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And two girls?
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My current pet peev is colleagues who turn every little issue, even the simplest of activities, into a full blown drama and who create more problems than they resolve. All with non-stop verbal diarrhoea as an accompaniment. Image

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bubbles1966 wrote:My current pet peev is colleagues who turn every little issue, even the simplest of activities, into a full blown drama and who create more problems than they resolve. All with non-stop verbal diarrhoea as an accompaniment. Image

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Yep, we have one of those too.
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bubbles1966 wrote:My current pet peev is colleagues who turn every little issue, even the simplest of activities, into a full blown drama and who create more problems than they resolve. All with non-stop verbal diarrhoea as an accompaniment. Image

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Don't really need to ask but middle aged women I assume?
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We're in Cornwall for a few days visiting my wife's family and friends. As her brother lost his wife in May and he hasn't been in years we thought we'd invite him, the trouble is he invited his 86 year old mother in law. She isn't too bad but can't walk far and doesn't like being left for long which has kinda messed up our break.

On Sunday we met up for a carvery with most of the family down here. After the meal most of them were settled in for a session, plus the pub was going to show the game. My wife and her brother we're quite happy his mil insisted on going and they didn't want to upset her. So we ended up driving from place to place, she didn't want to walk and didn't really want to get out and look at views. All with my wife trying to placate a pissed off husband.
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Use of the term "deep dive" at the workplace. A classic bullshitters' phrase.
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Two things, interrelated.

1. Some knuckledragger stealing the mrs purse from on top of the car at the local supermarche while she was getting the kids out. £100 cash gone, cards to now cancel and replace, a driving license to pay for etc.

2. The mrs thinking the roof of the car in plain view of everyone whilst she was in the back unstrapping a toddler was a good place to leave her purse.
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Expensive lesson for the Sendo clan! But f*** me, what a total **** for nicking it!!!

Outlook/Calendar - brilliant piece of kit for looking at who is off site and when, only though when they fill the poxy thing in, had to arrange a meeting 3 times as the ****ing numpties can't be bothered to fill it in properly. So I was very unprofessional and just sent an e-mail to all three sites with ** in to cover up my swearing at them, never done that, but f*** them, useless c**** :D
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Passwords.

New policy at work, now needs to be 12 characters, have upper & lowercase, a number and a non-alphanumeric character. To be changed every 60 days.

Ridiculous.
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Being given a £100 fine for the “criminal offence” I just committed in Sainsbury’s car park. Apparently when I got out the car, the wind blew a receipt out of my car and it flitted across the car park. Hats off to the eagle-eyed officer for spotting it and ensuring I was fairly punished for my crime. I’ve really been taught a lesson today.
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sendô wrote:Passwords.

New policy at work, now needs to be 12 characters, have upper & lowercase, a number and a non-alphanumeric character. To be changed every 60 days.

Ridiculous.
Were you also told not to write it down?
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DasNutNock wrote:Being given a £100 fine for the “criminal offence” I just committed in Sainsbury’s car park. Apparently when I got out the car, the wind blew a receipt out of my car and it flitted across the car park. Hats off to the eagle-eyed officer for spotting it and ensuring I was fairly punished for my crime. I’ve really been taught a lesson today.
^ By a copper? Surely you can appeal, or else go down to the police station and complain?
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sendô wrote:
Ridiculous.
That's only 11 characters, and there's no number
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sendô wrote:By a copper? Surely you can appeal, or else go down to the police station and complain?
By some "council officer" with a camera attached to her vest. Couldn't she have just asked me to pick it up, or is that less profitable?

I'll have a word with them, but I suspect they'll treat me with the contempt they reserve for hardened criminals such as myself.
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That's akin to the "Traffic Enforcers" who like to nick people outside the clinic near my house that park with half a wheel over the dotted line in the marked bays at the side of the road.

They're not keeping the road or the pavement clear or doing any sort of service to the public, but will of course get some commission out of your misery.
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Aye, they weren't able to empty our bins much of the summer, but they were able to fine my neighbour for parking his car slightly over a dropped kerb - one that's adjacent to a "driveway" that was built over at least 30 years previously.

I understand it's a collective responsibility to keep the country clean & tidy, but f*ck me, £100 because a bit of paper blew out of my car? I am going to make some trouble for the council over this - completely legally, of course, because I learned my lesson that crime doesn't pay. But I'm going to waste a pile of their time and resources, and I'm going to enjoy doing it.
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'A person is guilty of an offence if he throws down, drops or otherwise deposits any litter in any place to which this section applies and leaves it.

That's the actual law there (if your legal notice relates to s87 of the Environmental Protection Act).

Have you 'otherwise deposited' and 'left' a piece of paper, if it is taken by the wind from your vehicle?

£100 for a single piece of paper seems totally disproportionate...ridiculous even.
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DasNutNock wrote:Being given a £100 fine for the “criminal offence” I just committed in Sainsbury’s car park. Apparently when I got out the car, the wind blew a receipt out of my car and it flitted across the car park. Hats off to the eagle-eyed officer for spotting it and ensuring I was fairly punished for my crime. I’ve really been taught a lesson today.
I'm thinking what is needed here is a 'sad face' story in the Daily Mail...
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sendô wrote:That's akin to the "Traffic Enforcers" who like to nick people outside the clinic near my house that park with half a wheel over the dotted line in the marked bays at the side of the road.

They're not keeping the road or the pavement clear or doing any sort of service to the public, but will of course get some commission out of your misery.
The same c***s who hide behind trees and fences taking pictures and alleged video evidence of you supposedly parked illegally rather than come and explain to and ask you to move your vehicle, resulting in a parking ticket in the post couple of days later.

Mind you, I went up to the Sutton civic offices to request a viewing of the video, to which they told me I had to arrange a date and time. I did and by the time I got home (about 30 minutes), I received a phone call from someone at the parking fine department telling me to save time, she had reviewed the footage. It clearly showed me loading my car and therefore they would take no further action.

Although she was right about me loading the car, I've always believed I called their bluff. There was never any footage, they just asked the c**t who took the photo.
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Winds me up that they do that “pay within 10 days and save 20%!!!” nonsense, too. Bad enough when it’s private clampers, utterly shameless when it’s the council. So petty and opportunistic.

Also, where’s the line drawn? I’ve got a pile of stuff I need to get shot of out of the shed - decorating crud, sacks of old tiles, all sorts. If I take it to the tip, they’ll charge me for it (per bag, a nice fair way of calculating the price). So I might as well just take it to Sainsbury’s and dump it in their car park - if I get a fine, I’ll probably break even anyway, or I might just get away with it and they can pay to take it away.
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