you. Amusing though how eager you are to criticize anything my colleagues and I do and correct my editing. Funny how you are wrong 2/3 of the time. Yes, I am annoyed enough to have been keeping count. A shame that you rank me so that this is the only place I can tell you: Take your confusions, your eagerness to correct everyone, and your pretensions of grandeur and fuck yourself.

Thanks ever so much,
me

[ 17. October 2014, 15:27: Message edited by: Gwai ]
 
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
Can I just elevate your dander even more by remarking that were he flaunting the styles it would be A good thing. As opposed to flouting them.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
(Tiptoes slowly away from thread...)
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
My energy provider. Possibly all energy providers. Possibly the government's "simplification" of tariffs which led to me being moved from the existing tariff, willy-nilly.
Online bill turns up - gas bill is large, larger than two years ago when I left the pilot light on the heater on all year and the summer came to £27. Meter has gone up 3 unit digits. The gas was off from the last bill until the other week.
Turns out that all the time I have not been connected to the pipework, I have been building up the standing charge to 30 odd pounds. Usage about £9.
If this goes on, the nice situation whereby the income from the roof panels balanced the outgoing from in-house usage over the year is going to be well and truly squidged. I do not expect to pay over £100 for the last three high summer months.
Drat, drat, and again I say drat!

I've been on the supplier changer sites. As soon as I have amassed the right figures, switching will be done.

[ 17. October 2014, 19:44: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
My energy provider. Possibly all energy providers.

I learned on FB earlier today that So Cal Edison is planning to shut off the electricity in my neighborhood from 11 pm Saturday to 11 am Sunday. Supposedly they mailed everyone a postcard announcing this, but I never got one.
 
Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :
 
They're too stupid to be CedTH but fucking fuckup surgery from up thread are too stupid to even have heard of any fucking kind of possible ways for people to arrange transport with no relatives in the area and all their friends are at work doing productive work HELPING people. Gee, you think it might be helpful to have put something together to offer suggestions for people trying to figure out how to meet your fucking post-sedative care fucking requirement?

Surgery postponed until I can connect up with a surgery provider that HAS A FUCKING CLUE.

And get another fucking clue -- if you need a whole fucking "portal specialist" on staff to help people use your fucking website to fill out your fucking paperwork, then, no, your fucking website is not making anyone's life fucking easier except your own lazy-ass existence, and I bet even you hate the computer system too.

Fuck you and your whole big rich "we are the fucking best specialists ever" building into a fucking fuck fuck fuck.

And fuck you for making me reveal in Hell that I have an impoverished vocabulary of curses.
 
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
Can I just elevate your dander even more by remarking that were he flaunting the styles it would be A good thing. As opposed to flouting them.

Touche. Thanks!
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Autenrieth Road:

And fuck you for making me reveal in Hell that I have an impoverished vocabulary of curses.

( Educate yourself, hon. )


AHEM! Today on TICTH...

Dear (guess who)-- "you don't have to move out" my ass. That is all.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
If you want a soul-destroying experience that will make you realise that most people's existence (including your own) is meaningless and that we are all leading shallow empty lives producing nothing of any lasting value, spend a couple of hours in a discount shopping outlet.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
If you want a soul-destroying experience that will make you realise that most people's existence (including your own) is meaningless and that we are all leading shallow empty lives producing nothing of any lasting value, spend a couple of hours in a discount shopping outlet.

Isn't 'outlet' the most discouraging word? Far too close to bodily functions and sanitation engineering.
 
Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
quote:
Originally posted by Autenrieth Road:

And fuck you for making me reveal in Hell that I have an impoverished vocabulary of curses.

( Educate yourself, hon. )


AHEM! Today on TICTH...

Dear (guess who)-- "you don't have to move out" my ass. That is all.

Sorry, that's boring. Try this if you want to really learn how to verbally abuse people...

The British Army DS Phrase Book

... and to protect myself from accusations of tangetalism (even though it was an Admin who started the tangentelising!), TICTH the new laptop I've been issues with by my clients. The CTRL, ALT and SHIFT keys are in slightly different positions to my old one and I'm getting pissed off with it.

It's as useful as Ann Frank's drumkit!!!
 
Posted by MrsBeaky (# 17663) on :
 
TICTH the sermon I sat through this morning- I so wanted to walk out but couldn't as it would have had serious ramifications for the work I am doing here.
45 minutes of being harangued whilst the visiting preacher applied the 1 Peter 3 passage on husbands and wives and used it to confirm rather than challenge thinking about cultural norms.
I am very sad now.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by MrsBeaky:
TICTH the sermon I sat through this morning- I so wanted to walk out but couldn't as it would have had serious ramifications for the work I am doing here.
45 minutes of being harangued whilst the visiting preacher applied the 1 Peter 3 passage on husbands and wives and used it to confirm rather than challenge thinking about cultural norms.
I am very sad now.

45 Minutes?! Oh my! Perhaps his wife didn't boil his egg properly this morning...
 
Posted by luvanddaisies (# 5761) on :
 
Is that a horrible euphemism?

<gets coat. exits>
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
She probably served him eggs scrambled hard. [Devil]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
There's a part of me would like to join the Preacher X dogpile but that's not what TICTH is for. Maybe a 'Truly Awful Preaching, Words and Messages' or a 'Worst Sermons on Earth' thread would be both cathartic and amusing.

SS HH
 
Posted by MrsBeaky (# 17663) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Maybe a 'Truly Awful Preaching, Words and Messages' or a 'Worst Sermons on Earth' thread would be both cathartic and amusing.

I might just do that someday- where would I start it- here or another board. Sorry if I derailed this thread.

Also TICTH the bloody freezing weather- this is meant to be the start of the hot season and I am colder than should be allowed when you live on the Equator!!
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
TICTH International Financial Reporting Standard 11. It is the bane of my working life. Everything has to be adjusted for bloody joint ventures so I'm constantly bombarded with why the statutory figures don't agree to the management accounts.
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
Pollen.

The cat's fellow travellers (aka fleas).
 
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Huia:
The cat's fellow travellers (aka fleas).

Seconded.
 
Posted by saysay (# 6645) on :
 
People who comment on community updates.

In particular, the people who seem to think that complaining about busing and calling anyone animals or calling for the arrest of all public school kids because if their parents were decent human beings who were raising them right, they would have enrolled them in private schools, is going to help the situation.

In particular, people who make comments like that after the situation has already degenerated into a physical confrontation.

(Or maybe it's just people I can't stand.)
 
Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
TICTH this bellend.
 
Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink.:
TICTH this bellend.

Theodore Roosevelt?
 
Posted by Matt Black (# 2210) on :
 
TICTH whichever wanker(s) at the Bank of England who fucked up the CHAPS system yesterday which meant that two of my clients couldn't complete their sale and purchase transactions.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
TICTH a senior colleague of mine who, having assured me on more than one occasion that they only needed some summary figures, turns around to me today and then says that we need full details. Had I known this was needed in the first place, I would have set up my work so that it could accomodate the detail, but as it wasn't needed, I was able to take a shortcut.

Now I have to completely redo a day's work and then add on another's work to that! [Mad] [Mad] [Mad]
 
Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lord Jestocost:
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink.:
TICTH this bellend.

Theodore Roosevelt?
Wierd I thought I was consigning Mike Read.

TICTH IOS8 clipboard that is fucking with my links.

[ 21. October 2014, 19:40: Message edited by: Doublethink. ]
 
Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
(Specifically, Mike Read's UKIP Calypso in a cod-Caribbean accent.)

[ 21. October 2014, 19:42: Message edited by: Doublethink. ]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Oh... TICTH a murderer in Ottawa, but he's probably already there.
 
Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :
 
Amen.
 
Posted by Macrina (# 8807) on :
 
TICTH the airline that shall remain nameless pending their response to my complaint letter who have managed to alter the individual legs of my 4 international flights five times (yes they changed one flight twice)

Not only that but on two of these changes they didn't bother to tell me at all and not once have they sent me an updated e ticket without at least two phonecalls to request it. I am absolutely at the end of my tether with these people. How do they run a business????

Oh and to add to the laugh or cry hilarity of the situation I have been so confused by all the changes and timezones that I booked my domestic connection for the wrong freaking day. Though Air New Zealand (not the offending party) have much better systems and I have just rebooked this flight for the right day (and latest best guess at when airline from mordor might decide I am permitted to arrive home) at an additional cost of only $50 and have recieved my new eticket seconds later. God bless you Air NZ.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
The next person to claim persecution because the law requires them to treats gays and lesbians as equal human beings gets whacked in the face with a plank.
 
Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Ticth comedians who think gay rape is funny.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
The next person to claim persecution because the law requires them to treats gays and lesbians as equal human beings gets whacked in the face with a plank.

Please bring your plank to Arizona.
[Mad]
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Never though I would do this, but I have to consign my beloved Neph TH, because he introduced me to this piece of insanity. (Warning, very gross zombie stuff and a very brief shot of a caesarean-- very likely NSFW)

Stuck in my head. For the last week.


And why you always talk about the cool kids,
Who take archery?
Yeah, you're a shrinky dink.
You'll get a funeral if you don't wise up and call me,
Carl Poppa.


[ 24. October 2014, 01:28: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
The next person to claim persecution because the law requires them to treats gays and lesbians as equal human beings gets whacked in the face with a plank.

Please bring your plank to Arizona.
[Mad]

*THWACK!*
 
Posted by ThunderBunk (# 15579) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
The next person to claim persecution because the law requires them to treats gays and lesbians as equal human beings gets whacked in the face with a plank.

Please bring your plank to Arizona.
[Mad]

*THWACK!*
I note with interest that the clue stick has been upgraded. Perhaps I should take the upgrade to work.....
 
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
Women who think skills in carpentry, car mechanics, plumbing and lifting heavy objects is automatically conferred at birth with a penis. He is a software engineer. He volunteered at the food pantry/free store as their treasurer, computer specialist and free tax man for anyone who asks. Not as general handyman.

He can't get the office work done because he gets about thirty interruptions per day from random women telling him; "Someone pulled up with a truck bed of furniture, you need to unload it." "You need to carry all the summer clothes down to the basement and bring up the 48 boxes of winter stuff." "The air conditioner is broken, you need to fix it."

And why is it always, "You need to," and never "Would you mind?" He's 63 years old! You young bossy bitches can do it yourselves.
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Twilight:
Women who think skills in carpentry, car mechanics, plumbing and lifting heavy objects is automatically conferred at birth with a penis. He is a software engineer. He volunteered at the food pantry/free store as their treasurer, computer specialist and free tax man for anyone who asks. Not as general handyman.

He can't get the office work done because he gets about thirty interruptions per day from random women telling him; "Someone pulled up with a truck bed of furniture, you need to unload it." "You need to carry all the summer clothes down to the basement and bring up the 48 boxes of winter stuff." "The air conditioner is broken, you need to fix it."

And why is it always, "You need to," and never "Would you mind?" He's 63 years old! You young bossy bitches can do it yourselves.

I suggest the response "2nd word is 'off'; first can be selected from a limited range..."
 
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Going to the dentist. I know they're all wonderful and very necessary but I hatehatehate it.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
Earwax. I had to go get my ears unplugged yesterday. Happens every 8 or 9 months or so.
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
TICTH dishonesty about being in an open relationship. It's in my fucking profile--if you're in a relationship and your partner isn't OK with stuff, then it's a no-go. I will not be a home-wrecker, thankyouverymuch.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
Earwax. I had to go get my ears unplugged yesterday. Happens every 8 or 9 months or so.

Hopi ear candles [Axe murder]
 
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
Except sometimes people have awful accidents with ear candles--as in hot wax in their ears. There was a case in the news here, years ago, which was enough to put me off ever trying--especially since the docs chose to *scrape out the wax*.
[Eek!]

FWIW, YMMV, etc.
 
Posted by marzipan (# 9442) on :
 
TICTH the alleged necessity of being able to drive a car. Also my apparent inability to do this to a consistent standard.
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
You can buy products that dissolve ear wax. You put the stuff into your ears at night and flush your ears with warm water in the morning.

I have to do this regularly because my ears produce lots of wax which would clog my hearing aids if I didn't get rid of it.

Moo
 
Posted by Jonah the Whale (# 1244) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Moo:
You can buy products that dissolve ear wax.

Yes, they are called oil. Mineral oil will do, but vegetable oil is probably more pleasant.

So I suppose ICTH selling household products at inflated prices by labelling them as medical ones.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
DO NOT DISCUSS YOUR FUCKING EARWAX ON MY THREAD.

thankyouverymuch.

—Ariston, increasingly pissed off Hellhost
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
TICTH laws which permit a teenager to bring his gun to school.

Or even permit him to have one in the first place.
 
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
I haven't seen anything to indicate he was permitted to bring it. He had it concealed until he pulled it out and started shooting. It was his father's gun.
 
Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :
 
TICTH Greenwich Sodding Bastard Mean Time. Or at least the changeover - here begins a week of jet-laggish wanting to fall asleep in the afternoon. Pick a bloody time and stick to it, people!
 
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
One of the great blessings of retirement is that, rather like Kindergarten, afternoon naps are virtually mandatory.

[Two face]
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Adeodatus:
TICTH Greenwich Sodding Bastard Mean Time. Or at least the changeover - here begins a week of jet-laggish wanting to fall asleep in the afternoon. Pick a bloody time and stick to it, people!

Move to Arizona -- we don't mess with the clock twice a year.
 
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by Adeodatus:
TICTH Greenwich Sodding Bastard Mean Time. Or at least the changeover - here begins a week of jet-laggish wanting to fall asleep in the afternoon. Pick a bloody time and stick to it, people!

Move to Arizona -- we don't mess with the clock twice a year.
That's because you only have Light o'clock and Dark o'clock.
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by Adeodatus:
TICTH Greenwich Sodding Bastard Mean Time. Or at least the changeover - here begins a week of jet-laggish wanting to fall asleep in the afternoon. Pick a bloody time and stick to it, people!

Move to Arizona -- we don't mess with the clock twice a year.
Unless you are on Navajo time.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
What I assume to be aftereffects of my flu jab yesterday morning. Headiness occasionally, and prickly nose. The latter would be a cold, but not the former.
 
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :
 
fruit flies
 
Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
Lost the cable to connect my camera to my computer. Ordered another one on-line, not too expensive... except shipping was about the same price as the cable. Grrrr.
 
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Conjunctivitis!
 
Posted by Dark Knight (# 9415) on :
 
MOOCs [Mad]
 
Posted by Heavenly Anarchist (# 13313) on :
 
Toothache, I've just a broken tooth pulled [Frown]
 
Posted by BessLane (# 15176) on :
 
Just got my first FB post about the War on Christmas....(sound effects and scary graphics)...

So TICTH the folks who do this every year....I went off...
 
Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on :
 
TICTH the proximity of my sinus and dental nerve. I have a head full of cold and, as usual, the worst bit is the really bad apparent toothache, caused by the swollen sinus. I know there is nothing wrong with my teeth (at least not more than usual) but that does not help. MrP is refusing to decapitate me, which is the only thing I can think if that might help.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by BessLane:
Just got my first FB post about the War on Christmas....(sound effects and scary graphics)...

So TICTH the folks who do this every year....I went off...

Atta girl.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
A thief, and stupid to go with it.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
My washing machine's water supply, which has taken to leaking somewhere, which has, without my seeing it, allowed the wet stuff to insinuate under the laminate floor (not my choice). Initial investigation suggests it is the spur my first plumber put on the pipe so I could cut the machine off rather than the machine hose, and I have applied self-amalgamating tape. If that sorts it, I shall have to get my current plumber in for a permanent fix, which involves moving the large cabinet freezer...
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
My washing machine's water supply, which has taken to leaking somewhere, which has, without my seeing it, allowed the wet stuff to insinuate under the laminate floor.

Took two repairmen to fix mine. The first blamed me for using too much soap and not cleaning the lint trap properly. The second (factory authorized repair) correctly diagnosed a faulty valve inside the machine and replaced it. No more leak!

TICTH repairmen who haven't a clue.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Today's wash, closely observed, seems not to have run through its repertoire of 1) Puddle with no apparent connection to anywhere, 2) Wet carpet with no apparent connection - the floor under the adjacent freezer is perfectly dry, 3) Wet trail under moulding put along skirting to mask the edge of the laminate.

So, rubbish connection, and having to empty and move the freezer when the plumber comes. But the wonderful tape has worked.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Whatever has put scratches on my nice new double glazed first floor kitchen window. A patch about as big as a hand, with a group of scratches roughly up and down, but with no consistent pattern as of demented cat with very hard claws, bird with very hard beak, a dirty sponge (though no-one has been up there on the garage roof to do anything). The sctatches criss cross each other in a higgledy piggledy way. It can't be the window cleaner's long arm squirter with brush, because it is in only one spot, and narrower than the device.

[ 28. October 2014, 20:13: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
In the past, we have had a Hell thread about the stupid self-serve supermarket checkout systems that talk about the "bagging area" and tell you to put items there after scanning, and tell you to take unexpected items out of the bagging area.

At the time I agreed with UK Shipmates that such a system was thoroughly stupid and celebrated the fact that Woolworths in Australia had a far more sensible and streamlined system.

I would just like register my utter horror at the fact that my last 2 attendances at a nearby Woolworths supermarket have involved being told to place items in the bagging area when I haven't moved fast enough for its liking (because I'm trying to move things around in the bag to make the packing work better, you stupid piece of silicon!).

Also, it now absolutely INSISTS that you acknowledge how many Jamie Oliver stickers you have earned even if you don't have the slightest interest in collecting the aforesaid Jamie Oliver stickers.

Just as well they sent me a survey on the weekend, then...
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Oh, and now... TICTH the revolting sense of entitlement of all the men who think it's perfectly okay to let a woman walking down the street know what they think of her appearance, because basically she's just there for their pleasure rather than walking past to get from A to B.

I won't link to the relevant Youtube video, because the comments section has made me both profoundly angry and somewhat ill. We live in a revolting world and frankly, right now I feel like it would be a satisfying career move to offer my services as a contract killer in order to help eradicate these kinds of sexist self-centred pigs from society.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
That's a bit hard on pigs, isn't it?

The really sad thing is that it is apparent that these subhuman characters are not thinking about anything interesting that can't be interrupted.

What on earth is going on in there between aggressive outbursts? Apart from the brain reorganisation which goes on in adolescence.

Not having seen the video, I don't know about joining you in the hit squad, but I would suggest substituting those little feathery things which carry medication, to have some suitable effect on them.

[ 29. October 2014, 18:17: Message edited by: Penny S ]
 
Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :
 
I think I saw that exact video. I'm not sure I agree with all the supposed harassment, as I'm willing to forgive saying "Have a nice day." to anybody - including attractive females. But the sheer volume of inappropriate and utterly unsolicited commentary made me quail with embarrassment for my gender.
 
Posted by IngoB (# 8700) on :
 
The version I googled does not have any comments (at least I don't see any in the UK at the time of writing): here. I was struck by on one hand the scary persistence of some of this (a guy walking next to her for five minutes?! sheesh), and on the other hand by the apparent politeness of much of it. I didn't exactly expect "God bless you." and "Have a nice day." as catcalls. As for the frequency, I'm not sure that I can correctly scale this. Apparently she had 10+ comments per hour, which sounds a lot. But then this is Manhattan, a very busy and fairly rough place - so I wonder if I as a man had walked the same streets for that long, how much verbal commentary would I have gotten? I seriously have no idea. It also would be cool to see this done in say London to get an idea how universal this is.
 
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
What struck me (but did not surprise me) is that she has an urgent, almost desperate look on her face--the kind of face that says "I'm in a hurry, I'm going somewhere, don't want to chitchat"--which is why all the so-called polite stuff isn't appropriate either. A total stranger who's obviously moving fast on a crowded city street is NOT someone you ought to be chatting up.
 
Posted by marzipan (# 9442) on :
 
TICTH online security for my credit card which is more likely to prevent me from being able to buy things than to prevent a thief from using my card details!
 
Posted by Heavenly Anarchist (# 13313) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by marzipan:
TICTH online security for my credit card which is more likely to prevent me from being able to buy things than to prevent a thief from using my card details!

This happened to me yesterday. My payment was refused and then (as always) the phone started ringing from the Co-op and the lady on the answer phone declared 'possible fraudulent activity'. I can't answer it as they won't speak to me anyway as they seem to have my husband as first holder with all the magic words [Roll Eyes]

[ 30. October 2014, 08:34: Message edited by: Heavenly Anarchist ]
 
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
Hardhearted as I am, Penny's problems actually made me tear-up. It's all so aggravating. Your home is supposed to be your sanctuary from problems and it becomes the problem!

TICTH hard pressure sales people who work you until you've forgotten all the details you came in for and send you away with whatever they feel like selling you. In this case, a mattress that arrived three hours after the scheduled time, is too big for all my bed linens, and has awakened me today with a backache. Cost $1000. Last week it was a new water heater, cost $1200 after flooding the under the bedroom carpet.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
And your problems are so much worse!

I now have a rat setting up home in the garden. I'm trying to persuade it to go elsewhere. But it's put so much work in to converting last year's courgette bed to a cosy set of tunnels, it's a shame to pur gallons of water down there and seal it up with mud. And after it had cultivated the unworkable clay for me, too. I really don't want to get into the process of causing unclotting bleeds.

The exercise of randomness in the universe will keep things clustering together, won't it?
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH isn't an 'Ask the Hellhosts' column, but you could do worse than borrow a Jack Russell terrier for a day.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Next door has some sort of terrier - the subject has been mentioned.
 
Posted by saysay (# 6645) on :
 
Gamergate and the fact that it doesn't look like it's ever going to end (which makes me wonder what they're going to come up with next.

Computer programs that open themselves and won't close. Here's a hint, computer programers: this does not make more likely to use your program. It makes me more likely to give up and go ff grid.

And tech changes so fast and aggressive that I can barely keep up with them much less keep one step in front of them.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Dear Blockbuster movie trailer makers-- must you Dolby the ever-loving crap out of every scrap of SFX that comes across your audio editing software? Less is more!
 
Posted by MrsBeaky (# 17663) on :
 
TICTH lack of access to health care.
I just took a call from our field worker who was with a baby on the point of death.
How I hate being unable to do anything in these situations.
 
Posted by Jemima the 9th (# 15106) on :
 
I came to CTH the never-ending headache / migraine combo which is now entering its 7th day and is beginning to piss me right off.

Then I saw MrsBeaky's post, and, suitably chastened, I'm going to have my cheap neurofen, have a cup of chamomile tea, and stop bloody moaning.

How awful, MrsB. Poor baby, poor parents.
 
Posted by MrsBeaky (# 17663) on :
 
Thanks Jemima the 9th

Suffering comes in many guises and migraines are vile, my husband had a two day one at the beginning of the week so yours deserves to be CTH!
So I also CTH vile headaches at the same time as giving thanks for access to pain relief and brooding about my earlier post!
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by MrsBeaky:
TICTH lack of access to health care.
I just took a call from our field worker who was with a baby on the point of death.
How I hate being unable to do anything in these situations.

Fuck me. [Frown]
 
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :
 
Bitchy, hair-trigger helicopter parents.
 
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
All frelling bureaucracies, everywhere.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
The people who are having a massive fireworks display that has gone on for about ten minutes at least, sounding like a mortar barrage, and doing it somewhere where I CAN'T SEE IT. (Which is quite hard, as I can see nearly 180 degrees out of the front, and nearly 180 degrees out of the back and for some distance when it comes to rockets.)
 
Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
Perhaps it's on your rooftop?

[Axe murder]
 
Posted by Bene Gesserit (# 14718) on :
 
TITCH the common cold. Soddit!!
 
Posted by Jengie jon (# 273) on :
 
Seconded

Jengie
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Palimpsest:
Perhaps it's on your rooftop?

[Axe murder]

Nah. No room. And it would be much much noisier. And I would be able to see the light from it.

Mind you, I have come to realise how far that sort of sound can travel by watching the live lightning map during storms.
European lightning Thunder from over 10 miles away sounds as if it's almost on top of me.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Just when you think you've run out of time-wasting websites of no practical use whatsoever, along comes another one.
 
Posted by marzipan (# 9442) on :
 
Orfeo: is that necessarily a bad thing?

TICTH going around in circles chasing my non existent tail
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
Just when you think you've run out of time-wasting websites of no practical use whatsoever, along comes another one.

Actually, I found it quite useful when trying to photograph lightning - because I could see which way the storm was moving.
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
TICTH the blueberry seed which got lodged between two of my teeth. I worked away with dental floss until I had managed to dislodge two fillings. [Frown]

I just spent an hour and a lot of money at the dentist's.

Moo
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Moo:
I worked away with dental floss until I had managed to dislodge two fillings.

Dental floss is an invention of the devil.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by marzipan:
Orfeo: is that necessarily a bad thing?

The clue is in the term "time-wasting".
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
What I fund fascinating about that site was the source of the data. Over Europe there are countless people who have constructed receiver aerials which are a metre in all three dimensions, and the attendant gizmos for dealing with the data and sending it off. Who are these people, and why are they? I looked at the possibility of having one on my roof, but I wouldn't get permission for it. also, the gizmos needeed skills I don't have.
And a lightning strike in Russia can be picked up in the UK. Extraordinary.
And lightning often seems to be coordinated over a distance, with simultaneous strikes quite a way apart. (Genuine effect, spotted, but not explained by professionals.)
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
TICTH people who don't respond to emails. You want your problem fixing, you either respond to my email or fuck off and stop your whining.
 
Posted by Dark Knight (# 9415) on :
 
TICTH chronic anxiety [Mad] [Ultra confused]
 
Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
TITCH adult acne. Really, fuck this shit. I just don't need it right now. Or anytime, for that matter.

Oh, and while I'm here, I may as well condemn to hell the monobrow*, the moustache, the sideburns, the whole goddamn lot of it. And the social expectation that I stay on top of it. At this rate I will be growing hairs on my eyeballs in ten years time...

*I would be quite the celebrity in Tajikistan.
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
Psychosomatic symptoms. I am not ill. I know I am not ill. These symptoms can fuck off.
 
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Did I mention that I hate going to the dentist?
 
Posted by AmyBo (# 15040) on :
 
TITCH my bitch boss who shows up twice a week and then starts an inquisition into a conversation I had where I got creamed so bad it left me in tears but apparently it's my fault because the cunt who complained about me failed to mention that she refuses to do the part of her job that allows me to do mine and then confronted me about it - her ineptness being something I have repeatedly asked for help for dealing with from both the cunt's physically threatening supervisor and my aforementioned bitch boss. But who the hell should listen to me? HR is psycho and the head honcho is sad he's closing the shop after Christmas (and the only motherfucker in this story getting laid off is me). [Mad] [Mad]
 
Posted by Caissa (# 16710) on :
 
TICTH USians who gave Republicans control of the Senate.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
TICTH Arizonans who gave Republicans control of just about everything in the state (but we didn't have a Senatorial election this year).
 
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Caissa:
TICTH USians who gave Republicans control of the Senate.

And of governorships and denying good initiatives and so many other things. [Mad] [Waterworks] [Votive]
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
TICTH the two annoying twats that accompanied me on the bus this morning.

One was having a very loud conversation on the phone about his forthcoming wedding (which was doubly confusing as the scene in the book I was trying to read featured a wedding) and the other was incessantly ringing the stop bell, refusing to desist for the full half an hour we were on the bus together.
 
Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Caissa:
TICTH USians who gave Republicans control of the Senate.

TICTH people who write "USians." Like it or not, the word is "Americans."
 
Posted by seekingsister (# 17707) on :
 
TICTH people who inflict their psychological issues with aging on innocent victims.
Exhibit A: a 47 year old mother of three who became an NFL cheerleader at 38, and has just been arrested for sexual assault of a 15 year old boy, who she found while browsing through Instagram.
 
Posted by saysay (# 6645) on :
 
Oh for fuck's sake, Lord. Could you show some mercy here?
 
Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by RuthW:
TICTH people who write "USians." Like it or not, the word is "Americans."

Aww, I was looking forward to being referred to as "THEMian".
 
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by RuthW:
quote:
Originally posted by Caissa:
TICTH USians who gave Republicans control of the Senate.

TICTH people who write "USians." Like it or not, the word is "Americans."
Let me add the writers of the article I read last night, who referred to USians and UKians.
 
Posted by seekingsister (# 17707) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by saysay:
Oh for fuck's sake, Lord. Could you show some mercy here?

Is that directed towards me?

I reserve my mercy for the victim.

The police looked through her phone, computer, and for underwear that the boy described as belonging to her. The arrest was made after those searches.

People who prey on children are a menace.
 
Posted by spork (# 18260) on :
 
TICTH The stupid woman who just rang in to Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio2 comparing banning ladies drinking alcohol while pregnant (on the grounds of child abuse) to banning abortion on the same grounds IMHO she just wanted to virtually shout abortion is murder on the radio! Silly fucking cow! [Mad]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
Welcome to Hell spork, nice start.

1) your tone is spot on.
2) your content is fine for Hell (although debates about abortion is a recognised Dead Horse topic).
3) you really shouldn't listen to the Jeremy Vine show. It will only make you ill. It's UKIP meets Colonel Bufton Tufton nowadays and Vine can't seem to deflect the loonies as dear old Jimmy Young did.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by spork:
TICTH The stupid woman who just rang in to Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio2 comparing banning ladies drinking alcohol while pregnant (on the grounds of child abuse) to banning abortion on the same grounds IMHO she just wanted to virtually shout abortion is murder on the radio! Silly fucking cow! [Mad]

We have a Dead Horses thread drawing the same link right now.

Although please note, if you go over there, you have to be polite.
 
Posted by spork (# 18260) on :
 
Thankyou Sioni Sais and Orfeo
On your point 3 Sioni I think I agree with you the next subject is 'Christian bakers refusing to make wedding cakes for gay couples' I have turned the radio off not because I don't find it an interesting subject but because my heckles are risen enough!
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
TICTH the virus currently wreaking havoc on my lungs and making me cough until my ribs hurt. i wonder if this is good for toning one's abs?
 
Posted by Bene Gesserit (# 14718) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
TICTH the virus currently wreaking havoc on my lungs and making me cough until my ribs hurt. i wonder if this is good for toning one's abs?

It hasn't done anything for mine. Except make them ache as well and I also C that TH.

TICTH having this said f*cking virus the week I'm supposed to be on leave so that I won't feel at all rested and relaxed when I get back on the hamster wheel on Monday. [Mad] [Mad] [Mad]
 
Posted by saysay (# 6645) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by seekingsister:
quote:
Originally posted by saysay:
Oh for fuck's sake, Lord. Could you show some mercy here?

Is that directed towards me?

I reserve my mercy for the victim.

The police looked through her phone, computer, and for underwear that the boy described as belonging to her. The arrest was made after those searches.

People who prey on children are a menace.

Are you the Lord?
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
FWIW, saysay, I thought you were addressing the Lord. Was waiting for you to speak for yourself before I commented.
 
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
The woman has a sixteen year old son and twelve year old daughter who attend the same school as the victim. I can't imagine the shame they must feel.
 
Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
[Mad] Sodding rapists [Mad]
 
Posted by tessaB (# 8533) on :
 
Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!!!!
I don't know what or who I want to CTH. I just want to scream at God for a while. Why can't my poor son find a job he can do? Why can't people give him a chance? He worked as a kitchen porter for two weeks, being shouted at by his boss who is ex-army for every mistake he made. Oh God, he really tried hard, getting up at 4:30 in the morning to go in and now he has been let go because he didn't get everything right! He has a disability FFS! He is trying and you God are just not giving him a break!
Again just Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!!!!
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
The man next door who decided to smoke something or other out of the bedroom window about one o'clock last night, causing me to smell something burning and have to get up and check it wasn't in my house.

The people about a hundred yards away who thought that two fifteen was a good time for a firework party. They were good quality ones, very pretty, but also very loud - at 2:15, 2:20, 2:25, 2:30 AT NIGHT for heaven's sake!

I won't be able to see my friend today because I need to drive a long way several times, and I've only had four hours' sleep. And that is bad for him.
 
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
And my bedroom TV which claims that the hard drive I use to record programmes to watch when I am confined to bed, as on occasions when I have not been able to sleep, has no more room, when according to the computer, it has 416 Gb free space! And does not need defragmenting.
 
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
HAY FEVER! AAARGH!! I don't need a great fucking big sneezing session at 11:20 pm!!!
 
Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
My fecking oven, I know pressing the knob for 30 seconds is a safety feature, but could you not make a noise to let me know when it hasn't worked ? Meal will now be 30 mins late and I have guests - I have been cooking in you for four years - and now is the time you choose to do this ! Bastard thing.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink.:
My fecking oven ........ I have been cooking in you for four years.

Should be done to a crisp. Welcome to Hell.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
Hostly Bowler ON

Hello? Is that TICTH?

How long have you been running? Since December? Golly, no wonder you're beginning to whiff a bit. And the tangents are almost worth a board of their own, let alone a thread.

To get personal, because this is Hell and I am a Host and I can, I Hereby Proclaim that this TICTH thread, aka Penny S's Blog, is formally and finally CLOSED.

By order.

Hostly Bowler OFF and stowed in tool locker.

Sioni Sais,
Hellhost Who Has Had Enough Of You Lot
 


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