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#1825 Re: ROOM 101
September 21, 2016, 01:38:54 pm
Better to turn the TV off than leave it on standby, and by always leaving the remote by the TV when its turned off you always know where it is when you walk in the room to watch TV and can just pick it up on your way to the sofa.  Avoids the need to rummage down the side/back of the sofa muttering "Where's the fucking TV remote?".

Plus leaving your telly on standby all the time wastes leccy.

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#1826 Re: ROOM 101
September 21, 2016, 01:50:50 pm
Plus leaving your telly on standby all the time wastes leccy.

Thats what I was implying.

Better to turn the TV off than leave it on standby...

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#1827 Re: ROOM 101
October 01, 2016, 07:40:15 am
'The apprentice'.

Sell by date: Expired.

Same old wannabe wankers, same old shit. Bin it.

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#1828 Re: ROOM 101
October 03, 2016, 09:18:56 pm
Better to turn the TV off than leave it on standby, and by always leaving the remote by the TV when its turned off you always know where it is when you walk in the room to watch TV and can just pick it up on your way to the sofa.  Avoids the need to rummage down the side/back of the sofa muttering "Where's the fucking TV remote?".

Plus leaving your telly on standby all the time wastes leccy.

It does...but in the grand scheme of things one person's share of a transatlantic flight would wipe out the savings of turning of over 1000 TVs left on standby for 1 yr!  Modern TVs only burn 1W, so if you think you're doing your bit by doing that, you're not doing much!

Much better to switch to LED lighting, turn the thermostat down a bit, switch off lights when you leave rooms, chose a green energy supplier.

To put it another way - there are around 50,000,000 TVs in use in the UK (1.83 TVs per household, 27m households) therefore 50MW when on standby. That's a small hydro scheme or ~25 turbine wind farm. It's also only 0.125% of the UKs average demand (40GW). 

I'm not saying don't do it. But, when you do...remember it's essentially fuckall and that you need to do a lot, lot, LOT more!

[says me who just flew to America and drove round in a 5l van....ahem  ;) ]

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#1829 Re: ROOM 101
October 03, 2016, 09:23:54 pm
Hey but when we've Brexitted we can have power mad always on high wattage standby tellys again.

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#1830 Re: ROOM 101
October 03, 2016, 09:32:51 pm
You're right, fuck it I'm gonna leave the telly on 24-7 now and just hit mute.

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#1831 Re: ROOM 101
October 03, 2016, 09:50:28 pm
Hey but when we've Brexitted we can have power mad always on high wattage standby tellys again.

Exactly, fuck those fucking faceless bureaucrats meddling with our god given right to waste energy.

Hmm...talking of which, seeing as we're now signed up to a one-way ticket to environmental catastrophe...maybe it'd be a good time to invest some in some shares in a a sea-defence construction company?  Or Space-X?  Or...CCGT power stations?  (for all the fracked gas).  Ahhh, this blissful ignorance we shall live in in our little Brexit bubble.  Ahh. Ahh.

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#1832 Re: ROOM 101
January 20, 2017, 09:47:48 am
Dog owners.

Or to be more specific, dog owners who don't pick up their dogs poo. Third job this week where we've turned up to do work on trees in folks gardens where it has been covered in dog shit. And when we've asked them to pick it up, the reaction is the same as if we'd asked them to pick it up with their teeth. Fucking scumbags!

Pick your dogs shit up you cunts!

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#1833 Re: ROOM 101
January 20, 2017, 09:49:27 am
Yup. I agree. Seems like every week I have to clean dog shit from the pram wheels....

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#1834 Re: ROOM 101
January 20, 2017, 09:52:22 am
Not all dog owners are like that though, some kindly bag up their dog's shit then sling it in a tree or over a fence, so that the turd is perfectly preserved for future generations. #CUNTS

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#1835 Re: ROOM 101
January 20, 2017, 09:58:52 am
Today the customer isn't in, so we've had to scoop the offending articles up. And earlier in the week one cunt tried to argue that it was his garden, so he can do what he wants. Regardless of that fact, not picking shit up is absolutely unforgivable.

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#1836 Re: ROOM 101
January 20, 2017, 09:59:34 am
Oh and +1 to what Dave said.

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#1837 Re: ROOM 101
January 20, 2017, 10:02:10 am
Hold the fuck on, you're saying these cunts actually just leave their own dogshit in their own garden? Jesus christ.

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#1838 Re: ROOM 101
January 20, 2017, 10:06:20 am
Yep. Pure minging wankers. One of the firms I sub contract too has it in the terms and conditions that there will be a £15 surcharge if any dog muck is found when we arrive. Shame I'm not working for him this week!

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#1839 Re: ROOM 101
January 20, 2017, 11:26:37 am
Also dog owners who let their darlings doo-doo on an engishman's much loved, and locally admired lawn.

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#1840 Re: ROOM 101
January 20, 2017, 01:15:06 pm
Today the customer isn't in, so we've had to scoop the offending articles up. And earlier in the week one cunt tried to argue that it was his garden, so he can do what he wants. Regardless of that fact, not picking shit up is absolutely unforgivable.

Mate the fact that it's minging aside, it imposes a health and safety risk on you having to work around that shit. Full of all sorts of bacteria and parasites. I know sure as hell if I had to scoop it up I'd post it through the letterbox.

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#1842 Re: ROOM 101
May 10, 2018, 03:49:52 pm
revert
verb
rɪˈvəːt/Submit
1.
return to (a previous state, practice, topic, etc.).
"he reverted to his native language"
synonyms:   return, go back, come back, change back, retrogress, regress, default; More
2.
INDIAN
reply or respond to someone.
"we texted both Farah and Shirish, but neither of them reverted"

I do not live in India, and the people I work with are not Indian. So why, oh why, has "REVERT" come to mean "REPLY TO"   Should I just get over it and accept a hange in use? I find it painful, eye bleedingly painful!

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#1843 Re: ROOM 101
May 10, 2018, 04:34:38 pm
Dear god! Do people really do that?

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#1844 Re: ROOM 101
May 10, 2018, 05:00:37 pm
Dear god! Do people really do that?

Yep.

In Dubai, it was common for people to end an email with “please revert soonest”.

The temptation to reply with a photo of myself in “Early Homo Erectus” costume was often overwhelming.

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#1845 Re: ROOM 101
May 10, 2018, 05:11:40 pm
Dear god! Do people really do that?

My boss,his boss (regularly), a guy from a shipping company (Aberdonian), a women from finance (Aberdonian) and I've seen a few other emails with it shoehorned in there.

 :sick:  :shit:

Does this mean I have free reign to shoot these fuckers down? (already done it to my boss).
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To what would you like me to revert?

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#1846 Re: ROOM 101
May 10, 2018, 08:16:52 pm
 :wall:

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#1847 Re: ROOM 101
May 10, 2018, 10:14:56 pm
The phrase "fast forward" used to denote a passing of time when describing events or telling a story. Had enough of it now,

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#1848 Re: ROOM 101
October 03, 2018, 04:31:48 pm
Vintage Inns. The pub chain that has been systematically buying old country pubs that you might pop into after a walk or a climb and pouring bleach over whatever charm or individuality they once had. They are SO uniform it makes my skin crawl. Fucking awful.

I see that they are part of the same group that owns Toby Carvery and Harvester. I'm not surprised.

A colleague and I were discussing them and I think our displeasure is directed equally at the pubs themselves and those people who actually think that they're nice.

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#1849 Re: ROOM 101
October 03, 2018, 04:52:29 pm
Which recent visit caused the outrage Will?

 

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