Happy Keith:
Am currently having problems when listening to the radio and - it seems, forever hearing the word ‘iconic’ being mentioned. It has the effect of boiling my place on the autistic spectrum out of the water
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The one that really gets up my nose is …gate.
There was Watergate, which was Nixon and a place named Watergate (I think).
Since then, any scandal has become a …gate.
Diana-gate, this-gate, that-gate, the other [zb]-gate.
Is that the best they can come up with?
They get paid a ■■■■ sight more than us to supposedly inform us about what is going on around The World and in our little corner of The World. Words are their trade, and the best they can come up with is tagging gate onto the end of a title.
Sorry, I’m an anti-social git as well. I’m very shy, so I tend to over-compensate.
I get on with most people most of the time, and just walk away or ignore those I don’t
Simon:
‘…The one that really gets up my nose is …gate…’
Fully agreed.
Crikey, it appears that my much valued contempt and anti-sociability especially includes empty-headed ‘journalist/commentators’ - what with their abusing fresh-air by authoritively/cockily/half-wittedly using white noise cliches at any and every news-given opportunity
Meanwhile, other anti-social noises definitely include:
‘No worries’ - especially from otherwise well educated, EU inspired migrants: Such entrepeneurial saps have brightly - but wrongly picked up this shabby ‘mouth’ habit from Australian soaps via home-bred berks without having the objective realisation that it’s silently expected within a Briton’s job-requirement - and life responsibilty in general to crack-on with stalwart stoicism and not be a parasitic drain on morale or otherwise be ‘worried’ about going about what’s expected of fellow citizens.
Migrants, why not integrate into Britain with style? The Allies didn’t win the World Wars by ever being ‘worried’ for heaven’s sake
‘Hard-earned cash’ - when many amongst us get fairly and reasonably paid a wage or salary (‘cash’? NO ) for doing nowt in particular. We don’t all humiliate ourselves by, eg., commuting with fellow idiots in ‘bank-loan’ cars; having to endure wearing a smelly suit or daft hat or otherwise embrace Radio One’s Newsbeat funksters replenishing our sterilised uni-swede’s with today’s, BBC approved generalisms & cliches.
All of which I perfectly avoid by doing a decent job effortlessly and on mutual terms with my employer, of course
‘Hard-working families’ - a term too simply chucked-in to ‘describe’ (badly) those living in close proximity under one roof and who coincidentally enjoy life while happening to be ‘hard-earning’ - probably as above.
It is seemingly, thoughtlessly, shoddily & too readily applied by family-centric, normalising bigots of the Media’s (‘…Meejah’s…’) cliche-army as as if singletons/widowers/widows or The Antisocial, etc don’t qualify or otherwise deserve exclusion from their notion of what society ought regularly consist.
cliffton 27:
[zb] me some people need to lighten up i will talk to anyone about anything as long as it gets a laugh and a smile i have met some great people whilst out on the rd and
yea you are gonna get the bullshitters but you can also learn a thing or too aswell
enjoy life its too short
Eureka!!! I’ll get on the phone right now, and tell all the psychiatrists that anyone with mental health problems just “need to lighten up”.
Met lots of different people during my career, most good but a few not so good.
Even the RDC Hero who has been everywhere and done everything can be a source of amusement, especially if you get in first with the HERALD option.
Always fun to see if you can out do them,i.e I was in the first series of ice truckers or the first ashore in the Falklands/Iraq/Afghan (depending on your age), if they get £30 a night out, you get £31+ luncheon vouchers, or maybe ran out of time in Park Lane and stayed in the Hilton with the bosses blessing,or even though it doesn’t say it on the front you really have a V8 under the bonnet but with a special silencer so it doesn’t sound like it.
Similarly the guy around the pool on hols who got the holiday cheaper than anyone else, always fun to look amazed and say “you paid HOW much?” with a smirk on your face
jessicas dad:
im very anti social, if i wanted to talk to people id work in a call center.
Nail on the head here; I’ve argued this to the Mrs since I’ve been parked up with new job; Wants me to get “something,anything with a contract…” Thing is, I hate having to hear peoples’ personnal problems, the “secret santa”, signing cards for this and that etc.
Im not very social either, I prefer my own company…
I go out of my way to not talk to people and I am very shy too…
That sounds strange considering that I drive a bus/coach!!!
my first contribution on here,people call me a miserable git for not talking to them,im not shy but i dont find anything worthwhile what come out of my work mates mouths.i prefer my own company(just ask the wife).all i drive for is £ notes at end of each month.
cliffton 27:
[zb] me some people need to lighten up i will talk to anyone about anything as long as it gets a laugh and a smile i have met some great people whilst out on the rd and
yea you are gonna get the bullshitters but you can also learn a thing or too aswell
enjoy life its too short
Eureka!!! I’ll get on the phone right now, and tell all the psychiatrists that anyone with mental health problems just “need to lighten up”.
see the thing is i meant the people that are just plain anti social i never once mentioned people with mental health problems need real help from qualified people
I think the longer you are in the job
the more you get used to being on your own for long periods
so eventually you start to prefer your own company
and you then become anti social
cliffton 27:
[zb] me some people need to lighten up i will talk to anyone about anything as long as it gets a laugh and a smile i have met some great people whilst out on the rd and
yea you are gonna get the bullshitters but you can also learn a thing or too aswell
enjoy life its too short
Eureka!!! I’ll get on the phone right now, and tell all the psychiatrists that anyone with mental health problems just “need to lighten up”.
see the thing is i meant the people that are just plain anti social i never once mentioned people with mental health problems need real help from qualified people
Let me nip this in the bud. I’m not having a dig. it seemed like you were blaming people for being a certain way when they may have no control over it. I’m even going to resist the temptation to put one more rolling eyes smiley than you put.
cliffton 27:
[zb] me some people need to lighten up i will talk to anyone about anything as long as it gets a laugh and a smile i have met some great people whilst out on the rd and
yea you are gonna get the bullshitters but you can also learn a thing or too aswell
enjoy life its too short
Eureka!!! I’ll get on the phone right now, and tell all the psychiatrists that anyone with mental health problems just “need to lighten up”.
see the thing is i meant the people that are just plain anti social i never once mentioned people with mental health problems need real help from qualified people
Let me nip this in the bud. I’m not having a dig. it seemed like you were blaming people for being a certain way when they may have no control over it. I’m even going to resist the temptation to put one more rolling eyes smiley than you put.
no pal i wouldnt have a go at people for something that is out of their control and thats very big of you in regard to the rolling eyes
metrorider:
I’ve always been a bit of a loner myself, preferring to work on my own rather than around too many other people. However, we all have to deal with other people to some degree in our jobs so there’s no way of avoiding it. I suffer from a Social anxiety myself so dealing with people at work is a challenge in itself. This can come across to others as being arrogant or aloof but is not meant in this way - it’s just anxiety.
What I want to know is are there any other drivers who find the dealing with co-workers/customers difficult due to Social anxiety and if so how do you deal with it?
I don’t need any advice on the dynamics of anxiety itself just any experiences of any other people who have to deal with this day in day out at work?y
Cheers
I’m the same. Or at least I used to be. I suffer with depression and serious social anxiety. I’ve had counselling and I take fluoxetine and I can honestly say it really helps. I used to be awful couldn’t go to new places or anywhere for the fear of seeing or speaking to people. It sounds absolutely ridiculous. But that’s the way it was. Now though I’m fine
A lot of people dont understand it and think its ridiculous. And that you just need to buck up. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just do that?!
(1) “Happy Days”. I wasn’t around as an adult in the days of easy-to-come-by jobs and throwing your carkeys in the table at the weekend for some cheap entertainment. Instead, I’m living through the third recession of my adult life, thus happy days just makes me want to smack someone in the mouth for uttering such a “non truth” all the time. Mostly heard in transport offices I sadly have to add.
(2) “NonDom”. This is just a nice way of saying ‘tax-dodging crook’ who isn’t someone who doesn’t living in the UK for over 6 months of the year as suggested, as they still have property and other places to live here. You’re a non-dom when you emmigrate, selling up everything, never to return.
That means selling your property for a song to ensure a quick sale, NOT renting it out to your toff brother so he can claim it as a parliamentary expense.
(3) “Scrounger”. This word tends to be used to describe people on benefits or low pay with a top-up, and never to describe rich people who’ve fiddled the taxpayer out of far more money each and every year, but everyone loves them, because they drive a flash car and live in a big house. It is thus a misnomer pure and simple.
(4) “You’re entitled to your opinion”. A patronising remark invariably made by those who consider themselves superior to you in some way. The concept of this person being wrong, or at least being open to be sold-to escapes them entirely.
(5) “I’ve just gotta get this” or any other NMI/IRQ made when the person opposite you is supposed to be there for business to do with you, not constantly be interrupted by some incoming message informing them about something that could easily wait until later. Mobile devices “Beeping” when you’ve entered a place where you’re not even supposed to bring them with you gets my goat as well. Switching them off does NOT make them “not brought with you”. They thus are still a source of interruption and distraction for all those around, and therefore make themselves as desirable in a small RDC room as an eggy ■■■■…
(6) “You’re a pillock” when my only sin is operating on a wavelength of 105.8 instead of 98.8.
I’m not anti social but I too prefer peace and quite and to be free to be my own boss in a way while I’m out on the Road.
But saying that when I get back to the yard I always stand around have a coffee and a chat, and where possible a little brown nosing
My old man taught me to get on and progress in life you have to chat and have the gift of the Gab as he put it.
Does his statement have any truth in it I’m not too sure. But then I do see a lot of chatty people go far in life, and wonder how the hell they did it.
The only other job that would suit me though would be a work from home business I would own on the Internet.
Until that day comes I will be staying in this job as I’m happy.
But to clear it up there’s nothing in my eyes wrong with someone who prefers to be on there own. I will chat but I tend to keep it short and sweet as I like to get the job done so I get back early
Have just spent all day Saturday being taught how to be nice to people and not get stressed out. It was the Customer Service and On Road Occurrences modules of the Driver CPC. What an eye opener. Thought the full day Health and Safety modules were bad!! It was more about meeting customers, and not other truckers, but maybe they might bring in a DCPC module about how to deal with blingers and billshutters.
