Other What's ruining your life right now?

Next time, don't give up any road, don't slow down. It's your right of way, if he hits you it's all on him. Drag his arse around court and ruin him.

Of this, rapid escalation. Set his house on fire

 

Losing the possiblity of some monies when the netbook I was asked to install Vista or "Windows 2010" on was one of these "things":



Storage: 4GB flash drive

System RAM: 256MB

Operating system: Microsoft Windows CE 6.0 Pro

Processor: VIA VT8505 processor 533MHz

Direct from the advert:

"Please note: this netbook has no upgradable RAM or connections to external monitors. It does not support iTunes or iPod. Other operating systems cannot be installed."

Why do people buy these things!?

 

What is it?!

 

If you fancy wasting 10+mins of your life, this video will inform you about its revolutionary features such as a built in touchpad and wrist wrests!



£140 for that pile of tat

 

never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

 

I had a remotely similar situation the other day (note: remotely):
I had parked, gotten out of the car, and was walking across a big mall-type parking lot towards the shop.
That particular parking lot is split into one-ways. That's to say there are two "streets" that go north, and two that go south. No entry signs, one-way arrows, etc all serve to inform the drivers of this.

So I am crossing a south-only one-way, and as such look north, when I suddently get beeped at from the south.
I see a bigass pickup and what we call a "Boer" behind the wheel of it, looking at me angrily, while talking on the phone.

Normally I'd just get out of the way and leave him be, but in that instance, having had a bad day and such, I stand right where I am, point at arrows in the road and the "no entry" sign he's just ignored.
So he tells me to go do things to my mother in Afrikaans, to which I respond by telling him to go do things to himself and proceed to tell his wife, through the open window, that she should not stand for him behaving like a jackass.
When he then gets out of the car to try and beat me to a pulp (a signature defense of an idiot that doesn't want to admit to being an idiot), I tell him that he's a big man... and that if he continues driving like that, it'd probably be best if he died in a crash. Preferably with another asshole like himself.

By that point in time, there were people watching, and he suddenly realised that I wasn't intimidated by his bully tactics, and he got in his car and stormed off, giving me the finger.

The really funny bit was that he then went into the same shop as me. He proceeded to keep throwing evil glares my way, but never came close to me.

I re-learned (in my aggressive crap day at work mood) that 9/10 times bullies pull their tails between their legs when you push back.

 

And it's the 1/10 that require you to have an axe or machete in your glove box

Me:

Another day from hell this morning. Last week the other KP called in sick leaving me on my own to cover plate wash & pot wash; luckily there were only 50 in for breakfast so I managed alright. Yesterday he called in sick and there were 70 in for breakfast; again I somehow just about managed to cope though I cut a few corners here & there. Today he was still off sick and there were ****ing 95 in for breakfast, and they all came in at once. I did not cope so well, though the KP who is on tonight came in at 1:00pm instead of 5:00pm, so I got to go home at 2:00pm after clearing the platewash.

I've racked up some serious overtime which is great, massive fat pay slip coming tomorrow, but I am knackered out. We have a new KP starting on Saturday and another is back from holiday so hopefully I'll get an extra day off next week. Hopefully.

 

Teachers keep bring these things in for me to add to the school wireless.

Unsurprisingly it does not support enterprise level wireless...But yeah that’s my fault obviously.

 

I know that feel. I hate coming off as paranoid, but I would just be a much more comfortable driver if I had a handgun in my car. The amount of road rage in this city is insane. Couple that with the proliferation of illegal weapons and you have a recipe for disaster.

 

Listed my iphone on ebay, and straight up 2 scammers bought it...

Fee's £60, so phoned ebay told them the situation despite these clearly being scammers ebay hit me with we'll open two disputes and you'll have to wait 7 days then close them to get the fee's removed and the money allowance back"

Fml

oh this may come in helpful

go to "my ebay" "account" " Site Preferences" proceed to setup correctly so users can't buy your stuff without a linked paypal account, low feedback, or infractions.

 

Good advice for anyone selling there. Thanks for the info!

 

Really good advice - stops sooooo much hassle

 

On the Ocean netbook video at 1:18, he said the classic thing.

"Plug in the internet"!

Ah, the general public! I salute you!

 

"Where do i plug in the internet?"

"Where does the internet go?"

"What switch turns on the internet?"

Are just some of the things i get from friends who know nothing about computers, im sure some of them just thing the internet is a tap installed in the wall you just stick a hose on the end.

 

Quite easily ruining my life right now

I live in a village.
Private money (BT) funding the towns with fibre around me
Public money then funding lesser towns with fibre around me (2 years later)
Our village MAY get fibre two years after that!!

There's me thinking that BDUK were going to do villages and rural areas first.
Not a chance

On top of that, no one has unbundled our exchange
So when people moan about their 50meg broadband .... think of us on 8meg

 

Didn't get the interview with the job worth big money, instead got an interview for a job 24 hours a week. Nights over the weekend.

Better than JSA I guess.

 

Im going to put water into jars and label it internet and sell it.

 

Just realized i was reading the wrong side of my work hours sheet...

tommorow im doing a shift almost 10 hours excluding how early i need to get up to make sure im awake and not fall asleep on the egg griddle.

It sucks because the amount of spare shifts means i probebly will be doing the work of 2-3 people which is horrible as 1 persons amount of work is generally meant for 2 people anyway!.

Its possible by the end of tommorow i will be ready to kill and im not even joking, i get sunday off to recover though

 

Tomorrow evening my girlfriend wants to go out to our local. To be honest I can't afford it at all and am not really in the mood too.

Need to break the news to her at some point soon. She will go without me anyway.


Well i told her and to be honest this weren't working anyway. So as of this evening I am single.

Amicable split, she is my best friend after all.

 

Westfest is tomorrow and i don't know if i want to make an excuse and pull out.