Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[A100man]

OK HK, I'm biting.. probably the mention of teh word 'knickers' that did it..
Where is this weekend occurring and why are you having multi-course dinners at a quarter to 4 IN THE MORNING!?
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[hellkat]

I'm in Milan.
In fact it's work. I am here to meet a new client.
He and his wife have been feeding me non-stop.
So I wasn't having multicourse dinners at 4am.
I had already had them, and was awake because the eyeties in the next room were shagging. And bottom slapping and going Oh!
Jiggy-jig is not nearly as much fun if you're not the one doing it.
Hopefully they've checked out today
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[JackButler]

[Riejufixing]

Stopped in the van for a 125-er at the side of the road in the rain. It turned out that his chain had come off. It was very, very slack indeed and there was no adjustment left (the spindle had reached the back of the oval eye in the swinging-arm). It was apparently "booked in" but he needed to keep riding it. I forgot to tell him that if he bought a couple of spanners he could do the job himself. Grr!

Ugh.

[pepperami]

I opened a door for an older couple yesterday, they walked through and didn’t even say thank you .
As they walked off I said “thank you “ in a loud voice and I was sure I heard the old man say “fugg off” under his breath and the old lady could have killed me with the dirty look she gave me.

You just get kicked up the arse trying to help

Yer yer I know , first world problems.
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[recman]

[hellkat]

[King29]

[pepperami]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[WreckTangle]

what pissed me off today? woke up this morning..........no running water

had to use the showers at the local gym to prevent myself smelling like a dead horse.

Found the local roundabout was flooded with tonnes of water, despite the fact that their was no rain for the last couple of days. Suspect the flooding to be some kind of mains water leak............ oh what joys a monday morning brings
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My wife asked me to get her something that goes from 0-100 in under 5 seconds for her birthday. ......................I got her a bathroom scale.

[hellkat]

[hellkat]

Today my gears have been ground by one of my consultants not telling me that she was expecting three fourth-year medical students for enrichment on Monday morning at 9 a.m.

So I rocked up at work at 9.45 in my usual louche way, carrying a posh mocha and thinking lustfully about the sausage roll tucked away in my handbag, only to be confronted by my Prof with his nose out of joint, insisting that I immediately go down and sort them out with some badges.

Turns out the consultant emailed me from Eurostar at 6.50am THIS MORNING to let me know they were coming because she had forgotten to let me know before I swanned off on my own international travels. Thanks for that, luv.

Still, they were nice boys and terribly polite.

But I didn't get back to my sausage roll until gone 12.30 by which time it was cold and not nearly as nice when I nuked it.
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[Riejufixing]

A bottle of Barcardi spiced "spirit drink". "Made with rum and spices". Bought by a very good friend, so I have to drink it. I really will, but it's not my sort of thing, and it takes some swallowing. Smells of some sort of weak coffee liqeur nixed with Cupressocyparis leylandii sap and a good whiff of butterscotch flavoured blancmange, plus something I can't put my finger on and don't really want to, and a finish of watered-down surgical spirits. How very disappointing, although the gesture was magnificent.

[A100man]

[Polarbear]

Bacardi has turned shite. That spiced rum, and I use that term loosely, is disgusting.

I got a spiced rum from lidl's a few weeks ago, it just tasted of vanilla.
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[Riejufixing]

[hellkat]

Well I like my Baileys Espresso Creme.
But I might be a bit of a lame-o because I'm not much of a drinker, so I am easily pleased.

I do like a nice fine spirit, and can even tell the difference between decent grappa and gut-rot.

I'm not a fan of Jack Daniels either, even less so of the new flavoured types. I only used to drink the original one cos my (then)-fella liked it. But I used to put half as much JD in mine as in his and then top mine up with Coke as opposed to two fingers (if that) of Coke for him , ugh.

But in general, I'm easily entertained by interestingly-flavoured things. I keep buying all those different flavoured liqueurs ("Sourz" etc) but I taste them and then go off them. I'm not interested in drinking alone. But now and then a little taste is quite nice. I'd just rather drink them in the company of someone else.

The Esteemed Margaret bought me some rather nice Stroopwaafel liqueur and the only reason I am not drinking it is because I will be sad when it runs out
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[hellkat]

I'm also rather fond of a nice Sauternes, bit o' noble rot never hurts, and I might have been known to cane a bottle of that by myself (but then the bottles are smaller than most other bottles anyway )






"A bottle of sweet sherry for the ladies ..."
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Riejufixing]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Islander]

You can make Baileys (barely) acceptable by chucking loads of ice into it.

[JackButler]

Shandy drinkers, the lot of ya.

There is only one true alcoholic beverage & that is Whisky, and none of that whiskey imposter shite either.

Single malt & at least 10yrs old. (Poteen excepted)

It is said that there are only 5x true single malt whiskies in the world & a wee dram of any of 'em would convert even the most effeminate of you.
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[Islander]

A cloud application supplier has well and truly ground my gears.

I have a standard questionnaire that any prospective supplier of cloud services is required to complete. It checks their security posture and some data protection issues as well. Normally, I'd expect to ask for a point or two to be clarified before saying yes or no. This particular supplier (in the education sector which might go a long way to explaining things...) has had the questionnaire returned twice. The first time they answered it with a load of sales literature, the second time they ignored a lot of the context of the questions and answered with irrelevant guff.

I've just got it back and had to email them for clarification on two easy to understand and easy to answer questions because their response was a single paragraph that not only ignored the questions, but actually failed to make any sense whatsoever.

Education schmeducation. It does not bode well for these clowns.

[Diggs]

You can always make Baileys better by adding more whisky.
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