Is that the only channel you have?Cousin Jack wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2026 5:20 pm Just glanced at what 'delights' are on the idiots box tonight. FFS, a programme dedicated to the 2006 world cup.
I dislike football, but raking over why we lost a match 20 years ago is OTT even for a football fan!
He lives in Cornwall, so probably yes.Yorick wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2026 5:28 pmIs that the only channel you have?Cousin Jack wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2026 5:20 pm Just glanced at what 'delights' are on the idiots box tonight. FFS, a programme dedicated to the 2006 world cup.
I dislike football, but raking over why we lost a match 20 years ago is OTT even for a football fan!
Maybe get new batteries for the remote
Oh we are up to date now. Bloody emmets and 2nd homers insisted we move up to the 20th Century back in 2003. 21st Century is scheduled for 2099.KungFooBob wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2026 7:53 pmHe lives in Cornwall, so probably yes.Yorick wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2026 5:28 pmIs that the only channel you have?Cousin Jack wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2026 5:20 pm Just glanced at what 'delights' are on the idiots box tonight. FFS, a programme dedicated to the 2006 world cup.
I dislike football, but raking over why we lost a match 20 years ago is OTT even for a football fan!
Maybe get new batteries for the remote
It'll be not long before she's feeding you and wiping your drooling mouth.
She already does that!
I have to use that for mandatory training.
What will happen first, they take the money back or the police come knocking because the computer says she stole it?Taipan wrote: Thu Jun 11, 2026 9:43 pm The NHS. Specifically, my wife working for them. I cannot believe some of the crap that goes on at our local hospital. If anything breaks, no one knows how to get it repaired or replaced or is bothered.
People get supervisor positions, then leave and reapply for their old role as it's too stressful being a supervisor etc blah.
The hassle we are having trying to change her bank details on the ESR (Electronic Staff Record) beggars belief. They fooked up and (over)paid her with a full time person's salary, but she can't just give it back, it has to be worked out how to do this and 3 months later they still haven't sorted it.
Honestly, it is absolutely incredible, just how badly it runs there, and it looks like my wife is probably going to leave, as its becoming near impossible to just do her job, or get paid properly for it! All she does is (try to) serve evening meals!
Nothing would surprise me. She cant give it back, or continue to get paid as no one can change her bank account details.Mussels wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 2:19 pmWhat will happen first, they take the money back or the police come knocking because the computer says she stole it?Taipan wrote: Thu Jun 11, 2026 9:43 pm The NHS. Specifically, my wife working for them. I cannot believe some of the crap that goes on at our local hospital. If anything breaks, no one knows how to get it repaired or replaced or is bothered.
People get supervisor positions, then leave and reapply for their old role as it's too stressful being a supervisor etc blah.
The hassle we are having trying to change her bank details on the ESR (Electronic Staff Record) beggars belief. They fooked up and (over)paid her with a full time person's salary, but she can't just give it back, it has to be worked out how to do this and 3 months later they still haven't sorted it.
Honestly, it is absolutely incredible, just how badly it runs there, and it looks like my wife is probably going to leave, as its becoming near impossible to just do her job, or get paid properly for it! All she does is (try to) serve evening meals!
Sometimes?Saga Lout wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 9:41 pm At the supermarket: people who start unloading their trolley onto the belt when I'm half way through unloading my trolley. Especially when they seem to think I can squeeze half a trolley's worth of stuff onto a couple of feet of conveyor belt. Then they half heartedly move their stuff back a few inches, as if that makes it right. You're not going to get through any faster, you still have to wait for me to finish and pay before it's your turn.
Sometimes I hate people.
Yes, sometimes. Just because I hate you doesn't mean I hate everybody.KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 9:43 pmSometimes?Saga Lout wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 9:41 pm At the supermarket: people who start unloading their trolley onto the belt when I'm half way through unloading my trolley. Especially when they seem to think I can squeeze half a trolley's worth of stuff onto a couple of feet of conveyor belt. Then they half heartedly move their stuff back a few inches, as if that makes it right. You're not going to get through any faster, you still have to wait for me to finish and pay before it's your turn.
Sometimes I hate people.
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What the fuck is this 1999?
I unpack at the start of the belt. Trolly does not move until empty.Saga Lout wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 9:41 pm At the supermarket: people who start unloading their trolley onto the belt when I'm half way through unloading my trolley. Especially when they seem to think I can squeeze half a trolley's worth of stuff onto a couple of feet of conveyor belt. Then they half heartedly move their stuff back a few inches, as if that makes it right. You're not going to get through any faster, you still have to wait for me to finish and pay before it's your turn.
Sometimes I hate people.
Yup. It's actually pretty annoying to spot what looks like an empty belt, only to arrive and find some old giffer chatting to the person on the till while unloading a skip full of stuff one item at a time at the far end of the belt.Felix wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2026 1:31 amI unpack at the start of the belt. Trolly does not move until empty.Saga Lout wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 9:41 pm At the supermarket: people who start unloading their trolley onto the belt when I'm half way through unloading my trolley. Especially when they seem to think I can squeeze half a trolley's worth of stuff onto a couple of feet of conveyor belt. Then they half heartedly move their stuff back a few inches, as if that makes it right. You're not going to get through any faster, you still have to wait for me to finish and pay before it's your turn.
Sometimes I hate people.
Poor obs.Count Steer wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2026 7:29 am...
Yup. It's actually pretty annoying to spot what looks like an empty belt, only to arrive and find some old giffer chatting to the person on the till while unloading a skip full of stuff one item at a time at the far end of the belt.
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Yesterday I was behind some clueless bitch who had divided all her shopping into three piles, but wanted it all rung up together. Teller gave her the total & then she stood there bagging everything up & putting it back in the cart. After that was all done it suddenly occurred to her than maybe she should pay,Count Steer wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2026 7:29 am Yup. It's actually pretty annoying to spot what looks like an empty belt, only to arrive and find some old giffer chatting to the person on the till while unloading a skip full of stuff one item at a time at the far end of the belt.
I guess she'd never been shopping before. 
So out came two different tax payer funded benefit cards, she paid $100 with one, $65 with the other & the final $30 for the booze with her own money from her ATM card. 
I complimented him on his cute Spongebob T-shirt, at which time I realized the guy behind me in line was another expat when he commented "oh yeah, cute, but well 'ard there Sparky" 
Who BYP though, the guys who destroyed the video, lazy coppers or God for ignoring his prayer and letting this happen?
