What Grinds my gears archive B

[Nobby the Bastard]

Looks like it was on BBC3.
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[chickenstrip]

[Ste]

The BBC isn't all useless as without the BBC, the TV licensing jerks wouldn't send someone round to tell me they've read my gas and leccy meters.

[cool story bro and true story bro ]

Who the utter is in command of programming at BBC? Diversity and inclusion, that's who and what's more, diversity and inclusion is gonna get ya so shut your white privileged face.

[chickenstrip]

[yen_powell]

[Ribenapigeon]

Bake off.

[Polarbear]

[chickenstrip]

A robot they call "she".
Presumably they've programmed it to 'feel hurt' if you 'misgender' it.
IT.
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THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!

[Ribenapigeon]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Wash finished 10 minutes ago and there’s no sign of the owner. I checked for a body (the only acceptable excuse) but the car was empty. The driver must have walked 100 yards up the road to the food court/M&S/WH Smiths/toilets. Arsehole! I reversed out and returned later.

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[stinkwheel]

Royal mail strike. I have important ebay tat that needs putting in a drawer!

Top Tip: Royal mail workers. Gain an immediate >6% payrise by not going on strike for 3 weeks this year.
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[P.addy]

[hellkat]

They're just striking because prices are high and wages are not moving high enough to compensate.

People who work in jobs which have strong unions, go on strike.
The rest of us just crack on and quietly bitch about it indoors
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[hellkat]

Today my gears are ground by myself, being completely incapable of booking private patient appointments correctly

WTF is wrong with me?
Even the consultant is like Jen, WTF?

I spent ages setting them up for F2F appointments when they were supposed to be via video. I think my brain has gone on holiday
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[hellkat]

And another thing ...
I ordered some clothes (including a saucy Mrs Santa Claus dress for Christmas) and it arrived whilst I was away over the weekend. There is no "we tried to deliver" card, no picture to prove it was delivered, and there is definitely no parcel in my "safe" place
Fucking "your parcel has been delivered" Yodel.
I suspect some east London toe-rag has had it away.

Luckily it was "only" three items. But they were bloody nice items
I was going to order a couple of hundred quids worth of more things from another company, but I think I will not bother now. I'll just show up at my mum's dressed in old rags

Annoyed of Docklands
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[hellkat]

OK I take that back, gears unground on that one, as the old dear next door had taken it in for me
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[MCN]

[Ribenapigeon]

[quote="MCN"]

[Easy-X]

What we think of as "work" may be straightforward - delivering mail - but the actual work is trying to deal with management: an exercise in Olympic-level patience

That's according to the postal workers I know anyway.
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[Hong Kong Phooey]

Corporations have too much power. I fully support any workers who need to strike, the balance of power is all wrong, they only exist because of the people that power them. They should do well to remember that.

The French have the right idea.
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[Ribenapigeon]

[MCN]

The answer is in the words we use for employment.

The workers.
The managers.

I remember listening the management trying to sound big when refering to service engineers. As 'hourly paid' as in less important disposable labour they a sign to jobs.

The service engineers had served a recognised trade apprenticeship including 4 years further education college.
The managers had no such qualifications.
They were usually the lazy bastirt sycophants that were harvested from where they worked in the warehouse.
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Disclaimer: The comments above may be predicted text and not necessarily the opinion of MCN.

[Polarbear]

Putting up a greenhouse.

It's a good quality greenhouse. Made in Britain. All the bits were in the packaging. All glass was intact and the instructions are so good even wifie could make it.

So why is it grating my gears? It's a full size wersion of meccano and I was never a meccano fanboi. Lego was my go to building kit as a kid. Also it has to be done in the next 2 days before wifie gets home from jaunting around some lake on holiday with her paddleboading mates. Why? Because it's going over her favourite flower bed in the sunniest place in the back garden. There will be repurcussions but if it's up and in place, possesion is 9/10ths of the law and all that!!

I must have put in a few hundered nuts and bolts today making the frame, IN THE RAIN as well. Thank god for battery screwdrivers.

Anyway all sides are built. Putting them together tomorrow and then the glass to fit which I am really not looking forward to.

It will be worth it though. I can put my carniverous plants in there and get my man cave back from being over run. Also locust breeding for my grandsons mini dinosaur can move out side rather than the garage as escapees have been known to enter the house and cause wifie to have tantrums.

Stay single younsters, it's much easier to live by the Find 'em, feel 'em, fuck 'em, forget 'em mantra than having to fight for the rights to put your engine parts in the dishwasher or build a greenhouse in the kitchen.
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[hellkat]

I put some fancy organiser app on my browser, its supposed to help me get back to tabs I've forgotten about.

But I'm vaguely irritated that I can feel it prodding me.
Go away. I don't want to be organised today!

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[1198]

Ten minutes program for six minutes adverts. The itv hub is shit!