[RikoRocket]

So PB-Pro is just a powerbase?

oh yes, I suppose you're right...

 

[Neillie]

Another silly epithet: 'pro-active'. It means 'active', but pro-active has spread throughout media networks, and especially at the BBC.

Duh...

Not being picky, but...

Proactive

The adjective proactive can describe a person who gets things done. If you are proactive, you make things happen, instead of waiting for them to happen to you.

Active means "doing something." The prefix pro- means "before." So, if you are proactive, you are ready before something happens. The opposite is being reactive, or waiting for things to unfold before responding. Think about winter cold season. A proactive person washes his hands and takes vitamins; a reactive person gets sick and takes cold medicine.

In other words, just because you're active it doesn't mean you're doing anything about the upcoming 'problem'...anyway, that's my take on it anyway. I've known scores of people who are active, but not one of the useless gits was proactive in preventing stuff breaking down

 

[Trisha]

So you agree. Active means the same as pro-active.

 

[Neillie]

So you agree. Active means the same as pro-active.

Nope...

 

[SplitRim]

I have woken up grumpy this morning so I will share my current pet hate. Why do so many people nowadays start every sentence with "So".

They are asked a simple question and they pause and say, "So - I work for the civil service", as though they are delivering some sort of proclamation rather than just answering a straight forward question. No one used to say this but nowadays like most affectation it is now common place,

David

David
Couldn't agree more. So, so, so! It's awful, superfluous, and a most inefficient way of communicating.
Moreover, the practitioners of "so" usually add "like" to the middle of sentences.
All absolute tommyrot, of course.

Don't get me going on all these 'addon' words!

Guilty on all charges, although in my defence I have to work with awesome yoofs and yoofettes innit!
Obviously all legends when they swap their green provisional for a well cool pink fill licence. Tidy!

Simon
It started off with 'you know', and some people, even some very well known people, use these two words so often that it becomes ridiculous. Even one of the political party leaders does it, over and over!

It's moved on to 'basically', some people can't seem to start a statement without using it.

And no-one's ever upset or worried about a problem or an incident these days, they're always 'devastated'.

Aggggggghhhhhhhhh! :angry:

:lmfao: :lmfao:

 

[PETER GUNN]

I quite like that sentance i keep hearing ,it is the will of the people, what the hell is the will of the people , can someone explain 1 what is it and 2 why do politicians ignore it.

 

[PETER GUNN]

THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE . Well round here we would like out street lights to be back on when it,s dark, so you don't run pedestrians over staggering back from the pub, swerving to miss animal you used to be able to see but you can't now until it's to late, hit cars parked on a unlit road, or drive down bloody big holes as no one puts lights on the road works anymore.

THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. Can we have our refuse collected once a week again , like it was up to recently , when our streets were clean, bedding was not dumped in the hedgrows, and garbage was not all over the pavements.

THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE . Can our local bus route run the last bus 15 minutes after the cinema closes not 15 minutes before it does.

All of this and much more is the will of the people , but no B listens , to the will of the people

 

[Ecurie Martini]

THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE . Well round here we would like out street lights to be back on when it,s dark, so you don't run pedestrians over staggering back from the pub, swerving to miss animal you used to be able to see but you can't now until it's to late, hit cars parked on a unlit road, or drive down bloody big holes as no one puts lights on the road works anymore.

THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. Can we have our refuse collected once a week again , like it was up to recently , when our streets were clean, bedding was not dumped in the hedgrows, and garbage was not all over the pavements.

THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE . Can our local bus route run the last bus 15 minutes after the cinema closes not 15 minutes before it does.

All of this and much more is the will of the people , but no B listens , to the will of the people

All of the above would be sensible if one makes the assumption that the function of government is to provide services to the people. In fact, government services the people (if you have spent any time on a farm, you will understand the difference.)

EM

 

[StuBeeDoo]

........the function of government is to provide services to the people. In fact, government services the people

Don't think I've ever read/heard it put in those precise words before, although I have read/heard it in broadly similar terms.

 

[SplitRim]

Grrrrr,

as I've said on many occasions I dislike computers, and thanks to that I've managed to make my last post look like utter drivel

Imagine reading my post, above with this paragraph at the end:

Guilty on all charges, although in my defence I have to work with awesome yoofs and yoofettes innit!
Obviously all legends when they swap their green provisional for a well cool pink fill licence. Tidy!

Simon

 

[StuBeeDoo]

as I've said on many occasions I dislike computers,

Another kindred spirit.

My grump of the day...........

I understand that currently UK police force resources are stretched beyond their limit, and in the grand scheme of policing there are far bigger problems. But I'm getting seriously charred-off at the sheer number of vehicles I see being driven with their front number plate behind the windscreen in the where it can barely be seen. UK construction & use regs. state that plates should be clearly visible front and rear at all times. During the course of an 8hr/75mile shift yesterday afternoon/evening I counted 11 cars, most of them Audis, with no visible front plate. One or two didn't have lights on, either.

OK, so you forgot to put the lights on - it happens. But at least with a visible reflective plate you can be seen.

.........Or is it that you don't want to be seen????? :wacko:

I know, I know..... "First world problems".

 

[tangerinedream]

Number plate spin off is the Outrageous spacing, I thought when a plate was purchased part of the sale agreement was not to misrepresent the typeface and spacing, got a friend who's a traffic cop on the Staffordshire section of her majesties M6, he's told me they don't bother with this as long as the ANPR can read the plate, grr.

 

[gus3049]

What can we have a whinge about this morning? It's pissing down which means that my tennis practice is impossible. That's a good start.

Adverts! I don't mind discovering companies via their advertising but once I have used their services why do they bombard me with, quote - special offers - unquote, on a daily basis thereafter. Particularly annoying is when it's a company that you need to use again. The hotel group for the Bordo meet is driving me nuts and, if it wasn't for Bordo, I would never use them again. Unsubscribing does no good as the next time I book, it starts all over again. Even if I could afford to take one of these daily breaks to their delightful hotels, I doubt I would be so inclined. Have they ever heard that some people prefer to buy rather than be sold to?

Whilst I'm at it, in this land of red elixir..... make that ex-red elixir. What the hell is happening to the wine? As I choose to believe the research that tells me that a daily glass is good for me (didn't Guinness also tell me that?) I indulge with my mid day meal. At one time, the boxes from the supermarket were OK. Nothing special but quaffable enough to wash the grub down. The quality has been going down and down, thinner and thinner, more and more acidic. Supermarket pressure no doubt quite apart from the climate affecting the crop. However, it has now reached the stage that we use boxed wine for cooking. The only one that is passable and identifiable as wine rather than vinegar, is artificially smoothed and flavoured with oak in some way.

This means that I am forced to start buying more expensive bottles, some of them could be better too. I had a bottle of Chianti last week and it actually tasted of wine and was pleasant if not terrific. Whatever happened to France?

 

[Kit Spackman]

But I'm getting seriously charred-off at the sheer number of vehicles I see being driven with their front number plate behind the windscreen in the where it can barely be seen. UK construction & use regs. state that plates should be clearly visible front and rear at all times.

Oh yes, around these parts most of them seem to be BMWs, usually driven by unduly short drivers who are sitting so low in their seats that they're looking THROUGH the steering wheel! Perhaps it's some sort of fashion statement, as it also seems to go along with baseball hats worn backwards...………..

 

[beardy56]

My take on the "Will of the People" is when about only part of the population vote on something and of these the total vote for is less than 50% of the total population. So the will of the people is a minority of the population wanting something but only if it agrees with the will of the powers that be, otherwise the will of the people is with the other majority.

I can never understand how even a 52% of the vote on a 72% turn out can be a majority. Surly to be a majority it has to be over 50% of the voting population. It really gets my goat when a minority vote is described as an over wallming majority.

 

[StuBeeDoo]

I got a letter a couple of weeks ago reminding me that my driving licence is due for renewal. For those outside the UK, we have to renew every 10 years - every 3 after age 70.

I'm 62 years old. I've just paid for a full 10 year renewal. So how come the new licence that arrived today expires the day before my 70th birthday, which is less than 8 years away?? :wacko: It's not about the money, the full renewal works out at less than £2/year. It's the principle.

 

[GregK]

 

[PETER GUNN]

P,d off decided to get a set of 4 firesde chairs to replace our aging suite which like many things of our age is suffering from a saggy bottom, saved up a little money so decided 2020 is the year to get something, like hell it is.

Went into town to look at some furniture and discovered only one shop left now selling furniture and i was not impressed , so made a visit to a larger town to find there was only one shop left there also , but i was determined to get something, chap inside showed me a nice shiny catalogue and i picked out 4 nice chairs , and asked do you have them in the showroom so i can see if the wifes bum fits in them ok , he said sorry sir we don't keep them in stock , but i have one which is a BIT like it well it was nothing like it actually , but my bum fitted into it ok , so i said have you 4 and he said no sir that's the last one.

So, it was back to the shiny pictures then i said how much are 4 of those chairs and the reply was £1, 800 so after swallowing my mint and the missus going white i asked how long before i can have them, he said if sir ordered and paid for them today about 15 weeks .

Then i asked about disposal of my old suite , and he said well sir we have trouble disposing of them ourselves due to regulations , but if you paid us £150 we will take it away for you, so the bill was now £1, 950, the missus said something i had not thought of delivery , she asked is there a delivery charge he said yes madam locally £50 , she asked what is locally he said 5 miles radius , so she said to him where we lived and he gave a big inhale of breath and said out there madam it would cost round about £100, so our 4 chairs were now going to cost £2, 050 , so needles to say we wearily dragged ourself back the 27 miles home feeling knackered , so we still have our old saggy bottom suite to plant out saggy bottoms on which soon could be sitting on the floor as we can't get just 4 fireside chairs to replace it without holding up the bank.

 

[Gripping Pneus]

Whilst I'm at it, in this land of red elixir..... make that ex-red elixir. What the hell is happening to the wine? . The quality has been going down and down, thinner and thinner, more and more acidic. Supermarket pressure no doubt quite apart from the climate affecting the crop. However, it has now reached the stage that we use boxed wine for cooking. The only one that is passable and identifiable as wine rather than vinegar, is artificially smoothed and flavoured with oak in some way.

Agreed. I was also singularly unimpressed with the food in the restaurants there too when I was last in France. It used to one of the top three cuisines in the world, and 25 years ago you could hardly go wrong when eating out. Two years ago it was barely possible to find anything other than US type fast food. I had bigged up the gastronomie to my wife beforehand and then looked like a right Charlie when I tried to find some of it to impress her. At one place she had a steak which was so tough that she almost choked on a chunk, followed by a dessert course which purported to be home-made but was straight out of a Lidl packet. Quel dommage.

 

[Kit Spackman]

The 21st century has arrived in the Forest of Dean. Well, almost anyway............

I got a form from the council to confirm that I'm single and living in my house on my own and no-one of any age has sneaked in and is liviing there with me. That's because you get a discount on Council Tax if you're a single dweller btw.

At the bottom of the form it says I can scan it and email it rather than posting it, thus saving me the time to traipse down to the post box and the cost of the envelope and stamp. Result!

So that's what I did, scanned both sides of it, because the side I write on had no reference to me other than my signature, which even doctors have trouble in decyphering. Then I typed out an email, attached the two scans and sent it off.

Immediately I got an automated reply from the Council's 'ICT Dept' saying that their policies are not to accept emails with particular attachments and that my emial will be deleted after 30 days!!!!!!!

Apparently they expect me to phone them if I think it shouldn't have been intercepted, but the form has my phone no. on it, so why don't THEY phone ME? Grrrrrrrrrrr..........