Minor Rant Thread - Part 8

[gingerbilly]

Who do I sue when I get an imperial or metric splinter/pinch??

I was making new cold frames covers today for my raised beds, obviously due to the continuing cold weather darn sarff.....normally this time of the year we are picking strawberries in regard to the rest of the UK!!!!!

2" x 2" prepped timber making 4ft X 2ft frames which are then covered by thick polythene sheets that are first stapled with 3/4" staples and then followed up in between the staples with three quarter inch clout nails.....right on the last frame I nipped my left hand index finger by trapping it under a well hammered clout nail resulting in a bladdy geyser that required a plaster and some hyper ventilated deep breaths and a large rum.

Does anyone else still work in imperial like me or have you all sold out???

[Aberdeenplotter]

I'm not quite still in shillings and pence but feet and inches make sense while metric takes more thinking about

oopsie my rant - this god awful weather

[gingerbilly]

and whats all these bleedin "4 ways to avoid running out of money during retirement" and "2 people want to bound with you on facebook" advertisements.....every were I look on here theres "four be two's"......this site is definitely imperial!!!!

[wizzbang]

I really don't like metric measurements. If possible I always use imperial. I'm English!
Of course I have to use modern money but for anything else I like the old ways.
Just call me an old Phart!
Lynne x

[gingerbilly]

I'm not really on about the money ...I think every generation has taken that onboard.....

it's more the measurements and pounds and ounces I'm on about......the timber yard I use has young lads doing the fetching and carrying before you pay for what you have ordered......and they even know when old farts ask for imperial they can, quick as you like, put 6ft into metric and write you out the chit for the till ......I was really just ranting are we ever going to take it on full time......because after all these years it's still feet and inches/pounds and ounces were I am.

[Aberdeenplotter]

pssst guys,this the rant thread, - no chatting

[cardiffsteve]

Bl@@dy noisy, drunk students banging cars and windows.
Upsetting next doors dog making it bark.
And now we got the police helicopter flying around.

[Feral007]

Graders who always give higher grades to the kids of people they like, or go to a certain school.
It's really meant to be about ability, not who you know. Sigh, daugher will have to attend quite a few more events to get where she should be whilst some others don't.
Hmmmm, from both of us.

[Verinda]

The fact that they've changed the dancing pony ad into something horrible, a disco type pony! Ugh! Appologies to those who haven't seen either ad and wonder what i'm on about!! But the original ad was brill!

[binley100]

rain, snow, rain, snow and rain, more snow, more rain ............and then when it's too late to go up the lottie........sun .......

[Feral007]

Chook still missing in action, presumed deceased.

[binley100]

Managers who think they can mess with my holidays.......I AM LEGALLY ENTITLED TO MY 5.6 WKS HOLS....AND PRO RATA JUST MEANS i GET PAID MY 10HRS AND NOT 39 HRS .....you eejit ......

as you were .......

[julesapple]

Oh bless....poor chook.

We had an egg weighing 99g today.

Rant: Um....er....erm......people who prevaricate.

[Piggle]

why do i have to go to nodnol for an interview when the job in here ..........

[Feral007]

Just rung the guy coming to do Le Spot's hooves tomorrow, for the 2nd time today. He was supposed to call us to give us a time.
So he's going to charge us twice the price to come and do it - because it's such a long trip....of course if you brought him here........if I could put him in a float I would (and would take him elsewhere), oh well it'll probably cost that again...........what you're going to do his hooves in the float? Bustard!

Might be going to google where farrier courses are being run in a minute - so tired of bluddy men with no manners, who think they are gods gift to women with horses. Frick, frick, fricking hell!