General Chit Chat

[TANGODANCER]

Just nipped out at lunch.

A new battery for my watch, installed by the jeweler, watch polished and presented back to me giving the correct time (I do love touches like that) £4.50

Then nipped over the road for two Christmas cards £6.25. The mark-up/margin on what is essentially nothing more than a bit of card with a bit of ink on must be fecking astronomical!!!

Went to Morrisons and abandoned the wife to shopping whilst I popped over to Wilkos. Bought two pairs of magnifying reading glasses, I have perscription readers but eyesight changes rapidly with age. These will do me fine for reading and computing and last me a couple of years. £6 the pair.

[jonnycooper]

Just nipped out at lunch.

A new battery for my watch, installed by the jeweler, watch polished and presented back to me giving the correct time (I do love touches like that) £4.50

Then nipped over the road for two Christmas cards £6.25. The mark-up/margin on what is essentially nothing more than a bit of card with a bit of ink on must be fecking astronomical!!!

£4.50 you say! I,d like to know that particular jeweller!! Took mine in for a battery (no polish) shoved back at me and lightened me of £8! The feckin watch is worth £4.50..

[Bruce Rioja]

Just nipped out at lunch.

A new battery for my watch, installed by the jeweler, watch polished and presented back to me giving the correct time (I do love touches like that) £4.50

Then nipped over the road for two Christmas cards £6.25. The mark-up/margin on what is essentially nothing more than a bit of card with a bit of ink on must be fecking astronomical!!!

£4.50 you say! I,d like to know that particular jeweller!! Took mine in for a battery (no polish) shoved back at me and lightened me of £8! The feckin watch is worth £4.50..

In Rawtenstall, on the main cobbled street. You can even nip into Cordey's Bakery next door whilst your at it (but avoid the card place over the road )

[Bruce Rioja]

Right - I've just received an emither containing the following. "We may have a work around for the customer order we have pending."

I replied with "What the feck does that mean?"

To which the reply came "We may have a solution"

To which I replied, of course "Well why didn't you just fecking write that in the first place?"

To which the reply came "You are Malcolm Tucker" in which I'm taking enormous pride

Anyway, to get to the point, I asked around the office as to if anybody is familiar with the phrase 'a work around' and half of them are. I take it that it's another fecking Americanism that's drifted into our vernacular. Are any of you familiar with it?

[Worthy4England]

Yup, widely used in my line of work for many years. It means, "It's fcuked. We don't know why it's fcuked but we had a mess about and got it working anyhow"...Modern day equivalent of "Have you tried giving it a tap with a hammer"

[Lost Leopard Spot]

The only way you can succeed at firefighting is to have multiple workarounds in place. Almost the definition of the job I do.
So yes I've not only heard of it I use it and am very very familiar with it. It's workaround by the way, not work around. And no, I don't work in a fire station either. You need a course in elementary bullshit phraseology I fear.

[Bruce Rioja]

The only way you can succeed at firefighting is to have multiple workarounds in place. Almost the definition of the job I do.
So yes I've not only heard of it I use it and am very very familiar with it. It's workaround by the way, not work around. And no, I don't work in a fire station either. You need a course in elementary bullshit phraseology I fear.

No, I don't. I'm a lecturer in gettothefuckingpointism. By way of phraseology though, I do like to use, whenever I can "Yes well, this isn't my fecking circus and I'm not your fecking monkey" (I generally use it on the bean counters)

[Lost Leopard Spot]

The only way you can succeed at firefighting is to have multiple workarounds in place. Almost the definition of the job I do.
So yes I've not only heard of it I use it and am very very familiar with it. It's workaround by the way, not work around. And no, I don't work in a fire station either. You need a course in elementary bullshit phraseology I fear.

No, I don't. I'm a lecturer in gettothefuckingpointism.

My work sent me on course to that too, so we'd be able to recognise it and avoid any unnecessary gettingtothefuckingpoint communications with colleagues, clients and all other manner of stakeholders.

[thebish]

The only way you can succeed at firefighting is to have multiple workarounds in place. Almost the definition of the job I do.
So yes I've not only heard of it I use it and am very very familiar with it. It's workaround by the way, not work around. And no, I don't work in a fire station either. You need a course in elementary bullshit phraseology I fear.

No, I don't. I'm a lecturer in gettothefuckingpointism.

My work sent me on course to that too, so we'd be able to recognise it and avoid any unnecessary gettingtothefuckingpoint communications with colleagues, clients and all other manner of stakeholders.

You clearly need a refresher course if you have assimilated "workaround" into your regular lexicon!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

The only way you can succeed at firefighting is to have multiple workarounds in place. Almost the definition of the job I do.
So yes I've not only heard of it I use it and am very very familiar with it. It's workaround by the way, not work around. And no, I don't work in a fire station either. You need a course in elementary bullshit phraseology I fear.

No, I don't. I'm a lecturer in gettothefuckingpointism.

My work sent me on course to that too, so we'd be able to recognise it and avoid any unnecessary gettingtothefuckingpoint communications with colleagues, clients and all other manner of stakeholders.

You clearly need a refresher course if you have assimilated "workaround" into your regular lexicon!

I needed something to put into the box for 'Training Requirements' on my PDR (< don't ask, you either know or don't, it's better if you don't), and you just supplied it for me. Otherwise I'd'a needed a workaround.

[wigan white]

Right - I've just received an emither containing the following. "We may have a work around for the customer order we have pending."

I replied with "What the feck does that mean?"

To which the reply came "We may have a solution"

To which I replied, of course "Well why didn't you just fecking write that in the first place?"

To which the reply came "You are Malcolm Tucker" in which I'm taking enormous pride

Anyway, to get to the point, I asked around the office as to if anybody is familiar with the phrase 'a work around' and half of them are. I take it that it's another fecking Americanism that's drifted into our vernacular. Are any of you familiar with it?

Just consider yourself lucky they didn't put "reach-a-round"

[LeverEnd]

Great minds WW!

[Worthy4England]

Lemmie get this right. You're contending that yourself and WW are "great minds" on the basis of a reach-a-round?

[LeverEnd]

Lemmie get this right. You're contending that yourself and WW are "great minds" on the basis of a reach-a-round?

Yes. And?

[Worthy4England]

I s'pose it's as reasonable as watching an apple falling. Could you wrap it up as some sort of ology just to make it sound kosher?

[Montreal Wanderer]

Lemmie get this right. You're contending that yourself and WW are "great minds" on the basis of a reach-a-round?

Don't forget the full quotation of great minds think alike, Worthy.

[Hoboh]

The only way you can succeed at firefighting is to have multiple workarounds in place. Almost the definition of the job I do.
So yes I've not only heard of it I use it and am very very familiar with it. It's workaround by the way, not work around. And no, I don't work in a fire station either. You need a course in elementary bullshit phraseology I fear.

No, I don't. I'm a lecturer in gettothefuckingpointism. By way of phraseology though, I do like to use, whenever I can "Yes well, this isn't my fecking circus and I'm not your fecking monkey" (I generally use it on the bean counters)

stopped me getting the top job once that did, still the bugger that got it and his replacement were happy to keep me around with the odd incentive thrown in to do the dirty business they didn't want to look very out of touch or incorrectly pc with

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I've just taken the BBC Booze test.
"Your drinking habits are unlike the average from any country. But your closest match on overall consumption alone is Belorus the heaviest drinking country in the world"

Kin'ell world, get your act together, I only drink three pints of weak (abv ~4.0%) beer a day.
Where are these Russians knocking back vodkas, and Germans chugging fxckin great steins? I think everybody's lying to the beer pollsters.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

I apparently drink like I'm from Timor-Leste, the eighth lightest drinking nation in the world - that is after drinking more than usual in the last week

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I apparently drink like I'm from Timor-Leste, the eighth lightest drinking nation in the world - that is after drinking more than usual in the last week

Where the fook is Timor-Leste ( anywhere near East Timor????).