I hate

But they're the best growers!

side alley at the end of our street.

but what are primary school kids doing in a side alley at the end of your street ?

Someone on here is guilty of this.

It were @Dammit sir - I seen im do it sir.

Lolol, would rep.

Looking forward to treating yourself to a takeaway, and it being utterly shit.

We appear to have ordered from the wrong takeaway. Our friend ordered from this Thai place a few months back and it was fantastic, so we thought we’d give it a go tonight.
I didn’t expect my dish to be so… literal?

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It's hard to complain,on a literal basis,but that's fucking miserable. Thoughts and prayers.

Looks pretty authentic to be honest, at least no coagulated chicken blood.

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I can definitely chalk part of it up to ordering error. But it was definitely a sad moment opening the box!

there are two chinese restaurants near us with very similar names, one is excellent, one is terrible, I order so infrequently I forget which is which, it's so gutting when I get it wrong.

When I first came to the Uk someone in the office offered to fetch some breakfast for
people while they went out, so I ordered a bacon sandwich. In my head I pictured something
like a BLT but it was literally 2 slices of dry toast and 2 strips of bacon.

Near me there are two restaurants with identical names next to each other. Some kind of family feud.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/26-04-2018/would-the-real-mt-albert-bbq-noodle-house-please-stand-up/

Good read!

1 - Smoker's breaks. Why the censored do they get to take a break of between 5-10 minutes on several occasions each day due to their habit? I've seen some folk go out at least 6 times a day for this. That could be up to an hour they're not working but getting paid to stand outside to chat to their mates and come back into the office smelling disgusting. If they can take these breaks, can i take greedy b@stard breaks and go and get some chips?

2 - People who can't leave office toilets in a clean state for others to use. I'm assuming that their bathrooms at home must covered in p1ss, left unflushed and have bogeys wiped on the walls. (This actually goes beyond trivial but i had to vent somewhere)

3 - People (I'm assuming those guilty of the second one) who don't wash their hands after going to the bathroom. The amount of times i've been in a stall and heard others flush and then walk straight back out into the office beggars belief.

1. I used to work in a place (many years ago) that "allowed" you 2 smoke breaks a day, but also insisted non-smokers took them too (either to come outside with us smokers, or to go for a cup of tea away from their desks) This was a long time ago, but quite progressive for screen breaks and mental well being.
   Now days i work alone and if i go for a smoke/ chat/ haircut, it is only my time i need to make up and no-one else is affected.

2. wrong uns, the lot of them.

3. see 2.

Point 2 is perplexing but a sad reality. A small but significant percentage of the human race will happily (and regularly) let their arses explode in random directions all over the scenery and walk away as if nothing had happened.

Smoke breaks are a funny one. Has anyone ever got in trouble for going outside to chat shit and not smoke for 5 minutes 4 times a day?
Or are you just annoyed they are doing it and you aren't?

Smoker's breaks

At the call centres bitd I used to have cup of water breaks at the same time. Couldn't be argued against.

I used to go for a fag break every hour, might've been a bit of a piss-take when I was freelancing on the 19th floor at Canada Square, used to take an eternity to get up and down in those lifts... 1. I'm amazed I got any work done. 2. I can't believe they kept asking me back.

(showing my age here)
I used to work in an office opposite London Bridge station, 5th floor had a smoking room, (apart from between 12-2 when it was a break/lunch room.
Like all the smoke would vanish as midday...

(showing my age here)

My first job out of school, I smoked at my desk.

My second, we had to smoke off premises, which meant having to go through security, which meant every smoke break lasted over 15 minutes, and we were docked 15 minutes pay.

depends if you job is time based or task based dunnit

I just have to get the work done by the end of the week, I can fuck around as much as I like during the week as long as its done. I don't have set hours, just deadlines.

At the height of it I used to smoke about 15 ciggies during a normal working day, but most of the rest of the company seemed to smoke and so often we had impromptu meetings outside. It wouldn't be unusual to smoke 2 or 3 one after another whilst chatting to colleagues and/or more senior people. Can't think how many decisions were made standing in an archway cowering from the rain with a ciggie in hand. Then at 6pm the ashtrays would appear on the desks although I think that stopped somewhere around 2005 or so. The non-smokers would never say no (we did ask) but then I wonder how much of that was pressure from the senior people who wanted to smoke at their desk.

Frequent breaks from a computer are a good thing. Despite not smoking for 15 years I still regularly get up from my desk for a 5 minute break at least every hour. It's amazing how much work your brain does subconsciously when it's not forced to look at the task at hand. Usually it's to top up water or get a fresh coffee.

Whilst temping in a year off from University I remember working in a shipping company at a chemical depot. I never found the official smoking area (and might not have been able to use it as a temp) and going off and coming back on the site was a full 30 minute job so I just stopped smoking 9-6. (Illicit smoking on that site could have ended in a very large explosion.)

Favourite office smoking room was one of the smoking rooms at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ. Looked like it hadn't ever been cleaned and you could lose a finger in the gunk stuck to the walls. Amazingly comfy huge brown (naturally) leather chairs though.

Who remembers smoking on buses and the tube?

I do. Well, smoking on the tube had been banned when I was a kid but was still allowed in stations.

I remember smoking in offices, on buses, trains and air flights and in the cinema. Right hand side seats for smokers