I hate

This may be a myth but I was told there was an additional Campagnolo tool that is designed specifically for the post. I managed to find a long bodied spanner that tightened it but it was a case of 1/4 turn at a time. Painfully slow but you'll get there.

Patience Grasshopper.

There is such a tool, its no myth.

Stupid Campagnolo

FWIW, Gear Wrench makes a flex-headed ratcheting box end wrench (10mm) that gets in there very nicely. They also have short ratcheting box ends designed for 3/8" socket extensions that are pretty sneaky as well.

Campagnolo are not stupid. Wash out your keyboard with soap! They made some of the prettiest parts ever hung on a bicycle. A lot of them worked far better than anything else available at the time. That said, the Record two-bolt seat post was kind of klutzy to use.

The expression 'close of play/business'

can we add 'going forward' to that list?

Feel free. All of that cack, drives me bloody mad.

i do find it's most often used by those who produce the least tangible amount of actual work in my office.

I think it’s this. The stock-market is the only real business which has a precise finishing point, and which can claim to really have a ‘close of business’. I have no quibble with that. But when other professions use it, such as mine, when there’s no discernable ‘close’ at all, it’s just envy mixed with delusion. Actually, ’close of play’ bugs me even more than ‘close of business’.

Anyway, have your secretary fax my secretary those documents we were discussing and I’ll see you at the buyout meeting, what ho.

Everyone I work with talks about "scheduling something out", when what they mean is make a list.

It's infuriating.

There is also a lot of talk of "closing something out" which as far as I can gather means "do something you have said you will do".

Word to Catfood - Those most guilty of linguistic bullshit are almost always those trying to hide the fact that they do very very little indeed.

can we add 'going forward' to that list?

"at this precise moment in time"

On topic, I hate this bloody cold that's going round. Over a month of feeling poo, and its still going strong.

the problem with phrases such as 'going forward' is that it is almost deliberately vague - the implication is essentially: 'something will need to be done regarding whatever we are discussing in the near future, yet due to me being incapable/unwilling to commit to any actual date i will use this phrase to disguise my incompetence' lunch?

/noticed you hear it a lot from government spokespeople being interviewed on the radio

The other local gvt newspeak I hear increasingly is prefixing a sentence with "now lets be clear about this..." then going on to say something utter worthless and deliberately vague.

There is a guy I work with who ends every sentence with "de facto".
He's a tit.

He does sound like a tit.

One Blairism I can't stomach is the 'What I would say to you is this', introduction prior to waffling on about something other than what he'd lied about intending to tell you. You know?

And the 'Now let me say this to you' used in the same way; well, please do. Carry on. When I reply I will not be adding 'And please ready yourself for my response', I do hope you don't mind.

Being at the bar, waiting to be served, barman hasn't yet noticed you yet

Someone else goes to the bar after you and the barman goes over and serves them BUT the fella being served doesn't say to him 'Sorry mate, I think he was waiting first'

WELL rude!

Sorry, I didn't see you there.

work

man up and flash some cleavage to get barstaff attention.

^^^^Clevage doesn't always work. Some guys are cocks. I don't particularly want chivalry, but if I'm there first I expect to get served first - before any man, woman or child that turned up after me. A turn is a turn. I got into a fight with and OAP at the fox on the hill, Cambers one day over this. Dick.

Oh, now what I came here for before I spied the band wagon.

I hate all those colleagues bringing their xmas left overs into work (mince pies, xmas cake, crisps) cause they themselves are on a new years diet and they can't deal with temptation in the home.

When I was a barman a guy tried to set me on fire after claiming I short changed him. I got my manager to prove to him I hadn't but he was making such a fuss she gave him a free double vodka, which he promptly put his lighter in, lit, lent across the bar grabbed me and held the side of my head too.

Your manager sounds like a dweeb. First of all how can she prove anything unless she was watching the transaction. Secondly. Fuck giving some lary chancer free spirits. Thirdly - what happened then? Bar? Club? Security staff?

She was stood talking to him when he gave me the cash so she saw the note he gave me. I think she knew him hence why she gave him free booze. She just brushed it off as him 'joking about' I quit shortly after. I was a a club in swansea about 4-5 years ago now, massive shite hole full of filthy old fat women with no teeth, the greasy looking turkish men who used to come in from the take away next door to hit on them and travelers. Put me off bar work forever.

Yep. That'd do it. It can be a genuinely great experience, but it's got to be the right place at the right time. Otherwise it's very much a chore.

i don't know who's worse when people literally lean over others waiting at the bar to get served, the staff accepting their order, or the cunt doing it.

When someone pushes in front of me i point it out. "excuse me, what do you think everyone else is doing here? taking in the view?" I find that just makes me look a tit

I tried doing the cough dickhead cough manoeuvre once but it backfired as I just ended up shouting dickhead at the top of my voice.