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There's a guy in my office who I'd like to show that gif to. A lot.

One of those guys who will turn a simple one word conversation intoa long, one sided, talk.

He ran a marathon yesterday. I asked him if he did a warm up run when he got up or whther he just saved it for the race, and he ended up describing his entire day to me, from what he had for breakfast, to a detailed breakdown of the entire route, to when he had his ice bath to when he got home last night (it was in Berlin). Honestly took about 20 minutes.

I didn't really care.

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There's a guy in my office who I'd like to show that gif to. A lot.

One of those guys who will turn a simple one word conversation intoa long, one sided, talk.

He ran a marathon yesterday. I asked him if he did a warm up run when he got up or whther he just saved it for the race, and he ended up describing his entire day to me, from what he had for breakfast, to a detailed breakdown of the entire route, to when he had his ice bath to when he got home last night (it was in Berlin). Honestly took about 20 minutes.

I didn't really care.

Has he replaced Android man in your weekly rants Stevo? :lol:

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Haha, it's quite likely!

To be fair, that's probably his only fault. He's actually alright, I think he just assumes people find that shit as interesting as him.

There's a guy who sits opposite me who's much more annoying, so he'll probably take over my rants.

One of those guys who likes to let everyone know every 5 seconds how busy he is.

Every day he comes in and declares "20 emails since last night?! Unbelievable!"

You'd think he'd be used to it by now and wouldn't find it so surprising every day!

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Haha, it's quite likely!

To be fair, that's probably his only fault. He's actually alright, I think he just assumes people find that shit as interesting as him.

There's a guy who sits opposite me who's much more annoying, so he'll probably take over my rants.

One of those guys who likes to let everyone know every 5 seconds how busy he is.

Every day he comes in and declares "20 emails since last night?! Unbelievable!"

You'd think he'd be used to it by now and wouldn't find it so surprising every day!

Alright, don't harp on about it, jeez.

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Take advantage of Googles nice Play Store deals this week.

Make a reasonably large purchase shortly afterwards.

Far away in my banks HQ, warning lights go off like Blackpool Pleasure Beach with neon lights flashing 'FRAUD! FRAUD! FRAUD!'.

Bank prevents largish purchase, doesn't notify me of this fact.

Next morning receive automated message at work which reads out a number you need to call without warning once.

Spend half an hour trying to get through tedious bank helpline to be put through to the Fraud Prevention team.

Get cut off during transfer.

Spend further 20 minutes going through same palava before being put on hold.

Finally get through, sort things out, get told the payment for reasonably large purchase will be authorised and everythings alright.

Await delivery.

Keep waiting for delivery.

Finally check rarely used email address that I had to use to make said purchase.

Read email notifying you that payment cannot be authorised and can you fax them the details or arrange for them to ring so transaction can be completed.

...**** the modern world, everything seems designed to be slightly annoying in a death by a thousand tiny cuts kinda way.

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My uni have blocked all betting websites in halls.

Absolutely **** absurd.

That is absurd. They'll ban porn next. I think that would cause protests again.

I knew someone who gambled their entire first installment of their student loan on a football match, and won. Insane thing to do.

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**** waking up this **** early to go to **** London for a **** event there's no **** point me going to. Spending the day gofering for **** "health professionals" (groan), that's what **** marketing people are for. :bang:

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People eating on the street.

Fish & chips at the seaside, perhaps can be tolerated.

Sick of seeing fat people with Greggs pasties, walking on high streets.

We really have lost a lot of manners with food in this country

Since when was walking down the street eating something classed as bad manners? There's an awful lot of bad mannered people who go to football matches eating stuff on the way to the ground,

I've never once considered eating and walking to be bad manners

It does however fit into the rare category of a post that actually does do what the thread title says :mrgreen:

I watched a documentary a few months ago called "The Men who Made us Fat"

They had a big section on how eating culture has changed over the years.

One bit was saying how eating in the street 20-30 years ago absolutely would have been considered bad manners. Eating was something done at home at the dinner table and eating in the street, or even snacking between meals in general, wasn't really the done thing. IF you ate a burger in the street you'd be looked at funny.

Obviously times change, and I wasn't alive so I can't say how accurate the documentary was.

30 years ago I'd have happily eaten a chilli kebab or a bag of chips in the street. The fact that those outlets existed suggests others were also happy to eat in the street.

Yep I'd suggest that anyone who claims that eating in the streets 20 or 30 years ago was considered bad manners is talking nonsense.

Yeah as I said, I can't vouch for the accuracy. And actually it might have been 40 years ago as I think it was on about 60's and 70's, but still

(I still think of 1990 being 10 years ago...)

OK, assuming fish and chips are for some mysterious reason excluded, I'll raise you my first KFC, in 1971. Ate it on the street.
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Take advantage of Googles nice Play Store deals this week.

Make a reasonably large purchase shortly afterwards.

Far away in my banks HQ, warning lights go off like Blackpool Pleasure Beach with neon lights flashing 'FRAUD! FRAUD! FRAUD!'.

Bank prevents largish purchase, doesn't notify me of this fact.

Next morning receive automated message at work which reads out a number you need to call without warning once.

Spend half an hour trying to get through tedious bank helpline to be put through to the Fraud Prevention team.

Get cut off during transfer.

Spend further 20 minutes going through same palava before being put on hold.

Finally get through, sort things out, get told the payment for reasonably large purchase will be authorised and everythings alright.

Await delivery.

Keep waiting for delivery.

Finally check rarely used email address that I had to use to make said purchase.

Read email notifying you that payment cannot be authorised and can you fax them the details or arrange for them to ring so transaction can be completed.

...**** the modern world, everything seems designed to be slightly annoying in a death by a thousand tiny cuts kinda way.

My bank does this.

Not so much anymore, but at first my account was getting suspended when I bought train tickets or ANYTHING online, because they thought it was dodgy.

Used to piss me off, but I put up with it because I figured it was better for them to be safer than they needed to be (although I'd rather they phoned me first and asked whether the transaction was genuine rather than suspend my account straight away, but there you go)

But then, I genuinely did get some money fraudelntly stolen from my account. £800 paid to some random dodgy russian website.

Did the bank spot that? Did they ****.

£1.50 spent on buying a train ticket to Birmingham city centre and they suspend my account and go on red alert.

But £800 to a Russian website and apparently that's fine!

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Yeah, it is weird that they seem to just draw a line of some things being bad and others alright - purchasing a 25p app (which has GOOGLE plastered all over it when you check who was paid that 25p) apparently is an immediate 'Be on the lookout'.

Another thing that happened today. It's my final week of my contract, work is winding down and lots of filing the last 2 months efforts is going on. Then I receive an email notifying me that the powers that be have decided that they want digital copies of every proposal we bound and every renewal we let go, in a digital archive. And they want it done ideally by the end of the week, except we won't even be able to begin uploading tot he archive before Thursday morning.

Thats over 120 cases. Some of which we only have hard copies of and on average weigh in at 40 odd pages (some much more). Even the copies we do have digital versions of are generally made up of numerous files and emails and correspondance. We've spent the last 2 months working from hard copies on everything and now they do something that a) makes more work, and B) makes our printing off thousands of sheets of paper pointless... And best of all, they do it at the very last minute.

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People knocking me for liking my iPhone. It may be a bit funky at times but I think it's pretty cool all the same. Plus I trust the customer service machine will soon fix stuff (that should've been sorted but hey what would the haters hate then?)

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tw@ts that can't drive in the rain but still feel it's important to stay in the outside lane

This

I was unearly picking my son up from cubs tonight due to some lane hoggers

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