Category: Ranting

  • Photo of my Osgood Schlatters Disease

    My osgood schlatters disease is a really hard thing to  photograph and you really cant see the full extent of it until you actually look at my knee, but i thought id share this with the world anyway.

    You can clearly see the knee closest to the camera has a large bump on it, that SHOULDNT be there, and the doctor told me that i’d have to live with it and eventually it would wear off.

    It hurts ALL the time, apart from when im walking. And its a really aching pain – really quite horrible!

    I’d love to hear from other sufferers, and more importantly anyone who knows how i might be able to get rid of the pain!

  • Funny spam viagra picture thing

    I dont tend to get a lot of spam any more becasue of Gmails amazing spam filters – but every now and then the bastards manage to slip thru the net and end up in my inbox.

    Now if they do get through, i tend to look at them to see how they might of tricked the spam filters – and this one really stood out to me as a totally crazy idea to get their spam shit past the filters;

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    There was no text in the message, just this totally fucked up image!

    Hahaha weird.

  • Crystal View Windows Nottingham

    We were approached by a chap who was working on behalf of Crystalview windows Nottingham – and he had been tasked with getting brochures and flyers made up to spam peoples post boxes with.

    Anyway, the first thing he said on the phone was how shit this other company he was dealing with, was. He said they had been left with the stuff for a week and not done any work on it (i now know why!) and were very unprofessional (this is coming from a guy who looked and spoke about as professional as a turd)

    He then proceeded to explain to me roughly (VERY roughly) what it is he wanted and gave me a flyer that wouldn’t of looked out of place at the bottom of a trash can. He showed me some login details he had for Synseal as they don’t actually make windows, they just buy them cheap and claim to make them.

    And that was it!

    He then expected me to design an 8 page brochure (in one day, with NOTHING to work with) send it him, and then print it before the end of the week.

    Our printing prices weren’t bad, and i had to put a bit on top as i wasn’t prepared to spend a day doing this for nothing. But he proceeded to tell me our prices were shit, and that he would still go with the brochures as we seemed more professional than this other company. So i knocked him a front page design up using the very limited things i was left with and sent him a lo-res version of the front page.

    He then replied with very rude comments, the design was un-imaginative and was only the front page not the whole 8 pages.

    I then proceeded to explain that unless i had a deposit i wasn’t prepared to do any more work on it. He spat his dummy out, said how his company will do free designs and that i should – im not a bloody charity – and basically acted like a total child because i wouldn’t bend over backwards and meet his every demand.

    Now im all up for customer service, our long-serving customers are more like friends now – but i ain’t nobody’s slave – and if he thinks for a minute im going to rip myself off just to do what he wants me to do – he needs to get his head checked!

    Printing is old hat anyway!

    So if this chap is anything like the rest of the company, id go with someone like Everseal – their motto is “Choose Professionals” but i think it should read “As long as you dont choose crystal view windows Nottingham its all good”

    Crystal view windows Nottingham = steer clear!

    He reminded me of that twat of an owner of Il Rosso in Mansfield – he’s a fat fucking oxygen thief too!

    Edit – woops, cached in google just below their website! 🙂

  • All i lack is concentration

    Sometimes i find myself simply unable to concentrate enough to make any headway on work that i have outstanding. Our business is growing, as is our little internal network of people we have – yet after nearly 3 years at it im still as dis-organised as i was when i started.

    I often wonder how much more produtive i’d be if i actually planned my days out better.

    Can anyone recommend some decent software or something that allows me to manage my time and manage projects efficiently?

    All the software i have ever tried is built to help people manage tasks and appointments, but it only works for your typical salesman or something, who’s workload and outstanding jobs can be easily planned out etc – due to the diverse work i do, i can never plan a day out as something will always crop up and knock it all out of sync.

    I use a combination of gmail, my blackberry, a page-a-day-diary and a scribble pad. If i could merge the lot into one i would – maybe the answer is with addon software for the ‘berry? Or maybe i just need to hold on to the hope one day google will make the tasks lab feature shareable between users on the same google apps domain – ARE YOU LISTENING GOOGLE?

    Anyway, off to try and organise my bitch ass.

    Rice.