Forum Soapbox

[Leon]

University graduates who are fast-tracked to managerial positions because of their degree, most of them have the life skills and common sense of a comatose wombat.

Yes.  The whole world seems to be run by people who've never done it at ground level.  If you're the Minister for Education, you should have actually been a teacher or worked in a school at some point.  Minister for Health?  Should have worked in the NHS, and not at management level either.

I used to manage pubs for a large chain, and the number of nonsensical drinks promotions we had sent down to us from head office was ridiculous, all of them thought up by a Business Studies grad with a calculator.  The best one was 'Buy 10 Budweiser, Get 2 Free!"  If any of you know any barmen, ask them how often they've sold 10 Bud's in a single round...

[xccam]

based on this thread nobody likes anything, and a number of you would have gripes with me for a number of different reasons.

I thought this was a good natured forum!

[Ithoriel]

based on this thread nobody likes anything, and a number of you would have gripes with me for a number of different reasons.

I thought this was a good natured forum!

We are good-naturedly grumpy

[paulr]

based on this thread nobody likes anything, and a number of you would have gripes with me for a number of different reasons.

I thought this was a good natured forum!

We are good-naturedly grumpy

Based on the survey on age we are good-naturedly grumpy old men 

[Upgraydd]

Rant;

- People who say "it's always in the last place you look". Of course it is, if you find it and then keep looking then you have serious problems that years of intensive therapy won't even be able to help with.

[Techno]

One of my coffee mugs is emblazoned with the logo....."Keep calm, you grumpy old git."
Cheers - Phil.

[FierceKitty]

Rant;

- People who say "it's always in the last place you look". Of course it is, if you find it and then keep looking then you have serious problems that years of intensive therapy won't even be able to help with.

And redundancies like "ATM machine", "PIN number", "report back", and "chainmail".

[Sandinista]

Car/van drivers:
most don't look or stop at roundabouts, on my daily commute to work some A-hole usually comes close to hitting me
those who try to excuse their inability to drive competently by saying "motorbikes are dangerous" no, you are dangerous
the idiots who still believe that motorcycles filtering through traffic is illegal
those who use hand held mobile phones when driving car/van
screen was nozzles that are aligned so that they miss the windscreen completely, hitting me in the face driving behind
those who overtake and don't give enough room to cyclists or horses
those who sit behind me in a 20mph zone flashing/tooting their horn at me as I obey the speed limit near schools
those who fail to see a red light and slam into the back of motorbikes who have stopped - a friends husband was killed by such a c***
I'll stop here as I need to go to work today...

All vehicle license holders should have to retake their tests ever 5 years - pass or be banned until you do
Post test training should be made compulsory for all vehicle owners, failure to do so will result in points and then a ban

I ride a motorbike if you hadn't already guessed

Cheers
Ian

[getagrip]

Been taken off my motorbike twice by numpties not looking; despite lights, hi viz jacket, white helmet

Hate hate hate hate hate middle lane hoggers!  Move over!!!

[Leman]

Still think you need to differentiate between chain mail and plate mail.

[FierceKitty]

You can. They're mail and plate. If you suffer from the redundant syllables disease of a trans-Atlantic nation that we shall in courtesy not name, you could try writing out a thousand times "It's not an elevator, it's a lift."

[Ithoriel]

Dendra is plate, Milanese and Gothic are plate mail.

[getagrip]

Chain mail, plate mail, plate or mail...who cares.  Words are used for communication and to be understood.

PLATE mail and CHAIN mail remove confusion, so........there

[Leman]

Evidently I have been lifted to a higher plain. Very heavy though in my redundant Hollywood chain mail.

[Westmarcher]

What about junk mail?

[Leman]

Worn by Chinese sailors in the C15th I believe.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Worn by Chinese sailors in the C15th I believe.

As life jackets. I've heard that medieval men at arms left their chain-mail off to help with floating....

IanS

[Westmarcher]

Worn by Chinese sailors in the C15th I believe.

[Last Hussar]

Motorcyclists who think their idiotic behaviour is car drivers fault.

[getagrip]

Motorcyclists who think their idiotic behaviour is car drivers fault.

Fair few of them and vice-versa