PET PEEVES & GRIPES

[Waldo]

G'day Skew ChiDAMN!!

Maybe if he turns up again you should put up a sign on your lathe, "Look but don't touch"

[Sir Stinkalot]

Fine then Skew ...... its the last time Im comming around to your place. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

I'm putting his effort aside for a few months... and then I'll show it to him, just to see what criticisms he has for this piece of "my" work.

[Gumby]

oh dear me, seems somebody has a raw nerve

[soundman]

I think the summary of the above couple of posts

Ham fisted, talentless, ignorant fools who make no effort to do things properly telling you what you should have done and why you have not succeeded at your first or second attempt to use some advanced & difficult method that you are figuring out for your self.

AAAARRRRGGGHH

[Rossluck]

The thing that annoys me,,,,and I probably shouldn't let it,,,,is when knowledgeable people, to back up there point, detail their university degrees and experience in the subject........ uno, ' I should know, cause I've had 30 years experience in whatever, with a triple masters degree in it '.... which basically shuts down the debate. Which is fine if they were right ! ....but how often are they wrong ! ...all the blooooody time ! ..........Thats when I let them have it. ...and how do they backpeddle when it becomes clear to them that they were actually wrong all along? ......They start quoting their ####ing degrees again. :mad: ........cause never, ever, can they say .....

'uno, your right, I made a mistake' ....

Yes,I was guilty of this recently (not being necessarily wrong, but pointing out that I have a degree). I felt bad about it, it was like using a sledgehammer when a tack hammer would have done. But I didn't go to uni until my early 30s, and I've seen both sides of it: people without degrees who think that all people with degrees are smart alecs, and people with degrees who mainly learned at uni how very little they really know.

On another tack, my pet hate is the incredible technological DUMNESS of traffic lights. We can get people on the moon, we carry video cameras in our mobile phones and so on, but every day we sit there next to those red lights that stopped fifty cars and trucks to let one annoying dribbler through five minutes ago.

[Bob Willson]

to let one annoying dribbler through five minutes ago.

What part was dribbling?

[Rossluck]

What part was dribbling?

The whole thing.

[Iain]

I have a few pet hates, the current one is committees who seem to have no idea on what they are doing, why they are doing it and generally like a position of power that has never been entrusted to them before and the lust to wield a big stick, usually to the disadvantage of the organisation they are supposed to be helping.
Point in question, we received a note from our Scout Committee stating thet we will be charged an additional $15 per term because SWMBO will not help out at the Op Shop once a term.
She works full time, as we pointed out, but we will pay the $15, and remove our names from the other 12 fundraising drives that are on this year that we normally help out with.
And short asred little sales managers with big mouths and low IQ's, venomous little toad I used to work with, took away all his glory when I resigned, took great pleasure in winding people up and then firing them when they bit back.
I never gave him that pleasure and he hated it.

[echnidna]

Point in question, we received a note from our Scout Committee stating thet we will be charged an additional $15 per term because SWMBO will not help out at the Op Shop once a term.
She works full time, as we pointed out, but we will pay the $15, and remove our names from the other 12 fundraising drives that are on this year that we normally help out with.

Don't fergot to send em a printout of this post


But always remember that a duck is an elephant that was designed by a committee

[ticklingmedusa]

It sure is wonderful to have this place now to spew forth my curmudgeonliness. I think today my pet peeve is pretty much anything
that keeps me away from the tool rest. Several of them have already
been mentioned by some of you all. Traffic wankers, telephone calls from
someone I'd rather not speak to ( come to think of it I could disconnect the damned thing ), having to stop to eat, , maybe sleep, shop or go to the job. Okay, if I stop working the lights go off and the spinning wood comes to a halt.
Is this what the Dali Lama means by enlightened interdependence?
Hmmmm...
Does life interrupt turning or does turning interrupt life?
I gotta go think about this at the tool rest.
tm

[RufflyRustic]

Shellac runs, cause in the end, all you can do is sand it all back and start again, however, after the second time - bugger!!!!!

RR

[vsquizz]

People who insist that milk crates are actually "milk crates"...the nerve....everybody knows their proper name is "universal scaffolding and storage device"..

.unbelievable

But I'd say city councils are ringing my bell at the moment. A fundamental lack of understanding of the words "consistency".and "commonsense". However a truly fundamental appreciation of the word "Bureaucracy" exists...with an inbuilt desire to take the meaning of the word to new heights.

[Christopha]

I just cannot handle anyone who is not a perfect as me......

[scooter]

I'm sure they have no desire to be handled by you Chris...