Anything goes in The Snug, General Discussion's rebellious little brother. An off-topic den of iniquity where any subject not covered elsewhere may be discussed. Well, anything except golf, Star Wars and Arsenal.
RyanWHUFC wrote:Unreliable people who don't take their phone with them/answer said phone IF on the rare occasion they actually have it with them.
Robbie wrote:Yes. I have this problem with my daughter. Infuriating!
Or she can't answer it because its run out of charge.....How hard is it to plug the thing in every night...?
you know those are just excuses to avoid saying "i couldn't be arsed talking to you", right?
My son. Well, he's little, and he has spent the weekend irritating the f*** out of the missus and I. I don't know why, he's usually a little angel, but this weekend he has just been a total handful. Throwing things around, shouting at us, trying to hit us, posting tools through the gaps in the decking, squirting me with the hosepipe, demanding sweets, chocolate etc then having a meltdown when we don't give them to him (because of all of the above). I am about to go and put his bath on, and can't wait until he's asleep as he has driven me to distraction.
As for footballers salaries: the best bit of collective bargaining ever. If we're silly enough to spend £80 on a ticket to a match and £50 on a nylon shirt, then they deserve their share and I'd much rather they have it than it get trousered by the club chairmen like the old days.
/\ Watching kids' tantrums over the years and never having had any kids myself, I'm in honest amazement how parents do it. I guess it must make you a 'bigger' character, patience and understanding and all that (and there's love of course). I found out only a few years ago that my Mum was put on medication because I was such a little git and she ended up exploding. Can't recall anything about it. Apparently I was just challenge, challenge challenge demand and scream.
As I say, most day's he's an angel, a genuinely well behaved little boy and a complete charmer. He makes me laugh, he makes me well up with pride and 90% of the time it is an absolute pleasure watching him learning to make sense of the world (he's only three), but this weekend! :twisted:
I'm on valium at the moment (prescribed) for something else and I must confess to having necked a couple just to get through.
When I see these proper naughty kids, I really do wonder how the parents cope.
Hampshire Hammer wrote:Recruitment "consultants", when there is nothing on my CV related to the job and I'm looking for a hell of a lot more money why waste both of our time phoning up with "an opportunity that is made for you". I've written loads of documents but I'm not a technical author and my CV deliberately does not mention delivering training as I'm not a trainer or teacher.
Plus my covering info states that I'm after contract work so why phone up with permie jobs paying less than £30k!!
Does my brain in. Used to work in the IT Department for one place and 90% of them are absolute arsewipes. Budget rolex. Merc/Audi on finance. Live at home. ****ers. Can you tell that I've had a spate of phone calls last week asking if I would be interesting in transferring my skills over to a job in IT sales? Atleast 3 different people have called me telling me how its such an amazing opportunity to earn money that I would never dream of earning in IT. They always seem so perplexed when I explain I'm happy with where my career is taking me...I get to wear tshirt, shorts and flip flops to the office and finish at 3pm on Fridays. Clowns.
*EDIT* Just to add that I can imagine not all are as bad as they seem. The reputation of that profession does stink though. Fair play to anyone who is genuinely doing well as the environment is indeed a tough one.
Glory Hunter wrote:As I say, most day's he's an angel, a genuinely well behaved little boy and a complete charmer. He makes me laugh, he makes me well up with pride and 90% of the time it is an absolute pleasure watching him learning to make sense of the world (he's only three), but this weekend! :twisted:
He's a toddler, he's at that age where he'll try and push the boundaries and throw tantrums when he doesn't get his own way. The trick is being patient and consistent, and avoiding the urge to shout at them thus giving their tantrums a reaction.
People that bring a weeks worth of lunches and put it all in the work fridge. I've just watched someone walk in and put 5 bloody ready meals in there. I made the comment 'not going home this week then?'. Bring them in daily and leave the rest of your ***** food in your own fridge!
djclipz wrote:People that bring a weeks worth of lunches and put it all in the work fridge. I've just watched someone walk in and put 5 bloody ready meals in there. I made the comment 'not going home this week then?'. Bring them in daily and leave the rest of your ***** food in your own fridge!
I do this. It's a 15 minute walk up to the shops from where I am, and then 15 minutes back. I'll be ****ed if I'm doing that every day.
Of course in my office there are 4 fridges so ample space...
My 7 YO niece - brought up totally wrong: totally spoilt, default setting is NO!, doesn't listen to either parent, screams shouts if she doesn't get her way, divisive, vindictive, aggressive, violent, rude, abusive, pernicious, won't wash, won't clean her teeth, has to have her mum with her 24 hours a day (even when they pee - she has to be there!), has started wearing full make up: there is one way - her way or nothing - otherwise she has a total meltdown until she gets her way: all in all one evil; nasty kid.
Mum and dad see nothing to worry about, just give her everything she wants all the time and she'll grow up lovely and fine.
WHU Independent wrote:My 7 YO niece - brought up totally wrong: totally spoilt, default setting is NO!, doesn't listen to either parent, screams shouts if she doesn't get her way, divisive, vindictive, aggressive, violent, rude, abusive, pernicious, won't wash, won't clean her teeth, has to have her mum with her 24 hours a day (even when they pee - she has to be there!), has started wearing full make up: there is one way - her way or nothing - otherwise she has a total meltdown until she gets her way: all in all one evil; nasty kid.
Mum and dad see nothing to worry about, just give her everything she wants all the time and she'll grow up lovely and fine.
I loathe her and am withdrawing from her life.
Sounds to me like a classic case of ADHD. The difficulty is always differentiating between the chemical imbalance and bad parenting
Adding "yea?" to the end of nearly every sentence.
I've noticed two of my closest friends have started it within the last couple of week and a particularly annoying client has this irritating habit also. It's going to get to the stage where I will either have to
A) tell them to STFU
B) punch them in the face
C) stop talking to them altogether
