Random Irritations

[Jamesbrown]

A. I'm not a bigot, misogynist, transphobe or a dinosaur.
B. I don't believe I'm peddling anything. I'm offering an opinion which I don't believe is nonsense.
C. To my mind, someone who has had gender surgery from male to female is still, and always will be, a male.

Two things, I believe, are assigned at birth. Your gender and your age, neither of which can be changed.
Just my opinion, nothing more nothing less.
I have tremendous sympathy with those who believe they are born in the wrong body, as I have tremendous sympathy with many others who are not born as they'd hoped. But I just don't believe one can change one's gender.

That's all, I have no agenda.

Stay strong. You’re not alone and neither are you in the minority. The world will one day flip itself back right up. Surely?

 

[Fade and Die]

The problem wasn't with any of that, it was when you said a transgender woman is still a man. All I was trying to make you realise is, while that may be your opinion, it doesn't really need saying out loud in a public forum. It's an outdated view and would be upsetting to some people.

Anyway, we've taken up enough of his thread now so let's leave it there.

I think you are wrong here. You have been influenced by a tiny but very vocal minority.

A transgender woman is not a woman. It is offensive to real women to say they are. Please stop.

 

[Rlburnside]

Sticks and stones offically dead now I see.

If someone reads something non a public forum that isn't directly aimed at them and gets offended. I'd suggest they should man up and move on.

Hey you can’t say Man up anymore my daughter told me off for saying some bloke was like a old woman

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Can we move on please, entrenched views on both sides which will not change even if discussed for years

 

[Hobbit]

Can we move on please, entrenched views on both sides which will not change even if discussed for years

Yes but I’m Spartacus!

 

[Crazyface]

seems that way.
And we’re forced to pay these wrong uns

Er, no you're not. I don't, and feel so chuffed at everyone that gets called out.

 

[Slime]

Can we move on please, entrenched views on both sides which will not change even if discussed for years

Any chance I can put a poll up about this?

 

[Whereditgo]

The number of emails I get offering to sell me the visitors/attendee's list and contact details for trade shows and the like, then receiving numerous follow up emails.

 

[Piece]

Gatwick Car Parking - valet. Quote this year is £383 where as last year it was £190, then £150 after discount.

I've now got this down to £144 with the discount! It's been going steadily down over the past two months, so it doesn't pay to book early.

 

[rudebhoy]

The system in England for selling houses.

MIL passed last year. She had a lovely flat which we put on the market. Got a buyer in Feb/March. He wanted all sorts chucked in, which we were happy to do at no cost as we just wanted rid of it - it's a 100 miles from home and a 2.5 hour drive, so logistically it was difficult to keep an eye on it.

Then in May, he pulled out. so back to square one.

Then, 3 weeks later, he changed his mind, and it was all back on again. Things have been moving along, albeit slowly, and just last week, the solicitor advised we were just about at the stage of agreeing a completion date.

This morning, he pulled out again.

So, back to square one again, apart from a hefty solicitors bill. He will have one as well, but that is no consolation.

The prospect of having to market it again, and potentially going through another winter worrying about the maintenance of the property is not a nice one. Oh yeah, it's the wife's birthday today, that's put a proper dampener on that.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

My wife works from home. Part of her job involves reviewing and editing MS Word documents, and at other times creating new documents using templates. She uses a bespoke in-house system built upon MS Sharepoint.

Problem is that she has been ‘trained’ to do it ‘this way’ and follow the system, but because she hasn’t had any formal Word training and training in using the templates, nor has she had a ‘behind the scenes’ overview of how document management in Sharepoint is set up to work for her team, she hasn‘t a clue what to do if something goes wrong or doesn’t work as it should. She gets in a total mess, gets upset and panics, blaming herself for being useless. She then calls on me to sort it out - and sometimes I can’t as I don’t know what she got in front of her - and of course she struggles to explain.

And no matter how much I reassure her that it’s not her fault - she won’t listen. And when she does ask for help from others in her team, from what she is told to do it is pretty clear to me that at least some of those she asks equally don’t really understand what they are actually doing.

Of course when she’s ‘doing documents’ I am rather stuck in the house…

 

[srixon 1]

My wife works from home. Part of her job involves reviewing and editing MS Word documents, and at other times creating new documents using templates. She uses a bespoke in-house system built upon MS Sharepoint.

Problem is that she has been ‘trained’ to do it ‘this way’ but because she hasn’t had any formal Word training and training in using the templates, nor has she had a ‘behind the scenes’ overview of how document management in Sharepoint is set up to work for her team, she hasn‘t a clue what to do if something goes wrong or doesn’t work as it should. She gets in a total mess, gets upset and panics, blaming herself for being useless. She then calls on me to sort it out - and sometimes I can’t as I don’t know what she got in front of her.

And no matter how much I reassure her that it’s not her fault - she won’t listen. And when she does ask for help from others in her team, from what she is told to do it is pretty clear to me that those she asks equally don’t really understand what they are actually doing.

Lots of guides on the WWW and YouTube. I’m always using them but mainly for excel

 

[Slab]

Lots of guides on the WWW and YouTube. I’m always using them but mainly for excel

Might also be worth writing the question/problem into chat gpt for an answer

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I've now got this down to £144 with the discount! It's been going steadily down over the past two months, so it doesn't pay to book early.

Our Heathrow parking a few weeks ago for 12 days cost about £180. We live 45mins from Heathrow. Probably cheaper to get a taxi. Off to Spain in October for a week. Flying from Gatwick. As we are not getting a ‘crack of dawn’ flight we‘ll probably let the train take the strain as we can get direct there for a local station.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Might also be worth writing the question/problem into chat gpt for an answer

Problem is that it’s not clear to me how they have built their system on Sharepoint and how they actually want to have documents managed through their creation and review process.

 

[GB72]

Our Heathrow parking a few weeks ago for 12 days cost about £180. We live 45mins from Heathrow. Probably cheaper to get a taxi. Off to Spain in October for a week. Flying from Gatwick. As we are not getting a ‘crack of dawn’ flight we‘ll probably let the train take the strain as we can get direct there for a local station.

Cost me that back in May but it was well worth it. Drop of point was 100 yards from the terminal door. 2 minutes of paperwork on drop off, 2 minutes to check and collect keys on return so was painless. No lugging cases miles, no shuttle buses, car on the doorstep of the terminal on the way back, perfect and it was all through the official parking so no risk of your car being in a field for a fortnight, they just move it out to long stay.

 

[Neilds]

Had Sky Glass delivered today and the screen on the TV was damaged when the engineer took it out of the box. It must have happened at the factory as the packaging is in perfect condition.
But that is the minor irritation compared with the process of getting a new TV delivered. Sky have to cancel the whole order and then redo the order. This took 39 minutes and 3 people, with me having to sit through the terms an conditions and the rest of the waffle again - only did it all last week. I also had to pay the £10 fee again and a £25 delivery to get it tomorrow (these will be refunded to my Sky account). Surely things shouldn't be this difficult to get another TV delivered?

 

[Hobbit]

Typical retired irritation. Just sat down to watch the Ashes. Only a day too early.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Typical retired irritation. Just sat down to watch the Ashes. Only a day too early.

I'm wondering whether this should also have gone on to the Laughter thread . Thank you, you made me laugh out loud

 

[Neilds]

Typical retired irritation. Just sat down to watch the Ashes. Only a day too early.

The Women's Ashes is on today so not as bad as you make out