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  • BonesB Online
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    Bones
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    #3381

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    We have family for the weekend. They arrive, say "Hello, how are you?"

    And then flop into chairs and silently doom-scroll for a who fucking hour

    And you have the nerve to be grumpy? Fuck you, that's my dreamworld.

    Yeah, but it was only an hour.

    By which time you can remove yourself to do the cooking.

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  • Victor MeldrewV Offline
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    replied to Bones on last edited by
    #3382

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    We have family for the weekend. They arrive, say "Hello, how are you?"

    And then flop into chairs and silently doom-scroll for a who fucking hour

    And you have the nerve to be grumpy? Fuck you, that's my dreamworld.

    Yeah, but it was only an hour.

    By which time you can remove yourself to do the cooking.

    Good tip. Sadly the restaurant we went to wouldn't let me help out in the kitchen

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  • BonesB Online
    BonesB Online
    Bones
    replied to Victor Meldrew on last edited by
    #3383

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    We have family for the weekend. They arrive, say "Hello, how are you?"

    And then flop into chairs and silently doom-scroll for a who fucking hour

    And you have the nerve to be grumpy? Fuck you, that's my dreamworld.

    Yeah, but it was only an hour.

    By which time you can remove yourself to do the cooking.

    Good tip. Sadly the restaurant we went to wouldn't let me help out in the kitchen

    You could always embrace the irony of perusing the fern to moan about people ignoring you to spend time online.

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  • Victor MeldrewV Offline
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    Victor Meldrew
    replied to Bones on last edited by
    #3384

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    We have family for the weekend. They arrive, say "Hello, how are you?"

    And then flop into chairs and silently doom-scroll for a who fucking hour

    And you have the nerve to be grumpy? Fuck you, that's my dreamworld.

    Yeah, but it was only an hour.

    By which time you can remove yourself to do the cooking.

    Good tip. Sadly the restaurant we went to wouldn't let me help out in the kitchen

    You could always embrace the irony of perusing the fern to moan about people ignoring you to spend time online.

    True. And you do get a better class of ignorance on the Fern

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  • nzzpN Offline
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    nzzp
    replied to Victor Meldrew on last edited by
    #3385

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    We have family for the weekend. They arrive, say "Hello, how are you?"

    And then flop into chairs and silently doom-scroll for a who fucking hour

    And you have the nerve to be grumpy? Fuck you, that's my dreamworld.

    Yeah, but it was only an hour.

    By which time you can remove yourself to do the cooking.

    Good tip. Sadly the restaurant we went to wouldn't let me help out in the kitchen

    You could always embrace the irony of perusing the fern to moan about people ignoring you to spend time online.

    True. And you do get a better class of ignorance on the Fern

    new tagline!

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  • BonesB Online
    BonesB Online
    Bones
    replied to Victor Meldrew on last edited by
    #3386

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    We have family for the weekend. They arrive, say "Hello, how are you?"

    And then flop into chairs and silently doom-scroll for a who fucking hour

    And you have the nerve to be grumpy? Fuck you, that's my dreamworld.

    Yeah, but it was only an hour.

    By which time you can remove yourself to do the cooking.

    Good tip. Sadly the restaurant we went to wouldn't let me help out in the kitchen

    You could always embrace the irony of perusing the fern to moan about people ignoring you to spend time online.

    True. And you do get a better class of ignorance on the Fern

    I do have quite a large ignorance.

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  • Victor MeldrewV Offline
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    Victor Meldrew
    replied to Bones on last edited by
    #3387

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    We have family for the weekend. They arrive, say "Hello, how are you?"

    And then flop into chairs and silently doom-scroll for a who fucking hour

    And you have the nerve to be grumpy? Fuck you, that's my dreamworld.

    Yeah, but it was only an hour.

    By which time you can remove yourself to do the cooking.

    Good tip. Sadly the restaurant we went to wouldn't let me help out in the kitchen

    You could always embrace the irony of perusing the fern to moan about people ignoring you to spend time online.

    True. And you do get a better class of ignorance on the Fern

    I do have quite a large ignorance.

    Is that you, Sevu?

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  • NepiaN Offline
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    #3388

    Went to the movies on Friday and this couple behind me just kept chatting all the way so I told them politely to shut the hell up, they stopped for a bit and then started again and some of the people more politely than me asked them to shut up, they stopped for a bit, started again, and then eventually one of the other people went and got a staff member to talk to them.

    This wasn't a young couple, it was the Bruce Springsteen movie on in the middle of the day, I was the youngest person there, these were people in their 60s or 70s. The only way they shut up was due to a teenage cinema worker threatening to kick them out. Entitled pieces of shit. I wish they'd just resorted to doom-scrolling.

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    nostrildamus
    replied to nzzp on last edited by
    #3389

    @nzzp said in Grumpy Old Man:

    True. And you do get a better class of ignorance on the Fern

    new tagline!

    Given the context, it's hard to judge the quality of that one!

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    nostrildamus
    replied to Victor Meldrew on last edited by
    #3390

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    Is that you, Sevu?

    Not sure about that, but "I do have quite a large ignorance" is clearly not as successful a pickup line as some might think it is...

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  • nzzpN Offline
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    nzzp
    replied to nostrildamus on last edited by
    #3391

    @nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    Is that you, Sevu?

    Not sure about that, but "I do have quite a large ignorance" is clearly not as successful a pickup line as some might think it is...

    pics or it didn't happen

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    nostrildamus
    replied to nzzp on last edited by
    #3392

    @nzzp said in Grumpy Old Man:

    pics or it didn't happen

    AI says No. It doesn't have a Large Lothario Model.

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  • MN5M Offline
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    MN5
    replied to Nepia on last edited by MN5
    #3393

    @Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:

    Went to the movies on Friday and this couple behind me just kept chatting all the way so I told them politely to shut the hell up, they stopped for a bit and then started again and some of the people more politely than me asked them to shut up, they stopped for a bit, started again, and then eventually one of the other people went and got a staff member to talk to them.

    This wasn't a young couple, it was the Bruce Springsteen movie on in the middle of the day, I was the youngest person there, these were people in their 60s or 70s. The only way they shut up was due to a teenage cinema worker threatening to kick them out. Entitled pieces of shit. I wish they'd just resorted to doom-scrolling.

    I think they did you a favour. That movie looks shit. I can’t believe a guy who looks nothing like Kerry Von Erich starred as Kerry Von Erich then starred as Bruce Springsteen despite looking nothing like Bruce Springsteen. His agent must be amazing.

    How interesting can a movie about him actually be ?

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  • NepiaN Offline
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    Nepia
    replied to MN5 on last edited by
    #3394

    @MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:

    Went to the movies on Friday and this couple behind me just kept chatting all the way so I told them politely to shut the hell up, they stopped for a bit and then started again and some of the people more politely than me asked them to shut up, they stopped for a bit, started again, and then eventually one of the other people went and got a staff member to talk to them.

    This wasn't a young couple, it was the Bruce Springsteen movie on in the middle of the day, I was the youngest person there, these were people in their 60s or 70s. The only way they shut up was due to a teenage cinema worker threatening to kick them out. Entitled pieces of shit. I wish they'd just resorted to doom-scrolling.

    I think they did you a favour. That movie looks shit. I can’t believe a guy who looks nothing like Kerry Von Erich starred as Kerry Von Erich then starred as Bruce Springsteen despite looking nothing like Bruce Springsteen. His agent must be amazing.

    How interesting can a movie about him actually be ?

    They didn't, I liked it.

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  • MN5M Offline
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    MN5
    replied to Nepia on last edited by
    #3395

    @Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:

    Went to the movies on Friday and this couple behind me just kept chatting all the way so I told them politely to shut the hell up, they stopped for a bit and then started again and some of the people more politely than me asked them to shut up, they stopped for a bit, started again, and then eventually one of the other people went and got a staff member to talk to them.

    This wasn't a young couple, it was the Bruce Springsteen movie on in the middle of the day, I was the youngest person there, these were people in their 60s or 70s. The only way they shut up was due to a teenage cinema worker threatening to kick them out. Entitled pieces of shit. I wish they'd just resorted to doom-scrolling.

    I think they did you a favour. That movie looks shit. I can’t believe a guy who looks nothing like Kerry Von Erich starred as Kerry Von Erich then starred as Bruce Springsteen despite looking nothing like Bruce Springsteen. His agent must be amazing.

    How interesting can a movie about him actually be ?

    They didn't, I liked it.

    how to write a #brucespringsteen song.
    Josh Weller

    how to write a #brucespringsteen song.

    how to write a #brucespringsteen song.
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  • NepiaN Offline
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    Nepia
    replied to MN5 on last edited by
    #3396

    @MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:

    Went to the movies on Friday and this couple behind me just kept chatting all the way so I told them politely to shut the hell up, they stopped for a bit and then started again and some of the people more politely than me asked them to shut up, they stopped for a bit, started again, and then eventually one of the other people went and got a staff member to talk to them.

    This wasn't a young couple, it was the Bruce Springsteen movie on in the middle of the day, I was the youngest person there, these were people in their 60s or 70s. The only way they shut up was due to a teenage cinema worker threatening to kick them out. Entitled pieces of shit. I wish they'd just resorted to doom-scrolling.

    I think they did you a favour. That movie looks shit. I can’t believe a guy who looks nothing like Kerry Von Erich starred as Kerry Von Erich then starred as Bruce Springsteen despite looking nothing like Bruce Springsteen. His agent must be amazing.

    How interesting can a movie about him actually be ?

    They didn't, I liked it.

    how to write a #brucespringsteen song.
    Josh Weller

    how to write a #brucespringsteen song.

    how to write a #brucespringsteen song.

    I'm not going to watch a tik tok to see an example of you music snobbery. 😉

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  • MN5M Offline
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    MN5
    replied to Nepia on last edited by
    #3397

    @Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:

    Went to the movies on Friday and this couple behind me just kept chatting all the way so I told them politely to shut the hell up, they stopped for a bit and then started again and some of the people more politely than me asked them to shut up, they stopped for a bit, started again, and then eventually one of the other people went and got a staff member to talk to them.

    This wasn't a young couple, it was the Bruce Springsteen movie on in the middle of the day, I was the youngest person there, these were people in their 60s or 70s. The only way they shut up was due to a teenage cinema worker threatening to kick them out. Entitled pieces of shit. I wish they'd just resorted to doom-scrolling.

    I think they did you a favour. That movie looks shit. I can’t believe a guy who looks nothing like Kerry Von Erich starred as Kerry Von Erich then starred as Bruce Springsteen despite looking nothing like Bruce Springsteen. His agent must be amazing.

    How interesting can a movie about him actually be ?

    They didn't, I liked it.

    how to write a #brucespringsteen song.
    Josh Weller

    how to write a #brucespringsteen song.

    how to write a #brucespringsteen song.

    I'm not going to watch a tik tok to see an example of you music snobbery. 😉

    But it’s true and accurate. Go on !!!!

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  • Victor MeldrewV Offline
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    Victor Meldrew
    wrote on last edited by
    #3398

    "There's some left-over cold sausages in the fridge"

    "Great" (I really like cold sausages)

    Uncover the foil-wrapped dish

    They are vegan sausages

    Just fuck off

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  • NTAN Offline
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    NTA
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    #3399

    I'm a data guy at work. Variously referred to as "Information Systems Manager", "Data Lead", or as I prefer: data guy.

    I'm not strictly an architect, but I do a lot of the planning in terms of getting stuff from A to B.
    I'm not strictly a developer, but I write a lot of code to ensure that what arrives at B is fit for purpose.
    I'm not support, but I am the only data guy witht the level of knowledge and capability in a specific area, so I end up helping a lot of people.
    Is it DevOps? I dunno, I guess...

    Anyway, some fuckwit has decided that the dashboards my team built (using data I did all the work on) aren't awesome enough any more, and they want a single page with KPIs on it. Because taking the key summaries we provide and doing your fucking job is too hard - that's my theory.

    They started with about a dozen KPIs (which was already too many IMHO) and it has now blown out to 30+ (which confirms my belief the silly fluffybunnies have no idea how to run their business).

    We'd already decided to engage another team whose specialty is meant to be building webby shit for people to use, and they are meant to be in "discovery" phase. There are 2 data scientists - apparently - involved. They're half my age, and probably get paid more than me. I can deal with that as they have to deal with Sydney's real estate market.... but I digress.

    I gave them access, showed them where everything is, and said "email me if you need anything and copy in the project manager for visibility".

    Since then, one in particular has been shooting me chat messages "Hi Nick! Hey, quick question" and then proceeds to ask something not quick - TBF lack of knowledge probably makes it seem quick, so I'll let that pass.

    But not the fucking chat.

    The first time I replied in chat saying "hey could you please email me that request? Copy in the PM and your boss so we've got visibility". They agree and dutifully email.

    But the chats keep coming. So now I just reply with email and copy their chat text in, cc'ing my boss, their boss, the PM, and the other data scientist.

    End Grump.

    No wait - one more grump - they said the term "AI" out loud to one of these dumb fucks who think 30+ KPIs is the way to go is now thinking it can solve their issues for them.

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    Nepia
    replied to NTA on last edited by
    #3400

    @NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:

    I'm a data guy at work. Variously referred to as "Information Systems Manager", "Data Lead", or as I prefer: data guy.

    I'm not strictly an architect, but I do a lot of the planning in terms of getting stuff from A to B.
    I'm not strictly a developer, but I write a lot of code to ensure that what arrives at B is fit for purpose.
    I'm not support, but I am the only data guy witht the level of knowledge and capability in a specific area, so I end up helping a lot of people.
    Is it DevOps? I dunno, I guess...

    Anyway, some fuckwit has decided that the dashboards my team built (using data I did all the work on) aren't awesome enough any more, and they want a single page with KPIs on it. Because taking the key summaries we provide and doing your fucking job is too hard - that's my theory.

    They started with about a dozen KPIs (which was already too many IMHO) and it has now blown out to 30+ (which confirms my belief the silly fluffybunnies have no idea how to run their business).

    We'd already decided to engage another team whose specialty is meant to be building webby shit for people to use, and they are meant to be in "discovery" phase. There are 2 data scientists - apparently - involved. They're half my age, and probably get paid more than me. I can deal with that as they have to deal with Sydney's real estate market.... but I digress.

    I gave them access, showed them where everything is, and said "email me if you need anything and copy in the project manager for visibility".

    Since then, one in particular has been shooting me chat messages "Hi Nick! Hey, quick question" and then proceeds to ask something not quick - TBF lack of knowledge probably makes it seem quick, so I'll let that pass.

    But not the fucking chat.

    The first time I replied in chat saying "hey could you please email me that request? Copy in the PM and your boss so we've got visibility". They agree and dutifully email.

    But the chats keep coming. So now I just reply with email and copy their chat text in, cc'ing my boss, their boss, the PM, and the other data scientist.

    End Grump.

    No wait - one more grump - they said the term "AI" out loud to one of these dumb fucks who think 30+ KPIs is the way to go is now thinking it can solve their issues for them.

    I partially sympathise with you and partially don't because I hate business email cc-ing.

    30+ KPIs sounds idiotic though, even if I have no understanding of what your role is. We went through a period in my last job of agreeing on KPIs which just meant staff had to come up with KPIs. I made my team stick to 5 each. The fucking marketing team seem to be kindred spirits of your lot and came back with way more.

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