bickster Posted October 29, 2022 Moderator Share Posted October 29, 2022 5 minutes ago, El Zen said: Time for my annual raging against premature xmas crap in shops. Eff the eff off! It’s still October! Also, people just leaving their shopping trolleys in the middle of the car park because they’re too effing lazy to take it back to the bay. WHy does it take you a month to do this. Xmas shite has been in the shops for ages here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 1 minute ago, bickster said: WHy does it take you a month to do this. Xmas shite has been in the shops for ages here. We’re not as far down the slippery slope to full USA-style civilization break down as you are. Yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 15 minutes ago, El Zen said: Also, people just leaving their shopping trolleys in the middle of the car park because they’re too effing lazy to take it back to the bay. Pet hate of mine. Its funny though as you can tell what type of area you are in over here by the abandoned trolleys. Posh/salubrious area - very few trolleys left out. More, shall we say, poorer areas, the trolleys are littered all over the place. Good indication of the mentality of the people who use that particular supermarket. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 29, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted October 29, 2022 4 minutes ago, Xela said: Pet hate of mine. Its funny though as you can tell what type of area you are in over here by the abandoned trolleys. Posh/salubrious area - very few trolleys left out. More, shall we say, poorer areas, the trolleys are littered all over the place. Good indication of the mentality of the people who use that particular supermarket. Don't they have to unlock the trollies with a pound coin? Round here, the only supermarket that doesn't require that (and has 'free access' trollies) is... Waitrose. Which would seem to confirm your sociological analysis, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted October 29, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted October 29, 2022 19 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Don't they have to unlock the trollies with a pound coin? Round here, the only supermarket that doesn't require that (and has 'free access' trollies) is... Waitrose. Which would seem to confirm your sociological analysis, The only supermarket I am aware of anywhere round by me, strangely, is the Morrisons right in he centre of Solihull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 57 minutes ago, Xela said: Pet hate of mine. Its funny though as you can tell what type of area you are in over here by the abandoned trolleys. Posh/salubrious area - very few trolleys left out. More, shall we say, poorer areas, the trolleys are littered all over the place. Good indication of the mentality of the people who use that particular supermarket. Always say, that Tesco in Witton by VP a great example. Seems as much disabled parking as there is normal parking too, shockingly always full! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy Lifeboats Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 2 hours ago, mottaloo said: @Mandy Lifeboats well, I found your story very funny*, thanks * now awaiting other VTers Joe Pesci type replies as in "funny ? Funny how ? Like a clown...?" ) Thanks. I must remember to make sure I moderate my offensive storytelling in future. “A group of persons was in a restaurant. I had reasonable cause to conclude they were Vegans due to overhearing them order Vegan meals. Whilst this is not conclusive proof of their lifestyle choice, I respectfully ask you to join me in that assumption…………………” 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 1 hour ago, bickster said: WHy does it take you a month to do this. Xmas shite has been in the shops for ages here. I've already got a turkey crown, six bottles of wine, Desperados, cider, mixers, crisps and nuts etc. makes the spend less nearer the time if you put a bit away in the run-up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 2 hours ago, Xela said: Pet hate of mine. Its funny though as you can tell what type of area you are in over here by the abandoned trolleys. Posh/salubrious area - very few trolleys left out. More, shall we say, poorer areas, the trolleys are littered all over the place. Good indication of the mentality of the people who use that particular supermarket. ...here we effing go.........incoming snidey dress code comments....in 3....2....1.... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 44 minutes ago, Mandy Lifeboats said: Thanks. I must remember to make sure I moderate my offensive storytelling in future. Nobody said it was offensive, just questioned your stray descriptors that seemed irrelevant. You're hardly being persecuted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted October 29, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted October 29, 2022 4 minutes ago, Davkaus said: Nobody said it was offensive, just questioned your stray descriptors that seemed irrelevant. You're hardly being persecuted. OK, no need to be so woke about it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy Lifeboats Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 55 minutes ago, Davkaus said: Nobody said it was offensive, just questioned your stray descriptors that seemed irrelevant. You're hardly being persecuted. I agree it's not persecution. But I thought it was pretty self evident that the descriptors were directly relevant to the story. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 2 hours ago, mottaloo said: ...here we effing go.........incoming snidey dress code comments....in 3....2....1.... They typically wear.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 The neighbours opposite have spent the afternoon putting their **** christmas lights up 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 4 minutes ago, Davkaus said: The neighbours opposite have spent the afternoon putting their **** christmas lights up Are you sure they aren’t Halloween lights/decorations? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ingram85 Posted October 31, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 31, 2022 “Why you putting chips in my picture bro”? **** off you word removed. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 2 hours ago, Ingram85 said: “Why you putting chips in my picture bro”? **** off you word removed. Yes. This guy can get pegged by an armadillo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Davkaus Posted November 1, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 1, 2022 On 01/04/2022 at 12:25, Davkaus said: Second time in a year I've had the news that my project is getting shit-canned and everything I worked on is being deleted. At least this time it was only 6 months' work, it was about 4 years of my life down the drain last time. It does give me a sense of perspective that there's no sense in stressing about work when everything I worried about just gets thrown in the bin at a moment's notice. The really bad people have done it again. FFS. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 1 minute ago, Davkaus said: The really bad people have done it again. FFS. Spent 4 months putting together a strategy and plan for a large scale server migration project. Everything in place, test scripts written, then just like it that it ended. Thanks but we arent doing it now. Frustrating to say the least. Thankfully I am on a more traditional SDLC project as the uat lead so the frustrations will be lessened. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 14 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Spent 4 months putting together a strategy and plan for a large scale server migration project. Everything in place, test scripts written, then just like it that it ended. Thanks but we arent doing it now. Frustrating to say the least. Thankfully I am on a more traditional SDLC project as the uat lead so the frustrations will be lessened. I've spent the last 7 months whipping 5 scrum teams into shape (have you tried testing anything *other* than the example good input? No? Might be worth a try...) , building automation frameworks and other tooling for them, setting up half a dozen large scale test environments. All highly customised to the market we're now pulling out of, so some lessons learned along the way, but not a line of reusable implementation. It is brutal when the hammer drops. Literally just got an invite to all 50-60 people working on it called "project status meeting" with 15 minutes notice, and sent a message to my boss "it's happening again isn't it...?". This afternoon's job is deleting everything I've worked on since April. Yay. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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