Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)
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Clockwork Cupcake said:
The puritanical "sponsored by Dacia" bits at the beginning and end of the advert breaks on Dave annoy me beyond reason. It's all a bit Mary Whitehouse.
I quite like them, it is a clever way to get the brand name out there with a level of irony in attempting address childish humour on a station built on childish humour.ApOrbital said:
Robbo you were always on my mind in a non kinky way.
Now I have that stuck in my head 
Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
And maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
If I made you feel second best
Girl I'm sorry I was blind
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
I have a meeting tomorrow, I have a room number but nowhere on our system can I find a map of where the rooms are in the building, and we have a bizarre numbering system that nobody understands (I'm in 230, which is in between 180 and 250, and opposite 221. I think it must be the number of floor tiles from the South East corner of the building!)
Cotty said:
ApOrbital said:
Robbo you were always on my mind in a non kinky way.
Now I have that stuck in my head Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
And maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
If I made you feel second best
Girl I'm sorry I was blind
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
RizzoTheRat said:
I have a meeting tomorrow, I have a room number but nowhere on our system can I find a map of where the rooms are in the building, and we have a bizarre numbering system that nobody understands (I'm in 230, which is in between 180 and 250, and opposite 221. I think it must be the number of floor tiles from the South East corner of the building!)
Rooms are numbered according to their cubic capacity, measured in feet... 
k alone! 
yellowjack said:
RizzoTheRat said:
I have a meeting tomorrow, I have a room number but nowhere on our system can I find a map of where the rooms are in the building, and we have a bizarre numbering system that nobody understands (I'm in 230, which is in between 180 and 250, and opposite 221. I think it must be the number of floor tiles from the South East corner of the building!)
Rooms are numbered according to their cubic capacity, measured in feet... For some reason, there wasn't a Dogger. Unless it was outside in the car park behind the bins, that is.
Clockwork Cupcake said:
All the meetings rooms at one site I visited were named after the areas of the Shipping Forecast - Lundy, Fastnet, Viking, Cromerty, etc.
For some reason, there wasn't a Dogger. Unless it was outside in the car park behind the bins, that is.
All ours are named after forests in the UK, based on the tenuous connection that our office is sited where the word "Forest business park" appearsFor some reason, there wasn't a Dogger. Unless it was outside in the car park behind the bins, that is.
So we have Delamere, Mercia, Gisburn etc. But again, no specific direction as to where that is within the building. Luckily it isn't a big building
Clockwork Cupcake said:
All the meetings rooms at one site I visited were named after the areas of the Shipping Forecast - Lundy, Fastnet, Viking, Cromerty, etc.
For some reason, there wasn't a Dogger. Unless it was outside in the car park behind the bins, that is.
For some reason, there wasn't a Dogger. Unless it was outside in the car park behind the bins, that is.
To be fair ours also have sensible names (eg Newton, Kelvin, Huygens, Karman) but I just don't know where any of them are.
yellowjack said:
Rooms are numbered according to their cubic capacity, measured in feet...
Feet seem to come in all shapes and sizes https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=feet&ie=&... so measuring a rooms cubic capacity in them would be trickyMy local ASDA.
for some reason their packets of baby spinach they do not put on display. thankfully i have come to learn that they're hidden away. I have to pull out the bottom crates of salad bags as 95% of the time its all hidden behind them, out of sight of any normal person that wants to buy it.
it's 65p for a bag, and there's plenty. yet on the shelf (at eye level) is an area where they sell bags of organic spinach, £2 a bag..almost always sold out.
for some reason their packets of baby spinach they do not put on display. thankfully i have come to learn that they're hidden away. I have to pull out the bottom crates of salad bags as 95% of the time its all hidden behind them, out of sight of any normal person that wants to buy it.
it's 65p for a bag, and there's plenty. yet on the shelf (at eye level) is an area where they sell bags of organic spinach, £2 a bag..almost always sold out.
RizzoTheRat said:
Wearing a tie. Thought I ought to put one on today as I'm on an interview panel. I'd forgotten how annoying they are.
If you don't normally wear one, shy for the interview? I assume tieless is acceptable work attire? If it is, then why wear a tie and force interviewee to wear one too?yellowjack said:
I went to the National Trust house at Kingston Lacey on Sunday. We "made" (for made read "stirred") Christmas Pudding to the traditional recipe used in the kitchens of the big house. We were then given a small pudding in a pot ready to be steamed, accompanied by the instruction "it must be cooked today, because it contains raw egg". So we each ate a small Christmas Pud on the 24th November, served with extra-thick double cream. And very nice it was too, very light as puddings go - a far cry from the heavy, stodgy, cake-like "Christmas Pudding" you buy from a supermarket. They also supplied the recipe, rather helpfully. So I'm not buying our pud this year, I'll make my own instead.
Don't forget the sixpence Shakermaker said:
Clockwork Cupcake said:
All the meetings rooms at one site I visited were named after the areas of the Shipping Forecast - Lundy, Fastnet, Viking, Cromerty, etc.
For some reason, there wasn't a Dogger. Unless it was outside in the car park behind the bins, that is.
All ours are named after forests in the UK, based on the tenuous connection that our office is sited where the word "Forest business park" appearsFor some reason, there wasn't a Dogger. Unless it was outside in the car park behind the bins, that is.
So we have Delamere, Mercia, Gisburn etc. But again, no specific direction as to where that is within the building. Luckily it isn't a big building
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