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Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2026 5:28 pm
by Yorick
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!
Is that the only channel you have?

Maybe get new batteries for the remote 😉

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2026 7:53 pm
by KungFooBob
Yorick wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2026 5:28 pm
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!
Is that the only channel you have?

Maybe get new batteries for the remote 😉
He lives in Cornwall, so probably yes.

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2026 10:26 am
by Cousin Jack
KungFooBob wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2026 7:53 pm
Yorick wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2026 5:28 pm
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!
Is that the only channel you have?

Maybe get new batteries for the remote 😉
He lives in Cornwall, so probably yes.
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.

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2026 5:07 pm
by weeksy
SMS from the pharmacy at 11.58am
"your prescription is ready to collect"

I arrived there 4 minutes later at 12.02
"closed"

Fucking muppets.

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2026 9:43 pm
by Taipan
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! :crazy:

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2026 9:51 pm
by Yorick
Taipan wrote: Thu Jun 11, 2026 9:43 pm All she does is (try to) serve evening meals! :crazy:
It'll be not long before she's feeding you and wiping your drooling mouth.

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2026 10:17 pm
by Taipan
Yorick wrote: Thu Jun 11, 2026 9:51 pm
Taipan wrote: Thu Jun 11, 2026 9:43 pm All she does is (try to) serve evening meals! :crazy:
It'll be not long before she's feeding you and wiping your drooling mouth.
She already does that!

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2026 10:34 pm
by Horse
Taipan wrote: Thu Jun 11, 2026 9:43 pm The NHS. ... ESR (Electronic Staff Record)
I have to use that for mandatory training.

It's a ball ache for that too.

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2026 2:19 pm
by Mussels
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! :crazy:
What will happen first, they take the money back or the police come knocking because the computer says she stole it?

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2026 2:38 pm
by Taipan
Mussels wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 2:19 pm
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! :crazy:
What will happen first, they take the money back or the police come knocking because the computer says she stole it?
Nothing would surprise me. She cant give it back, or continue to get paid as no one can change her bank account details. :crazy:

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2026 9:41 pm
by Saga Lout
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. :angry-cussingblack:

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2026 9:43 pm
by KungFooBob
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. :angry-cussingblack:
Sometimes?

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2026 11:19 pm
by Saga Lout
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 9:43 pm
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. :angry-cussingblack:
Sometimes?
Yes, sometimes. Just because I hate you doesn't mean I hate everybody.

(Nothing personal, I just hate you, OK. :P )

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2026 12:44 am
by MrLongbeard
Saga Lout wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 9:41 pm unloading their trolley onto the belt
What the fuck is this 1999?

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2026 1:31 am
by Felix
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. :angry-cussingblack:
I unpack at the start of the belt. Trolly does not move until empty.

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2026 7:29 am
by Count Steer
Felix wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2026 1:31 am
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. :angry-cussingblack:
I unpack at the start of the belt. Trolly does not move until empty.
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.

Then, of course, it all accumulates on the collection side and it takes them forever to pack it. (Followed by the pantomime of realising they actually have to pay and attempting to get all techno-capable and find the right loyalty app on the 18 screens of junk on their phone and waving their phone at the scanner trying to use WhatsApp to pay rather than their e-banking app).

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2026 10:14 am
by Saga Lout
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.

...
Poor obs. :P

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2026 6:34 pm
by ZRX61
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.
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, :think: I guess she'd never been shopping before. :wtf: 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.
While all this was going on her useless teenage offspring just stood there trying to look hard & intimidating, doing fuck all to help. :roll: 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" :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2026 6:35 pm
by ZRX61

Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2026 7:02 pm
by Mussels
Who BYP though, the guys who destroyed the video, lazy coppers or God for ignoring his prayer and letting this happen?