Posts by Triggerfish

Re: That £10 pack of polos @Jason Bloomberg

Surely if your job is procurement officer for Polos supply of, then investigating the cost and alternatives are part of the bleeding job.

Re: The problem often is.. @Voyna i Mor

Yes to be fair there were some that did, unfortunately people like that seemed to rarely play the politics game, and either end up giving up or just leaving.

Also never ever tell someone high up in a council that after seeing how money is spent there, it makes you resent paying your council tax.... good job it was just a temp job.

Re: NHS are at it too

Aah right posters thanks for the explanation. Didn't think of it that way.

Re: NHS are at it too

Can you not apply for a year long prescirption or 3 month?

http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/Healthcosts/Pages/Prescriptioncosts.aspx

Re: The problem often is...

Seen that through a lot of council expenditure, used to watch people go out and repair boilers two three times a night through a week, never a thought maybe just replace the boiler, keep doing it. (I estimated you could buy a new boiler from the savings of a night or two of no callouts on it). The guys fixing the boiler don't care they are on a callout, in fact I suspect some of those fixes were very temporary. Never saw one person think maybe lets buy a boiler.

Re: Do you have any tea? @Dave Lawton

Sorry that should be Sang Tao No 8, and I believe the normal stuff, was no 3.

Re: Do you have any tea? @Dave Lawton

If that was to me Vietnam coffee heaven from my obv' limited experience but there were places just roasting it in the streets and grinding it there and then and coffee shops are everywhere they have quite the coffee culture going over there, a friend working there in a office took in some nescafe instant, he was mocked severely :).

The brand is Trung Nguyen San Tao No 8, although the normal stuff is very good as well. I like my coffee with a bit of milk and sweet they usually add condensed milk instead, which I'd recommend a dash of instead of normal milk (if you don't drink it black natch), it's lovely both have a slight hint of chocolate to them only tried it dripped through a phin. Someone told me they do not have that high a caffeine content to them, but as someone who likes his caffeine to get me through the day, there was plenty caffeine, a couple of cups will get you wired.

Also they do egg coffee over there which sounds odd but is actually quite nice.

Re: Do you have any tea?

Guess that shows how much we used it. :D Hey learnt a new word as well have an upvote..

Re: Do you have any tea?

Well to be fair price can very well have something to do with it, brought a kilo of coffee back for about £15. It's about £40-50 a kilo over here, I figure the stuff Starbucks use is not of that quality, dunno what they would charge for a cup, specially if it's done in a way that isn't using a barista machine, like dripping through a phin or a cold brew which can take some time.

Plus being British I was mainly brought up on tea we didn't really do coffee in the house except when the peculator was brought out for guests, and takeaway tea is often manky, so coffee on the go is a sort of better alternative. We will not talk of the anathema that is vending machine tea.

Re: Unnamed Retailer

Aaah Karrimor you used to be so good.

Re: Quality

It's true for most clothing (if its not the sort that is a fashion label which adds price) spent a fortune on a mountain jacket, over it's life it's probably been about £15 a year, has never looked fashionable when coming out of a club for example, but 4am in the morning in Manchester stuff fashion, I'd rather not have hypothermia. Also you get to feel really smug when you get those odd winters when a couple of foot of snow drops in the day, all transport stops and you end up walking home.

Re: One thing I hate

Large ribcage is a pain in the arse as well, it's either to tight round the chest or you look like your wearing a kaftan. I had some shirts made, my god first shirts that didn't make me look like Marlon Brando in the island of Dr Moreau.

Plus jeans when did everyone start getting skinny legs? I've put on pairs and my calves get stuck putting them on.

Re: "9 wide, 6 long"

Problem with your toes not reaching the end is when working at heights or along narrow beams, climbing etc you want your toes near the end of the shoe.

Re: Not only the English...

Scarpa are Italian and some of their walking shoes are pretty comfy for my plates, next brand I am trying.

Re: Do you have any tea?

The main problem is horrid beans badly roasted....

Yeah holidayed earlier in the year in a country known for nice coffee, never used to mind Starbucks or Costa before (I mean I never understood the fuss over decent coffee either). That was an eye opener on what good coffee tastes like, has completely ruined Starbucks and Costa for me though.

Re: 9 1/2 shoes

I tend to buy approach shoes nowadays instead of trainers because trainers are often narrow as well, some of the brands can be quite comfy for the wider footed. Plus a good pair though expensive can last for ever, get goretex and also nice and waterproof. My last Salamons* must have walked thousands of miles, had them for about 8 yrs before they finally went, wore them almost every day.

*I have since heard the quality has dropped so YMMV.

Re: 9 1/2 shoes

I always wonder if being barefoot, or living in plimsols were the reason my feet are wide. I find shoes so uncomfotable because of this and the fact the soles are all wrong for how I walk.

Re: Bill them?

Don't sue them, post on their twitter and everywhere else, they pay not to have such bad publicity for something like this.

Re: Will offer "enhanced resilience" against counterfeiting, the Bank of England assures!!!

Should be noted though that 500,000 dong might only be worth £15.363956 (according to google), but that £15.363956 is more than the average daily wage, monthly wage is about £110. So counterfeiting a 500,000 dong is actually a fair bit for vietnam.

As an example, as a tourist that would get me a decent hotel room, a reasonable evening meal and a couple of beers in Hanoi.

Re: Will they shrink?

Oooh like those plastic thingies you used to get in cereal boxes and bake in the oven?

Re: Do NOT even read emails, never mind answer them

I work with teams around the world, with many email exchanges, on projects across large estates, with loads of people sometimes emailing in on threads if we have a problem, outside contractors, various different companies running sites, getting clearance for access to places etc etc.

Running an email policy like that would be more work than the actual work I do.

Or the CEO just bypasses becuse they can't be arsed, seen that a few times, CEO's who think procedure is for the staff not them.

Re: The devil, as always, is in the details... @ Graham Marsden

Standard haggling techniques really, you never ask for the price you expect to pay / charge first, you let them come to it.

Re: Wow

You may have something interesting to say.

But this being in your first sentences "England is in firm grasp and under the complete control of Jewish/zionist interests."

Makes me think it may be bollocks.

Also I think this site has mostly Trump news because it likes to take the piss and he is often such an easy target.

Yes apparently a lot of farmers are buying old tractors now because they can repair them themselves. I sort of wonder if this is where a lot of IOT will end up.

Re: Control devices through an app

Who are these people who switch their lights on and off so much anyway?

Re: Fail

They had a much lower density after we turned up.