Swindon Music

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I "work on the train" I just do it quietly, new job means work laptop so for a while at least I'll be doing more stuff on the commute into work (well until we move back to Oxford) but I won't be having loud phone conversations with people.

I just wish the 7.28 train was full of considerate, approachable London Commuters such as Mr Darren Coleman, mind you I'd never get any work done then as I'd be chatting about mid 80's indie music

Car drivers who then nearly run you over and tell you to F*****G cycle on the pavement......

Not that I agree with cycling on the pavement anyway

But equally pedestrians, who after the endless "it's always the driver's fault" style campaigns, just step out into the road expecting drivers to avoid them.

Case in point being an advert in the 90's (I think), where a woman stepped backwards onto a dual carriage way without looking while waving to someone, followed by the 'kill your speed' slogan (40mph to 30mph on 40mph speed limit roads) - I think you'll find that if someone is stupid enough to step in to the road without looking the driver is faultless (if under or on the speed limit), with any death of the pedestrian being attributed to natural selection.

I fucking hate queue jumpers too. We should be allowed to stab them in the back of the neck.

Actually a lot like the Olympics last Friday (I'm on a roll now!)...

It was very sad for his family, friends and fans that Nodar Kumaritashvili died practicing for the luge, but don't have a big outcry and start changing the sport - anyone who chooses to through themselves down an ice chute at 70mph on a tea tray knows there is quite a high risk of injury / fatality (coming from someone who thinks it would be fun to have a go!)

Before we know it they'll have outlawed all sports and competitions that involve the risk of even breaking a nail, and will probably then introduce rules saying no one can be proclaimed a winner since it could harm the feelings of the losers, but didn't we all have fun taking part

...leading onto people who get offended on other people's behalfs, especially when the original person wasn't even offended

I do that. A guy at my work is too naive to realise he's being treated like a prick and it pisses me off.

Nice.

The twat in a pub in Newbury who had a go at me for being disrespectful to my dad after I refered to him as having popped his clogs. He's my dad. I know what he would find disrespectful and it's not that.

I was at a hotel yesterday, on a table next to four late-30s, typical office business women. They were discussing arranging some team meeting or other and one of them who said, 'Lunch meetings are for gelling, after work drinks are for bonding - but we must make sure we don't exclude people who prefer bonding at lunch and gelling over drinks'.

It was so utterly ridiculous that I can remember the scene as if it were a photo and can recall her statement word perfectly.

Been a while since I worked in that environment but I had thought 'The Office' had killed off much of the management speak drivel. Clearly not.

The worst thing was that the three women with her nodded enthusiastically, which would suggest the cretin involved was their boss.

Maybe they were just running the idea up the flag pole to see which was it would fly?

Management Speak Drivel still exists, I hear it on trains

I am a Manager who speaks Drivel but it's usually just about obscure early 80's goth bands rather than "trendy corporate management bullshit"

I used to work in a place where all of the middle management used such wankey language you needed a phrase book to converse. Things like

Boss: Dave, could we schedule a window for a short interface session?
Me: Oh...you want a quick word

Boss: Can I give you this challenging oppotunity?
Me: What have you screwed up now?

Sounds like they were crossing the t's and dotting the.... lowercase j's

Getting a shiny new reissued/remastered album only to discover that it's been botched and you're better off sticking with the original CD.