Trivial things you don't understand/mildly annoy you

[Batch]

Now I am back commuting into London taking 5 hours out of my day

I remember you saying you moved out of London but where the bloody hell to, Manchester?

5 hours a day, jeez in not sure they could pay me enough! maybe once a week.

what happened, did you change jobs or did they drag you all back in?

[McGurk's Missus]

It keeps cunting it down here

It's a right cunting palava.

Edit: Palava best word after Pavlova. You don't want to have a Pavlova palava. Sounds like some form of getting the shits

[fuzzy]

It's a right cunting palava.

Edit: Palava best word after Pavlova. You don't want to have a Pavlova palava. Sounds like some form of getting the shits

Isn’t a pavlova papa a an Eton  Mess?

[McGurk's Missus]

Isn’t a pavlova papa a an Eton  Mess?

Say again? 

[Batch]

the forum mallets mallet

[swindonmaniac]

Say again? 
[/Isn’t a pavlova papa a an Eton  Mess?

[Bob's Orange]

I remember you saying you moved out of London but where the bloody hell to, Manchester?

5 hours a day, jeez in not sure they could pay me enough! maybe once a week.

what happened, did you change jobs or did they drag you all back in?

haha - not quite that far north. Only as far as Northamptonshire, but Warwickshire is literally just up the road from us. I actually over egged the pudding slightly and it's probably nearer 4.5 hours if all the connections work. When we moved I wanted to be maximum 90 minutes away from London/the office but fell in love with a house which would stretch that commute so figured why not. At that time we were 'asked' to be in the office twice a week but in our department which is global, being in the office isn't really deemed hugely beneficial so many people (including myself) were doing once a week, some people only coming in once a fortnight.

The big cheeses sent an email out saying everyone has to be in the office twice a week from March and it will be verified etc. Tuesday is the 'Anchor' day and we can pick any other random day during the week. It's of 0 benefit to me being in the office as my boss in in Chicago and the colleagues on my program are both in India, (we follow UK hours though) as is the vendor.

As for the route - 5 mile drive to the train station over hilariously bad potholed roads, (1 puncture and counting so far) 1 hour 20 minutes train to Euston, then 25 minutes ish tube to Canary Wharf. It's actually not so bad during Spring/Summer/Autumn, its the getting up just after 5 in the winter that is the real challenge!!

[horlock07]

I remember you saying you moved out of London but where the bloody hell to, Manchester?

Dunno what you mean, he never mentioned it 

As I notice Bob has mentioned it tends to be the add ons which add the time, so when I was commuting into Manchester from Lancaster it was only c. 1 hr 5 mins on the train (incidentally, the busiest train in the UK at the time apparently) but add in 25 min walk to station at one end and 20 min at the other and it all added up (no wonder I have put weight on when I stopped it).

Come on then Bob, what's your biggest commute fuck up so far, mine is probably a toss up between a morning when the train was supposed to get into Manchester at 0820 but actually got into Manchester at 1245, or an evening when the trains stopped running north of Preston entirely (happened twice actually) 

[Bob's Orange]

Dunno what you mean, he never mentioned it 

As I notice Bob has mentioned it tends to be the add ons which add the time, so when I was commuting into Manchester from Lancaster it was only c. 1 hr 5 mins on the train (incidentally, the busiest train in the UK at the time apparently) but add in 25 min walk to station at one end and 20 min at the other and it all added up (no wonder I have put weight on when I stopped it).

Come on then Bob, what's your biggest commute fuck up so far, mine is probably a toss up between a morning when the train was supposed to get into Manchester at 0820 but actually got into Manchester at 1245, or an evening when the trains stopped running north of Preston entirely (happened twice actually) 

I think you are confusing me with someone else that thinks this is Facebook!  

In all honesty I haven't 'yet' had any huge disasters. (and you've probably jinxed it now!) A few days where the train has been delayed by about 30-45 minutes and one time where the train didn't stop at my station going north so had to change at Rugby and then head back south, but this again was only a 30-45 minute delay.

[horlock07]

I think you are confusing me with someone else that thinks this is Facebook!  

In all honesty I haven't 'yet' had any huge disasters. (and you've probably jinxed it now!) A few days where the train has been delayed by about 30-45 minutes and one time where the train didn't stop at my station going north so had to change at Rugby and then head back south, but this again was only a 30-45 minute delay.

Apologies if it all goes tits up now.

Have you got commuting buddies now (people you recognise and give a knowing nod to, but never speak to), your own spots on the platforms where you know the doors stop, and finding yourself being more spatially intimate on crowded trains with other lasses than you are with your wife?

[Bob's Orange]

Apologies if it all goes tits up now.

Have you got commuting buddies now (people you recognise and give a knowing nod to, but never speak to), your own spots on the platforms where you know the doors stop, and finding yourself being more spatially intimate on crowded trains with other lasses than you are with your wife?

This is slowly turning into the most boring conversation known to man!!

Yeah at the station in the morning I'm getting to recognising people and their cars etc. There is one lady that walks up and down the platform waiting for the train that I often give a smile to as that's my way of killing time waiting for the train!

Yeah I'd say I know all the 'tricks' now for which are the best carriages to get on'tube, getting caught the wrong end of the platform at Euston off the Northern Line can be a scrum if my timing is off! Luckily the times i get in and out of the office means the tubes are not rammed so no intimate times required!

[Audrey]

Just taken the 3 cats to the vets for their passports/jabs etc. Jeez, what a commotion. Had to chase each one round the house so we could get them in their cat boxes, made a God-awful noise in the car, shat in said boxes and. Cost €255 for the privilege.

[Jimmy Quinn]

Feel for the vets😀

[fuzzy]

Just taken the 3 cats to the vets for their passports/jabs etc. Jeez, what a commotion. Had to chase each one round the house so we could get them in their cat boxes, made a God-awful noise in the car, shat in said boxes and. Cost €255 for the privilege.

255 euro for cats to shit in your boxes?

I'd have done it for a beer.

[Batch]

@bob

bosses who think you just slack off if they can't see you.. cunts!