Radio 2 in the Park 2024

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

Next year better fucking be better than this one was, if it could go wrong this year, it FUCKING WELL DID, next year can't be worse, if it is, might as well be dead.

It's not so much "If it can go wrong, it WILL go wrong", in my case it's more "If it can go wrong, it MUST", from little petty things to the most important things in my life, it never changes no matter what I do to try and make a difference. Sorry for being sick of getting screwed over pretty much 24/7/365/29leadingupto30... regardless of what I do to fix anything, it ALWAYS works out in someone else's favour and never mine. Would LOVE to know what I did to the world to deserve that, maybe I was Hitler in a previous life going by the way I get treated most of the time by life and the people in it.

[Viv]

My year was the same, if it helps at all.

[Viv]

Too tired to even get on the bus now :-(

Crazy how all of a sudden having done exercise just hits you.... *hiss*

Was actually shocked today that local CHARITY SHOPS are having sales of clothes. How bad is this recession when already cheaper, second hand stuff has to go up for sale. No wonder there is such a lack of Xmas spirit this year.

[cxx666]

Xmas day sucks as far as I'm concerned.

As I have written previously, I have no time for religion. Infact I pure straight hate the concept of them. However, I accept the fact that others choose to believe in it, and thats fine as long as I don't get pestered with it. Normally this isn't really a problem, except when it comes to fucking xmas!!!!!

For the last few months we've all been getting constant reminders about December 25th. I admit that as a child I was into the whole thing, but that was as a child and I hadn't had time to form a genuine opinion on things, and from my early teens to the present day I've grown to loathe this time of year. I resent the fact that an event which has strong religions significance is cause for the country to apparently be unable to function normally. Can I go to the shops today? Can I go to the cinema? Can I do most of the things I would be able to do on a regular Sunday? Nope I absolutely can't. I can't even say "fuck you" to xmas by going to work because I'm not needed.

For the past 7 years I've had to have the day off because the shop I worked in was (wrongly) closed. This year however I'm working elsewhere, somewhere which does actually operate on xmas day. When I saw a notice up asking for people who would be willing to work, I went straight to the depot manager about it. Unfortunately none of my routes were running, and I even offered to go and work in another depot for the day but sadly no single decks were running at any of them today.

I'm so glad that we're less than 5 hours away from the shite being over for another year. Its just an expensive, overrated, fake, ignorant inconvenience. It angers me that people who share my viewpoint are branded Scrooge, miserable, boring etc. I'm none of those things, I just find it ridiculous that everyone gets to into it, spending loads of money, getting stressed, putting up stupid decorations and making it seem oh so important. I don't believe at all that its necessary, I can see the event for what it is and I refuse to get sucked into it all. People get themselves into debt, part with way too much money on tat that people don't need, or way too many things for brats, sorry, children. Someone I know has spent about £200 on her son and £100 on her daughter. The boy is only a few years old and the girl isn't even a year. Its beyond ridiculous.

At work this week I've seen loads of people getting on the bus with tonnes of presents, and unbelievable amounts of food shopping, whats the need? If you wanna buy something for someone then just buy it, don't wait for xmas or do it just because its xmas, and as for the food, supermarkets are only closed for a couple of days, and some of them are only closed for ONE!!! Yet people still flock to them as if they're closed for a month. I heard a call over the radio at work on Friday that a road was virtually impassable, I know that road very well and there is a big ASDA there, almost certain that the problem was simply people going in to the shop, its just stupid.

Back to the event itself though. Its often said that its time for family to get together etc as well. Really? Why? I would have been perfectly happy to stay in my flat for the day, but I know Mum and Dad would have been hurt if I didn't go round. As with the presents thing, if you wanna see people then just see them FFS! Now that I've moved out, I will be doing that where the parents are concerned, and for the last few years I've done that with my brother in Aberdeen. If I want to go visit him I'll just find a suitable time and go, as he does with us. Doing something like that just because its xmas just adds to the fakeness of it all. I have plenty other relatives through in the west, I don't make any effort to see them and they don't with me. I'm perfectly happy with that, just because we're swimming in the same gene pool doesn't mean we have to have anything to do with eachother

Rant over, I know others will be offended or think I'm being Scrooge but I don't really care. I find xmas being forced upon me offensive so I think we're even.

[Viv]

I totally agree. Xmas can be a total pressure cooker time because you have got peeps all forced into each other's company, all with different ideas and opinions. Awful. i cannot get to the swimming pool until tuesday. mercifully they are open. so many places are not really with it until january 3rd. my neighbour was saying he drove to the bypass with the turkey and threw it onto the grass verge beside the road because of family arguing all morning.

[Viv]

On a positive note, last nite a stagecoach bus driver would not punch my bus ticket, so i have a ticket for another day now to get to the pool with the chutes.

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

Well don't the hits straight to the balls just KEEP coming... and once again I'm the ONLY POSSIBLE one who has done anything wrong... Fuck This.

[Viv]

One more day until the pool. cannot get dad out the toilet?! and mum is requesting choons on my mobile, using up LOADS of my megabytes. #xmas

[Viv]

One more hour and they r gone. Then i can throw shapes #xmas

[Viv]

BASTARDS WONT OPEN POOL UNTIL TOMORROW. CMON. I NEED ENTRY TO THE SWIMMING POOL... NOW

[cxx666]

have to hand it to telesales people, they don't give up. Got the usual call about banks, loans, hidden charges etc this morning. Usually they accept it when i say the paperwork has been gone through and nothing untoward has happened. Had to explain twice to this person that my dad works for a bank and has been through it with me and wouldn't have allowed me to do fall victim to the hidden charges thing, the second time i was basically talking in words of 1 syllable to get the point across.

I know i could just hang up, but i get a small amount of satisfaction from knowing i've got the upper hand/winnin argument in these situations

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

Whatever I do, I can't win. I always lose anything I actually want. I see nothing really worth living for anymore, but somehow I'm a BAD guy for having lost it all

[DC]

been an awful start to the year, i've now fell out with someone who i've knew all my life over a girl. he said he'd fucking stay away from her. not the start i needed.

[DarkAngelMJH]

Sorry to hear it DC Do you think they will come round ?

[DC]

Sorry to hear it DC Do you think they will come round ?

i don't care what they do anymore if i'm honest, the damage is already done. i'm not even sleeping at night now so the last thing i need is them in my life. that would only make things worse, he's been in touch apologetic but i really don't want to know.

i really don't understand why these things have kept happening to me over the years, the script writers for eastenders would struggle to come up with this. i hate to sound sorry for myself but this is the lowest i've been for years.

[Viv]

Received four sales calls today. V annoying. and i tried to boil milk using a plastic pot, and the pot stuck to the cooker. had to sort with a brillo pad.

[DarkAngelMJH]

My laptop has decided to die on me lovely errors and won't even boot up pxe errors rubbish. So been looking at new laptops but I do want stuff off of my old hard drive like all my mills podcasts. Any advice on fixing or new laptops?

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

not sure about new laptops, but depending on budget, a netbook and some external storage might be a good idea? (coming from a guy running a new lappy with Win7, old lappy with Vista but more HD and a Media Centre XP with 1TB PC, managing to make them all play nice on file sharing... *mostly* )

[DC]

my pc has died. we have about 6 computers in the house, even the one from 2005 with all the scott mills shows i recorded back then is still here. but my i want my powerful one from 2010 to be running right, and it's fucked.

[DarkAngelMJH]

I now have a new laptop So my Mum can have hers back haha

[R94N]

ALWAYS back up your important data. With hard drives it's not a case of if they fail, but when​.

[cxx666]

Whoever it was that decided the tram should return to Edinburgh should be shot. They should be shot in the face. They should be shot in the face on national tv. They should be shot in the face on national tv untill they are dead. They should then continue to be shot further. Before I started my bus job I didn't really realise what all was involved, the financial cost, the inconvenience, the damage that is being caused to the surrounding roads while Princess Street is all blocked off. I realise this will not mean much to some people on here, but lets face it the shambolic fiasco has probably been heard of up and down Britain.

Basically buses and taxis used to run quite happily along Princess Street, and other traffic was sent away up through George Street which runs parallel. Then the tram works started up, so its everything up onto George Street. For those who don't know, its not particularly big, frankly its not designed to cope with this new level of traffic. The road is breaking up, potholes everywhere, bumps etc. Not the nicest road to drive on, infact I absolutely hate it, I was going along last night in a bus that is already hard to drive at the best of times and noticed even mroe cracks I didn't know about untill last night.

There used to be zebra crossings on that road, but the council in their infinite wisdom decided it was best to just paint over them rather than burn them off properly. Common sense would dictate that you don't walk over them but we have to remember that the general public are a frighteningly stupid group of people and still walk across without looking anyway. So many people have nearly been run over on that road by various people, including myself.

Unknown to me untill a few weeks ago was the damage it has already caused to businesses. Another street which they were originally going down (the plan has since changed) was dug up for ages a few years ago. There were a lot of small private businesses on that road which had been there for many years and survived perfectly well, but in a very short space of time a lot of them had to close as people simply didn't go there any more. I think the same will happen on the road between Haymarket and Princess Street, I walked along there today and it was clearly a lot more dead than it used to be when traffic was allowed along it.

Lastly we have the cost and potentiol for it to all grind to a halt very quickly. I don't know the exact figure but its hundreds of millions of pounds its gonna be costing. The amount thats being spent on it would have been better spent on more of these brand new environmentally friendly fancy nonsense buses that my work has started to get. They could replace every single one with one of those and still have a hell of a lot of the money left over to vastly improve the roads. One of those trams breaks down and we're all screwed. If I break down one day its easy, just drive around me, alright it'll cause congestion but its nothing not gonna cause problems that can't be solved. Then we have a tram, if a tram breaks down surely that could just do the same thing? oh wait no, its on rails, can't overtake if there is a problem infront of it. Silly me.

Rant over.

[Viv]

And breathe... :hahaha:

I have got, like a MILLION pieces of admin to do, after attending a meeting y/day. Gonna take all morning today, and into next f* week. :-/ Seriously f* pricks

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

Totally hear that about the trams, I remember what Nottingham Market Square was like when they were putting in trams here, there was basically a bit of it closed off for pretty much a year. The best part with Nottingham was that after they'd done all that, for a goddamn year, they then closed the rest of the square off again after the Tram line opened to revamp the actual square... the one that had already been closed off... yeah.

[cxx666]

Well they made such a fine job of the initial tracks that got laid down in Princess Street that they were taken up and redone. There is talk of the street being pedestrianised and the trams being the only thing allowed down it. The only reason for that in reality is to try and force people to use the damn things so it doesn't turn into a massive "told you so" to the council or whoever it is who is actually in charge of this nonsense.

More bus related moans. Was hoping to have a nice easy evening, a couple of short quiet trips and off service back to the depot for the night. Did I get that? oh no no no no, someone else had other ideas. Was happily minding my own business heading into town and someone chucks a stone/brick at the bus, although a bit of me wonders if it was a BB gun, breaking the window. Had to sit and wait on a patrol van coming to deal with the problem, got back to the garage and someone started going ape shit thinking I hadn't reported it to the control room (which I had), then I had to go and report it to the police as well, oh the fun times I have in this job.....