Stress reducing general rant thread
Jan 8, 2013, 2:19 pm
#16
Join Date: May 2012
Location: London
Posts: 442
TV programmers putting a David Attenborough series about The Galapagos on when I "should" be preparing for a meeting tomorrow. Now, for the first time in my life, I am going to have to say I'm not quite ready because I was distracted by boobies.
Jan 14, 2013, 6:34 am
#17
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 4,028
[RANT]
Buying a house
Dear god various parties drag things out to extract their pound of flesh don't they? Have always rented previously, where everything is very quick - this is driving me up the wall.
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Buying a house
Dear god various parties drag things out to extract their pound of flesh don't they? Have always rented previously, where everything is very quick - this is driving me up the wall.
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Jan 15, 2013, 12:50 pm
#18
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: From ORK, live LCY
Programs: BA Silver, EI Silver, HH Gold, BW Gold, ABP, Seigneur des Horaires des Mucci
Posts: 14,210
[RANT]Buying home insurance. I've spent the last hour at it and am no nearer to buying anything. This may be because I put everything through the meerkat site and then out of idle curiosity opened a different browser and went directly to the insurer that the meerkats suggested. £98 cheaper.[/RANT]
Jan 15, 2013, 12:56 pm
#19
formerly known as lady1964
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Yorkshire
Programs: BA Bronze
Posts: 1,181
[RANT]Buying home insurance. I've spent the last hour at it and am no nearer to buying anything. This may be because I put everything through the meerkat site and then out of idle curiosity opened a different browser and went directly to the insurer that the meerkats suggested. £98 cheaper.[/RANT]
Jan 15, 2013, 1:45 pm
#20
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: From ORK, live LCY
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Posts: 14,210
Furthermore, the site I want to buy from keeps crashing and saying "please phone us". I hate phoning people.
Jan 15, 2013, 1:59 pm
#21
formerly known as lady1964
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Yorkshire
Programs: BA Bronze
Posts: 1,181
[RANT] Internal auditors - sit there, do your auditing quietly, asking the occasional question to do with our files but please, do not butt in to business that doesn't concern you, thereby stressing us out more than we already are because we don't want non-conformance - keep your opinions to yourself and just because you're a workaholic, don't look down on those of us who have a life outside work.......
and breathe.............
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and breathe.............
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Jan 15, 2013, 4:33 pm
#22
Join Date: May 2010
Location: The land of square sausage
Programs: British Airways
Posts: 16
Two from me...
Going shopping in a supermarket (especially at Christmas when it's rather busy) and people think parking their trolleys in the middle of the isle to chat with each other is ok. Despite an excuse me they pretend to be deaf, a strategic nudge out of the way seems to work.
Calling a UK based call centre at 0400 hrs and getting the message " We are experiencing an usual high call volume, your call is important to us" etc etc.
No, I think you are not telling the truth.
Wine kicking in, rant over.
Going shopping in a supermarket (especially at Christmas when it's rather busy) and people think parking their trolleys in the middle of the isle to chat with each other is ok. Despite an excuse me they pretend to be deaf, a strategic nudge out of the way seems to work.
Calling a UK based call centre at 0400 hrs and getting the message " We are experiencing an usual high call volume, your call is important to us" etc etc.
No, I think you are not telling the truth.
Wine kicking in, rant over.
Jan 16, 2013, 10:09 am
#23
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Brighton and Hove, UK
Programs: LH FTL, BA Silver, Thameslink Delay Repay
Posts: 1,248
Randomly discovered that for the fourth time in a row, I am wearing a white shirt flying outbound from LHR (unusual for me, as I always travel for leisure not business). And by randomly discovered, I mean this is the fourth time in a row I have spilled GC's signature "may-contain-traces-of-chicken" tagine on said white shirt.
In other news:
In other news:
- Mmmm banana cake.
- Open bar is not a good idea after having an interview in the morning and anxiously awaiting a response. My apologies to everyone if the bar dries up soon (have some orange juice on me!)
Jan 16, 2013, 12:54 pm
#25
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Cham CH
Posts: 1,645
Jan 17, 2013, 11:02 am
#27
formerly known as lady1964
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Yorkshire
Programs: BA Bronze
Posts: 1,181
[RANT] The ba**ard driving a lorry who drove into hubby's car this morning. Thanks for taking a photo of the damage you caused to his car before attempting to drive off. Thanks for speaking almost no English so that when my hubby asked for your insurance details, you gazed at him blankly, huffed & then drove off. Hubby got the reg no and company name of the firm said to**er drives for but cheers for the hassle he now has.
Hubby can't open the passenger door of his car and has to go to the police station later to report this. We have his car booked in to Meet & Greet parking at T5 next Wednesday, so now we may have the hassle of changing the car being left there.
So thanks you absolute ba**ard, hope you had a good day
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Hubby can't open the passenger door of his car and has to go to the police station later to report this. We have his car booked in to Meet & Greet parking at T5 next Wednesday, so now we may have the hassle of changing the car being left there.
So thanks you absolute ba**ard, hope you had a good day
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