Topic: The small things in life that really hannoy

[SamLad]

temps at -10??

try -40, -50, -60 mate

[rob1966]

temps at -10??

try -40, -50, -60 mate

Yeah, we're soft shites compared to Canadians

[PaulF]

Sounding like a four Yorkshiremen scratch in here.

[SamLad]

Yeah, we're soft shites compared to Canadians

but it is a dry cold over here. 

[24/7]

Sounding like a four Yorkshiremen scratch in here.

Cardboard Yorkshiremen.....?

[afc tukrish]

Don't know how they would have coped in 1996. I was managing one of our branches then, due to the temps being below -10 and the amount of burst pipes, we couldn't get any heaters as they were all on Hire, I had a massive list of people wanting to Hire Dehumidifiers and wet vacuum cleaners and again they were all out on hire. The area manager then walked into our branch and hired out the only heater we had left which we were using to keep warm. The Branch itself was two 2 up and 2 down houses knocked into 1 and it was fucking freezing, my office was -5c.

I ended up wearing 2 pairs of socks, thermals under my jeans, t shirt, jumper and 2 coats.

We smashed our targets that month and held enough income back to hit target for 4 months on the bounce

Jeans?

[Son of Spion]

Jeans?

Jean shorts, of course. 

[rob1966]

Jeans?

Forced to wear them at work 

[24/7]

Forced to wear them at work 

Cardboard jeans.....?

[Crosby Nick]

Jeans?

“Alright mate, where d’you wan this blow heater?”

[Elmo!]

After 48 hours BA now saying they have identified a bag they think is mine but yet to confirm. They can't tell me if it is in London or Aberdeen though.... They've missed todays flights so earliest they can get me my bag is tomorrow evening and I fly home Friday morning.

I#ve already bought a bunch of clothes and some tools I needed to do my work which will be claimed back from BA but going to go out tomorrow and buy a bunch more, might as well make the most of it. 

[Nobby Reserve]

That happened with us and TUI - supposed to fly out to Tenerife on a Monday next Feb - they cancelled the flights and offered us the next day. Meant taking the kids out of school, so cancelled the entire holiday and now flying on the Sunday with EasyJet and staying at a place we've stayed before.

All this dicking about with rearranging flights never used to happen on anything like this scale

[Charlie Adams fried egg]

That is a very fair point.
As I was reading your post, I thought you were just being a bit mad moaning about dynamic pricing.
How is it any different paying for business and being bumped to economy?

I do like a moan every now and the  . But apart from bad motorway driving it tends to be when big companies take the piss.

The reality is that getting bumped from an expensive flight to a cheaper one without any acknowledgement of the different prices of the respective flights is fraudulent trading. As you say paying for business and getting economy. If stuff like this isn’t challenged they just carry on.

[rob1966]

Not so much annoy as shocked.

Watching Bangers and Cash, the synopsis says they pick up an MGBGT that is 50 years old. My brain sees a 1950's MGB, then I realise its a 1972 car. Fuck, where did the time go?

[PaulF]

Cardboard Yorkshiremen.....?

[PaulF]

After 48 hours BA now saying they have identified a bag they think is mine but yet to confirm. They can't tell me if it is in London or Aberdeen though.... They've missed todays flights so earliest they can get me my bag is tomorrow evening and I fly home Friday morning.

I#ve already bought a bunch of clothes and some tools I needed to do my work which will be claimed back from BA but going to go out tomorrow and buy a bunch more, might as well make the most of it. 

Probably going to need ski gear. That's even if the runway at ABZ is open.

[24/7]

Probably going to need ski gear. That's even if the runway at ABZ is open.

ABZ TAF suggests a 30% probability of sleet/snow showers tomorrow. Shouldn't be anything an airport in such a location can't handle.

TAF: EGPD 081056Z 0812/0912 29009KT 9999 FEW015 SCT025 PROB30 TEMPO 0812/0824 30015G25KT 6000 SHRA -SHRASN BKN010 TEMPO 0900/0912 6000 SHRA -SHRASN BKN010 PROB30 TEMPO 0900/0912 31015G25KT 2000 +SHRA SHSNRA BKN006

[Elmo!]

Well they sent everyone home from my office in ABZ today because the roads were bad and flights have been delayed.

I got my bag to day though! Just in time to fly home tomorrow - inevitably to delays caused by todays weather.

[24/7]

Well they sent everyone home from my office in ABZ today because the roads were bad and flights have been delayed.

I got my bag to day though! Just in time to fly home tomorrow - inevitably to delays caused by todays weather.

*sigh*

We've had snowstorms and blizzards all week in Tallinn. Everything is open, everything is working, everything is running - even the buses are on time. It's insane weather yet I guess the Baltics and Nordics are just more used to it? 15cms of snow overnight, 15 cms more coming this weekend, forecast to -15 and everything will still run.

I hope you're all okay down there and your flight gets you home.

[Elmo!]

Well they sent everyone home from my office in ABZ today because the roads were bad and flights have been delayed.

I got my bag to day though! Just in time to fly home tomorrow - inevitably to delays caused by todays weather.
*sigh*
We've had snowstorms and blizzards all week in Tallinn. Everything is open, everything is working, everything is running - even the buses are on time. It's insane weather yet I guess the Baltics and Nordics are just more used to it? 15cms of snow overnight, 15 cms more coming this weekend, forecast to -15 and everything will still run.

I hope you're all okay down there and your flight gets you home.

Yeah we have a Teams meeting every morning with our whole team which includes a few people in Norway (Stavanger) and they were laughing at us this morning because everyone was panicking about the weather when it was the same over there.

[24/7]

I used to 'laugh' too - but then I realised it's a bit of a cuntish thing to do so I've stopped - it's just saddeningly symptomatic of a system not built to cope with the change. And it'll get worse over time before it gets better 

[Elmo!]

I used to 'laugh' too - but then I realised it's a bit of a cuntish thing to do so I've stopped - it's just saddeningly symptomatic of a system not built to cope with the change. And it'll get worse over time before it gets better 

It's a bit different now I guess - basically everyone in our office prefers working from home - we've just been forced to do 3 days a week in the office by head office. So even the senior management including HR manager are just looking for any excuse to tell everyone to work from home.

[Slippers]

I've wasted a huge chunk of my life untangling Christmas tree lights.

[rob1966]

I've wasted a huge chunk of my life untangling Christmas tree lights.

Missus bought some new ones and whoever in the factory had wound them in a way that it took me an hour to work out how to unravel them. She'd already bust one set trying to undo them

[reddebs]

I've wasted a huge chunk of my life untangling Christmas tree lights.

Sorting the Christmas lights out was always my job when I was a kid. 

Unravelling them, plugging them in then going along them checking every bulb to see which one had blown and stopping them all from working.

[Slippers]

Sorting the Christmas lights out was always my job when I was a kid. 

Unravelling them, plugging them in then going along them checking every bulb to see which one had blown and stopping them all from working.

I'm almost certain there were no more than two dozen bulbs on the multi coloured ones my parents used to put on their tree when I was a kid.

[reddebs]

I'm almost certain there were no more than two dozen bulbs on the multi coloured ones my parents used to put on their tree when I was a kid.

I think we had two sets.  One that had big multicoloured bulbs then another that had smaller flashing ones but yeah not that many bulbs at all.

I thinks there's 240 on the ones we have now 😂

[rob1966]

Sorting the Christmas lights out was always my job when I was a kid. 

Unravelling them, plugging them in then going along them checking every bulb to see which one had blown and stopping them all from working.

And sticking tin foil in the bottom to make the circuit if you didn't have enough spare bulbs

[Slippers]

I think we had two sets.  One that had big multicoloured bulbs then another that had smaller flashing ones but yeah not that many bulbs at all.

I thinks there's 240 on the ones we have now 😂

There are 500 on the ones I've been fighting with.

[reddebs]

And sticking tin foil in the bottom to make the circuit if you didn't have enough spare bulbs

Omg no!  Really?  Is that even a thing?

[reddebs]

There are 500 on the ones I've been fighting with.

Holy crap 😯

[rob1966]

Omg no!  Really?  Is that even a thing?

It's a bloke thing. Its why women live longer than men

[reddebs]

It's a bloke thing. Its why women live longer than men

😂 Bout time you started listening to us then 🤦

[SamLad]

It's a bloke thing. Its why women live longer than men

don't know whether to laugh or cry.  ah screw it 

[afc tukrish]

don't know whether to laugh or cry.  ah screw it 

Is sort of shocking, really...

[Boston always unofficial]

After reading the last few posts it might be time to dig this movie out.

[PaulF]

And sticking tin foil in the bottom to make the circuit if you didn't have enough spare bulbs

Sounds like something you'd witness in a Tory club

[AndyInVA]

Sounding like a four Yorkshiremen scratch in here.

haha was under heavy work pressure the other day and went to bed at 8 exhausted and woke up before midnight and started working again about 11.50PM

felt like I started work again before I went to bed. ahahhaha

[24/7]

haha was under heavy work pressure the other day and went to bed at 8 exhausted and woke up before midnight and started working again about 11.50PM

felt like I started work again before I went to bed. ahahhaha

How many of youse have seen this.....?
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[Lee1-6Liv]

And sticking tin foil in the bottom to make the circuit if you didn't have enough spare bulbs

We used to do the same, wrap a bit of tin foil around the dead bulb and stick it in, I don't even think me dad unplugged them first either.