Life is riddled with a procession of minor impediments

[vzzbux]

ahhhh..but does anyone have one that when you do tidy up its "never as good" as she'd do it..."you dont do it right"

Bingo. "And you never pu it in the right place". AHHHH married blisssssssssssssss.





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[The Legendary Shark]

I had one of those. The wheels fell off.

[mogzilla]

the daftest thing about it is we have a six year old girl in the house! the place will never be tidy again!!! you think she'd a learned by now

[SmallBlueThing]

Freaky morning here. Starts off with someone on facebook bombarding my wife with mentalisms- porno videos he's shot, talk about 'psychic vampires' attacking people, comments that he 'knows her from somewhere', etc. I check out his page, seems he's a 'filmmaker and martial arts instructor' from up north who enjoys 'selling drugs to small children'. Now, that's obviously an 'oh look at me, im so funny' comment, but fuck me that winds me up, the shit. He then makes a number of comments on her wall that could be taken two ways. My natural inclination to let her deal stops dead when he mentions 'putting spiders into the hands of rosy cheeked small blonde boys'; of which we have two. So, i send him a reasonably- reasonably i say- polite message, telling him to stop. And no, by the way, she doesnt want to be in any video project of yours, thanks awfully.

Predictably, all hell breaks loose and he's messaging, sending her emails, messaging me- despite being deleted and blocked. Anyway, i've reported him, and each individual thing he's done, and so has she. He is, in one way, quite amusing in his thickheaded verbal abuse and 'youve got me all wrong' juxtaposition.

Anyway.

SBT

[Dandontdare]

The manager of our department (one of the campest men I have ever met) has truly awful taste in loud multicoloured shirts. as it's 'casual Friday', I'm wearing my new Dredd subscription Tee (which finally arrived weeks after I'd forgotten all about it). The Tasteless One just walked past and said "oooh, I like your tee-shirt" but turns out he has no interest or knowledge of Judge Dredd, he just likes the shirt.

I'm now worried.

[The Legendary Shark]

Gaze into the fisting of dread.

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

This isn't related to anything that has happened to me recently. But it happens to me again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again. Fixing other peoples computers for them. Giving up your free time to help someone and getting nowt but hawk-shite in return. This article explains exactly what I'm talking about

[mogzilla]

sbt, hope that crap works out ok...theres so many nutters out there,especially worrying if its hinting at your boys...


   

[TordelBack]

Ah Pops, thanks for that link, it left the wife and I sobbing with laughter - we're both the Computer People in our respective workplaces and families, despite being pretty clueless, and that pretty much describes the last 20 years of our lives.

And SBT:  Jeebus fapping crust, and pass out the baseball bats. Hope that fucker gets the message.

[Emp]

Just spent 5 hours at a wedding reception party where i knew the bride and groom (barely..met em for 1st time bout 2 months ago) and me missus. So a long night listening to tunes i wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

Things you have to do....

[Dandontdare]

Easyjet are stingy robbing smugfunts!

I booked cheap(ish) flights to Amsterdam, including an extra £20 for one piece of hold luggage up to 20kg. I wasn't sure how much this was, but had a sneaky suspicion they may peg it at just-below-average to catch as many people as possible, so I bought a cheap luggage scale - good job because I was at least 5kg over. Aha, thinks me - best avoid hefty surcharges at airport by increasing my allowance online - turns out this would cost a whopping £84 for just 6 more kilos, plus 'change fee' of £35 - each way - £238 to stick a measly extra 6kg in the hold. Apparently it would have been cheaper at the time of booking, but who the hell packs and weighs their luggage before they even book the flight?

So I've had a frustrating day paring my camping gear back to the bare minimum (leave the sun cream, lose a jumper and the spare torch etc) and moving anything heavy in to my hand luggage - which has a size limit but no weight limit - go figure. I how have a rucksack that weighs 19.5kg and a small backpack that I can barely lift.

[TordelBack]

Good job you cottoned to that, DDD.  Sounds like the O'Leary Method is spreading...

However, be absolutely certain that there's no weight limit on your carry-on as well (usually 10kg).  We got caught in Budapest a few years back, where they'd let us take our single bag over no problem, but on the way back, even though our carry-on bag contained exactly the same stuff, we were somehow 2kg over.  Cue amusing scene where we put literally all of our clothes on, had the bag reweighed and passed, walked through check in, took our excess layers off and put them back in the bag, in full view of the desk.   

We were planning on flying and camping (with 2 kids) last year, and just couldn't make the weight allowance work, even spread across four.  It worked out cheaper to put the car on the boat.

[Dandontdare]

Good job you cottoned to that, DDD.  Sounds like the O'Leary Method is spreading...

However, be absolutely certain that there's no weight limit on your carry-on as well (usually 10kg).

QUOTE: "No weight restriction applies within reasonable limits — i.e. a you  must be able to place the piece of luggage safely in the overhead storage bins without assistance." - I WILL get that bastard up there, even if I give myself a hernia!

Easyjet used to be a lot more reasonable than that prick O'leary, about these sort of things, but it seems they've picked up a few tips. £20kg isn't very heavy at all for a rucksack or suitcase.

[Richmond Clements]

We got caught in Budapest a few years back, where they'd let us take our single bag over no problem, but on the way back, even though our carry-on bag contained exactly the same stuff, we were somehow 2kg over.  Cue amusing scene where we put literally all of our clothes on, had the bag reweighed and passed, walked through check in, took our excess layers off and put them back in the bag, in full view of the desk.   

A workmate of mine did this with his ski boots at checkout once.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Only two of us turned up for work today.

Tired... very.