Date: 28-03-24  Time: 08:05 am

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #825 on: 12 September 2016, 08:40:56 am »
Their Not there  :oops

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #826 on: 12 September 2016, 08:49:00 am »
Saw a woman come down the slip road onto the motorway. Halfway down the slip road she slows down, and winds the window down. She came to a halt with one wheel in lane 1 apparently fiddling with the wing mirror!
The next prize numpty was the bloke in a BMW X5 who ignored all the signs in the roadworks which say "Lanes 1&2 M42, Lanes 2 & 3 M5". He then realises he wants the M5 not the M42 and cuts across two lanes of slip road followed by the chevroned area to end up back on the M5.


Thats a regular occurence on the M5 northbound approaching M42 junction-a lot of cagers use lane 3 to overtake slower moving vehicles on the uphill section then find they have to speed up over the so-called 50mph roadworks limit& then have to cut up other vehicles to cross over to lane 1/2 for M42.I see it EVERY time I come along that section.


Good one yesterday coming back from Wales. Mucklow Hill, Halesowen steep uphill 2 lane road 40mph limit with roundabout half way up. Numpty drove the whole hill in outside lane at speed varying from 20-30mph even though NOTHING in lane 1. Approaching 30 mph limit at top of hill he/she speeds up to 35-40! :eek

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #827 on: 17 September 2016, 08:18:49 pm »
I'm sick to death of the lack of stock in stores these days!! What happened to the days of going into a shop and actually leaving with a product?? 
If I have to hear one more 'Customer Assistant' tell me they can 'order it in' for me I'm gonna scream.
Do they not understand that I can order the f@#king thing online myself??!! I came to the shop because I wanted it now!

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #828 on: 18 September 2016, 08:52:09 am »
I'm sick to death of the lack of stock in stores these days!! What happened to the days of going into a shop and actually leaving with a product?? 
If I have to hear one more 'Customer Assistant' tell me they can 'order it in' for me I'm gonna scream.
Do they not understand that I can order the f@#king thing online myself??!! I came to the shop because I wanted it now!

  I notice this all the time. Particularly in clothes shops where they have loads of the sizes at both the really large and small extremes, but nothing for 'Mr Average'.

  Solution?. Shop for the same product online, probably from a different supplier (so that's a sale they have lost :rolleyes).....or eat more buns :b

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #829 on: 18 September 2016, 09:57:05 am »
  I notice this all the time. Particularly in clothes shops where they have loads of the sizes at both the really large and small extremes, but nothing for 'Mr Average'.

I find it is the other way round. Plenty to fit Mr Average but nothing for the better padded people. I blame head office. They have a formulae that says they will sell 1x size 40, 2x38, 3x36 etc so only order that in.

The reason they only sell that is because they never order more of the larger sizes you fecwits. If you had more 40" trousers, you would sell more.
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #830 on: 18 September 2016, 10:06:56 am »
I'm sick to death of the lack of stock in stores these days!! What happened to the days of going into a shop and actually leaving with a product?? 
If I have to hear one more 'Customer Assistant' tell me they can 'order it in' for me I'm gonna scream.
Do they not understand that I can order the f@#king thing online myself??!! I came to the shop because I wanted it now!

  I notice this all the time. Particularly in clothes shops where they have loads of the sizes at both the really large and small extremes, but nothing for 'Mr Average'.

  Solution?. Shop for the same product online, probably from a different supplier (so that's a sale they have lost :rolleyes ).....or eat more buns :b


Small or large people would tend to disagree with you, they have an abundance of stock always to hand in XS or XXXXL.  :lol [size=78%] [/size]
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #831 on: 18 September 2016, 11:42:34 am »
I'm sick to death of the lack of stock in stores these days!! What happened to the days of going into a shop and actually leaving with a product?? 
If I have to hear one more 'Customer Assistant' tell me they can 'order it in' for me I'm gonna scream.
Do they not understand that I can order the f@#king thing online myself??!! I came to the shop because I wanted it now!

  I notice this all the time. Particularly in clothes shops where they have loads of the sizes at both the really large and small extremes, but nothing for 'Mr Average'.

  Solution?. Shop for the same product online, probably from a different supplier (so that's a sale they have lost :rolleyes ).....or eat more buns :b


Small or large people would tend to disagree with you, they have an abundance of stock always to hand in XS or XXXXL.  :lol [size=78%] [/size]

I'd love to find all these shops with larger sizes............especially larger sizes which take account of the whole larger size body 
Women have chocolate men have bikes.....
including ones who like chocolate....;)

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #832 on: 18 September 2016, 07:01:50 pm »
I remember going to buy some motorbike gear from Aldi. I was 5th in through the door when the shop opened and took a slightly different route through the shop to this other similarly sized bloke. He beat me there by a few seconds and got the only XXL jacket in the shop.
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #833 on: 18 September 2016, 07:13:10 pm »
I seem to be in the minority on this one! :lol

I've still got, and can still fit in, my first ever Scott leather jacket I bought in 1989 :D


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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #834 on: 18 September 2016, 09:02:07 pm »
You can go off some people.
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #835 on: 18 September 2016, 09:25:05 pm »
I seem to be in the minority on this one! :lol

I've still got, and can still fit in, my first ever Scott leather jacket I bought in 1989 :D

I have always fitted into jackets that were 3 sizes to big regardless of how long ago I tried them on  :lol :lol :lol

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #836 on: 20 September 2016, 04:54:49 pm »
  Radio DJ's that join in at the end of each song. Usually in a falsetto, parody of the real singers voice  :z

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Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #837 on: 20 September 2016, 05:42:40 pm »
  Radio DJ's that join in at the end of each song. Usually in a falsetto, parody of the real singers voice  :z

Definitely agree.....that used to piss me off sooo much as a kid tryin to record all my fav tunes on the top 40 on a Sunday.....thank god for YouTube
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #838 on: 20 September 2016, 05:52:28 pm »
Selfish sods who take up the prime easy to get to bike bays knowing it's going to be left there for weeks even months
Women have chocolate men have bikes.....
including ones who like chocolate....;)

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #839 on: 20 September 2016, 07:36:11 pm »
TV Programs that spend about 15 mins saying
Coming up
Up next
Later we will be
Find out later
Still to come
But now

Just focing get on with it and stop wasting time, once you take out all the pointless music intros that also accompanies the "up nexts" there is only about 10 mins of actual content to view 

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #840 on: 21 September 2016, 12:36:20 am »
Clients that love the work you've done but then don't pay you for 3 foccin' months and ignore your emails.
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #841 on: 21 September 2016, 07:28:46 am »
Clients that love the work you've done but then don't pay you for 3 foccin' months and ignore your emails.


At my work we get emails that start with "Right, so we've got this zero budget job coming up, can we have......"
Pisses me right off, especially as we are manic busy anyway.
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #842 on: 21 September 2016, 07:40:18 am »
Arseholes on bikes who ride like twats cut up other bikers and have the fkn nerve to do it while wearing a think bike tabard  :groan
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Women have chocolate men have bikes.....
including ones who like chocolate....;)

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« Reply #843 on: 21 September 2016, 02:31:10 pm »
two words- sky broadband  :grumble
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #844 on: 21 September 2016, 08:32:20 pm »
Red Heads - Slowly taking over the world!!!

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #845 on: 22 September 2016, 07:47:33 am »
Treat everything in life the way a dog would- if you can't eat it or foc it, forget it.

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #846 on: 22 September 2016, 08:04:03 am »
Being ignored at work by managers because I'm not a female with a big pair of tits. It's been going on for months now but you can't put in a complaint as it's one of those situations where it's bloody obvious but you can't prove it, plus the HR woman is FOCCING useless  :wall
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« Reply #847 on: 22 September 2016, 04:01:44 pm »
Plus the hr woman is unlikely to side with a hairy arsed biker bloke anyway. She probably has had enough sexism her way that seeing a bloke get a drop of it is probably her idea of fair.
(Arse hirsuteness status irrelevant, but lack of baps might be your problem).
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #848 on: 22 September 2016, 04:31:43 pm »
Pensioners that bought their houses for next to nothing, had jobs for life and retired at 60 on a good pension, but STILL moan  :rolleyes

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #849 on: 22 September 2016, 08:42:44 pm »
Plus the hr woman is unlikely to side with a hairy arsed biker bloke anyway. She probably has had enough sexism her way that seeing a bloke get a drop of it is probably her idea of fair.
(Arse hirsuteness status irrelevant, but lack of baps might be your problem).


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