Hillonearth Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 2 hours ago, JamesP_81 said: The trainspotters themselves while leading sad and curious lives are themselves fairly harmless and don't irritate me too much. What does irritate me is grown adults (not spotters) who wave at trains . "We're out for a walk in the countryside , oh look theres a train , let's wave at it " . I was over on the Isle of Man once, and the easiest way to get to the airport was to get one of those Thomas the Tank Engine-style trains that still run there. Folk were doing that waving thing all the way oblivious to the fact I had a stinking hangover and wasn't for waving back. There's something about a steam train that seems to make folk think they're extras on The Railway Children, 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 1 hour ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said: Shit hot at brutality and torture as well. Thank you. and other imperialist weren't? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur daley Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, JamesP_81 said: The trainspotters themselves while leading sad and curious lives are themselves fairly harmless and don't irritate me too much. What does irritate me is grown adults (not spotters) who wave at trains . "We're out for a walk in the countryside , oh look theres a train , let's wave at it " . Just wave back to them .(from the safety of the train ) Edited September 16, 2021 by Arthur daley 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbaxters Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 Other people sneezing. Not just because of Covid but because it sounds horrible. It's very unreasonable of course as it's involuntary but it really annoys me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmouth Strikes Again Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 26 minutes ago, sophia said: and other imperialist weren't? Never said that. Thank you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeAreElgin Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 Other people sneezing. Not just because of Covid but because it sounds horrible. It's very unreasonable of course as it's involuntary but it really annoys me. As I get older the volume of my sneezes has increased significantly, reckon I could scare a few old dears to death in the next decade or so. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 11 hours ago, Bairnardo said: Foundry Loan STILL being shut, 6 weeks past due and then deciding to shut Tryst Road too. Fucking seething wheres my Boghead Ranter at Aye, I had a minor seethe at that myself this morning. It pushed even more feckless drivers into Muirhall Rd, which is as good as single track anyway, due to the amount of cars parked on it. The company working on Foundry Loan must surely be being paid by the day as opposed to by the job, they're stringing it out to f**k. I even drove down as far as I could yesterday, just to nosey at how far along the job looks, and there's still a massive hole dug, like there has been since virtually the start. I don't even know what the work is for! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 On 14/09/2021 at 10:16, Melanius Mullarkey said: Understaffed shops that dont know how to handle the order of customers. Went in to pick up the bairn's ipad which was needing repaired. The IT gimp was up to his nuts in a Samsung Galaxy but eventually looked up to see me standing there. Started the process of me paying for the repair, phone rings, he picks it up and launches into telling some c**t about the "type of battery they would need for their XPD564 gaming laptop and that their ZX26CUNT motherboard would probably need a new FU9384 chipset. How much? Well we could do it cheaper if you got a HDMI2766 raspberry cheesecake jailbreak pishflap...." Haw, bawbag, you're serving me first you p***k. Utter nonsense. I had something similar a couple of years ago when buying a car. Sat at the salesman's desk and his phone rings. "Excuse me a second sir" He then has a 12 minute conversation with a customer who it turns out is coming in that afternoon to pick up their new car. 12 fucking minutes I was sat there like a fud while this gimp has a full blown after sales conversation on the phone with another customer. A simple "Sorry I'm with a customer, I'll call you back after" should've happened but no. Was going to make a complaint but instead I was intentionally talking loudly as I left, including calling the salesman a fucking idiot in earshot of his colleagues. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 6 minutes ago, Boghead ranter said: Aye, I had a minor seethe at that myself this morning. It pushed even more feckless drivers into Muirhall Rd, which is as good as single track anyway, due to the amount of cars parked on it. The company working on Foundry Loan must surely be being paid by the day as opposed to by the job, they're stringing it out to f**k. I even drove down as far as I could yesterday, just to nosey at how far along the job looks, and there's still a massive hole dug, like there has been since virtually the start. I don't even know what the work is for! It was a drainage job. I walked past the other day. Where they have built what I assume is a new manhole in the trench, two brickies were building a lovely wee red brick wall. This wall will subsequently be buried under the road never to be seen again, but there they were.... Laying those bricks with care. Its been at the backfill stage for, I reckin at least two weeks. Honestly I have deleted the south end of Foundry Loan from my consciousness to protect my sanity. I now just pretend it never existed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 Folk who go on about the efficiency of Japanese and German public transport. The Fife circle line has never let me down, but I don't bang on about it. It does its job in a competent manner. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 9 minutes ago, TheScarf said: I had something similar a couple of years ago when buying a car. Sat at the salesman's desk and his phone rings. "Excuse me a second sir" He then has a 12 minute conversation with a customer who it turns out is coming in that afternoon to pick up their new car. 12 fucking minutes I was sat there like a fud while this gimp has a full blown after sales conversation on the phone with another customer. A simple "Sorry I'm with a customer, I'll call you back after" should've happened but no. Was going to make a complaint but instead I was intentionally talking loudly as I left, including calling the salesman a fucking idiot in earshot of his colleagues. Buy the car as well? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 7 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: Its been at the backfill stage for, I reckin at least two weeks. Honestly I have deleted the south end of Foundry Loan from my consciousness to protect my sanity. I now just pretend it never existed. When I was noseying the other day, there was still a mahoosive hole, so big it's got that metal device in it to stop the sides caving in, and there was a dude standing in it, he was shoulder deep. Probably one of your brickies. It's an absolute pain in the stones for me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 11 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Buy the car as well? I did buy one but not from him. Bought something else from one of his colleagues. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 41 minutes ago, TheScarf said: I had something similar a couple of years ago when buying a car. Sat at the salesman's desk and his phone rings. "Excuse me a second sir" He then has a 12 minute conversation with a customer who it turns out is coming in that afternoon to pick up their new car. 12 fucking minutes I was sat there like a fud while this gimp has a full blown after sales conversation on the phone with another customer. A simple "Sorry I'm with a customer, I'll call you back after" should've happened but no. Was going to make a complaint but instead I was intentionally talking loudly as I left, including calling the salesman a fucking idiot in earshot of his colleagues. Arnold Clark Motorstore Inverness? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 1 minute ago, ICTJohnboy said: Arnold Clark Motorstore Inverness? Good guess, it very well could've been. But it was a smaller dealership 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 5 minutes ago, TheScarf said: Good guess, it very well could've been. But it was a smaller dealership Given that they now have 6 main dealerships in Inverness, it's not that easy to buy a car from anyone else! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur daley Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 5 minutes ago, TheScarf said: Good guess, it very well could've been. But it was a smaller dealership Wouldn’t have been this one with that kind of customer service that’s for sure . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 1 hour ago, Boghead ranter said: When I was noseying the other day, there was still a mahoosive hole That's Camelon. I think you're stuck with it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Ferrino Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 4 hours ago, Arthur daley said: Wouldn’t have been this one with that kind of customer service that’s for sure . Furious Herbie bottom right. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmouth Strikes Again Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 10 hours ago, Arthur daley said: Wouldn’t have been this one with that kind of customer service that’s for sure . How much you asking for the Cortina? Thank you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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