Author Topic: things that really p** you off (Read 699045 times)

Ishil · « **Reply #1726 on:** December 20, 2011, 09:11:19 PM »

Quote from: leadhead on December 20, 2011, 06:18:22 AM

Quote from: beefcake on December 12, 2011, 03:31:10 AM
I hate that too. We have a guy that goes up and down our residential street on his motorbike reaching 90+kmph. Dork.

Get some spike strips.

Or a length of cheese wire.

leadhead · « **Reply #1727 on:** December 20, 2011, 10:26:56 PM »

That'd be messier.

beefcake · « **Reply #1728 on:** December 20, 2011, 11:01:17 PM »

But more effective.

Vermis · « **Reply #1729 on:** December 20, 2011, 11:59:32 PM »

Captain Mainwairing: "The result - instant decapitation! Doesn't know what's happened."

Walker: "Not 'til 'e nods 'is 'ead!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoKJGk6D6qg

Gothy Beans · « **Reply #1730 on:** December 21, 2011, 04:12:11 PM »

Jolliness, bravado, smiles.. Christmas.
Ignoring the elephant in the room.
"p*** me off" isn't right. It more makes me feel odd and hollow.

My Aunt who is so strong has secondary (thirdary?) cancer and being amazingly brave. Everyone is being brave.
The atmosphere is peculiar, but what is the alternative? Sulking, wailing and defeat, I guess..

Parents should be immortal, my cousins are a year or two younger than me, I'm only 23.. I cannot imagine how it feels.

beefcake · « **Reply #1731 on:** December 21, 2011, 07:21:02 PM »

deepest sympathies. A hard time of year for this sort of thing, not that it would be any harder other times.

DRAGON · « **Reply #1732 on:** December 21, 2011, 09:08:32 PM »

Lorry drivers who dont know how high their vehicles are and keep demolishing the end of the canopy at work. This one was an agency driver for a local firm - I can just imagine the phone conversation yesterday :
"have you got any work today ?"
"two words F**K Off !"
I reckon the the insurance claim is going to run into quite a few thousand due to 15 hours lost sales for the filling station plus the damage as all the metal work is individually ordered with specialist paint from Germany. Hate to see what the insurance premiums for the lorry firm will be next year !
I didn't mind the night shift with no customers - but was getting a fed up with people asking "what hit the canopy ?" my favourite sarcastic reply was "An irate Bolivian Traffic Warden on a space hopper !"

Vermis · « **Reply #1733 on:** December 22, 2011, 09:23:48 AM »

Lessons learned:

1. Research the cost of free-range poultry before ordering.

2. Save up for next year's.

3. Then get a frozen one instead.

libertee · « **Reply #1734 on:** December 22, 2011, 01:53:31 PM »

Quote from: Vermis on December 22, 2011, 09:23:48 AM

Lessons learned:

1. Research the cost of free-range poultry before ordering.

2. Save up for next year's.

3. Then get a frozen one instead.

made an expensive error then? Wait until you go for 'Free Range Organic Fed' ... you would need a 2nd mortgage!

Aldi are selling fresh ones for £19.99

Gothy Beans · « **Reply #1735 on:** December 22, 2011, 04:25:56 PM »

Quote from: beefcake on December 21, 2011, 07:21:02 PM

deepest sympathies. A hard time of year for this sort of thing, not that it would be any harder other times.

There's a big family meal on thr 28th and part of me wants to go, part of me slightly doesn't, because it might be really odd.
Selfish, I know.

Vermis · « **Reply #1736 on:** December 22, 2011, 05:42:15 PM »

Quote from: libertee on December 22, 2011, 01:53:31 PM

made an expensive error then? Wait until you go for 'Free Range Organic Fed' ... you would need a 2nd mortgage!

I ordered a goose from a farm shop weeks ago, asked the price but they didn't know how much until they got them in. Then I watched that bugger Jimmy Doherty on TV, talking about how a scrawny free-range turkey would set you back £60, and I did something like this:

I should've phoned during the last couple of weeks, but I waited and fretted 'til today. £40. Not cheap, but not as bad as my worst imaginings. Good thing I only ordered a small one.

New year's resolution: put another sock under the mattress. Label it 'goose'.

You're right about organic birds, too. Whoof.

Also: sorry Gothy. I know something about how that feels. Makes worrying about pricey poultry look daft.

beefcake · « **Reply #1737 on:** December 22, 2011, 07:07:37 PM »

Quote from: libertee on December 22, 2011, 01:53:31 PM

Quote from: Vermis on December 22, 2011, 09:23:48 AM
Lessons learned:

1. Research the cost of free-range poultry before ordering.

2. Save up for next year's.

3. Then get a frozen one instead.

made an expensive error then? Wait until you go for 'Free Range Organic Fed' ... you would need a 2nd mortgage!

Aldi are selling fresh ones for £19.99

So fresh you have to use an axe?

fog99uk · « **Reply #1738 on:** December 23, 2011, 10:12:30 PM »

having to work a full day on christmas eve. But in my last job i worked on christmas day, every year, for 5 years.

Ben Brownlie · « **Reply #1739 on:** December 24, 2011, 10:48:40 PM »

Not being able to find my nice new android phone

Then ringing home and my wife telling me she can see it in the road, it must have fallen out of my pocket when I got in the car this morning

Then her telling me it looks like I ran over it when I drove away...

Inso · « **Reply #1740 on:** December 24, 2011, 11:13:05 PM »

Quote from: Vermis on December 22, 2011, 09:23:48 AM

Lessons learned:

1. Research the cost of free-range poultry before ordering.

2. Save up for next year's.

3. Then get a frozen one instead.

I feel your pain...

My wife never asked the cost before ordering. A goose to feed 6...we picked it up yesterday...£76-00!

All I can say is, I hope the butcher doesn't trip over his gold plated door step as he enters his marble clad porch!

...mind you...if it tastes as good as the one last year, I can almost believe I can stop crying about it

...

Cultist of Sooty · « **Reply #1741 on:** December 26, 2011, 11:19:14 AM »

Blimey. At that price, are you sure there's not a golden egg inside it? Best check before you put it in the oven.

Steel Penguin · « **Reply #1742 on:** December 26, 2011, 11:46:18 AM »

i hate to say it but if you want a decent Goose thats what youll be looking at, they arnt a popular as turky so there less "mass produced" meaning unit costs tend to be higher. and the taste is that much better, and you get the goose fat to cook with.
but Ive been getting goose for abought a decade, and the descion is that the price is worth it... ( YMMV)

Inso · « **Reply #1743 on:** December 26, 2011, 01:01:53 PM »

I agree...the goose was worth every penny (it tasted great

).

Vermis · « **Reply #1744 on:** December 26, 2011, 03:46:03 PM »

Me sprouts tasted like they'd been cooked with mustard. Blergh! What happened there? I'm going to guess not enough boiling with too much frying.

Third day of tripping up over passive-aggressive sisters; it's starting to wear thin.

You should never meet your heroes, or read their books. Got the River Cottage Meat Book yesterday, and I'm finally starting to go off Hugh's condescending preaching. (And preaching and preaching and preaching... get to the recipes already!)*

Page 130, though...

Quote

There is one obvious and unavoidable objection to my plea for a fresh start - that free range poultry is so much more expensive. And as for organic birds - well, you'd better take out a second mortgage to get one of those.

Me own goose wasn't too bad either - nice 'n' moist, surprisingly beefy.

*Cue Brownlie with some quip like, "You're no stranger to that eh Warren eh eh nudge nudge wink wink?"

Cultist of Sooty · « **Reply #1745 on:** December 26, 2011, 06:59:52 PM »

There was a day last year when, while riding my bike along the towpath by the river, I was accosted by an overly territorial goose. The only two places to go were over the goose or into the river. So I was forced to run over Mr Goose and then wring his neck to put him out of his misery.

On the plus side, he made a great Sunday lunch. Cheap, too. Though I did get some funny looks riding home through Walthamstow with a dead goose slung over my handlebars.

Gangrel · « **Reply #1746 on:** December 26, 2011, 07:12:42 PM »

Quote from: Vermis on December 26, 2011, 03:46:03 PM

You should never meet your heroes, or read their books.

I once met one of my favourite SF authors. Not only arrogant but he made a pass at my then girlfriend in front of me!

beefcake · « **Reply #1747 on:** December 26, 2011, 07:58:37 PM »

What an ass

weareblind · « **Reply #1748 on:** December 27, 2011, 08:27:46 PM »

Worth of a fist

Steel Penguin · « **Reply #1749 on:** December 27, 2011, 08:37:31 PM »

back to work tommorow

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