Random Irritations

[williamalex1]

First decent day of the year so far, so I decided to tidy up my shed/mancave, only to discover some large Rat droppings .
After a trip to trip to Screwfix for a rat trap, it's now set up and baited with a bit of ribeye fat from tonight's dinner.
Fingers crossed Roland will be caught soon.
Any other suggestions for bait, I know there are a few master baiters on here

 

[Slime]

First decent day of the year so far, so I decided to tidy up my shed/mancave, only to discover some large Rat droppings .
After a trip to trip to Screwfix for a rat trap, it's now set up and baited with a bit of ribeye fat from tonight's dinner.
Fingers crossed Roland will be caught soon.
Any other suggestions for bait, I know there are a few master baiters on here

Peanut butter, rat traps are the only things that it's good for.

 

[williamalex1]

Peanut butter, rat traps are the only things that it's good for.

I give that a try, there's a jar been sitting in the cupboard for ages, probably out of date, but hey-ho, cheers.

 

[PNWokingham]

Mary Poppins reclassified from U to Pg to save all those sensitive souls that may be offended

 

[AmandaJR]

Peanut butter, rat traps are the only things that it's good for.

Hush thy mouth - food of the gods. Not sure I ever have a peanut-butter-free day!

 

[Hobbit]

Hush thy mouth - food of the gods. Not sure I ever have a peanut-butter-free day!

As long as it’s smooth, not crunchy. Crunchy is only good for dolomite in the foundations.

 

[TimShady]

Mary Poppins reclassified from U to Pg to save all those sensitive souls that may be offended

Oh no. Imagine trying to let parents know that their children are going to hear a racist term.

Out of interest, at which point would you think it is ok to let them know a racist word is used? The n word?

 

[Orikoru]

Oh no. Imagine trying to let parents know that their children are going to hear a racist term.

Out of interest, at which point would you think it is ok to let them know a racist word is used? The n word?

Do they use the N word in Mary Poppins??? I must have seen it ten times and never noticed that!

 

[Neilds]

Do they use the N word in Mary Poppins??? I must have seen it ten times and never noticed that!

The word is hottentot which is a Dutch term - apparently

 

[AmandaJR]

As long as it’s smooth, not crunchy. Crunchy is only good for dolomite in the foundations.

Crunchy all the way

 

[Hobbit]

Oh no. Imagine trying to let parents know that their children are going to hear a racist term.

Out of interest, at which point would you think it is ok to let them know a racist word is used? The n word?

I honestly thought that the word used was the genuine name for the indigenous people of southwest Africa. That explains why in a recent documentary a different term was used.

 

[TimShady]

Do they use the N word in Mary Poppins??? I must have seen it ten times and never noticed that!

No, they don’t, I’m just trying to find out where Mr Wokingham draws the line at using racist terms without at least letting parents know.

 

[PJ87]

No, they don’t, I’m just trying to find out where Mr Wokingham draws the line at using racist terms without at least letting parents know.

I remember not being able to find Dumbo on Disney plus for the kids, turns out it (along with Aristocats) had been re classified as guidance due to terms or depictions used.

Simply read what they were decided if acceptable and changed the eldest profile to 6 plus so she could watch them.

Hardly worth writing home about

 

[TimShady]

I remember not being able to find Dumbo on Disney plus for the kids, turns out it (along with Aristocats) had been re classified as guidance due to terms or depictions used.

Simply read what they were decided if acceptable and changed the eldest profile to 6 plus so she could watch them.

Hardly worth writing home about

Nope, it’s just common sense to align things with modern and progressive thinking. But some people just want to be furious.

 

[Golfmmad]

People - on here, in real life, everywhere - falling into the trap of " this is the way it's done here/this is how I do it/this is how we do it" and assuming that it's done the same way the whole world over....nor is it necessarily the correct way.
Many ways of skinning a cat there are........

This reminds me of the time (before he left school) when my son had a part time job for a plastic components factory.
One of his jobs was to count out 1,000 widgets. So, soon after he got bored he decided to weigh up thousand of them rather than all that counting!
His manager noticed and asked what he was doing. Son explained and the manager said, wow, we've never thought of doing that!

 

[Mudball]

Golf club heist ... from Twitter

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[Red devil]

Golf club heist ... from Twitter

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We need Sharia law to deal with this lot

 

[Fade and Die]

We need Sharia law to deal with this lot

Careful…Tim’s looking for another argument since PN didn’t bite.

 

[Slime]

No, they don’t, I’m just trying to find out where Mr Wokingham draws the line at using racist terms without at least letting parents know.

Don't ever watch Dambusters then, you'd go into meltdown!

 

[Fade and Die]

In summary, I just think a lot of customer service people tell the customer what they want to hear even when it's not achievable. I think a bit of honesty goes a long way - if the customer doesn't accept it then that's up to them I suppose. They're only going to react even worse if you make a false promise that can't be met.

Sometimes it’s genuinely out of the salesman’s hands… We bought a lot of Siemens stuff from our local Euronics shop, Siemens have been constantly promising them a larder freezer will be on the next delivery, it finally turned up today after a 6 week delay!