Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[chickenstrip]

[grr666]

Gashed the tip of my index finger on my right hand while I was washing the car yesterday. My hands had been wet for
ages and it was the edge of a door sill plate that got me. It PISSED blood. But hey ho, one of those things etc but
what's pissing me off more is that I can't use my touch-scroll wheel on my mouse because I have several plasters around
that finger. Trying to read the news this morning has been a relatively long winded affair. Plus I can't really type with it either.
Trying to figure out a way to coat the tip of the finger in bacon or some other thin, organic material.
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[hellkat]

Or just go and buy a pair of gloves that have the phone-friendly fingertips. TK Maxx usually sell them, prolly cost you a tenner but it might get you through the worst of it
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[McHattrick]

Or... maybe.. just use another finger.
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[Riejufixing]

Dropped a box of eggs on the kitchen floor. Had wanted poached eggs, had to have scrambled.

[LustyLew]

My employer.

Just had a young lad from team next to me, walk out. He's had a few MH problems lately.

Managed to get to chat to him on WhatsApp becuase no one else seemed to think of that.

The managers just seem to think their obligations stop at putting a poster for the "employee assistance program". They probably like suicides, there's no doubt a clase excluding it from the death in service benefit.

We had a young guy take his life just before Christmas in 2014. The Yanks couldn't give a fuck and didn't even acknowledge it becuase it "didn't happen on company property".

[Riejufixing]

Ikea "wobblyshakythings". Dear God, their flatpack furniture is crap. Chipboard with a plastic foil over. I got mine free, but still. People buy this stuff new! Hell.

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[Ribenapigeon]

[recman]

Summer cold. FML.

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[Ste]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Easy-X]

[Ste]

It's weird that it costs money to run a charity?

[Polarbear]

It's a difficult one.

Charities are businesses despite what people think. You aren't going to get a good managing director of a big charity without paying the going rate.

So, do you put up with that because (some) charities do absolutely amazing work where no government funded group could go or do you change the whole precept - make it a business that pays taxes and all associated costs. The managing director of Oxfam pays income tax. If he didn't Oxfam could pay him less and still get the same quality of applicant. So why shouldn't Oxfam pay taxes just like a normal business.

The moaning from some boaters about the salarys paid in the Canal & river trust (charity for upkeep of canals and rivers) and they seem to expect them to work for nothing borders on abject stupidity. Yet tell them their own job as media consultant or whatever is a waste of money and listen to the vitriol.

In the end, I just don't give to any charity except the RNLI and that is purely selfish as I might need them one day.
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[A100man]

My mate works for Oxfam as a bid manager. Something to do with bidding fro EU money for projects overseas. He's done it all his working life with various charities and lived in far flung places like Georgia an the Yemen. Whole lotta money in doing good..
..and lets not get started on the London Marathon.
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[Chinaboy]

Just found out my 19 year old stepson has got his girlfriend up the duff. I just enrolled him in college too as I thought he had a brain. Now he can fend for himself. I have paid for his education for the last 10 years and just as I thought he had grown up I hear this. Bollox to him .. before he was a boy, now he is going to have to grow the fcuk up as a man!!

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