Annoying Phrases

[OwlHoot]

I know it's not a problem, you goon - this is how it works. I order, you fetch.

Tossers.

Sometimes it is a problem for them though, a difficult intellectual problem, judging by the baffled and frustrated expressions on their faces. Here's an example.

Every morning at 9am sharp I turn up at the canteen hatch at clientco to buy an English breakfast, and every morning as sure as fate the fried egg tray is empty.

People trickle in steadily from before than time and then for at least an hour afterwards, and many of them will order a fry up or an egg and bacon roll. So the daft woman behind the counter knows more eggs will soon be needed.

But she just stands there staring at the empty egg tray, until the next person asks for a meal that includes egg, whereupon she shouts round the corner into the kitchen "more eggs please", and a lengthening queue of us have to wait for ten minutes for these eggs to turn up.

Why can't the dozy vacuous cow order more eggs when she has served up the last one?! Or some minutes before?!! It's not effing motivic cohomology !!!

[doodab]

Sometimes it is a problem for them though, a difficult intellectual problem, judging by the baffled and frustrated expressions on their faces. Here's an example.

Every morning at 9am sharp I turn up at the canteen hatch at clientco to buy an English breakfast, and every morning as sure as fate the fried egg tray is empty.

People trickle in steadily from before than time and then for at least an hour afterwards, and many of them will order a fry up or an egg and bacon roll. So the daft woman behind the counter knows more eggs will soon be needed.

But she just stands there staring at the empty egg tray, until the next person asks for a meal that includes egg, whereupon she shouts round the corner into the kitchen "more eggs please", and a lengthening queue of us have to wait for ten minutes for these eggs to turn up.

Why can't the dozy vacuous cow order more eggs when she has served up the last one?! Or some minutes before?!! It's not effing motivic cohomology !!!

Because then you would get cold manky eggs. Wouldn't you rather have nice fresh ones and get paid for standing around for 10 minutes?

[OwlHoot]

Because then you would get cold manky eggs. Wouldn't you rather have nice fresh ones and get paid for standing around for 10 minutes?

Oh yes, I never thought of it like that. Hmm

[Spacecadet]

Oh yes, I never thought of it like that. Hmm

[thunderlizard]

At the end of the day

2 more for the collection

BBC News - Ed Miliband to marry partner Justine Thornton in May

Mr Miliband, who is MP for Doncaster, told The Doncaster Free Press it was "the right time" for the couple to tie the knot.
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"At the end of the day we're in our 40s and we've got two kids - so it wasn't a case of me suddenly popping the question. This is just something we think is right for us."

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Ms Thornton said: "Ed wasn't even an MP when I met him and at the end of the day I am marrying him because of who he is and not because of what he's doing now.

[MaryPoppins]

2 more for the collection

BBC News - Ed Miliband to marry partner Justine Thornton in May

Maybe it's an evening wedding.

[2BIT]

Why can't the dozy vacuous cow order more eggs when she has served up the last one?! Or some minutes before?!! It's not effing motivic cohomology !!!

there was a group similar ladies in a canteen I used to go to- every day without fail:

they would only make on meal at a time - could take half hour to get served

every day ask for a large coffee- every day same lady would always ask 'is that 16oz?' , well that it what it says on that menu you must refer to over 100 times a day, it is also what I confirmed yesterday when you asked and for every day for the last two months

it took a good five mins to make a sarnie - honestly it was quite something to witness

and there would never be enough milk at morning peak time, without fail every day

[mudskipper]

"all over it". Guy I work with (previously mentioned in MP's annoying colleague thread), when asked to do something,. however mundane, replies with "I'm all over it". It's a relatively new saying of his, so maybe the novelty will wear off soon.

[Pondlife]

Coolio

[Peoplesoft bloke]

there was a group similar ladies in a canteen I used to go to- every day without fail:

they would only make on meal at a time - could take half hour to get served

every day ask for a large coffee- every day same lady would always ask 'is that 16oz?' , well that it what it says on that menu you must refer to over 100 times a day, it is also what I confirmed yesterday when you asked and for every day for the last two months

it took a good five mins to make a sarnie - honestly it was quite something to witness

and there would never be enough milk at morning peak time, without fail every day

I see your canteen stories and raise you-

Clientco canteen where they never had any change despite being a major high street bank with cash machine* adjacent to canteen. Of course that fact that they didn't have any change was your fault.

Clientco canteen that was open from 12.00 - 14.00 when, having finished a particularly tricky task, we walked in at 13.45 - the canteen lady's first words were "I hope you haven't come in here wanting food".

*as in "do you have anything smaller?" - no, that's the smallest denomination the machine issues.