What made you 'Shake your Head' today?

[DDubya]

Maybe catching crims might be a better idea 🙄

[C8RKH]

Political correctness gone mad.

Speaking of going mad, what is it with Labour and those two "adverts" targeting Sunak? Totally shameless and abhorent 

.Maybe Sunak should respond with a picture of Starmer and Saville to make the point that, if I recall correctly, the CPS under Starmer did little to stop that abuse!

I can't stand it when politics gets grubby and dirty like this. It basically tells me that the party doing it has no ideas, no new policies, only hate to peddle.

It's a disgusting campaign and despite being desperate to support Labour it just keeps pushing me away.

[Kimbers]

We have a mini "ROundabout" that has broken up and taken the road with it. We have drains that have sunken into the road so much I can't drive over them in the Lotus or I lose my wheel and several teeth and as for pot holes.......... Saw this today and thought it pertinent!

[Escape]

I was exploring some roads for a charity run (in 2 weeks, so I need to hurry up) in the Excel last weekend. Some nice scenery and quaint little villages, but some very poor and deformed cobblestone roads. I had to turn back once as the bottom started scraping the higher center section. And after a drink in a great pub nearby, the Excel refused to start. Pop the hood and I found the wire from the starter motor hanging lose. The constant shaking must have worked it of the spade. Easy fix, but I'd hate to think what it would do to a car that's used on those roads every day!

[march]

The lane to our house has finally been eroded completely away by cattle crossing and there is a chance the Esprit will not make it out without bottoming out the front lip. The council have absolutely no interest in maintaining the lane even when I have pointed out the amount of road tax we pay. So maybe selling Esprit later this spring. Even main roads are not maintained properly around here and whatever patching is done generally falls apart within a couple of months - seems a bit of a scam to me between the council roads department and the road repairers. The best bit is they will come out and patch a few holes and then leave others a matter of meters away from the patched areas.

[C8RKH]

Report the pothole with a picture on the Councils web site, marking the location. They then have a statutory duty to check it and if needed reapir it. Also, if they do not, and your car is damaged, they need to pay. Unless the law has changed recently.

We had a problem with a stretch of road to our village. So, I lodged 37 reports (one for each pothole) in around 30 metres of road. They couldn't ignore it as they were propely "logged" and so they had to resurface the road. Sometimes you just have to be an ALF (annoying little f........) 

[Escape]

@march I'd sooner remove the front lip of the Esprit than sell it. It makes a big difference to the approach angle: my red one had a lip, the silver one came without it and that made life a lot easier on rougher roads. In fact, without the lip the Esprit is pretty good off road. 😉

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

I was watching some bodge-and-go pothole “repairers” in Wales the other day. It’s literally two shovel loads of sticky tarmac, a pat down with the back of the spade and off to the next one. I would imagine that the repair is ruined the first time an HGV passes over it. Still at least they do try. Back where we live, they just go around highlighting offending areas with a spray can, seemingly never to return! There are some dangerous country roads nearby too, where the subsurface structure of the road seems to have collapsed in certain areas, leaving bizarre camber issues, which can cause any low slung car to bottom out, or likely fling you into the ditch or oncoming traffic.

[C8RKH]

Yeah, seen the two shovel loads of sticky tarmac brigade up here too. I am convinced that the guys with the two shovels are either related to, or are somehow paying, the officials who process their invoices. And yup, within a couple of weeks that sticky tarmac ain't so sticky anymore and, oh surprisde surprise, the hole is bag.  Argh......  I agree, it is all a money making con.

[ChrisJ]

At work, had a request for a report change from a client. I had to draw up the estimates for the change, which was Sep-Dec 2022. Loads of haggling by the PM/Client, finally agreed and signed off a couple of weeks ago - with an agreement that I discuss with the client through my change process.

I started last Monday, requested a Teams meet on Tuesday re check the layout , no response.  Repeat request on Wednesday - still no response. Was about to repeat the request on Thursday, when I had a response, and a Teams meeting arranged for 2pm - 4 hrs later.

1st thing the client said when shown the work so far (which I had continued doing) - "Oh that's not what I want" - then showed me a report produced a year or so ago from a different system, said this is format I'm looking for.

At no point in the process had this report been shown. The spec was a fuzzy - Move down, move across, change the decimal places etc. I have made all the changes as spec'd. I was only wanting to know where on the page some new fields should be displayed

As the old saying goes - in the land of the user, the blind man is king.

The client really should have agreed a fixed price contract.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 11, 2023 by ChrisJ
changed year

[910Esprit]

If there's ambiguity in a straightforward report layout, which could easily be prototyped - I'd be having a 'lessons learned' with the BA & PM...

[C8RKH]

2 and a half years later you started on a report!  Wowser.

However, sounds to me like the report is now substantially different than was previously agreed so whack in a change control notice for the extra work over and above. You'd be entitled to.

But then if it's not a lot of work, just do it.

However, the real question I would be asking as the user is, if I have managed without the report for 2.5 years do i really need it? So I'd cancel the work order and use the effort/time/money somewhere that was going to add real value.

The issue here though is not with the user. The issue here is with whoever "accepted" such a woolly set of requirements as being adequate, and who did the QC check on the spec and the costing sheet. I'd sack both of those numpties.

[ChrisJ]

oops - 2022

[C8RKH]

On 08/04/2023 at 23:40, DDubya said:

Maybe catching crims might be a better idea 🙄

So the Police have time for that. But try getting them to respond to a burgularly. Or a car theft. Or soemthing else worthwhile.  The priorities are pathetic these days to be honest.

[Barrykearley]

Been the same for years @C8RKH

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/1248259.bromyard-by-golly-police-raid-did-our-shop-a-power-of-good-says-owner/

this is my neighbour - he still sells golly stuff even now.

frankly - with my recent experience of the police - if they ever need my assistance in the future they can take a flying fuc£ at a rolling doughnut.

 

[C8RKH]

I've got some very old, original, metal gollie "badges" somewhere. I'm not sure where the fugitives are hiding though....

Still waiting for the time when rap songs are censored for n word they are often full off.

[PaulCP]

We are waiting for the day the local plod raid our kitchen where we have an old tin Golden Shred Marmalade plaque on the wall complete with print of Golly, dog, cat & bird - oh and a jar of marmalade

[exeterjeep]

On 08/04/2023 at 23:40, DDubya said:

Maybe catching crims might be a better idea 🙄

And now - Camra award ban for Essex pub displaying golly dolls

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-65260945

says..

A pub where golliwog dolls were seized by police should not be considered for "future awards or inclusion in our Good Beer Guide", the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) said.

Camra said it found it "baffling" that the White Hart Inn, in Grays, Essex, chose to display the "offensive" dolls.

Police are investigating after a member of the public reported being racially distressed on 24 February

[Rambo]

After reading that OTT wokeness I have today written to CAMRA with my personal views and cancelled my forthcoming annual membership 😐

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

We live adjacent to a pub. Now that the weather is improving there is a new phenomenon of dads meeting up there on a Sunday and using the pub garden as a kids playground. Rather than take their infant/primary school age kids to either of the two nearby public parks with all the necessary play equipment and amenities, they would rather let them run wild outside the pub, whilst the dads are boozing, joking and swearing with their mates. They probably think that’s great parent / child time.

[exeterjeep]

On 11/04/2023 at 20:37, C8RKH said:

So the Police have time for that. But try getting them to respond to a burglary. Or a car theft. Or something else worthwhile.  The priorities are pathetic these days to be honest.

And now it has been vandalised, I wonder if they will bother to turn up. Had not realised it was called the White Hart.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-65297070

Essex Police said it was conducting extra patrols in the area !!!!!!

[ramjet]

I wonder if they are going to start seizing Barbie dolls if some woman feels physically inferior?

Or Ken dolls if some guy feels abdominally challenged?

Or Barbie's Porsche because a Porsche owner feels that Pink is not right on a Porsche?

Or those spinny things that go on tables because the offended person is named Susan and isn't lazy?

Or make a pub change it's name from the Cock Inn to something more LGBTQSKJZCK(add other letters as you see fit) acceptable?

Hell, even COON cheese here had to change its name because someone said it was discriminatory, except for the fact that it was the surname of the family that started the business.

Maybe everyone with the surname Black or White should change their name to something less racially separatist?

No more shall we be able to give a mate with the surname of Black a nickname of 'Blackie". We will just have to call him 'you'. Or 'they' or 'party' or 'group' or whatever other silly pronoun they decide to identify as. If we don't we may offend their tender sensibilities.

Maybe we should drop the 'man' or 'men' part of 'woman' or 'women' and just called them wo or wos?

The world is going to hell in a hand basket. And we are letting it, to placate minorities.

Maybe we should change the meaning of minority to a group of men/wos/them/they that are lesser in numbers than other groups of men/wos/them/they that are the most influential? Majority will just mean everyone else.

There is a teachers aide in my grandsons class who identifies as 'they'. What the hell does that even mean?

We have gone way past political correctness to absolutely stoopid.

WOKE - don't even get me started.

 

[Rambo]

I hope me and my dog don't get arrested 😕

His favourite toy is the one on the left. He is a black lab.

[C8RKH]

Meanwhile yours @Rambo is the pinky one on the right with the big bashful eyes!

However, remember, despite everything, black labs matter.

 

As I have said before, I just don't get why we are so obsessed with labels. We're all just people. We all eat, sleep, shit, worry, dream etc. Why does it matter where we come from, or who we love or shag (as long as it is consensual). I just do not get the pre-occupation with labels from the younger generations. And as for name calling, just grow a thicker skin and realise that the numpties doing it are just thick, ignorant, twats who are of no real consequence or value. 

[pete]

Joe Biden has announced he is going to run again. He will be 81 when campaigning begins🫣