The moan thread

[Zerudaaaaa!]

Have a good moan about something here.

Today I met my new flat mate. A hot young thing to have lots of fun with? No. Some bloke old enough to be my dad. Great. To be fair Ive only said hello before he went to get the rest of his stuff, so he might be alright, but... yknow...

[Madness]

That's a coincedence! I moved into my new flat today, and my flatmate is young enough to be my son.

Barely spoken to him, he seemed a bit weird.

[Mr Thropwimp]

I had a customer argue with me that lamb chops were beef, and so her voucher to get points for buying beef should have worked.

No amount of saying, 'they're LAMB chops, not BEEF chops,' could satiate the customer. She stormed off to customer services.

I wasn't moaning, mind. We rely on such despairing moments to get through the day.

[Cropolite]

That's a coincedence! I moved into my new flat today, and my flatmate is young enough to be my son.

Barely spoken to him, he seemed a bit weird.

[JiggerJay]

i just put nod32 on the pc, and the strawberry floating thing has been scanning for like 5 hours... FFS there is strawberry float all to scan, it has like 30gig capacity!

ARGGGGGHHHH!!!!!

[Oxx]

Why do people act like idiots when they see a wasp?

Unless you're 100% sure you're allergic to them running around with your arms in the air screaming like a girl just makes you look like a pathetic fucktard.

[JD05]

Women.
You know when you make a woman annoyed or upset then they give you that awful peggy mitchell look of dissaproval, it happened at work today.

I took some stuff down to the wards. I get into the kitchen, & this woman is there. She's only got one hand & she isn't tall. So I put a few bits away whilst she finishes serving the patients. She finishes & I realise that she is struggling to reach & close the hatch. So i ask "can I give you a hand".

I hadn't realised what I said. She turns around, looks me in the eye & then gives me the peggy mitchell look of disasaproval:



I looked at her with confusion which lead to an uncomfortable silence. She didn't say anything, walked out & left me to it.

[JiggerJay]

Why do people act like idiots when they see a wasp?

Unless you're 100% sure you're allergic to them running around with your arms in the air screaming like a girl just makes you look like a pathetic fucktard.

I try to hit the strawberry floaters if they stick around me too long!

[Corazon de Leon]

I had a customer argue with me that lamb chops were beef, and so her voucher to get points for buying beef should have worked.

No amount of saying, 'they're LAMB chops, not BEEF chops,' could satiate the customer. She stormed off to customer services.

I wasn't moaning, mind. We rely on such despairing moments to get through the day.

Where do you work mate? We get a lot of that kind of thing in Morrisons up here.

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Why do people act like idiots when they see a wasp?

Unless you're 100% sure you're allergic to them running around with your arms in the air screaming like a girl just makes you look like a pathetic fucktard.

Someone did that on the table across from me in the staff canteen today. Which brings me onto my moan: Working on my birthday. For the seventh year in a row.

[Danzig]

I pretty much haven't left the house since coming back from Leeds festival last weekend because of coursework and revision.

I'm regretting not learning all this stuff first time around.

[Cal]

I wasn't moaning, mind. We rely on such despairing moments to get through the day.

Nice.

[Mini E]

I'd like to have a short, short moan about the whole Russia situation. it's being portrayed as all Russia's fault and Georgia are being played the sympathy card.. because of previous political situatinos and the fact georgia is smaller. We've backed the USA because we kiss their ass... It's so annoying. I was in Russia for most of the situation and hearing hte news there and then coming back here and hearing the totally biased british news reporting was shocking. Watching BBC News on the BA plane was just mad.. to hear such a biased view as the west is now

And the whole situation is going to make it harder for us to get visas to return... and we're trying to help their orphaned kids and now there's a chance we won't be able to because of strawberry floating toffs, in russia as well as in the west, who don't know (especially russia) the levels of poverty in the outer reaches of their country. They're sat in their offices in the rich parts of the country just letting this all happen. Makes me so angry and frustrated

[Madness]

Yeah ME, the Russian news would give an unbiased account of the conflict.

Wait a minute.

[Exxy]

Yeah ME, the Russian news would give an unbiased account of the conflict.

Wait a minute.

Exactly what I thought

[Mini E]

Yeah, that's true and I know that but I mean the one sided ness of media in general. Russia talks about the russian civilians killed... and the western media is doingthe opposite. showing footage of now-homeless georgians and portraying the russians as murderous bastards. They're as bad as each other.

[Cuttooth]

It's Russia newfound aggression in general that's made them look like the "bad guys".

[Cal]

I'd like to have a short, short moan about the whole Russia situation. it's being portrayed as all Russia's fault and Georgia are being played the sympathy card.. because of previous political situatinos and the fact georgia is smaller. We've backed the USA because we kiss their ass... It's so annoying. I was in Russia for most of the situation and hearing hte news there and then coming back here and hearing the totally biased british news reporting was shocking. Watching BBC News on the BA plane was just mad.. to hear such a biased view as the west is now...

To a degree I sympathise. What you have here is a classic case of just 'hearing the other side of the story'.

Welcome to the wonderful world of 24-hour 'rolling' news. As told from many different points of view.

Be careful who get your news from. It might shock you to learn that even the BBC - that bastion of 'truth and honesty' - actually reports from it's very own biased position on a great many subjects. People here in the UK tend to forget it's a Government-run organisation, funded by a legally enforcable tax, non payment of which can land a person in jail. That's the price we risk paying (or not) for our great bastion of truth and honesty.

I never any of the papers. Full of crap, the lot of 'em. Just points of view, just very personal opinions, based around very personal agendas. There isn't much in the way of 'truth' to be found in any of 'em, and there never really has been. I find more actual news in the likes of Private Eye and on various web-based alternative news outlets these days. These people can say what they like, report on what they want, how they want and mostly they do just that.

As for the Russian situation. Tricky. But the intervention of America into what is essentially a spot of local difficulty in Russia's backyard is really not very helpful to anyone. Except, perhaps, the Arms traders. Here's a quote from this month's Private Eye (page 5)...

'...According to (UK) Foreign Office licenses, 2007 was a record year for arms exports to both Georgia and Russia. The UK sold Georgia £5.4m of military exports...this was an eightfold increase on 2005... Meanwhile, the Georgian Army underwent a $65m American 'Train & Equip' programme... Fortunately, Britain has been even-handed in it's approach: In 2007 Russia got £55m of (Military) exports, including Armoured personnel carriers and parts for combat aircraft... the increase of British arms sales to both sides of the Caucuses seems to have precisely presaged the war...'

I don't recall having seen any of that reported on UK TV at any time during the recent spot of bother...

[Mini E]

I'd like to have a short, short moan about the whole Russia situation. it's being portrayed as all Russia's fault and Georgia are being played the sympathy card.. because of previous political situatinos and the fact georgia is smaller. We've backed the USA because we kiss their ass... It's so annoying. I was in Russia for most of the situation and hearing hte news there and then coming back here and hearing the totally biased british news reporting was shocking. Watching BBC News on the BA plane was just mad.. to hear such a biased view as the west is now...

To a degree I sympathise. What you have here is a classic case of just 'hearing the other side of the story'.

Welcome to the wonderful world of 24-hour 'rolling' news. As told from many different points of view.

Be careful who get your news from. It might shock you to learn that even the BBC - that bastion of 'truth and honesty' - actually reports from it's very own biased position on a great many subjects. People here in the UK tend to forget it's a Government-run organisation, funded by a legally enforcable tax, non payment of which can land a person in jail. That's the price we risk paying (or not) for our great bastion of truth and honesty.

Yeah - It just surprised me how biased the western media can be... not sure why it did to be honest but I just always trusted english media.. especially BBC news because it's what I've been brought up with .But in essence, it's all propaganda. Everything is some form of propaganda.

[Outrunner]

My brothers fiance is staying over again tonight. Why the strawberry float can't they get their own place. Oh right, it's because she's almost £17,000 in debt and he's almost £7000 in debt because of her