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Further to a comment in another thread, I think we all need a place to moan and rant and rave from time to time about anything NOT photography related. Another forum I frequent has a rant thread, and its really good for getting your feelings down in text, or if you just want to get something off your chest :) And if something is ongoing with any member, we can use this as a chance to get to know each other better, and to maybe offer support. Ill go first:

Work is pants at the moment, another member of staff has handed their notice in today in the bosses absence. The atmosphere is a bit electric at the moment, no one dares put a foot wrong.

And Ive just been handed a mountain of work!!!! Hey ho :D
 
I don't have anything to rant about at the moment so hey ho.
 
Work is great! Who am i kidding????
 
Rant rant rant.

Remarkable I feel happy and rant free:)
 
My rant for the day......

What's the point of haveing 4 or 5 lanes on a motorway when everyone only uses the two on the right hand side ????? :bang:


And then they get arsey if I pass them while in lane 1, even though I'm going under 70mph and I've been there for the last mile or so...... Double :bang:

We drive on the LEFT, not in the middle, or on the right. If you're worried you may not be able to get back into an overtaking lane then you shouldn't be driving !

Now Jelster, deep breath and relax..............


Steve
 
Jelster said:
My rant for the day......

What's the point of haveing 4 or 5 lanes on a motorway when everyone only uses the two on the right hand side ????? :bang:


And then they get arsey if I pass them while in lane 1, even though I'm going under 70mph and I've been there for the last mile or so...... Double :bang:

We drive on the LEFT, not in the middle, or on the right. If you're worried you may not be able to get back into an overtaking lane then you shouldn't be driving !

Now Jelster, deep breath and relax..............


Steve
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Amen! I absolutely HATE people who abuse the overtaking lane, what choice do you have but to wait though. Up their backside, or undertake? I HATE THEM!!!!!!! :bang:
 
Here's my rant for the day ..... bloody trains!

Here's the scenario ...

Need to be in Newcastle this weekend for a wedding on Friday & Sunday (going as guest not the photographer!). Babs (my wife) is taking our son up tomorrow so he can see Gran & Grandad. She's taking the car - which leaves me needing a way to get up to Newcastle.

Sooooo .... I start considering my options ..... A post on here asking anyone to carshare proves no use. That leaves boats, planes, trains buses & foot.

I don't live near a port. Boats are out. Flying is too expensive. I've got bad knees. That leaves 2 options - train or bus.

A first glance at the train fares reveals t will cost me £45.80. B**ger that! Looking at the coach - £17. However, travelling on the coach also means taking ages and not being able to have a walk along or sneak into first class ;) . You also don't get to play the "I wonder what would happen if we pull the emergency brake" game !

I then think about the journey - Manchester to Newcastle. Wonder if it will be cheaper buying 2 tickets on the train ... Manchester - York and then York to Newcastle. Lo and behold, I can get the same train direct on 2 tickets (£31) than I could on one single ticket (£45.80). So I decide to get the train.

Head off to buy my tickets - only to be told by some jobsworth that he reckons he can find me an even cheaper ticket. I am able to use the internet (far better than he can use the ticketting system by the looks of it), and cannot find a cheaper way of getting there. So after 20mins of him looking - he eventually comes up with my original plan! I buy the tickets.

Walking away from the station I check the tickets ..... he's only gone and put the bloody wrong date on there!!! So it's back to the end of the queue for a 20min wait to exchange my tickets!!!!

Car tax, road tax, congestion charges, petrol prices - all meant to put us off using our cars. But when we get ripped off on public transport and have to deal with know it all incompetents, I'd happily burn the ozone layer if it means quicker, hassle free journies (sorry eco-warriors!).

Rant over!

Anth.
 
Anth, I totally agree. Sodding car tax, insurance, congestion charges and all that crap, and then public transport is bloody useless and just as expensive?

/groan
 
Everyone listen to this, i think you will be amazed




No rants from me today :D

Tony
 
work was an absolute pain today!! can't believe people, it seems like all of them are more then willing to drop you into **** even if its thier fault, its like thiers no honour left in the world!! :bang:
 
Deep breath!
Up at 6am, train from Manchester to Milton keynes, Ok got to the office on time (for once) full day of meetings and train home is running 15 mins late. Ok, I can handle 15 mins, not the end of the world. Finally get home at near 8pm only to find that the whippet had ripped her side open in the garden. Thankfully resourceful t'other half made it to the vets by closing time so the bill was only £50 rather than the £250 that out of hours would entail. Now I have an unhappy whippet with a bucket on it's head and a puppy that wants to play with a whippet with a bucket on it's head.

It's 10pm, I've had no dinner and I need a bath.
Night all :)
 
I am sorry, I laughed at that :lol:

I am going straight to hell :lol:
 
Ali good to hear that the whippet is okay now :thumbs:

Betty = Evil :runaway:

:lol:
 
Ooooo i like the look of this thread!

RANT: I'm working in a supermarket on a checkout to raise the funds for a new camera. and u know what grinds my gears? CUSTOMERS.
Not all of them, just the following species. You Know Who You Are

1. People who talk on thier phones whilst i'm serving them - so rude!
2. People who wear sunglasses when they come to the till. - its creepy and its indoors! sheeez its sainsburys not the south of france.
3. People who put there money/cards in their mouth before handing it to me. Its just gross. i know you have no free hands but really?
4. People who dont talk at all.
5. People who just hold their money out to you before you have finished scanning.
6. People who ask you to pack for them, then unpack everything straight away (usually tutting) I'm doing it as i've been taught people!
7. When i'm in the ciggerette kiosk - i dont know all the old names for cigs, i dont smoke. dont tut at me when i dont know what the hell you mean.
8. People who expect me to know when stuff will be in stock. I'M NOT A MACHINE. and when i say 'i can find out for you?' they go no.. its ok...
9. Also people who ask me, do you know if the petrol station has any fuel? WELL U JUST DROVE PAST IT!

I realise that some of these are entirely irrelevent, but i've just worked an 8 hr shift (2-10) and i'm hormonal!!!

Rant Over.

Phew! xxxxxxxx
 
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan breathe :D

Feel free to come back when you have more to rant about :lol:
 
:lol: :notworthy:

Trust me, always helps to have a good old fashioned moan! Of course, in the olden days, people used to do it face to face! None of this tinternet malarky :D
 
Betty said:
:lol: :notworthy:

Trust me, always help to have a good old fashioned moan! Of course, in the olden days, people used to do it face to face! None of this tinternet malarky :D
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I used to love that, now it is all PC and you have to say things within the "lines" :lol:
 
I hate those mirrored sunglasses that allow the wearers to conceal where they are looking, I find it intimidating when, for instance, you are outside having a coffee somewhere and someone on another table facing you is wearing them.
 
Boy racers driving in a continuous loop around town,front windows wound down in all weather conditions, disturbing everybody with their massive subwoofers, sad little brain deficient nobodies desperately trying to get noticed.:annoyed:

Rant over:)
 
Mojo Jojo said:
Ooooo i like the look of this thread!

RANT: I'm working in a supermarket on a checkout to raise the funds for a new camera. and u know what grinds my gears? CUSTOMERS.
Not all of them, just the following species. You Know Who You Are

1. People who talk on thier phones whilst i'm serving them - so rude!
2. People who wear sunglasses when they come to the till. - its creepy and its indoors! sheeez its sainsburys not the south of france.
3. People who put there money/cards in their mouth before handing it to me. Its just gross. i know you have no free hands but really?
4. People who dont talk at all.
5. People who just hold their money out to you before you have finished scanning.
6. People who ask you to pack for them, then unpack everything straight away (usually tutting) I'm doing it as i've been taught people!
7. When i'm in the ciggerette kiosk - i dont know all the old names for cigs, i dont smoke. dont tut at me when i dont know what the hell you mean.
8. People who expect me to know when stuff will be in stock. I'M NOT A MACHINE. and when i say 'i can find out for you?' they go no.. its ok...
9. Also people who ask me, do you know if the petrol station has any fuel? WELL U JUST DROVE PAST IT!

I realise that some of these are entirely irrelevent, but i've just worked an 8 hr shift (2-10) and i'm hormonal!!!

Rant Over.

Phew! xxxxxxxx
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I can't open the bags!!! Would you hate me for it? :D
 
Galaxy66 said:
I hate those mirrored sunglasses that allow the wearers to conceal where they are looking, I find it intimidating when, for instance, you are outside having a coffee somewhere and someone on another table facing you is wearing them.
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I have regular coffees with a guy who wears them, gets on my goat.
 
OK I'll play.

<rant>

Last Friday a delivery van drove into my daughter's car which now appears to be "beyond economical repair" or as it seems to be translated "I'll be seriously out of pocket repairing or replacing it".

Noticed this morning when I got to work that my headlight is not working. Due to the sense of humour of Seat designers, you can't just put a new bulb in there unless you have hands so small that they would not be able to pick up the bulb! So another trip to the service centre (who relieved me of £285 last week for a service) so that they can charge me another £38 to change the bulb. "Sorry mate, it costs that much for the labour needed to take it apart and put it together again." :bang:

Then.. when I got home from work I found that our fridge had turned itself into the kitchen equivalent of a night storage heater which meant that the kitchen was cosy but the food inside was probably not going to be welcome on any plate of mine! Now got to spend time researching cheap fridges on the interweb!

</rant>

@mojo jojo - in our Sainsbury's the lady on the cig counter always makes a point of telling the school kids buying their sweets that "it is polite to say thank you when you get your change and does not cost anything"! She has a very loud voice for this and it always makes me smile when I see the little ingrates squirming (but does that make me a bad person?! ;))

@Betty - thanks for starting this thread - I feel a bit better now.

Cheers,

Nigel
 
I won't be getting any when i am on the road, Off street parking when i am at home

Will park between the white lines in parking areas :D
 
lol gary, no i dont hate people who cant open the bags.... u cant help being men :p (women are loads better at it.. true story)

aaaaaaaand nigel, i love it when the kids are crying and i just say whats up? to them, it makes them go really quiet. :D hehehe.

xxxxxx
 
Mojo Jojo said:
lol gary, no i dont hate people who cant open the bags.... u cant help being men :p (women are loads better at it.. true story)
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Yeah i would have to agree with that, they seem to love shopping more aswell :lol:

With out bank cards and pin in there jackets :lol:
 
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