BeestonMick 263 Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 I've got less than ten months to go to retirement and it's aggravating the bejesus out me 'cos it's not going fast enough!! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 Don't let em get to you Mick. I'm more cantankerous now than I've ever been and they can't shut us up for ever. Our generation built this country up to be great since the 60's, but Brown singlehandedly ruined us. Whenever I hear younger folk moaning I politely reply ' Don't F*****g blame me !' 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dave 48 847 Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 #486. I know exactly how you feel Mick. I went 10 months early but I did have the finances to do it, but it did mean living off one of my life insurance policies for that period of time until my state pension kicked in but I never regretted it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BeestonMick 263 Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 I have the finances they just won't let me go and they keep asking me if I'll stay on a bit afterwards, they get the same answer every time "NO, not likely!!". It's actually quite good because I'm doing bugger all while looking busy, my ROF training is kicking in nicely. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 I wonder what the present younger generation will think when/if they reach retirement age. Will they blame the parents of the then 'their' younger generation? Will they be resorting to corporal punishment as I think they might? Will they regret the loss of their past? I have already heard 20/30 somethings regretting the loss of their 'old days'. Perspective always seems to deceive and what goes around comes around. The question I often ask myself is, would I like to be young again and a part of the present younger generation in the world as it is? I don't think I would. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 I don't think I would knowing what I know now. But if I was young , naive and innocent again, then I would embrace life wholeheartedly. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 Finger in many pies, nose in many troughs! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,597 Posted October 31, 2015 Report Share Posted October 31, 2015 pi$$ing in many pots !!! Rog 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted November 1, 2015 Report Share Posted November 1, 2015 Although others as well as myself detested the Available Car .com advert, I thought that the blond girl was quite attractive. However, the latest glut of adverts has irritated me intensely. Her voice grates, she now has what appears to be too much makeup and she looks insipid. Am I getting old or what? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted November 1, 2015 Report Share Posted November 1, 2015 No FLY,getting past it ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted November 1, 2015 Report Share Posted November 1, 2015 Woaaaaaah now then, a more discerning taste these days. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted November 1, 2015 Report Share Posted November 1, 2015 #495 Ouch! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,296 Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 Bl**dy packaging. Here in Adelaide we have three bins, one 120 litres for general rubbish collected weekly, one for recyclable items and one for "green waste" that are collected each alternate week both 240 litres. Even with only two of us at home the recyclable bin is nearly always full or overflowing into the general rubbish and most of it is excessive packaging and before anyone comments about beer bottles and cans these are stored in a separate bin and when full returned to a recycling centre for the 10 cent deposit and therefore another slab of beer. As an example her indoors prefers a brand of soap that comes in six cakes in a clear cellophane wrap, which after you have struggled to tear this, each cake of soap comes in a little cardboard box thingo and then inside that is the cake of soap enclosed in yet another clear cellophane bag and to add insult to injury each cake of soap has a little label on it. I am sure you know the brand but bl**dy hell it is only soap. Blister packs really pee me off, you almost need a pair of tin snips or a Stanley knife to get into them and then to find that the sodding product is cable tied to a card inside. If anyone breaks their scissors trying to get through the packaging look out as you will need the snips or the Stanley knife to get into the packaging that the scissors come in. Almost any hardware item now comes in blister type packs even down to a few screws or nuts and bolts. Cereal boxes that are twice the size needed for the cereal inside. Packaging for any electrical item, the cardboard box, then a plastic bag, then formed polystyrene then the little polystyrene bag that the product is in, innumerable other plastic bags that the leads, batteries, instructions etc come in. Last but not least for this rant, shirts, will anyone explain to me why the shirt has to come in a clear celluloid box (with an incorporated hanger loop) four separate pieces of cardboard and tissue paper, innumerable clear plastic clips and enough pins to keep a voodoo practitioner happy for years and yes I know it is about retail presentation but? I hate packaging 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 Child proof containers that no one can open! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 You are lucky with the garbage service, Oztalgian. Here in Tasmania where we live, two bins (general and recyclable) COLLECTED EVERY FORTNIGHT!! Shirts have always been packed like that - ever since I was a kid anyway. Plastic blister packs are responsible for a high percentage of persons of all ages attending hospital casualty sections across the country, for treatment of deep cuts and wounds to the fingers and hands Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 New pair of scissors in a pack consisting of a stiff plastic 'bubble' on a card base that I needed a pair of scissors to open! 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,296 Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 mick2me #499 Don't know about others on this site but as you get older child proof containers become an increasing challenge. On a similar vein, which packaging numpty came up with the little key method of opening tins of Fray Bentos corned beef. Either the key broke half way round or it was never strong enough to break off the final bit and you had to waggle the top part of the can until the metal fatigued and the top part came off. Forty odd years later I still have the scar on my thumb from trying to open a can whilst on a day trip to Skeggy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 Same here Oztalgian, I still bear the scar on my forefinger from the said can of Fray Bentos Corned bleedin Beef. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 Well it would be bleedin after all you bled all over it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 Just watched Benefits Britain on the telly and it peed me off............... 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,597 Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 The FedEx delivery man,had a few parcels delivered to site,box of 6 toilet cleaners for the office bogs (liquid) threw on the floor not in the upright position,two smallish boxes (about a foot square) with two fire bricks in each for me new storage heater just dropped on the floor and finally my new storage heater in a box about 21/2 feet tall by 15 inches square with clearly marked upright arrows just slung on the floor, I asked the delivery man "should that be stood upright as per arrows" his reply "well they'd f----ing fall over anway" well he stood the box up and it stayed up,I just looked at him and Said "oh ah" today I think I will complain,his customer service was crap and he managed to knock a corner of one of my fire bricks, Rant is now over,until I phone FedEx Rog 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 #503 Corned Beef tins are near the top of the list for cuts to the hands. The link isa bit old but I would expect the CB tins are still high on the list. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1421698/60000-are-injured-by-opening-packaging.html 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Go for 'em plantfit! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BeestonMick 263 Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Having to wait another ten months to retire annoys the bejeezus out of me Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 One thing that is guaranteed to get my goat is when visitors are leaving a neighbouring property after shouting the farewells they have to sound the car horn when driving away ! After a few hundred yards this futile example of saying "look my car horn works" they honk the bleedin thing again WHY ? ffs. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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