Today I'm angry about.....

[TANGODANCER]

Wasnt me, i have an alibaaaaaaa...

( sorry )

Is that a sheepish emocion? It should be.

[ohjimmyjimmy]

Damn...i should have known i cant pull the wool over your eyes...!

[Gooner Girl]

Damn...i should have known i cant pull the wool over your eyes...!

Someones bored at work again

[ohjimmyjimmy]

Have to amuse myself somehow

[CrazyHorse]

Latest announcement from the works Health and Safety think tank.

No one is allowed to change the ink/toner in the printers and photocopiers. These are now covered under the site COSHH rules and only designated & trained people may now replace them.

As it stands, no one has yet been designated & formally trained so presumably the whole of Cheshire & North Wales could at any minute be plunged back into the 1970s with the inevitable power cuts when we have to turn the turbines off as a direct result of not being able to print an important document off.

I think we also send power out to St Helens and Wigan too, but as they're still stuck in the 1970s anyway I doubt anyone will notice.

[Bruce Rioja]

^ We've just had something called a Konica Minolta Bizhub C220 delivered and installed. I can't even get a bleedin' photocopy out of it, let alone check its ink

[bobo the clown]

so presumably the whole of Cheshire & North Wales could at any minute be plunged back into the 1970s ...

Proper North Wles ??

Is this all it will take to advance them so far ???

[bobo the clown]

Back to the old days with us all I say !!

When typing pools, print & reprographics (copying) rooms existed ... manned almost exclusively by dolly-birds who treated you well if they liked you & awfully if not.

The beautiful Mandy once returned my "50 off, one sided" with a photocopy of her right breast in amongst it and a big lip-stick kiss smacked to it.

Thinking back, I think I was in there if I'd played my cards right.

[TANGODANCER]

Having been in charge of my last company's printing, it's no real surprise. Everybody's an expert on what should happen; recommending cheap-toner from somebody they know (then complaining about quality when it turned out to be crap), complaining about renewing contracts with quality firms in favour of cheaper quotes. Suggesting IT should take over the maintenance of printers (well, they must know all about such things!) etc,etc. Complaining bitterly about contract-maintenance on a regular basis and, in my case, a classic: "Why do we need a printing department? Surely personal printers for everybody is the way forward!" Oh,yes, let's do that. And after buying a whole succession of Mickey Mouse light duty units, moaning when they just aren't up to the mass mail-outs that somebody gets a great idea to do and get ten thousand in the post before four-o'clock..I could go on much further....

Sorry to ramble, but I've had it all on this topic.

[thebish]

light bulbs...

I have lived in this house for 13yrs now - and I don't think 1 single entire day has ever passed in all that time when ALL the bulbs are working - we are in a perpetual state of blown bulbs...

today - there are 2 gone in the study, 3 in the kitchen and 2 in the living room..

PLUS... every fecking light-fitting takes a different kind of bulb - and we NEVER have the one we need!!

arrgghhhh!!!

[TANGODANCER]

light bulbs...

I have lived in this house for 13yrs now - and I don't think 1 single entire day has ever passed in all that time when ALL the bulbs are working - we are in a perpetual state of blown bulbs...

today - there are 2 gone in the study, 3 in the kitchen and 2 in the living room..

PLUS... every fecking light-fitting takes a different kind of bulb - and we NEVER have the one we need!!

arrgghhhh!!!

Through another internet site I knw a bloke in Canada who worked in computing. His job was to determine how fine they could take a filament to make it work for a limited period them burn out.

[bobo the clown]

While we are thinking about light bulbs ..... these new fangled b'stards that give no f'king light & take an hour to warm up and now we hear can't be safely disposed of in an environmentally friendly way.....

I've given them time, I've tried to like them & waited for them to be perfected & tried not to be too sweepingly negative about them but .... wtf !?!?!?

[Bruce Rioja]

^ The electricity people sent me some. I was going to write to them saying 'Don't darken my house again'.
And Bish, I was that man stood in ASDA the other week opening all the bulbs until he could find one with a narrow bayonet fitting. This pre-occupied me to such an extent that the bulb is far too bright for the lamp that it's in!

[thebish]

Due to fairly imminent house-move - have been working through the house clearing junk and rediscovering floor-space...

anyway - yesterday took me to the boys' room... (two teens have shared this room throughout their entire teen-dom)

suffice it to say it has been a stranger to vacuum-cleaning devices..

anyway - I wreaked merry havoc on it and rediscoverd the carpet

eventually there was enough of it visible to vacuum..

I set about vacuuming and was utterly amazed about how much dust a carpet could hold...
it just kept coming!!

today I have realised that what is actually going on is that this is a fairly old carpet (we had it in hartlepool too in the room there) - knocking on 18yrs old, in fact - and the vacuum cleaner is literally sucking the foam backing (now deteriorated by age to foam rubber dust) THROUGH the pile!!

[Bruce Rioja]

Built in obsolescence - which your boys have truly flown in the face of. The latex backing used by carpet manufacturers is designed to break down after about four years, so that you'll replace it. 18 years is some going, but then it sounds like it's been well protected

[Montreal Wanderer]

While we are thinking about light bulbs ..... these new fangled b'stards that give no f'king light & take an hour to warm up and now we hear can't be safely disposed of in an environmentally friendly way.....

I've given them time, I've tried to like them & waited for them to be perfected & tried not to be too sweepingly negative about them but .... wtf !?!?!?

Are you referring to compact fluorescent lights, Bobo?



I find them as bright or brighter than ordinary incandescent bulbs, last many times longer and take less than half the power. True, there is a half second pause before they come on. I have never had to dispose of one because I've never had one burn out.

[bobo the clown]

Are you referring to compact fluorescent lights, Bobo?


I find them as bright or brighter than ordinary incandescent bulbs, last many times longer and take less than half the power. True, there is a half second pause before they come on. I have never had to dispose of one because I've never had one burn out.

Clearly .... or rather, dimmly .... not coz these bleeding things can not, in any way, be described as "as bright as", nor do they last any longer than ordinary ones & truthfully, how on God's Earth do you know how much 'leccy they use ?

These conk out, are dull ... & though they brighten, never get to 'bright', can't be put on a dimmer switch (conveniently got around by never being required to), cost more and I now hear cannot be environmentally disposed of with current science.

[Bruce Rioja]

Bobo is the Mayor of Las Vegas, too. These dingy bulbs butter no parsnips in his part of the world! Oh no!

[thebish]

how on God's Earth do you know how much 'leccy they use ?

get one of those devices that energy companies give away for free nowadays - strap it to your mains cable - then carry the little device around with you turning stuff on and off!! it's quite addictive!!

[Bruce Rioja]

Oh, and I'll tell you what I was angry about this morning at 03:00, being woken up by a helicopter, presumably the Police helicopter. It is singularly the most noisiest bastard thing on earth.