Irritations

[c.d.]

Saw this several times today and each time I just have to shake my head and ask why? Men wearing a nice suit with a backpack. Completely incongruous and I think it looks like ****. So here you have a nice suit which conveys style, education, a good job and money and then you throw that all aside to go with a backpack which makes you look like you are ten years old on your way to a Cub Scout hike. If you wear a suit and need to carry things, invest in a nice briefcase or leather messenger bag.

And since I am ranting I will include men who have on a nice suit with a pair of cheap ass shoes. If you can afford a suit, you can afford a nice pair of leather shoes to go with it.

And don't even get me started on fake leather jackets. Pleather? Seriously?

If I were in charge, the world would be a much better place or at least better dressed.

c.d.

[mpriestnall]

Right then...

Yes I quite agree with you, I mean what's the point of being treated like a sheep, I mean I'm fed up with going abroad and being treated like a sheep, what's the point of being carted around in buses surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs from Kettering and Boventry in their cloth caps and their cardigans and their transistor radios and their 'Sunday Mirrors', complaining about the tea, 'Oh they don't make it properly here do they not like at home' stopping at Majorcan bodegas, selling fish and chips and Watney's Red Barrel and calamares and two veg and sitting in cotton sun frocks squirting Timothy White's suncream all over their puffy raw swollen purulent flesh cos they 'overdid it on the first day'!

And being herded into endless Hotel Miramars and Bellvueses and Bontinentals with their international luxury modern roomettes and their Watney's Red Barrel and their swimming pools full of fat German businessmen pretending they're acrobats and forming pyramids and frightening the children and barging in to the queues and if you're not at your table spot on seven you miss your bowl of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup, the first item on the menu of International Cuisine, and every Thursday night there's a bloody cabaret in the bar featuring some tiny emaciated dago with nine-inch hips and some big fat bloated tart with her hair brylcreemed down and a big arse presenting Flamenco for Foreigners.

And then some adenoidal typists from Birmingham with diarrhoea and flabby white legs and hairy bandy-legged wop waiters called Manuel, and then, once a week there's an excursion to the local Roman ruins where you can buy cherryade and melted ice cream and bleedin' Watney's Red Barrel, and one night they take you to a local restaurant with local colour and colouring and they show you there and you sit next to a party of people from Rhyl who keeps singing 'Torremolinos, Torremolinos' and complaining about the food - 'Oh! It's so greasy isn't it?' and then you get cornered by some drunken greengrocer from Luton with an Instamatic and Dr Scholl sandals and last Tuesday's 'Daily Express' and he drones on and on and on about how Mr. Smith should be running this country and how many languages Enoch Powell can speak and then he throws up all over the Cuba Libres.

And sending tinted postcards of places they don't know they haven't even visited, 'to all at number 22, weather wonderful, our room is marked with an "X". Wish you were here. Food very greasy but we have managed to find this marvellous little place hidden away in the back streets. Where you can even get Watney's Red Barrel and cheese and onion crisps and the accordionist plays "Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner"' and spending four days on the tarmac at Luton airport on a five-day package tour with nothing to eat but dried Watney's sandwhiches....

...and there's nowhere to sleep and the kids are vomitting and throwing up on the plastic flowers and they keep telling you it'll only be another hour although your plane is still in Iceland waiting to take some Swedes to Yugoslavia before it can pick you up on the tarmac at 3 a.m. in the bloody morning and you sit on the tarmac till six because of 'unforeseen difficulties'. i.e. the permanent strike of Air Traffic Control in Paris, and nobody can go to the lavatory until you take off at eight, and when you get to Malaga airport everybody's swallowing Enterovioform tablets and queuing for the toilets and when you finally get to the hotel, there's no water in the taps, there's no water in the pool, there's no water in the bog and there's a bleeding lizard in the bidet, and half the rooms are double-booked and you can't sleep anyway...

...and the Spanish Tourist Board promises you that the raging cholera epidemic is merely a case of mild Spanish tummy, like the last outbreak of Spanish tummy in 1660 which killed half London and decimated Europe, and meanwhile the bloody Guardia are busy arresting sixteen-year-olds for kissing in the streets and shooting anyone under nineteen who doesn't like Franco...

[mpriestnall]

Beats "Lorem ipsum":

https://punkwalrus.livejournal.com/964151.html

"but feel free to use it:". Thank you I will.

[DJA]

Whingeing Poms!

[mpriestnall]

Whingeing Poms!

Ah, but at least we know how to do it properly!

[Herlock Sholmes]

I don’t think that we complain enough. We just allow crap that we don’t like or want to be established and to spread. “Anything for a quiet life” is too often the motto. I’m as guilty of it as anyone else (and I moan more than most)

[Enigma]

Why did the Personnel Department become Human Resources? In my working days I resented being classified as a resource rather than as a loyal member of staff.

[Herlock Sholmes]

It’s about avoiding discrimination at all costs Enigma. These days you have to be treated as fully the equal of any photo-copier or desk.

[Ms Diddles]

Why did the Personnel Department become Human Resources? In my working days I resented being classified as a resource rather than as a loyal member of staff.

I hear what you're saying Gazza

TBH I would personally go one stage further and add actual HR / Personnel Depts to the list of irritations.

I mean, I feel for people working in HR.

That must be like staring into the abyss.

The lengths that they go to to justify their existence is pitiable.

Developing protocols, processes and procedures which are so convoluted that anyone with an actual job to do has no time (or inclination) to look at them.

Meetings about meetings about meetings.

Bloody constant "Survey Monkeys".

Do you consider your workplace to be PIE (a Psychologically Informed Environment)?

Oh I'm sorry, I tried to complete the survey but there didn't appear to be a tick box for "go f*!k yourself"?

[Enigma]

Right on Ms D.

Maybe the reason for the change in name was because people used to refer to them as the anti personnel department, and for good reason.

[rjpalmer]

What the actual...

I read this on the BBC this morning:


"A former US Air Force pilot accused of kidnapping a nine-year-old girl outside Harrods and then sexually assaulting her has been found not guilty.

Robert Prussak approached the girl at the central London department store when she became separated from her family during a trip from France on 22 April.

He then walked her to his flat, and was accused of giving her bitter-tasting water allegedly containing the antihistamine Benadryl, which left her tired, the court had heard.

The 57-year-old, of no fixed address, was cleared of the offences at Isleworth Crown Court on Tuesday.

It was alleged that the pilot took the girl from the flat to Hyde Park and sexually assaulted her.

Mr Prussak was arrested later on the same day after he and the girl were spotted walking past the Israeli embassy by a Metropolitan Police officer who had been informed she was missing.

He was searched and said, "I was just trying to help her out", according to Sgt Edward Lucas.

Mr Prussak had denied all the charges against him.

Judge Edward Connell told Mr Prussak, who broke down in the dock as he was acquitted, that he was free to go.

Jurors had asked if there was any DNA evidence of the sexual assault just over an hour after they started deliberating on Monday, and the judge said there was not.

Mr Prussak was found not guilty of three counts of sexual assault of a child under the age of 13.

He was also cleared of one count of kidnapping, one count of committing an offence of kidnapping with an intent to commit a sexual offence, and one count of administering a substance with intent.

On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Police arrested a 57-year-old man at Isleworth Crown Court on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children.

He was taken to a police station and remains in custody."


Presumably, not the same 57-year-old man?

[rjpalmer]

I'm 99% certain this is the same 'Robert Prussak' of California who had a restraining order against him by his ex-wife for domestic battery and sexual assault. Also, he allegedly had a 'nanny ap' installed on her phone to stalk her.

To state the blindingly obvious, no 57-year-old-man has any business taking a 9-year-old girl back to his flat. This was kidnapping.

Yes, I'm irritated.

[Herlock Sholmes]

I'm 99% certain this is the same 'Robert Prussak' of California who had a restraining order against him by his ex-wife for domestic battery and sexual assault. Also, he allegedly had a 'nanny ap' installed on her phone to stalk her.

To state the blindingly obvious, no 57-year-old-man has any business taking a 9-year-old girl back to his flat. This was kidnapping.

Yes, I'm irritated.

That’s a jaw-dropper Roger. Let’s hope that some disaster befalls this guy before he meets his next victim. The Judge and jury should be ashamed of themselves. There should be a re-trial and an inquiry.

[Abby Normal]

i know im gonna get lambasted for this but ive always liked oasis. theyre a big hot mess, alot of songs are nice little pop ditties with many verging on the rawer side, fighting brothers, huge band at one point.etc

plus i liked other bands from the genre including blur. it was all just a tad different, maybe the allure of something a little new.

their stuff is nothing groundbreaking but at least they are interesting.

however imho they and most other contemp bands way pale in comparison to the main new(ish) genre at the time... Grunge, which imho was the last great genre of rock.

[mpriestnall]

I'm 99% certain this is the same 'Robert Prussak' of California who had a restraining order against him by his ex-wife for domestic battery and sexual assault. Also, he allegedly had a 'nanny ap' installed on her phone to stalk her.

To state the blindingly obvious, no 57-year-old-man has any business taking a 9-year-old girl back to his flat. This was kidnapping.

Yes, I'm irritated.

I read news reports online that he went with the girl past police (twice) and security staff in the street and that for several hours (two?) there was no evidence on his phone of him trying to contact the police, which all seems rather odd.