Life is riddled with a procession of minor impediments

[TordelBack]

Keep your chin up, our lad, you're pointing in the right direction - only way through any kind of depression is to keep going forward, one foot after the other.  Anyway, if you don't keep your head up you're liable to be brained by that hang-gliding kitten. 

(I've had to do the notebook thing for several years now, and I've not got anything resembling your excuse).

[House of Usher]

What can I say, Mike? That was a very moving story. In November two years ago my mum went through what you're going through now and it was terribly hard for her. I started scanning 60 years of my grandmother's photographs as a family archive for fear of the collection being broken up, but two years later I'm hardly any further on with it and the original pictures are with four different family members.

I too am going to have to start carrying a small notebook around with me - although by the time I do I may not need it so much, as I'll not be teaching much longer, and most of my forgetfulness, missed deadlines and broken promises arise from sleep deprivation and my teaching duties (requests for paperwork from mangers and admin, and requests from students: will you read this for me, will you make another copy of that thing you brought in 3 weeks ago when I wasn't there, will you mark that homework I handed in the week before that?).

Another thing that's come out of my teaching practice is, through having to teach stuff about atypical psychology and therapeutic techniques, I've learnt a lot myself. I want to start keeping a log of my moods, diet, activities and morose thoughts. Partly because it's narcissistic to do so, and that's always favourite with me, but also because if I can plot this on a graph or spreadsheet it'll help me see the negative bias in my thinking and give me a more realistic idea of the ratio of 'good' days to 'bad' days.

[House of Usher]

Oh, and having got back to minor impediments, I had to take two buses today because I was travelling by train to and from the station, and not by car. On the bus I noticed a sign which read "please do not open this window - it interferes with the atmospheric controls" - in other words, just sit tight and put up with it being warm and stuffy.

[I, Cosh]

I would classify a window as an atmospheric control. Or it's your fault Weather Control's still fucked thirty years after the Apocalypse War.

[Trout]

Next time SMASH ALL THE WINDOWS!

[House of Usher]

I recall a time I was working in a hot, stuffy computer suite in June at Cardiff University and I opened a window and I got verbally rebuked by the stoney-faced, matronly lady who was on monitor duty: "don't open the windows - you'll interfere with the air conditioning," to which I replied "well, I wish somebody would."

[Peter Wolf]

Not having adequate ventilation in a bus or whatever is a health hazard .

I took a bus 2 years ago in the winter that was dripping with condensation with no ventilation and i caught a horrendous virus.It was during the kind of weather we are having at present.Its what you do if your car is steamed up inside.

How do you get rid of condensation ?

Open a window.

Stupid fucking morons.

[House of Usher]

The old people and the chav yobs in hoodies complain if you open a window. Even in July.


I did open the ceiling vents on a National Express bus last month on which the air circulation had broken down. People were quite relieved and grateful then. No old people or chav hoodies among the passengers though, you see.

[Peter Wolf]

You can never win as common sense doesnt prevail.

People are a liability and a pain and the less time i spend in their presence the happier i am.

The bus trip i talked about put me off bus travel in winter permanently and as it was only within the locality of Brighton i would rather cycle instead as its healthier and cheaper.

[House of Usher]

I had to go on a fool's errand today. By train. A 4-hour journey each way for a 2-hour meeting to discuss setting and marking GCSE research-based coursework, when I'm leaving my job before Christmas and I'm not even going to be setting and marking the coursework this year. Oh well. Somebody had to be there to keep the exam board happy.

[Devons Daddy]

minor impendiments

we had our steam shower room delivered, the brochure said 146cm wide, 200 cm long. the box said 146&200cm the email said 146&200cm.

but they all forgot to mention you need 156 and 210 cm to actually install it!
now they offering us a different model and will only deliver next week.

the really annoying thing is, we built in a Jacuzzi first, if they had told us we have built it after they installed, and it would have fit!
(yeh this will go under life is drokkin fantastic next week i admit it.)

[Banners]

Gosh, DD - life's hard...(!)

;-)

M@

[James Stacey]

DD gets less sympathy than the other impediments 

[COMMANDO FORCES]

I got the missus to get me the Terminator Salvation Blu-ray today (I like explosions, what can I say) anyway I thought I'd check it out before I watch it tomorrow. Could I get it to play, could I fuck. I then noticed a card in the box which says 'To ensure the best possible viewing experience, your Blu-ray disc player may need a firmware or software update. Blah, blah, blah'. The machine is only less than 3 months old and was one of the latest models in the shop where I bought it!!!! So already it's out of date

What a carry on, I connected to the net and it took a couple of attempts to sort it out but Jesus Christ on a bike what's all this about. Once the info was downloaded the machine then said 'Do you want to upgrade now?' What, so it thinks I farted about doing all that to not upgrade, YES....


I can see a lot of bods on Christmas morning being in for a shock with this disc. Had no trouble with my other few discs or the one I had arrive for the missus today as she's been watching Take That at Wembley, to see if she and her mates are visible. Why can't life be simple!

[SmallBlueThing]

CF, that's another reason why I shan't be "upgrading" to BluRay. That and the following:

1. What's wrong with DVD?
2. Come to think of it, what was wrong with VHS?
3. I'm 39. My eyes aren't good enough to reliably pick my wife out in a room of people, so what on Earth would be the point of "High Definition" pictures?
4. My tv is shit.

I spent the entirety of my teens watching nth generation VHS copies of illegal horror films, foreign porn and old episodes of Dr Who that you had to squint and nod your head at the same speed as the picture was rolling AND read a transcribed script at the same time, to even have half a chance of following the plot... and I loved it. Why are people suddenly so obsessive about "clarity of picture". Transformers in HiDef BluRay Cinema sound is still absolute bollocks. Zombie Flesheaters on Phillips Video 2000 on a portable is still brilliant.

Steev