Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)

[znfdl]

Do tell.
I just got one on my face.
- Garro.

The Fluorouracil or 5FU is causing nausea, itching and fatigue. I am doing the topical cream, I cannot imgaine the side effects of the intravenous version of the drug.

[mainemike]

brand, branding etc...i've had enough of this phrase, it has gone way too far. I was looking at an event planning site, 2 women had organized a simple 16 person fundraising dinner, and amidst the carrying on about all the neat stuff they had done, the phrase "branded the evening" was used.

[Dave Wofford]

Linked in.

Christ, I don't want to join anything with hoops and hurdles, I just want so and so's email address so I can send them a note.

[rmplum]

Linked in.

Christ, I don't want to join anything with hoops and hurdles, I just want so and so's email address so I can send them a note.

Oh Come on! - tell me how getting "endorsed" for sh1t by people that I have never worked in that area with is not useful somehow?

[MarkC]

Oh Come on! - tell me how getting "endorsed" for sh1t by people that I have never worked in that area with is not useful somehow?

I'm going to do push ups for this...

A couple weeks ago I went on a huge rant about the people who I met once at a conference or bar or whatever and who have no idea if I'm truly competent or not in my specialty but were endorsing me. It was in good humor so my wife tolerated the 5-6 minutes or hyperbolic rhetoric on the wasted electrons that comprise Linken-in

Next day a retired MD/PhD pharmacologist who I have tremendous respect for, and learned boat loads from, and who has nothing to gain by saying anything nice to me, endorsed me.

And I immediately thought: Well that *is* actually really nice and I'm very glad Rich feels strongly enough about our work to do that.

Pushing in 1...2....3....

--Mark

Feel it for all you guys dealing with medical issues personal and with loved ones.

[Nierman]

Public schools handing out fat letters to 9/10yr old girls. Whole thing is a bunch of bureaucratic bull shit. Probably a scheme to lobby for hiring 2-3 more school counselors to deal with the resulting anxiety and depression cases.

[ericpmoss]

G*dd*mn F'ing business jargon. If I have to "take that offline" one more time, just so we get to have another meeting about it, I will take this book:

Who Touched Base in My Thought Shower?: A Treasury of Unbearable Office Jargon: Amazon.co.uk: Steven Poole: Books

and go to prison for what I will do to someone with it.

[Saab2000]

Everywhere I go to make small purchases they ask me if I want to add something to my purchase or play the guilt card and ask if I'd like to donate to this or that cause. This makes me grumpy.

And since nobody else will say it, I will - it is unbecoming of gentlemen in a forum such as this to step down to the level of personal insults and negative innuendo. That is all. For now.

[RickM]

Item # 2,363 on the list of Things I Don't Give A Shit About; Banksy.

[chasea]

Pretty much anything is going to set me off right now.

[j44ke]

I have two sets of glasses now. One for reading & computer and one for everything else (distance etc.) Oh and they are both bifocals. Nice, huh? Since I always need the pair I am not wearing, I wear them both. I put one pair on and then put the other pair on my head ala sunglasses or whatever. This morning I was walking around the house and my wife said, "What are you doing?" And I said, "Looking for my damn glasses." And she said, "They are on your head."

How the fig did I put both glasses on my head and not realize it? I don't even remember doing it. Just got out of bed and then couldn't find my glasses. I'm like going mental or something.

[christian]

Princesses. Disney Princesses, specifically. In my daughter's pre-school class the Halloween costume distribution among the girls is as follows: Six Disney princesses, one ballerina, one fairy, and one pumpkin. While I can't fault my 3 year-old for choosing to dress as a pumpkin, next year, I think she needs to go as an elected head of state. Angela Merkel, perhaps. (Her brother can dress up as a spy satellite...)

Sexism and monarchism all in one. Ugh.

[monadnocky]

Arcade Fire. Yes I know there is another thread about them. No I have not listened to any of their music. But my god they must be the most overexposed group in the history of the world. Enough. They are a thing. I get it.

[Tom]

Why do people think that after the last game of a championship series the thing to do is go out and trash shit? I was in London when the English won the rugby world cup and their response was roving groups of drunk guys singing at the top of their lungs. That was it. As far as I could tell nobody turned over cars, broke windows or anything. I don't get it.

The use of English in communications around my office. Oh, man. So you don't know the difference between 'affect' and 'effect'. Find out, don't just use 'impact'. Also, please don't send me answers like this: "As soon as we get our arms around the landscape we'll know what we're offering in that space going forward." I asked them what secure file transfer standard we were going to adopt.

[RickM]

The person handing out this note on Halloween can go fuck themselves very much.

[monadnocky]

... going forward

The most despised phrase in the English language. Name me any instance where leaving it out in any way changes the meaning of the sentence. When I hear this in person I think "I'm glad you clarified that... for a moment I thought that time travel had been invented and what you're talking about is actually going to occur in the past." I wish I had the guts to say this out loud. Come to think of it, I think I've posted this grump before. So this is a double-grump. That's how much I hate "going forward."

No, actually, I wish I had the guts to throw office furniture at the next person who says this to me.

edit: I am a very angry man.

[Tom]

Doing my pushups as soon as I hit send - chancerider, that is the funniest thing I've seen in ages. I hope the person that hands out that note accompanies it with a bag of kale or brussel sprouts or something like that.

"step up". Another one that grates my teeth.

[echelon_john]

Worse still: "go forward" used as an adjective. As in, "Our go forward strategy is to stop talking out of our assholes." As opposed to our regressive strategy, I guess...

The most despised phrase in the English language. Name me any instance where leaving it out in any way changes the meaning of the sentence. When I hear this in person I think "I'm glad you clarified that... for a moment I thought that time travel had been invented and what you're talking about is actually going to occur in the past." I wish I had the guts to say this out loud. Come to think of it, I think I've posted this grump before. So this is a double-grump. That's how much I hate "going forward."

No, actually, I wish I had the guts to throw office furniture at the next person who says this to me.

edit: I am a very angry man.

[David Tollefson]

Okay, my grump just walked past my desk. Halloween costume at work. Okay, I get it, dressing up is kinda fun, sure. One of the ladies just walked by in an Alice in Wonderland costume. Blue dress and all. This other one, though... Sexy Dracula is NOT work appropriate. Especially on this lady. Remember that "she ruined casual Friday" pic that was circulating a couple years ago? Yeah, you get the picture. Ugh.

[mjbabcock]

Princesses. Disney Princesses, specifically. In my daughter's pre-school class the Halloween costume distribution among the girls is as follows: Six Disney princesses, one ballerina, one fairy,

Yup...went and got animal costumes (one koala, one lion, one Flamingo) specifically so my daughter wouldn't be on the fucking princess track. Fucking-A, if I could get her a tiny set of coveralls and let her roll around in a pile of oil and grease I would...then I'd encourage her to go hug all the pink prissies before jabbing a 1/2" torque wrench into their sides.