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Little things that irritate you
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- claretandblue82
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- DasNutNock
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Re: Little things that irritate you
The lack of decent lookalikes in this office. We've got a few reasonable shouts - Philip Schofield, the animated BFG, and I occasionally bear a bit of a passing resemblance to Terence Stamp as General Zod in Superman 2, but outside of that, it's slim pickings.
At my old place it was a veritable clone-fest, to the point some wag hacked the intranet so if you hovered the mouse pointer over your photo, an "alt" pic of your lookalike was displayed.
There was an extremely pretty and top-heavy lass in accounts whose alt photo displayed a Newton's cradle, in homage to her pendulous bangers. By all accounts, she wasn't best pleased.
At my old place it was a veritable clone-fest, to the point some wag hacked the intranet so if you hovered the mouse pointer over your photo, an "alt" pic of your lookalike was displayed.
There was an extremely pretty and top-heavy lass in accounts whose alt photo displayed a Newton's cradle, in homage to her pendulous bangers. By all accounts, she wasn't best pleased.
- WHU_Del
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Re: Little things that irritate you
It's not always possible to move someone. It'll depend on what their condition is, for a start.Hammers Dad wrote:Delays and cancellations because someone was ill on a previous train.
Get them off the train and get it on it's way. Deal with that person at the railway station
- Dover KUMB fan
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Re: Little things that irritate you
The best 'excuse' I ever heard on a train for a 20 minute delay was 'The high volume of train traffic in the London area'Hammers Dad wrote:Delays and cancellations because someone was ill on a previous train.
Get them off the train and get it on it's way. Deal with that person at the railway station
What you are saying is that you didn't expect all of these trains in the area at 0800 on a Monday morning??
So if any of you are thinking of taking your trains out for a spin, please can you do it at a quieter time?
FFS!!
- bondsbootlaces
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Right up there with the fairly common "unexpected congestion in the Upton Park area" I heard a few times when we were still at the BG. How was it unexpected?! They'd had the fixtures for months!
- Hammers Dad
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Hammers Dad wrote:Delays and cancellations because someone was ill on a previous train.
Get them off the train and get it on it's way. Deal with that person at the railway station
It's ALWAYS possible to move them.....grab an ankle and wrist each, pick them up and dump 'em on the platform!WHU_Del wrote: It's not always possible to move someone. It'll depend on what their condition is, for a start.
:twisted:
- Hammer Laffers
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It is first thing we tell people and do ourselves is get them off the train, even if that means dragging them onto the platform by their ankles.WHU_Del wrote: It's not always possible to move someone. It'll depend on what their condition is, for a start.
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There was an asian bloke here not long ago, affable chap but bound to talk a reasonable amount of codswallop. "Trust me, we'll sort it" and that sort of thing. Given his height and stature, and the above mentioned wideboy-esque nature, someone compared him to Delboy from Only Fools & Horses.DasNutNock wrote:The lack of decent lookalikes in this office. We've got a few reasonable shouts - Philip Schofield, the animated BFG, and I occasionally bear a bit of a passing resemblance to Terence Stamp as General Zod in Superman 2, but outside of that, it's slim pickings.
At my old place it was a veritable clone-fest, to the point some wag hacked the intranet so if you hovered the mouse pointer over your photo, an "alt" pic of your lookalike was displayed.
Someone else took it further and referred to him as Delhi-boy - given his heritage - and changed his intranet photo to that of Peckham's favourite wheeler dealer.
He was not happy.
- hammerdivone
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So in todays PC world these two posts contain sexist and racist stories.
Bloody funny though
Bloody funny though
- Jonah
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Nerve block injection in S1/L5 area for Sciatica. Nice.
Looking forward to being pain free for a couple of weeks I hope though. :raver:
Looking forward to being pain free for a couple of weeks I hope though. :raver:
- Clucking Bell
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Chinese **** on Amazon.
In recent times I've bought:
1. A TIG welder
2. Inductive proximity sensors
3. An ultrasonic flow meter
It's all very well that I get my money back but, the fact that I waste hours and days on **** that just doesn't ****ing work pisses me off.
I then have to buy over-priced German and Japanese **** that does work ...... and why doesn't the US or UK make any of this stuff? There's no point in being the champion at World Wars if you don't get any benefits from winning!
In recent times I've bought:
1. A TIG welder
2. Inductive proximity sensors
3. An ultrasonic flow meter
It's all very well that I get my money back but, the fact that I waste hours and days on **** that just doesn't ****ing work pisses me off.
I then have to buy over-priced German and Japanese **** that does work ...... and why doesn't the US or UK make any of this stuff? There's no point in being the champion at World Wars if you don't get any benefits from winning!
Re: Little things that irritate you
Make up your mind stuboy.stuboy wrote:Nerve block injection in S1/L5 area for Sciatica. Nice.
Looking forward to being pain free for a couple of weeks I hope though. :raver:
I can't work out if you're form Sheffield, Liverpool or France.
Furthermore, can Sciatica play a defensive midfield role?
- Mega Ron
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Re: Little things that irritate you
Windows on my computer.
Why does it think it knows better than me what I want to do?
If I have minimised a window and manoeuvre it over to one side of the screen why does it make the ****ing thing full screen?
Can I change a setting for this bitch thing?
Why does it think it knows better than me what I want to do?
If I have minimised a window and manoeuvre it over to one side of the screen why does it make the ****ing thing full screen?
Can I change a setting for this bitch thing?
- DasNutNock
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Re: Little things that irritate you
Are you using/do you ever use multiple screens? Windows often has issues with multiple screens if you use different scale settings for each screen - Citrix XenApp/Desktop is even worse.Mega Ron wrote:Windows on my computer.
Why does it think it knows better than me what I want to do?
If I have minimised a window and manoeuvre it over to one side of the screen why does it make the ****ing thing full screen?
Can I change a setting for this bitch thing?
- DasNutNock
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Have you got a monitor connected to a laptop? Bet you it's a screen scaling issue.Mega Ron wrote:I'm using a citrix thing yes but on just a widescreen monitor
- Hammer1972
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- DasNutNock
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No, Citrix products are notorious for being unable to handle multiple screen scales.
- Hammer1972
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Re: Little things that irritate you
Start > PC Settings > System > Multitasking
will show you all the snap options and allow you to disable any you don't like.
will show you all the snap options and allow you to disable any you don't like.