Caught a repeat the other day of Room 101 with Frank Skinner and it got me thinking what would I put in my room 101
So here's mine
1/ Drivers who use handheld mobile phones while driving.
2/ Rudeness....you can be angry you can be upset you can be annoyed but there is no excuse for rudeness.
3/The shopper shufflers...you know the ones I mean, people who seem to fall into a zombie like state when in a high street and are incapable of walking at a decent pace and then when you decide you're going to "overtake" them they swerve in front of you
These do change from time to time with the exception of No. 1. so what would you put in your ROOM 101
What I would put in room 101? Loads of things, but your remark about shuffling shoppers (I hate them too) immediately brought the 'stopping/blocking shoppers' to mind.
1. You know the ones: they congregate in shop doorways, or just inside shops in narrow isles, and prevent anyone from coming or going without having to contort themselves.
2. I also hate the internet 'greats,' that try to get hold of all sort of personal information.
I'll add more when I think of them.
Worse than Shopping Shufflers are the ones that you follow up the escalator and when they get to the top they remain stationary wondering whether to turn left or right and everbody behind them bump into one another. :uglystupid2:
As it is always a good idea to keep politics and religion out of this sort of discussion there's not whole lot left. But I can share some minor irritations;
Why is it that it is impossible to buy reasonably priced picture frames that match standard print dimensions?
Why is there always one person in the Eurotunnel border control queue who thought it was a really cool idea to pack their passports first and then stuff the luggage area to the gunnels so that they have to unpack the entire vehicle to find them? And why don't they even start to look for them until they are sitting next to the customs booth?
Ditto re: picture frames H >:(
Based just on my return to the gym for an hour today after 2 months out:
1. People who straddle two parking spaces in an otherwise full car park!
2. People who swim in pairs in the pool , pausing to stand and chat without warning in front of you when you have already slowed to their crawls pace!
3. Faster swimmers who decide to swim diagonally across the pool and do the crawl , head down and oblivious to who they kick!
4. People who go into the sauna as a group of friends that fill up the bottom tier benches but make no effort to let you access the available upper ones and then chat to each other as they leave with the door open allowing the room to lose all heat.
5. Men who think it is OK to do that great hacking, productive cough in the shower cubicle next door and up stream of you and the drainssomehow thinking it is OK!
6. Starbucks who not content wit taking over the world have now moved in on my gym and charge twice as much for inferior products!
7. Bus drivers who toot at you when you have noted the bus lane ends at 9.30 am and it is now 9.32 giving you entitlement to go in it!
Shall I go on.......
It`s great relaxation to start the day with a swim and sauna visit ::)
This was just too good an opportunity to pass up...........
People who sit in the middle lane on motorways when not overtaking anything
Van drivers who sit in the outside lane on motorways but cannot keep up with the flow of traffic
Parents who think it's fine to let their 6 year old push the supermarket trolley on a Saturday and then get upset when I run said 6 year old over with my supermarket trolley – just to clarify, it is a supermarket not a play park.
The damn dog that keeps peeing on my front lawn and killing patches of grass............
PPI calls
The 'I'm owed £3500 for the accident I had' text messages
The bloke from BT that keeps ringing me up and telling me that he can do up to 80meg broadband and beat the price of Virgins 60meg broadband but currently BT have no plans to cable my village??
As a non driver, I'm spared the highway abusers, thank goodness.
Well, not all of them: Some delight in racing through puddles, which at the moment are more like in shore lakes, and laugh at pedestrians getting soaked.
I'm warming to this!
- Young mothers in large 4X4's having just dropped Justin and Samantha off at the creche, meeting at the local coffee shop and struggling to park said large 4X4 holding up other traffic for an eternity in the parking lot.
- The sale assistant in the corner shop who can't work out the change from £1 for something costing 55p, not just once, but every day!
- The same said assistant denigrating the English football team as no-hopers and hooligans whilst pausing from reading the Sun.
-People who sail through the shop door that you've held open for them without a word of acknowledgement or thanks.
and finally (for today at least)
- photographers that think it's 'cool' to expose to the public at large the bewildered, the unfortunate, the sick and the lame along with a diatribe about their unfortunate circumstances. >:(
Parents who think it is perfectly acceptable to allow their child age range 4 to 14 to STAND UP in a supermarket trolley....had the unfortunate experience of going to me localish Asda the other week and turned the corner of the aisle and bashed into a trolley i didn't know was there and the kid who was standing up fell over....and I got the look from the parent like it was my fault....IF YOU'RE CHILD GETS INJURED BECAUSE YOU ARE STUPID AND IRRESPONSIBLE ENOUGH TO LET THEM STAND UP IN A TROLLEY IT IS YOUR FAULT AND NO-ONE ELSES....
Idiots in cars that think it's fun to drive through puddles and try and soak people who are walking to work/waiting for the bus...no it wasn't me that was at the bust stop I was on the other side of the road walking to work but it was a deliberate attempt by the driver either that or he was p****d cos he had to swerve over to the other side of the road to the puddle where the bus stop is and people were waiting a***hole
Re your supermarket issue Keith, I had a toddler run into my trolley once - he was doing that normal toddler thing of charging around and not looking where he was running. He hit the deck, and then his mother turned around and started swearing at me. She was so incensed that she actually lost her balance and fell over herself trying to 'rescue' her little darling. I offered my hand to help her up, but she kept up her stream of abuse. Even though she hadn't a) had control of her child and b) seen the collision. Makes you proud to be human.
OK more offers:
1. Bus Lanes. The best way to reduce the carrying capacity of a road by at least a third. Totally nuts, environmentally as well as economically.
2. Rain. Should only be allowed overnight during the summer months
3. Tablet Computers. I have had one for more two months now, and I still can't work out what the hell they're actually FOR (but at least mine has an HDMI output). They don't do much more (if anything) than a 'phone*, but are too big for a shirt pocket and they are vastly less capable at everything than a laptop/netbook more or less the same size that costs the same or often loads less. And you have to keep cleaning the finger prints off of the screen. Steve Jobs was right when he said they were just toys. If they can't go in Room 101, then they at least belong in the K-Tel cupboard under the sink.
*No wonder Notes™ are flying off the shelves.
One of my husband's favourite hates:
People, often old ladies, who insist on packing everything in their shopping bags, before they even start looking for their purse.
Some then start rummaging, because they may have the right amount in coins. And seldom do.
Folk who block up the 10 item isle with an over flowing trolley and are so impolite to the elderly and frail patiently waiting on wobbly legs to pay for their single loaf of bread. (Although handing them a video to play when they are old and frail may be better than banishment)
Quote from: Reinardina on June 12, 2012, 11:16:41 AM
One of my husband's favourite hates:
People, often old ladies, who insist on packing everything in their shopping bags, before they even start looking for their purse.
Some then start rummaging, because they may have the right amount in coins. And seldom do.
Oh yes! It's like 'do I really have to pay for this? Oh, I hadn't thought of that'. And they often combine this behaviour with Andy's 10 item queue gripe.
and . .
Cyclists who think red traffic lights apply to everyone else but them.
Pedestrians who see the 'don't walk' sign on at traffic lights and only read the 'walk' bit.
I'm sure more things will come to me. I am, after all, a grumpy old so and so as well as a bit of a dinosaur.
Young mums with pushchairs who think everyone should give way to them all the time.
Bus drivers who lack any awareness of public service, will stop the bus anywhere to have a chat on phone or read the paper. Who regard the timetable as not relevant and will run ten minutes early or ten minutes late.
But the thing that really gets me hot under the collar is bad manners in all walks of life. This includes ladies who sail through a door held open for them without saying thankyou, drivers who regard amber lights as a speed up sign to jump the red lights, drivers who edge forward whilst the green crossing man is on for pedestrians, drivers who regard the red light on a pedestrians crossing as not a requirement to stop, drivers who park all over the pavement forcing people on foot to walk in the road.....I could go on but due to a heart attack must stop now! >:(
Jimmy Carr
Cyclists who think because it't the longest day they can ride around without lights at 10:30 at night
Rude people (all of them) :knuppel2:
My 101
Jerks on Tech sites who don't appear to be able to answer the questions posted and so ask stupid questions of you like "Explain why you want to do this". Or don't appear to read your whole question because if they had they'd know why.
Or self same type of jerk who, when you ask a question about apples, gives you back an answer about oranges.
Quote from: spinner on June 27, 2012, 11:08:46 PM
My 101
Jerks on Tech sites who don't appear to be able to answer the questions posted and so ask stupid questions of you like "Explain why you want to do this". Or don't appear to read your whole question because if they had they'd know why.
Or self same type of jerk who, when you ask a question about apples, gives you back an answer about oranges.
You should answer that you really wanted to know how may jerks would pop out from the woodwork! :2funny: :2funny: :uglystupid2:
Pasta
The word Cannon.
Why? Because a quick search of ebay seems to indicate that a number of sellers can't even copy the 5 letters on their strap/bag/camera/flash! :dance:
Quote from: Oldboy on June 28, 2012, 12:08:02 AM
Quote from: spinner on June 27, 2012, 11:08:46 PM
My 101
Jerks on Tech sites who don't appear to be able to answer the questions posted and so ask stupid questions of you like "Explain why you want to do this". Or don't appear to read your whole question because if they had they'd know why.
Or self same type of jerk who, when you ask a question about apples, gives you back an answer about oranges.
You should answer that you really wanted to know how may jerks would pop out from the woodwork! :2funny: :2funny: :uglystupid2:
I would but I'm running out of Tech sites I haven't been kicked off because of something similar. :doh:
A variation on my previous 101. People who post on forums and it's clear they didn't actually read the article they posted about.
Either that or reading comprehension has taken a real nose dive.
Some of my clients.........................
People who dont pay the extra to have indicators on their cars >:(
Quote from: Karen on September 10, 2012, 06:23:04 PM
People who dont pay the extra to have indicators on their cars >:(
Some of those big cars have them as optional extra's I understand :dance:
The packs bacon come in........I can never peel the film off the top, if I am lucky enough to get a decent grip on the smallest "easy open" tab known to man between my thumb and finger, you need a pull like a herd of elephants. Even if you do manage to start to prise the film lid off (at this point all circulation has ceased in your digits and beads of sweat start to appear on your brow)...your elation is short lived as you watch a tear appear, taking a diagonal path toward the edge leaving you with a triangular hole in the film and similar shaped piece of film between your fingers! At this point I take out the kitchen knife and cut the lid off.....something I should have done in the first place! :knuppel2:
Quote from: highlandscenics on September 10, 2012, 07:16:14 PM
The packs bacon come in........I can never peel the film off the top, if I am lucky enough to get a decent grip on the smallest "easy open" tab known to man between my thumb and finger, you need a pull like a herd of elephants. Even if you do manage to start to prise the film lid off (at this point all circulation has ceased in your digits and beads of sweat start to appear on your brow)...your elation is short lived as you watch a tear appear, taking a diagonal path toward the edge leaving you with a triangular hole in the film and similar shaped piece of film between your fingers! At this point I take out the kitchen knife and cut the lid off.....something I should have done in the first place! :knuppel2:
Some have the skill; some don't! :P :doh:
Theres a similar technique required when trying to retreive the end of a toiler roll, right up inside the industrial size dispenser in work toilets................
However, this technique, once mastered, has its merits .......
Folk that sit right up yer butt in their cars...you can see I have a theme going on here :2funny:
Quote from: Karen on September 11, 2012, 11:23:35 PM
Folk that sit right up yer butt in their cars...you can see I have a theme going on here :2funny:
Them novelty signs that say "Caution, Grandparent Driving", accompianied by a picture of a swerving car. Like that's a plausable excuse for driving like a numpty. "Ahhh, look at this driver he has just cut lanes on the roundabout and is now holding me up at 40mph, but it's OK, they have one of them signs hanging in the rear window, just above the tarten blanket." :uglystupid2:
BT helpline
Keith Chegwin and Timmy Mallet :knuppel2:
People who try to hack into your mail account etc >:(
Shiny screens on computer monitors, fondleslabs, TVs, mobile 'phones - just shiny bl**dy reflective screens. Yes Apple, it's you who I'm talking to; everyone is so enthralled by your shiny™ products they've tried to make theirs look the same (ie as bad as) yours, and have thereby ruined all of nearly all of them. Bring back proper matt screens :knuppel2:
Volkswagon
Volkswagen, tut tut, would not be without one.
My room 101 are drivers that will not get out of the middle lane on a Motorway but persist in doing 60 mph.
you would if you bought a new Golf convertable and 4 days later you needed a new roof then the new roof did the same as the original one and you're still waiting to hear from them 3 weeks later :'(
All TV programmes that plug books, records, plays, shows, cookery 'experts' etc. >:(
Mind you there wouldn't be much left to watch! :-\
People who don't read the questions posted on forums. I was googling for how to move photos from an ipad to a Mac and found a thread on MacRumours that was headed just that. What I found posted were answers clearly designed for Windows Users as they were using terms like "My Computer" And "Click on the Start button". As I've moaned about before on this forum, I'm annoyed by people who answer 'oranges' when the questions are about 'apples'. >:(
Quote from: spinner on November 26, 2012, 04:55:51 PM
People who don't read the questions posted on forums. I was googling for how to move photos from an ipad to a Mac and found a thread on MacRumours that was headed just that. What I found posted were answers clearly designed for Windows Users as they were using terms like "My Computer" And "Click on the Start button". As I've moaned about before on this forum, I'm annoyed by people who answer 'oranges' when the questions are about 'apples'. >:(
I'm feeling like a broken record, but, it's happened again. Trying to resolve an issue with a wireless card on a Win7 install. By process of elimination I'm leaning towards the net protocols in the install being corrupt. I post a question asking how I might go about installing new protocols without a reinstall of Windows. Or even if I can get new protocols in an independent package. What's the answer I get?
Hold the router reset button for 30 secs and power it on and off.
The Andrex advert where it asks if you "Scrunch or fold".......They even have a poll on their website........Wrong.
Weather forecasters!!!!!! >:( :knuppel2:
Half, or fully, intoxicated young males on aeroplanes. Especially when they all queue for the loo, and come out with their fly still undone.
Quote from: Reinardina on February 15, 2013, 07:57:52 AM
Half, or fully, intoxicated young males on aeroplanes. Especially when they all queue for the loo, and come out with their fly still undone.
Well, as long as they don't let it all hang out! :-[ :legit:
Quote from: Oldboy on February 15, 2013, 09:23:30 AM
Quote from: Reinardina on February 15, 2013, 07:57:52 AM
Half, or fully, intoxicated young males on aeroplanes. Especially when they all queue for the loo, and come out with their fly still undone.
Well, as long as they don't let it all hang out! :-[ :legit:
Haven't witnessed that, thank goodness.
Young mums with pushchairs crossing the road whilst texting :knuppel2:
Quote from: Reinardina on February 15, 2013, 07:57:52 AM
Half, or fully, intoxicated young males on aeroplanes. Especially when they all queue for the loo, and come out with their fly still undone.
For the record, our Stag party was well behaved..... :D :2funny:
For me it has to be the 2 two young Mums pushing prams side by side. Instead of one falling in behind the other, they force you into the road. I'm sure some use said prams as an excuse to barge past and expect to have right of way in all situations........... :uglystupid2:
All cookery programmes, except one, (to be balloted for by the viewers), a complete waste of time and effort. I mean, how many do you need to show you how to cook a decent meal? :doh:
Quote from: highlandscenics on March 27, 2013, 05:45:39 PM
For me it has to be the 2 two young Mums pushing prams side by side. Instead of one falling in behind the other, they force you into the road. I'm sure some use said prams as an excuse to barge past and expect to have right of way in all situations........... :uglystupid2:
Because they have a baby/child in a pushchair they think everyone should be second to them. Also, the size of pushchairs means they take up more room on buses. I was in the Sandwell Valley farm cafe the other week, where some dumb mother placed her pushchair in front of the counter whilst she sat at the table. It made it very difficult to be served but she just ignored it. >:(
Quote from: ABERS on March 27, 2013, 06:52:28 PM
All cookery programmes, except one, (to be balloted for by the viewers), a complete waste of time and effort. I mean, how many do you need to show you how to cook a decent meal? :doh:
I do quite like MasterChef, if only to play the "Spot the Euphemism" game. My favourite this series is John Torrode's "You've got too much honey in you salsa!"
I'm going to use that one!....Hopefully this weekend! :dance:
The current fashion for publicly apologising for past events over which the individual apologising had no part in.
So I would just like to say (OK reductio ad absurdum, but few ideas are more desrving) that I unreservedly apologise for everything that has ever happened to anyone or anything since the first life on the planet began.
I feel so much better :knuppel2:
Quote from: Hinfrance on March 28, 2013, 08:26:50 AM
The current fashion for publicly apologising for past events over which the individual apologising had no part in.
So I would just like to say (OK reductio ad absurdum, but few ideas are more desrving) that I unreservedly apologise for everything that has ever happened to anyone or anything since the first life on the planet began.
I feel so much better :knuppel2:
:2funny:
Don't put yourself in room 101 Howard, you take some excellent photographs ;)
I've resisted up until now but.......
Cyclists - yup, the law applies to you too! Latest episode was the cyclist who banged on the side of the car as we came up to the lights....... because I hadn't moved over to leave room for him to come up the inside! We had the last laugh as OH knew him, wound the window down and told him she was going to tell his father next time she saw him! He did have the grace to look embarrassed!
Cyclists - we all know it's your right but does it make sense. Busy main road, narrow with loads of sharp corners and so long stretches with double white lines...... and there's a road race in progress! Result: chaos with long tailbacks.
Middle-laners, boy racers, the flat cap brigade ("the speed limit says 50 but I'll brake hard to get down to 30 to be on the 'safe' side" - causing all kinds of frustrations)
Safety Camera Partnerships. By all means have your speed camera in a spot where a speed reduction is actually a good thing - as opposed to where it's not really an issue and so is just a cynical method of raising revenue
Dog owners who don't put their dogs on a lead when they meet dog owners with dogs on a lead - nearly as bad as owners who have dogs that rush up to people and then say "Don't worry, s/he's perfectly OK with people" (top tip: some people really don't like dogs and might be scared - doesn't do us dog owners any favours)
That'll do........... for now! ;)
Quote from: Markulous on March 28, 2013, 09:08:21 AM
I've resisted up until now but.......
Cyclists - yup, the law applies to you too! Latest episode was the cyclist who banged on the side of the car as we came up to the lights....... because I hadn't moved over to leave room for him to come up the inside! We had the last laugh as OH knew him, wound the window down and told him she was going to tell his father next time she saw him! He did have the grace to look embarrassed!
Cyclists - we all know it's your right but does it make sense. Busy main road, narrow with loads of sharp corners and so long stretches with double white lines...... and there's a road race in progress! Result: chaos with long tailbacks.
Middle-laners, boy racers, the flat cap brigade ("the speed limit says 50 but I'll brake hard to get down to 30 to be on the 'safe' side" - causing all kinds of frustrations)
Safety Camera Partnerships. By all means have your speed camera in a spot where a speed reduction is actually a good thing - as opposed to where it's not really an issue and so is just a cynical method of raising revenue
Dog owners who don't put their dogs on a lead when they meet dog owners with dogs on a lead - nearly as bad as owners who have dogs that rush up to people and then say "Don't worry, s/he's perfectly OK with people" (top tip: some people really don't like dogs and might be scared - doesn't do us dog owners any favours)
That'll do........... for now! ;)
Can I add to your "middle lane" part........Those who are doing 60mph in a 60mph zone, but as soon as they see a Speed Camera Van, they hammer on the breaks and slow to 40????!!!!.......Annoying is an understatement....
Quote from: highlandscenics on March 28, 2013, 10:03:30 PM
Can I add to your "middle lane" part........Those who are doing 60mph in a 60mph zone, but as soon as they see a Speed Camera Van, they hammer on the breaks and slow to 40????!!!!.......Annoying is an understatement....
Was on the M25 during rush hour, so nose to tail traffic, gantry speed limit posted as 60 mph. Car in front would happily drive with all the traffic until it came to a gantry and then brake hard to 40! Every one! :knuppel2:
I'm a regular through the traffic control gantries around Birmingham and have to say they work extremely well, as does the extra lane during congestion (old hard shoulder)
Endless amounts of pizza and kebab take away leaflets that drop through my letterbox on a daily basis :)
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Can I add to your "middle lane" part........Those who are doing 60mph in a 60mph zone, but as soon as they see a Speed Camera Van, they hammer on the breaks and slow to 40????!!!!.......Annoying is an understatement....
A similar thing.... Driving along the road at say 50mph and you can see the village sign approaching and the 30mph signs. Let's not take our foot off the accelerator and slowly drop down to 30mph.. No.. let's wait until you are level with the sign and drop a huge lead weight onto the brake pedal and go from 50 to 30 in a millisecond >:(
People who haven't heard of indicators and people who can't stay in their own dam lane on a roundabout :knuppel2:
Quote from: JaneM on May 06, 2014, 11:08:10 PM
Endless amounts of pizza and kebab take away leaflets that drop through my letterbox on a daily basis :)
Agree. >:(
OK, I've found a tuppence - so her's my two penneth worth:
People who seem incable of using the roads correctly (cyclists or motorists - they are all as bad as each other)
People who seem incable of answering a question with a straight and honest answer - instead giving us some positively spun rubbish that only annoys.
NIMBY's - don't just hate it - come up with another solution :knuppel2:
People who seem unable to understand the concept of thinking about those around them (that includes people from all walks of life and nationalities)
TV - what is its purpose again?
People who think that having to pay for something is a breach of their human rights!
Well, that's enough for now - got to go and watch the TV to drown out the noisy neighbours who are watching a pirate copy of Noah!
Quote from: Andrew on May 07, 2014, 08:51:51 PM
NIMBY's - don't just hate it - come up with another solution :knuppel2:
Oh do not get me started on NIMBYs. Toronto is full of them. They are consistent, they want the new ___________ (fill in the blank) just not near them. The worst ones are the those that buy near something they do not like and then complain about it. The biggest example of this are those that buy in a funky new former industrial conversion building and then complain about the industry that is still nearby. Or, the classic, move near railway tracks and complain about trains.
Of course this is assuming that NIMBY means "Not In My Back Yard" like it does here.
Yep - we are talking the same language.
My favourite is Crawley - who do nothing but moan about Gatwick Airport without realising that if it closed tomorrow, Crawley would also have to close!
I don't mind them having an opinion - but they never offer up constructive comments, just "not in my backyard" >:(
People in the gym who wipe their sweaty bods with their towel then wipe the machine with it
Quote from: Karen on May 09, 2014, 09:47:59 AM
People in the gym who wipe their sweaty bods with their towel then wipe the machine with it
ewwwwwwwww lol
Too many people I come across who have forgotten three simple words...please and thank you!
Quote from: Karen on May 09, 2014, 09:47:59 AM
People in the gym who wipe their sweaty bods with their towel then wipe the machine with it
oh god yes - forgot about that nasty habit from my gym days.
Men who bring their young daughters into the gents whilst you are using the urinal! :-[
People who don't wash their hands after using the toilet. >:(
Quote from: Oldboy on May 09, 2014, 10:12:01 PM
Men who bring their young daughters into the gents whilst you are using the urinal! :-[
People who don't wash their hands after using the toilet. >:(
Re they running away from the little girls? :dance:
Quote from: Oldboy on May 09, 2014, 10:12:01 PM
Men who bring their young daughters into the gents whilst you are using the urinal! :-[
People who don't wash their hands after using the toilet. >:(
Isn't it interesting how some things go from a "nice to do" to a "rude not to".
I refer to people washing their hands after using the toilet. In my youthful days, using the toilet was probably the cleanest thing we done on a loco - and certainly when attaching a loco to coaching stock when we ran the risk of some R Sole flushing the toilet onto us.
Diesel, Grease, Oil, Grime, Weather Encrusted Dirt, spilled tea or coffee from the previous week - yep, all the normal spoils of a loco cab back in the day. With mess facilities frequently comprising nothing more than a 10x12 garden shed with an outside loo, a cold water supply and 2 hot rings for which one was permently occupied by a kettle - washing your hands was often a last gasp attempt - sometimes nothing more than rinsing you hands in a fresh water stream.
But now, my employer has clean toilets, hot water AND soap :tup:
Cost centred accounting. It'll end civilisation if it's not stopped. I may have mentioned it before, and I'll probably do so again.
Quote from: Hinfrance on May 15, 2014, 06:42:39 PM
Cost centred accounting. It'll end civilisation if it's not stopped. I may have mentioned it before, and I'll probably do so again.
Any chanc eof an explaination about what cost centered accounting actually is? ???
Cannot believe I`ve missed this one - don`t get me started. Like others:
Rude people who don`t know how to say please or thank you
Middle lane hoggers and people who don`t seem to have indicators
The fact that any programme analysing driving standards / deterioration seem to go first to taxi drivers as professionals for comments - another on BBC tonight. I find taxi drivers the worst offenders in coming out without looking / signalling, cutting me up and generally driving badly - professional - don`t make me laugh!
People who slag off the public sector and all of its staff just because it is the public sector. There are good and bad, just as there are in all walks of life - private or public
So many more...
Quote from: Andrew on May 15, 2014, 09:07:02 PM
Quote from: Hinfrance on May 15, 2014, 06:42:39 PM
Cost centred accounting. It'll end civilisation if it's not stopped. I may have mentioned it before, and I'll probably do so again.
Any chanc eof an explaination about what cost centered accounting actually is? ???
It's the way accountants bring to life Oscar Wilde's epigram "A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing". Simply put it's a way of throwing the baby out with the bath water through deliberately looking at everything as discreet and isolated from everything else: the opposite to an holistic approach.
For an extreme example, a manager responsible for the budget for maintenance of a company's vehicles may have a budget that says no more than £200 can be spent on any brake repairs. This restriction comes from his Finance Director who has decided to cut the amount the company spends on maintenance after a cost overrun last year. A £50,000 truck needs £250 of brake work done on it. When it's off the road it costs the company £2000 a day. The brake repairs are not authorised, the truck is sold for £20,000 as irreparable and a new one bought for £80,000 to replace it. While they wait for a new truck to be delivered they hire one for £500 per day.
Total cost to the company of more than £120,000, instead of £50. At the year end the brake manager gets his bonus because he has hit his targets and not spent more than £200 on brake repairs. The fleet manager has a shiny new truck, but next year he is not allowed to buy any more new trucks after a massive overspend in the previous year. The FD also notices that hire charges have increased so he reduces the budget for that and takes a bit more from the maintenance budget as that centre hit its targets. And so it rolls on and on with cost centre targets being constantly shifted to try to fix problems created by cost centre targets.
So, in a nitshell - the blind leading the blind! :uglystupid2:
Quote from: jinky on May 15, 2014, 09:49:35 PM
The fact that any programme analysing driving standards / deterioration seem to go first to taxi drivers as professionals for comments - another on BBC tonight. I find taxi drivers the worst offenders in coming out without looking / signalling, cutting me up and generally driving badly - professional - don`t make me laugh!
People who slag off the public sector and all of its staff just because it is the public sector. There are good and bad, just as there are in all walks of life - private or public
Those who slag off taxi drivers in general. As you say Jinky there are good and bad in all walks of life.
Btw I'm a taxi driver. ::)
People who complain that the weather is too hot when they have complained all winter that it's too cold and they cannot wait until summer! :doh:
Quote from: Hinfrance on May 16, 2014, 08:26:47 AM
Quote from: Andrew on May 15, 2014, 09:07:02 PM
Quote from: Hinfrance on May 15, 2014, 06:42:39 PM
Cost centred accounting. It'll end civilisation if it's not stopped. I may have mentioned it before, and I'll probably do so again.
Any chanc eof an explaination about what cost centered accounting actually is? ???
It's the way accountants bring to life Oscar Wilde's epigram "A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing". Simply put it's a way of throwing the baby out with the bath water through deliberately looking at everything as discreet and isolated from everything else: the opposite to an holistic approach.
For an extreme example, a manager responsible for the budget for maintenance of a company's vehicles may have a budget that says no more than £200 can be spent on any brake repairs. This restriction comes from his Finance Director who has decided to cut the amount the company spends on maintenance after a cost overrun last year. A £50,000 truck needs £250 of brake work done on it. When it's off the road it costs the company £2000 a day. The brake repairs are not authorised, the truck is sold for £20,000 as irreparable and a new one bought for £80,000 to replace it. While they wait for a new truck to be delivered they hire one for £500 per day.
Total cost to the company of more than £120,000, instead of £50. At the year end the brake manager gets his bonus because he has hit his targets and not spent more than £200 on brake repairs. The fleet manager has a shiny new truck, but next year he is not allowed to buy any more new trucks after a massive overspend in the previous year. The FD also notices that hire charges have increased so he reduces the budget for that and takes a bit more from the maintenance budget as that centre hit its targets. And so it rolls on and on with cost centre targets being constantly shifted to try to fix problems created by cost centre targets.
Where I used to work each department was given a budget to spend, but if you didn't spend it all it was cut by that amount next year. So, as it got towards the end of the year a lot of rubbish was brought just to use up the budget. :uglystupid2:
Quote from: deetus on May 17, 2014, 02:51:21 PM
Quote from: jinky on May 15, 2014, 09:49:35 PM
The fact that any programme analysing driving standards / deterioration seem to go first to taxi drivers as professionals for comments - another on BBC tonight. I find taxi drivers the worst offenders in coming out without looking / signalling, cutting me up and generally driving badly - professional - don`t make me laugh!
People who slag off the public sector and all of its staff just because it is the public sector. There are good and bad, just as there are in all walks of life - private or public
Those who slag off taxi drivers in general. As you say Jinky there are good and bad in all walks of life.
Btw I'm a taxi driver. ::)
Guilty as charged Deetus - I actually had a taxi driver let me out yesterday so just goes to show ;)
Quote from: jinky on May 18, 2014, 06:22:39 AM
Quote from: deetus on May 17, 2014, 02:51:21 PM
Quote from: jinky on May 15, 2014, 09:49:35 PM
The fact that any programme analysing driving standards / deterioration seem to go first to taxi drivers as professionals for comments - another on BBC tonight. I find taxi drivers the worst offenders in coming out without looking / signalling, cutting me up and generally driving badly - professional - don`t make me laugh!
People who slag off the public sector and all of its staff just because it is the public sector. There are good and bad, just as there are in all walks of life - private or public
Those who slag off taxi drivers in general. As you say Jinky there are good and bad in all walks of life.
Btw I'm a taxi driver. ::)
Guilty as charged Deetus - I actually had a taxi driver let me out yesterday so just goes to show ;)
Since I had to give up my driving license because of my deteriorating eyesight, I have seen a lot of taxi drivers from the customer's point of view.
I have noticed a remarkable North-South divide. In this case North being South Yorkshire, where my daughter lives and South being Southampton.
Here in the South, most are friendly helpful and chatty, and often older, while 'up North' there are a lot of boy-racer's who, at times, scare the Hell out of me. They are not very talkative and often let me struggle with my suitcase. Maybe because it is easier to get a case into a cab style taxi, then the boot of a normal car?
Decorating. Got the whole house to do from top to bottom, inside and out. :knuppel2:
Quote from: Mick on October 20, 2014, 08:45:19 PM
Decorating. Got the whole house to do from top to bottom, inside and out. :knuppel2:
Join the club.
Yes, I noticed a few on here were decorating. I'm currently putting up Plaster Coving, 36 meters of the stuff, and it's doing my head in. :knuppel2:
I'm only trying to get wall paper off the wall, and that's doing my head in!
It's in the hall, which is a relatively small area, but with very stubborn paper!
Most of the renovating is done for me though, as I'm not capable of fitting kitchens and flooring.
Twitter.
Quote from: Hinfrance on October 21, 2014, 08:23:21 AM
Twitter.
Facebook. It's worse than twitter. ;) IMO.
H, do you have a twitter account / Page?
I did have Mick, but I deleted it some time ago. I found the place to be largely frequented by nasty stupid egotists, and frankly life is too short. Rather like 140 characters is an insufficient number to allow any cogent debate. ;)