What grinds your gears? - Page 899

Lightspeed · 11th April 2018, 14:59

No power again. Given how often this is happening I think I need more than mobile gaming and a way to make coffee available. I need to get some kind of battery system going. Maybe just a charger for devices, but perhaps UPS of some sort for net and PC... Fuck it, maybe I'll just buy a small generator.

Macca@Work · 12th April 2018, 20:23

Well we just got our power on this arvo after 3 days of darkness.You dont realise how important something is until its gone.

Cyberbob · 12th April 2018, 21:08

This thread's been going for almost 13 years.

CCS · 12th April 2018, 22:25

Still fresher than crocos's jokes.

Lightspeed · 12th April 2018, 22:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyberbob

This thread's been going for almost 13 years.

I've been trying recently to reconcile that it's been ~20 years since I was 18.

StN · 13th April 2018, 07:26

...seems like 20 years since the entire Auckland CBD was without power for weeks due to a borked cable. Then there was that substation blowout a couple of years back - don't you guys learn from these things?

Ab · 27th April 2018, 18:55

https://twitter.com/GMB/status/988498994685980675

Deadmeat · 28th April 2018, 10:39

Reply 692 Retweet 65 Like 95
Dat ratio

CCS · 1st May 2018, 23:36

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think Johnny Danger was a Johnny Fucking Idiot.

leadinjector · 4th May 2018, 13:33

was keen to go see lil dicky in auckland, then he released that sing with chris brown. fuck lil dicky.

Lightspeed · 16th May 2018, 17:20

This made the front page of reddit:
Acres of shellfish dead in north Auckland estuary

Ab · 16th May 2018, 20:16

Quick, stop building houses in Auckland

Macca@Work · 16th May 2018, 20:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ab

Quick, stop building houses in Auckland

Shhh.If the greenies find out about it they will.

Lightspeed · 9th June 2018, 13:25

Sick three times in three weeks. The second two times have been fairly mild, the stomach virus was a bitch though.

Mainly just annoyed it's messing up my gym routine.

Juju · 19th June 2018, 10:43

Salesmen/Suppliers that are presumptuous with their approach when they make their first contact email pitch.

Ie: "Could you please advise me a good time to catch-up with me over a coffee. I will be available in the city tomorrow after 1.30pm".

Verbatim from a never-heard-of vendor email this morning...

crocos · 19th June 2018, 10:55

My pretty much instant response in that kinda situation: Congratulations, your pushy attitude has ensured I'll never meet with you for anything and it's highly unlikely I'd ever want to deal with your company.

Cyberbob · 19th June 2018, 10:58

For a first contact pitch, who the hell is emailing anyway?

And giving you a definitive time to help fill their calendar up doesn't help them either. If you don't answer, that 1:30 timeslot will stay as a placeholder and they'll never be able to fill it, in case you say yes at the last minute.

xor · 19th June 2018, 16:39

I had a security sales guy email me in my previous role along the lines of 'hi xor, what security projects are you working on at the moment? we'd like to help'

Sure stranger, i'm more than happy to share private issues with you because you sound like a good christian..

CCS · 19th June 2018, 20:29

People driving around with space saver tyres irk me.

Other people with 'baby on board' stickers that drive like fucking maniacs also irk me.

kRAdENkO · 19th June 2018, 21:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by CCS

People driving around with space saver tyres irk me.

Other people with 'baby on board' stickers that drive like fucking maniacs also irk me.

Yesterday wife got puncture. Space saver fitted. Today tyre fixed up. Sorry?

CCS · 19th June 2018, 22:55

You probably should've done it the same day if possible. If you weren't driving up and down the motorway long term then you're probably fine and don't need to get butthurt. Apology accepted though.

MadMax · 20th June 2018, 20:32

shitty little cars that have space savers so much as in the boot gmg

Juju · 21st June 2018, 13:00

I'd rather a space saver than the option my current car has - a can of tyre goo.

Had a puncture on the motorway a few months ago - the goo got me ~5km to the nearest tyre place, but it ruined the tyre so had to replace it, even though the puncture itself may have been repairable.

StN · 21st June 2018, 15:54

The P-car has what I had imagined to be an abomination - a space saver circa mid 1970's - complete with 12v compressor to make it bigger:

But it does seem to inflate to a decent size, and magically...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmG8q9lKEgs

Lightspeed · 22nd June 2018, 18:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

Sick three times in three weeks. The second two times have been fairly mild, the stomach virus was a bitch though.

Mainly just annoyed it's messing up my gym routine.

Still not 100%, wtf. Got a chest infection, seems mostly passed now. But throat and sinuses still scratchy, still have a bit of a cough.

I should be grateful I suppose, I'm almost never sick.

MadMax · 22nd June 2018, 20:34

Annoyance.
Frustration.
Despair.
Indifference.
Comedy.

Stages of dealing with incompetence.

pxpx · 28th June 2018, 10:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

Still not 100%, wtf. Got a chest infection, seems mostly passed now. But throat and sinuses still scratchy, still have a bit of a cough.

I should be grateful I suppose, I'm almost never sick.

I too was also almost never sick. Then the boy started attending daycare and winter hath become a nightmarish hellscape of phlegm and mucus.

Nich · 28th June 2018, 13:37

My trick to being healthy / avoiding colds and flu. Also general alertness and energy has been supremely improved by:
- No alcohol
- Minimal sugar
- Diverse gut flora (home brew kombucha + kim chi)
- Daily green tea + ascorbic acid
- Daily medicinal mushrooms (Reishi, He Shou Wu, Chaga, Cordyceps, Lions Mane)
- Intermittent fasting

I know that all sounds like some bare-foot hippy bullshit, I too am a huge skeptic when it comes to this sort of thing. Nothing for me has had such a positive and noticeable short term, and medium term benefit as regular green tea and super mushrooms.

CCS · 28th June 2018, 14:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by pxpx

I too was also almost never sick. Then the boy started attending daycare and winter hath become a nightmarish hellscape of phlegm and mucus.

What, you can't quarantine the child?

[Malks] Pixie · 28th June 2018, 16:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nich

My trick to being healthy / avoiding colds and flu. Also general alertness and energy has been supremely improved by:
- No alcohol
- Minimal sugar
- Diverse gut flora (home brew kombucha + kim chi)
- Daily green tea + ascorbic acid
- Daily medicinal mushrooms (Reishi, He Shou Wu, Chaga, Cordyceps, Lions Mane)
- Intermittent fasting

We're basically diametric opposites - I've only been ill a few times (just flu mostly) in the last 15 years and haven't been to a doctor in that time.

- Wine every night, half a bottle (red in winter, white in summer).
- Smoke, regularly.
- Plenty of home baked goods
- Metric shit-ton of veges (okay so this isn't opposite)
- 2 big cups of strong black coffee per day
- Walk every-fucking-where (having access to a car has made me soft in this regard - but fuck walking to town from Karori).
- Have to eat 3 times a day or I get super fucking grumpy (no way I could fast and actually do anything).
- Avoid interacting with people - most weeks I'll only be in close proximity (within a metre) to maybe 1 or 2 people for a limited period of time (so no more than 5 - 10 minutes). This excludes my partner - but she also doesn't seem to get ill much. This one seems to be the real key.

This has allowed me to maintain my svelte 68kg figure - but I'll also probably have a massive heart attack, stroke, cancer or aneurysm in the next 10-15 years. Saving up all my "being sick" for one massive, life ending, splurge :-)

Ab · 28th June 2018, 23:26

Wash your hands after touching anything that could have been touched by someone else.

[Malks] Pixie · 29th June 2018, 08:09

I haven't quite gotten to that level of OCD (yet).

Juju · 29th June 2018, 10:05

- Don't smoke
- Light drinker
- No exercise
- Shit diet
- Drive everywhere
- Two boys in preschool

- One cold in two years.

A+ immune, gr8 product, will trade again.

pxpx · 29th June 2018, 10:20

Your time will come, Ju.

FireStorm · 29th June 2018, 12:19

I used to get a number of colds a year. Now haven't had a cold in over 2 years.

Things I've changed.

Vitamin D supplements (I take these to help with a food sensitivity, turns out, helps the immune system too).
Blis Throatguard lozenges, I take every now and then. Def not every day. Also good to take prior to hopping on an international flight
Push lift buttons with my knuckles vs finger. I work in a uni, so many filthy people touch those buttons. *edit* if possible, push doors or door "open" buttons with the back of the hand.

Ab · 29th June 2018, 13:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by [Malks] Pixie

I haven't quite gotten to that level of OCD (yet).

After a few years of blissful isolation - drive to office, work in office, drive home - I’m now catching at least 2 trains and a tram per day. Seeing people sneezing and coughing into their hands and then pushing buttons and grabbing handles and doorknobs is freaking me the fuck out. I feel covered in other people’s germs before I even get to work. I walk in the door and go straight to the bathroom to wash my hands. I’m turning into Howard fucking Hughes.

[Malks] Pixie · 29th June 2018, 13:47

Oh yeah I totally get that - what work I am getting at the moment I do at home so in isolation of the wider public. With access to a car (which has made me a bit lazy) I'm not even needing to use public transport.

I was a bit like that when I was tutoring though - 5 tutorials meant 100+ different people who I'd end up stuck in a room with for an hour at a time. I usually took the earliest morning tutorials I could - preferably at 9am straight after the cleaners had been through. Only picked up one solid flu during that time, but I was also super run-down due to stress at the time which no doubt contributed.

Lightspeed · 29th June 2018, 15:50

What gets me is I'm the healthiest I've been.

Regularly workout.
Lots of sleep.
Diet is mostly fruit, veges, protein, minimal carbs.
No drugs other than caffeine and minimal alcohol.

Ah well, I'm mostly better now.

Cyberbob · 9th July 2018, 12:36

Dishing out early termination charges for customers wanting to break a contract early.

It's a difficult conversation that I'd rather not have on a Monday.

MadMax · 18th July 2018, 01:37

These two particular Aussie-isms

"Oh yeah, I seen that"

"That's pretty fair dinkum but"

12th April 2018, 22:25	#35924
CCS Stunt Pants	Still fresher than crocos's jokes. __________________ I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?

27th April 2018, 18:55	#35927
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	burn https://twitter.com/GMB/status/988498994685980675

1st May 2018, 23:36	#35929
CCS Stunt Pants	This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think Johnny Danger was a Johnny Fucking Idiot. __________________ I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?

19th June 2018, 20:29	#35939
CCS Stunt Pants	People driving around with space saver tyres irk me. Other people with 'baby on board' stickers that drive like fucking maniacs also irk me. __________________ I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?

19th June 2018, 22:55	#35941
CCS Stunt Pants	You probably should've done it the same day if possible. If you weren't driving up and down the motorway long term then you're probably fine and don't need to get butthurt. Apology accepted though. __________________ I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?

11th April 2018, 14:59	#35921
Lightspeed	No power again. Given how often this is happening I think I need more than mobile gaming and a way to make coffee available. I need to get some kind of battery system going. Maybe just a charger for devices, but perhaps UPS of some sort for net and PC... Fuck it, maybe I'll just buy a small generator. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

12th April 2018, 20:23	#35922
Macca@Work	Well we just got our power on this arvo after 3 days of darkness.You dont realise how important something is until its gone.

12th April 2018, 21:08	#35923
Cyberbob	This thread's been going for almost 13 years. __________________ ɹǝʌo sᴉ ǝɯɐƃ ʎɥʇ

13th April 2018, 07:26	#35926
StN I have detailed files	...seems like 20 years since the entire Auckland CBD was without power for weeks due to a borked cable. Then there was that substation blowout a couple of years back - don't you guys learn from these things?

28th April 2018, 10:39	#35928
Deadmeat	Reply 692 Retweet 65 Like 95 Dat ratio

4th May 2018, 13:33	#35930
leadinjector	was keen to go see lil dicky in auckland, then he released that sing with chris brown. fuck lil dicky.

16th May 2018, 17:20	#35931
Lightspeed	This made the front page of reddit: Acres of shellfish dead in north Auckland estuary __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

16th May 2018, 20:16	#35932
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	Quick, stop building houses in Auckland

9th June 2018, 13:25	#35934
Lightspeed	Sick three times in three weeks. The second two times have been fairly mild, the stomach virus was a bitch though. Mainly just annoyed it's messing up my gym routine. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

19th June 2018, 10:43	#35935
Juju get to da choppa	Salesmen/Suppliers that are presumptuous with their approach when they make their first contact email pitch. Ie: "Could you please advise me a good time to catch-up with me over a coffee. I will be available in the city tomorrow after 1.30pm". Verbatim from a never-heard-of vendor email this morning...

19th June 2018, 10:55	#35936
crocos	My pretty much instant response in that kinda situation: Congratulations, your pushy attitude has ensured I'll never meet with you for anything and it's highly unlikely I'd ever want to deal with your company. __________________ Ξ √ Ω L U T ↑ ☼ N وكل يوم كنت تعيش في العبودية

19th June 2018, 10:58	#35937
Cyberbob	For a first contact pitch, who the hell is emailing anyway? And giving you a definitive time to help fill their calendar up doesn't help them either. If you don't answer, that 1:30 timeslot will stay as a placeholder and they'll never be able to fill it, in case you say yes at the last minute. __________________ ɹǝʌo sᴉ ǝɯɐƃ ʎɥʇ Last edited by Cyberbob : 19th June 2018 at 11:00.

19th June 2018, 16:39	#35938
xor	I had a security sales guy email me in my previous role along the lines of 'hi xor, what security projects are you working on at the moment? we'd like to help' Sure stranger, i'm more than happy to share private issues with you because you sound like a good christian..

20th June 2018, 20:32	#35942
MadMax Stuff	shitty little cars that have space savers so much as in the boot gmg __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.

21st June 2018, 13:00	#35943
Juju get to da choppa	I'd rather a space saver than the option my current car has - a can of tyre goo. Had a puncture on the motorway a few months ago - the goo got me ~5km to the nearest tyre place, but it ruined the tyre so had to replace it, even though the puncture itself may have been repairable.

21st June 2018, 15:54	#35944
StN I have detailed files	The P-car has what I had imagined to be an abomination - a space saver circa mid 1970's - complete with 12v compressor to make it bigger: But it does seem to inflate to a decent size, and magically... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmG8q9lKEgs

22nd June 2018, 20:34	#35946
MadMax Stuff	Annoyance. Frustration. Despair. Indifference. Comedy. Stages of dealing with incompetence. __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.

28th June 2018, 13:37	#35948
Nich	My trick to being healthy / avoiding colds and flu. Also general alertness and energy has been supremely improved by: - No alcohol - Minimal sugar - Diverse gut flora (home brew kombucha + kim chi) - Daily green tea + ascorbic acid - Daily medicinal mushrooms (Reishi, He Shou Wu, Chaga, Cordyceps, Lions Mane) - Intermittent fasting I know that all sounds like some bare-foot hippy bullshit, I too am a huge skeptic when it comes to this sort of thing. Nothing for me has had such a positive and noticeable short term, and medium term benefit as regular green tea and super mushrooms.

28th June 2018, 23:26	#35951
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	Wash your hands after touching anything that could have been touched by someone else.

29th June 2018, 08:09	#35952
[Malks] Pixie	I haven't quite gotten to that level of OCD (yet). __________________ Civilised is as civilised does and civilised people walk among us.

29th June 2018, 10:05	#35953
Juju get to da choppa	- Don't smoke - Light drinker - No exercise - Shit diet - Drive everywhere - Two boys in preschool - One cold in two years. A+ immune, gr8 product, will trade again.

29th June 2018, 12:19	#35955
FireStorm Holmium	I used to get a number of colds a year. Now haven't had a cold in over 2 years. Things I've changed. Vitamin D supplements (I take these to help with a food sensitivity, turns out, helps the immune system too). Blis Throatguard lozenges, I take every now and then. Def not every day. Also good to take prior to hopping on an international flight Push lift buttons with my knuckles vs finger. I work in a uni, so many filthy people touch those buttons. edit if possible, push doors or door "open" buttons with the back of the hand. Last edited by FireStorm : 29th June 2018 at 12:20.

29th June 2018, 13:47	#35957
[Malks] Pixie	Oh yeah I totally get that - what work I am getting at the moment I do at home so in isolation of the wider public. With access to a car (which has made me a bit lazy) I'm not even needing to use public transport. I was a bit like that when I was tutoring though - 5 tutorials meant 100+ different people who I'd end up stuck in a room with for an hour at a time. I usually took the earliest morning tutorials I could - preferably at 9am straight after the cleaners had been through. Only picked up one solid flu during that time, but I was also super run-down due to stress at the time which no doubt contributed. __________________ Civilised is as civilised does and civilised people walk among us.

29th June 2018, 15:50	#35958
Lightspeed	What gets me is I'm the healthiest I've been. Regularly workout. Lots of sleep. Diet is mostly fruit, veges, protein, minimal carbs. No drugs other than caffeine and minimal alcohol. Ah well, I'm mostly better now. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

9th July 2018, 12:36	#35959
Cyberbob	Dishing out early termination charges for customers wanting to break a contract early. It's a difficult conversation that I'd rather not have on a Monday. __________________ ɹǝʌo sᴉ ǝɯɐƃ ʎɥʇ

18th July 2018, 01:37	#35960
MadMax Stuff	These two particular Aussie-isms "Oh yeah, I seen that" "That's pretty fair dinkum but" __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.