Pet Peeves

[Ducky]

A local chippy has a three-in-one thing in the jacks. As in, you get soap, water, and hand dryer all from the same spot. So you're handwaving like a dope hoping the sensor picks up for all three of them separately.

[Eoin McLove]

Being of an age where just as one injury looks like it's finally healing, another one arrives to take its place 

[The Heretic]

Being of an age where just as one injury looks like it's finally healing, another one arrives to take its place 

Yep, been struggling with my wrist for months, finally got it sorted, only for my elbow to start acting up on the other arm, and its not down to Teenage Kicks either, when you hit middle age things just start to act up and take ages to heal. Its a balls.

[Eoin McLove]

That's it. I've been doing physio for a few months for bursitis. I think it's finally on the way out and at the end of work today I did something to my back. Hopefully it'll ease out by the morning or I'll be limping around tomorrow.

[The Heretic]

That's it. I've been doing physio for a few months for bursitis. I think it's finally on the way out and at the end of work today I did something to my back. Hopefully it'll ease out by the morning or I'll be limping around tomorrow.

I had bursitis on the same elbow about 7-8 years back, it healed nicely at the time so I'm not sure if its related to that or not. I think its just wear and tear over the years combined with middle age. However if all I get is aches and pains but manage to avoid the more serious stuff I'll happily settle for that, ones dying now at no ages at all, scary and sobering!!

[Ducky]

Yep. I've a frozen shoulder for the last three years. Have about 80% range of motion back in it, though it's still considerably weaker than my other shoulder, not to mention painful as fuck. Waiting on "manipulation under anaesthesia", where they knock you out, take a grip of your arm and force the joint as far as it'll physically go and give it a good wiggle in the hopes of mashing up the capsulitis.

Can't wait for that to come to an end so I can focus on the persistent inflammation in my finger joints. "Is there a history of arthritis in your family?" I was asked. Shit, how long have you got, doc?

[Iliketortles]

If you go into the jacks to take a piss instead of using the urinals, you're a fucking prick.

What if you need to sit down to piss, just in case?  We've all had that dodgy pint or kebab...

Sitting down is fine but if I'm in the jax next to you having a Betty boo, then I don't need Rivers of Piss playing next to me.

[Mower Liberation Front]

Bus Eireann's continued existence. Seventy five minutes late, and the driver just shrugs and says "traffic". Even though their own tracker shows the cunt didn't even leave his depot till he was almost 45 mins late.

[mickO)))]

People licking ass in work especially when it comes to courses or internal presentations on work related topics that you are forced to endure from time to time.

Had to redo the safe pass today. 20 of us from work in a room doing it. One of the people there is a manager and every 5 minutes he was shouting things out and asking questions in what seemed like an effort to make people think he takes his job very seriously. Didn't know this fella or most of the others in the room but he had to have been the most senior there so I don't know who he was trying to impress.

He was that bad that by lunch time we were an entire topic behind with us running late by about 55mins according to the timetable. The lunch break was even cut short by 20 mins because of the amount of time this prick took up with his endless questions. 

[The Butcher]

People licking ass in work especially when it comes to courses

Read that as intercourse   

because of the amount of time this prick took up with his endless questions.

[mickO)))]

Every time I go to one of these someone like that always ends up in the room. Last year it was an asbestos course which had a fella who spent the entire day trying to make stupid jokes in between his questions. Then he delayed everyone by 20mins because he wanted to go out for a smoke while everyone else just wanted to work through the last scheduled break to get home early.

That same fella was there today but met his match with the lad I described above as he couldn't get a word in. 

[Eoin McLove]

Those cunts... there's always one. Although, the instructor always says "we'll blitz through it and get out early" and you always ALWAYS get stuck there till the death. But yeah, the fucking donkey showing off his deep knowledge of how to use a step ladder or telling his INCREDIBLY FASCINATING related anecdotes every five seconds deserves a fuckin jihad. Nobody fucking cares about how you once saw somebody operate an excavator without putting on his arm bands and snorkel. Fuck up!

In unrelated news, my ears have finally hit puberty. What's the go. Whipper snipper? Bunsen burner?

[Anvil]

Easiest is a Nose Ear Hair Trimmer.  Bit smaller than an electric toothbrush and cost less than a CD.  The hard bit is remembering where you left it after the last trim.   

[mickO)))]

Those cunts... there's always one. Although, the instructor always says "we'll blitz through it and get out early" and you always ALWAYS get stuck there till the death. But yeah, the fucking donkey showing off his deep knowledge of how to use a step ladder or telling his INCREDIBLY FASCINATING related anecdotes every five seconds deserves a fuckin jihad. Nobody fucking cares about how you once saw somebody operate an excavator without putting on his arm bands and snorkel. Fuck up!

The first few times I fell for the "we'll blitz through it and get out early" then when it hits 1 you realise they were talking shite since you aren't even half way through the content. It must be an awful existence teaching those courses day in day out then on top of that you know the majority of people you see everyday couldn't give two fucks about it.

Safe pass is a scam absolutely no need whatsoever for people to have to repeat the entire thing every four years it's a money racket just like the NCT test. They could very easily have people sit the day course once then maybe every 5 years do a 2 hour refresher but not as much money to be made doing it that way.

In Canada you don't need any pass to get onto a site and in Australia it's the white card which only has to be done once.

[The Heretic]

Easiest is a Nose Ear Hair Trimmer.  Bit smaller than an electric toothbrush and cost less than a CD.  The hard bit is remembering where you left it after the last trim.   

And rembering to charge them