Unless I'm missing something, that's a bit unfair is it not?Quote:
Originally Posted by heretoday
They're only doing their (badly paid) job.
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Unless I'm missing something, that's a bit unfair is it not?Quote:
Originally Posted by heretoday
They're only doing their (badly paid) job.
That doesn't bother me, its when they can see you are struggling with stuff and still sit in their bloody booth watching you. Asked for a hand with a fridge freezer once. Nae chance!!Quote:
Originally Posted by heretoday
Top tip for that is to take something along that they think they can sell on - they're over like a shot to help out.Quote:
Originally Posted by ColinNish
I suppose they maybe think well you got it into the car so you can get it out.
Someone told me their wages aren't that bad.
Do you mean places like Seafield?Quote:
Originally Posted by heretoday
Maybe it's cause I'm a woman, but any time I've gone there, they've come over to help me without me even having to ask.
:agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by EH6 Hibby
I'm not a woman, but have always found the staff at Seafield very helpful.
To be fair, they are probably instructed not to help anybody due to H & S rules. If they put their back out helping someone and then claim against their employer. (It's not that the employer cares two hoots about the worker's back - it's the possible claim that concerns them.)Quote:
Originally Posted by ColinNish
This is the way of society nowadays. "Thou shalt not help anybody in case there's a lawsuit".
Remedy: "First we kill all the lawyers" - Shakespeare (Henry VI)
There's also the fact that about 150 people per day expect them to help hump their scrap. If you can't carry it alone then take someone with you, you wouldn't expect the cashier at tescos to help you carry the family shopping would you.Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
Kinda hard if you're on your own though, no?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
But if you've managed to get it in the car,,,,Quote:
Originally Posted by ColinNish
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Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
The fact that football managers get their contracts paid up after being sacked for doing a crap job.
And then they get snapped up by another club where they are hailed as a saviour then proceed to go through the same scenario (to the power 'n').Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
People on tv who only have about 10 people in their contacts!
Aye! And if soaps are meant to be about real life, how come nobody in soaps ever stays home and watches soaps?Quote:
Originally Posted by hibee_girl
Students and St Patricks Day. 'Oh I'm an 8th Irish'. Aye? **** off.
See also the utter muppets who order a pint of Guinness, screw up their face as they clearly dislike it then justify it because 'it's Paddys day eh?'
Being Scottish but mistaken for being Irish does my head in, St Patrick's day is miles worse though 😣Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Wasn't St Paddy a Scotsman anyway?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Nobody knows.Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
They're all in the Rover's drinking fake beer!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mixu62
Soaps aren't meant to be about real life though are they? That would be very boring.
Depends who you believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
Cumbria, north Wales or the west of Scotland have all been quoted.
Some size of car I must've had to get a fridge/freezer in it. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
FYI it was a van, I stopped a passerby in the street to help me drag it out the garage and shove it in the van. Could hardly ask the geezer to accompany me to the recycling unit 20 miles away from where I live, now could I?
I'm angry for you!😁Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
Now imagine at the other end when word gets out that the staff at the recycling unit help you cart your stuff from the car. There'd be 186 fridges, cookers and washing machines per day that the poor sod would have to hump.Quote:
Originally Posted by ColinNish
How's word gonna get out? I don't know anyone. 😄Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
The increasing number of folk on this message board who post on a thread that they're not interested in the discussion/subject in hand, as if their indifference/disinterest was the definitive word on the topic and ask for the thread to be closed. No likey? No ready!
Doesn't bother me. End of. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
Is this comment really necessary?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
Close thread please admins 😂😂😂
Dress down Friday, why? Only confirms to me that those who dress badly for work dress equally if not worse when dressed casually. For others it becomes a competion to see who has the best or most expensive "casual" wardrobe.
Especially if it's brickies we're talking about :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by wpj
So you're ready and go out straight after work feeling comfortable.Quote:
Originally Posted by wpj
I spent years "suited and booted" for work in Edinburgh and was once even pulled up by one of my bosses for taking my tie off whilst working late in the office.Quote:
Originally Posted by wpj
Now people (clients & colleagues alike) would think I was a total spangle if I appeared in a collar and tie.
One of the great things about living in Brittany! :sauzee:
I worked abroad for a few years and the section leader had a quiet word in my ear about me not HAVING to wear a tie. I said to him "If you wanted to be a professional then first you have to look professional".Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
After that, he wore a tie every day. :smug:
Indeed pubs that refuse "workies" in after work (happens in London anyway) always thought that was madness turning away good money, the pubs around Liverpool St that cater for the workies rake it in especially on a Friday.Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
Primary schools constantly fleecing parents.
My youngest is forever needing extra money for school as they have events like " wear a purple jumper to school day" which is in support of (insert charity).
We have to go out a buy him a purple jumper because let's face it , what young cool dude wears a purple bloody jumper. Then we have to give him £1 so he can wear it.
So , costs roughly £11 to do this and the charity only gets a percentage of the £1.
It's not just purple jumpers either. There's been one for yellow jumpers ,red jumpers , painted t shirts and wear what you want. To wear these , you have to pay the school.
What a load of absolute crap.
Drivers who fail to understand the traffic lights at the foot of Clermiston road when turning left from Corstorphine. The amount of times people blow their horns when they see the green light for straight ahead. I've seen plenty of idiots turn left and nearly hit pedestrians who are crossing the foot of the road obeying the green man.
:agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeping giant
It's never ending. This week alone we've had a school sleepover which we had to take a donation too, pj day which was more money and a class outing. Two weeks after they were away to camp which was a fair whack of money!
Add to that the fact that my boy is in p7 this year so we have to fork out for all the leavers stuff, I'll be bankrupt by summer.
Folk, usually older, who dismiss any football opinion that differs from their own with 'too much of that Football Manager game'.
Though, equally I cannae be arsed with folk who talk about real football as if it is just like football manager. "We need an inside forward on the left, and a box to box midfielder with an anchorman in the middle".Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Amen! Love a good tie. I have the option to go to a few offices, but the closest one to me is primarily dress down on most of the floors other than the floor our project has hot desks on. I also love my suits, particularly a 3 piece. Aware I look a total moron to the rest of the building who seem incapable of even ironing a t-shirt, but I enjoy a suit so a suit it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
If only I had the balls to properly dress as I want at work and actually wear my two tone black and white mod shoes alongside the black suit and skinny black tie ala The Jam. 😎
Posting on your phone. Spend more time correcting the autocorrect than it took to type the post 😩
Another one in the suit camp. As long as it's worn properly. There should be a course for men to go on to teach them how to wear a suit properly and basic do's and dont's.
We are 'smart business' at work but I love getting a suit and tieon whenever I can.
:agree: Sew troo!Quote:
Originally Posted by Right Said Frank
Funny how it seems
Parents that take their kids places then completely ignore them.
More specifically pubs, "there's a seat in the corner for you son, sit there" (beside me) stops me from swearing and using any inappropriate chat I should be perfectly entitled to use in the pub while the dad stands with his pals ignoring the kid.
In a broader sense though the same applies to soft plays, play parks and the like, the amount of times nippy kids pester me when I'm playing with my boy while their parents sit with their back 'to the action' oblivious to what their kids doing drives me nuts.
Newly installed pedestrian crossings on Calder Road, right next to an accessible underpass,,,, what's that all about?
I'm only peeving because my wife nearly put me through the windscreen as she didn't see it change from green to red as she "wasn't expecting it to be there", but that's a another peeve!
I'd guess because the underpasses can be pretty intimidating places, especially for vulnerable people when it's dark.Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
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Originally Posted by Right Said Frank
😂😂😂
That would have been my thought as well. I used to run the gauntlet many a time through them as a youngster, but they're not as bad as they once were.Quote:
Originally Posted by bingo70
Frustratingly though, the authorities rather than fix the problem ignore the route cause and spend what limited money they have on a solution that does not fix the problem. I'm assuming the trolls that dwell beneath the surface haven't just disappeared??
The lights are a good idea late at night. However in the rush hour I wait while crowds cross the street and clearly the underpass is less intimidating. Lights should not be on permanently.Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
I hate how time goes roughly four or five times faster than usual when you play Xbox.
Hotel rooms with poor lighting. Hilton are some of the worst for this, small lamps around the room but no centrally located ceiling light.
Years ago I got off the last bus from Livi to Sighthill, went through the underpass and past a couple of guys about my age (16ish). I used to walk it all the time and knew enough people in the area that I really had no concerns.Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
About 2 minutes after I was passing the shops and seen police woman in a car watching me, I wasnt doing anything excpet having a smoke so thought nothing else of it. The guys I passed then shouted me as they followed behind me and shouted somthing. I turned and one started jogging down shouting about a lighter. I took mine out ready to give him a light when police cars from all angles came from no where. A bit taken aback I was huckled up against a fence and searched. Pleading I had done nothing wrong, luckily the police woman confirmed I did appear to be on my own and not with the 3 guys who had followed on.
It turned out there had been 3 people attacked that night in the area and lo and behold one of the guys had a 2 foot monster of a monkey wrench. Presumably I was to be victim number 4. However I got away lightly and with the folks names who were about to attack :wink:
Not a peeve and totally unrelated, but you can never tell with those underpasses even if you have used and lived in the area for years.
Also hotel rooms with showers that require an MBA in particle physics to work out how to use them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
:agree: Been there.Quote:
Originally Posted by lyonhibs
I had one this morning with a fixed glass large door. You have to get in and reach under the fixed shower head to turn it on.
Don't know how many times I had to jump back from the freezing water until I had sussed out how to set the temp .
Certainly woke me up :greengrin
And microwave ovens!Quote:
Originally Posted by lyonhibs
People who can't shake hands properly and instead offer a sort of limp lettuce leaf instead of a hand and shake with all the conviction of an agrophobic blancmange going bungy jumping.
Or do the "Trump" hold on for too long for it to be comfortable (or just ignore it altogether)Quote:
Originally Posted by lyonhibs
Or people like Trudeau who foil your intimidating tuggy alpha-male handshake. :wink: :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by wpj
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b03df370d8a29b
Racing commentators who say 4/9 on when they mean 9/4 on or 4/9 when telling you the price of an odds on shot.
The delay in movement of the cars at the front of the queue when traffic lights change to green.
Customers, or at least ignorant ones. Two of us were working in a guys house in east belfast for 9 hours today. 3 times he made himself what smelt like beautiful coffee and not once did we get offered a cup. In contrast to yesterday when the couple I was working for offered me tea 3 times before 1pm and the husband gave me £20 as I was leaving. Not surprisingly today's stingy bellend lived in a far nicer house compared to yesterday's generous people.
Doctor's receptionists that are nippy *******s when you phone up and ask a couple of questions.
:agree: Especially coming from Eskbank at Sheriffhall Roundabout.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
About 4 to 5 cars get through per light change unless there's a dittery er$e at the front, then it's only 1 or 2. :grr:
Women swearing, I know its old fashioned but, it does my head in. Its horrible to hear.
Years ago two "ladies" were playing pool on the next table to myself and a workmate in a West Lothian village pub. One of them sank the black from the break and came out with a 21-gun-salute of expletives.Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
Her pal came out with the never-to-be-forgotten line ..... "Shush, there's men in the bar."
People who toot their horns at me at traffic lights.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Don't they appreciate that it takes time for my passenger wife to notice, then say to me,"lights changed".
I have to then reply, "what?, she then says in a louder voice, THE LIGHTS. I then have to take my reading glasses off, I was using to adjust the radio, put my driving glasses on, store the glasses case in the glove compartment, look at the lights and say, oh! So they have.
Then comes the act of putting the car into gear, because it's not good for the clutch to sit in gear for too long. I then take the handbrake off because the Highway Code is quite clear that it should be activated when car is stationary.
The window should then be rolled down to enable me to make the appropriate hand signals, then roll it back up when I remember that we don't do that any more. A quick glance in my rear view mirror, (Highway Code again), then put the hand brake back on as the lights have changed to red.
It is quite obvious by this time that the timing off the lights are inadequate and need to be altered. I blame Sturgeon.
As for the idiot behind me who obviously received a new horn for his birthday, well he should get out of bed earlier if he is in a hurry. I didn't fight in the war to be harassed like this, (actually I wasn't in the war because of my narcolepsy). But if I had been then I...err... I've forgotten what I was about to say, but it's not good enough, anyway. So let that be a lesson to you young man.
Anyone like a mint?
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Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Oh Yes!!! Infuriating
This isn't actually a pet peeve but the guy sat in front of me on the bus has just taken out his laptop, got all settled on it and is currently playing blockbusters as in Bob Holness on it hahaha
:-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Stick
I see what you done there.
Subtle.
Tea. Splutter. Keyboard. :tee hee:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stick
Folk who talk loudly into the mobile on the bus. Even worse if they eff and blind in the process.
When did it become OK to carry on like that?
General "**** everyone else, so long as I'm OK" behavior.Quote:
Originally Posted by heretoday
Skoda Octavia drivers and not just the private hires...
WHIT? Does that include Octavia Scout drivers?Quote:
Originally Posted by O'Rourke3
HIBS.net shocker!
Depends whether you are a driver that plays dodgems on roundabouts....yes if you do.Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
Sent via the bushes @ EM
Thread titles that try and rope you in instead of telling you what it's about.
e.g. "You'll never guess what happened"
Swearing in the office irks me.Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
I'm no saint and I do swear myself, but I don't think its appropriate in an office environment.
Should hear my manager, every second word is a sweary one! And I work in an office.Quote:
Originally Posted by derekHFC
You wouldn't have liked to have been around me today in that case. Luckily I only swear in English so my colleagues don't understand - although I'm sure they get the gist.Quote:
Originally Posted by derekHFC
https://youtu.be/qJMqdTr7IQMQuote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
I'll bet they have a rough idea 😀
When you've almost finished a long post to reply to someone on here and your mobile freezes and you have to reboot it losing everything in the temporary memory.
Sitting behind someone in the outside lane taking forever to pass someone, then when you try to pass them they speed up.
People who love to give everyone a title and call them by it rather than just their name, Americans seem particularly bad for this.
Chef Smith
Coach Peterson
Speaker Ryan
Warden Jones
Someone once complained about a colleague as they used to be a Sir but were now a Lord and my colleague had called them Sir, this wasn't some upper class person either, was a so called self made manQuote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
People who ask you if you know who they are.
Or my all time favourite "you don't realise who you are dealing with"
Like daft twats going on about the bigger circles they move in. :faf:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
I'd like to laugh but if my ST doesn't work at ER today then it won't seem so funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
Remember hearing about a captain of a golf club going raj as a junior member referred to him by his name.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
You just knew they weren't going to be happy until it got violent so I'd tell them to get out of my taxi and a walk in the fresh air might refresh their memory. Even better when it was horrible weather.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
The way Americans refer to the whole of the UK as England.
Unfortunately it's not just Americans.Quote:
Originally Posted by EH6 Hibby
Bit like us calling The Netherlands - Holland. 😉Quote:
Originally Posted by EH6 Hibby
This is quite specific .
Guys who wear a clip on bow tie to a black tie event but also take a real one so they can drape it round their neck late in the evening Volkswagen Ad style.
Roasters
People that use emojis in official emails does my head in. The pay office at my work being one of the main culprits!!
This "Pre boarding" thing Easyjet do whereby everyone is herded from one space that has toilets, seats and other facilities into another one where there are none of these things for 15-30 minutes as the plane isn't even ready yet.
What's the point apart from aggravating folk ??
Folk that use text speak in work e-mails.
My boss is the worst for it.
C u later...
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Hahaha do people actually do that really?Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeping giant
Yeah that was my thought.....Have to say on the few occasions I've needed to wear a bow tie it's been a clip on but wouldn't dream of taking a real one as well!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
I honestly just burst out laughing at that. One of the most ridiculous things I've read.Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeping giant