What's your favourite rant ?

[LANDROVER ROGER]

My favourite current rant.Why,when I have been to work all day and all I want to do is sit outside in the sunshine with a cold beer,does some pillock have to light a bonfire and fill the air with choking smoke?

[blueboyno1]

My favourite current rant.Why,when I have been to work all day and all I want to do is sit outside in the sunshine with a cold beer,does some pillock have to light a bonfire and fill the air with choking smoke?

http://www.huntsdc.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/ ... et2004.pdf

If that fails just stick wan right oan his chin.

[Govangirl]

wow. who's next? Ultravox?! oh, wait...

I heard on the radio the other night a concert in the Albert Hall that I would have LOVED to have attended. It was a full orchestra with ABC doing the album 'Lexicon of Love'. How great was that? I'm hoping there will be a repeat!

Sorry back to the rants . . .

[ionnsaigh]

[quote="Govangirl"]Whit? What would you do without most of these or did you mean the 'rude' in front of all of them? In which case, ANY profession is surely worthy of a rant if they're rude? And if you just meant all of them, rude or not, then I have to ask: Is there any group of people you actually LIKE Ionns?

Of course I meant rude - the point I was making that rudeness doesn't stop at shop girls.
I had an unfortunate encounter with a member of staff, at the hotel we where staying on Islay. ( I wonder if it was the same one) Although to be fair to the Islanders - this person was not a local - however when you pay over a hundred pounds a night you expect better.

[dalintober lad]

My response is "Ban him" plain and simple. Members have been banned before for what they post on here, so why should he be any different.

BUT, the catch... its only my view and there are another 8 mods who may think differently, so that's why i haven't clicked the few buttons and put in force the ban i think should be handed out. But it may well be that when i get back on-line tomorrow the ban will be in place OR its decided that at least 5 mods say no, give him a bit longer.. i don't know..

So what is the outcome ? Did you Mods have a vote,or have you let it slide ?

I see he is still posting,so has he been allowed to expound sectarian profanaties and get away with it ?

[Govangirl]

I understood he got a yellow card which should be the end of it. Do we really need our own Ross/Brand or a McGregor/Ferguson scenario on the forum?

[Bobbie En Tejas]

My response is "Ban him" plain and simple. Members have been banned before for what they post on here, so why should he be any different.

BUT, the catch... its only my view and there are another 8 mods who may think differently, so that's why i haven't clicked the few buttons and put in force the ban i think should be handed out. But it may well be that when i get back on-line tomorrow the ban will be in place OR its decided that at least 5 mods say no, give him a bit longer.. i don't know..

So what is the outcome ? Did you Mods have a vote,or have you let it slide ?

I see he is still posting,so has he been allowed to expound sectarian profanaties and get away with it ?

Actually, I think only one regular has ever been banned.. and that was a shame.

[£3.73]

My response is "Ban him" plain and simple. Members have been banned before for what they post on here, so why should he be any different.

BUT, the catch... its only my view and there are another 8 mods who may think differently, so that's why i haven't clicked the few buttons and put in force the ban i think should be handed out. But it may well be that when i get back on-line tomorrow the ban will be in place OR its decided that at least 5 mods say no, give him a bit longer.. i don't know..

So what is the outcome ? Did you Mods have a vote,or have you let it slide ?

I see he is still posting,so has he been allowed to expound sectarian profanaties and get away with it ?

Actually, I think only one regular has ever been banned.. and that was a shame.

Seconded ... a great shame. It would appear that prolific posters are often a target for those whose only contribution on Kintyre Forum is to pass judgement by pm.

In Ionn's case though I'll make an exception ...

[Bobbie En Tejas]

Automated phone systems!

They drive me crazy, SO much so that when I get an instruction "say or press 1," I clear my throat or cough. "Sorry, I didn't understand.. say or press 1." Clear my throat and cough again. By the third time I'm sure the computerized system thinks I'm an idiot and tells me in a very patronizing voice something along the lines that i can hold on and maybe they can find someone there that will be able to understand me BINGO.. I get a real person MUCH sooner than had I answered all their questions.

But I have found that once in a while,the system sees me coming and doesn't offer me the option to "say." So, after I get through the whole thing, punching in the numbers that correspond to my name, my zip code, my telephone number, birthdate and 16-digit credit card number, I finally get a real person who will immediately ask me to repeat all the same information that I just punched in... what is that all about?

sooo irritating...

Sitting down...

NEXT!

[LANDROVER ROGER]

Once again,Mugabe and his murderous,genocidal regime.

[Sheik Yir Erse]

Automated phone systems!

Brilliant Bobbie - I used to work with this type of technology. Interestingly there are various 'secret' key combinations that will shortcut most systems and take you past all the queues. These are put there by developers to make testing much easier. They tend to be things like #27, ##3*, etc. However the general rule for defeating these systems is to do absolutely nothing, they are all developed to eventually put you through to a human.

Now, I just smile as I listen to it trying to convince me I've done something wrong whilst trying to guess the "code" and, when you get to speak to a human, you have the strange (21st Century) satisfaction of having defeated the automated phone system

We live in strange times!

[A Horse called Juan Face]

I had to phone Australia to close my bank account, and when I finally got through to someone I asked for the department to close my bank. They said just write a letter to the bank and they can verify my signature, and being incredibly perceptive like I am, I'd already written one and left it with my sister, so I e-mailed her and told her to hand in the letter. The bank told her that I needed to phone up and close it as they had no copy of my signature to verify. That was false anyway, as they took a copy of my passport when I opened the account. But anyway I phoned up again, kept on hold for about ten minutes again and eventually got through to a man who closed my account for me. But why didn't they just put me through to that department in the first place? Je ne comprends pas.

[£3.73]

But why didn't they just put me through to that department in the first place? Je ne comprends pas.

If you are in charge of 100 people, you tell them what to do & they do it. ... end of.

If you structure it so you have 10 under-managers, now you rely on each of these to correctly interpret what you want done.

If these 10 under-managers decide to "empower" people below them to manage themselves .... suddenly you have 100 people who may make the wrong decision.

Empowerment, delegation & distributed management .... it's all bollocks & buzzwords.
Every unneccessary decicion making process adds innefficiency & potentially the incorrect outcome.
"Too many chiefs & no indians"

You can only assume that such systems are designed NOT to work efficiently or properly.

[daftdog]

But why didn't they just put me through to that department in the first place? Je ne comprends pas.

The answer is quite simple.. They didn't want you to close the account When i moved to Finland and had to call everyone to close the accounts, i was put through to various departments who tried to get me to change my mind they all stalled by asking lots of, how long will you be gone questions. Three mobile even tried to get me to switch to a package that included skype minutes, until i pointed out that Finland networks don't have three as a partner network

[A Horse called Juan Face]

That thought did cross my mind right enough, Mr Dog. PS Just incase it comes across as such, there is no hidden meaning in this message, it means I agree. Thank you.