Every so often I just feel the need to vent. Today is one of those days. It seems that everything is conspiring to bug me today, from call centre queueing systems to Edinburgh tram workers. Not that the tram workers are ever really out of my ‘anger spectrum’, but some days even they surpass themselves (like the day they flooded our basement).
First port of call was the endless array of Russian spammers who think that I (as forum administrator) won’t be suspicious in the slightest of around 400 registrations on a Scottish non-league football site from users with .ru email addresses. Hmmm. No brainer.
I decided to leave them a message on the forum using Google Translate:-
Я на Ð²Ð°Ñ Ð´ÑƒÑˆ Ñпам, Виагра продаже bawbags. Ð’Ñ‹ никогда не получите прошлом мне и зарегиÑтрироватьÑÑ Ð² нашем форуме. ПонÑтно?
Now class. Notice anything odd?
Я на Ð²Ð°Ñ Ð´ÑƒÑˆ Ñпам, Виагра продаже bawbags. Ð’Ñ‹ никогда не получите прошлом мне и зарегиÑтрироватьÑÑ Ð² нашем форуме. ПонÑтно?
That’s right. There is apparently no word in the Russian language for bawbags. Which is a huge oversight really, given about a dozen of the aforementioned bawbags try and register with the official Spartans forum each day.
Second target of my anger today. The tram pricks. As usual, they surpass themselves. A note was left in our stair last week outlining the work being carried out from Monday onwards. Fair enough. We read it and there was no mention of not parking in our street. In fact, reference was specifically made to maintaining local access.
Today, whilst working from home, I nipped out to buy some lunch only to find our car surrounded by police cones with notices in front of it outlining the fact that any vehicles ‘parked illegally’ will be towed. Better move it thinks I and proceeds to drive to Leith Links to dispose of the vehicle in a less controversial spot.
Except of course, they’ve obviously been out ahead of me and painted double yellow lines just about everywhere. In fact, the roads around Leith Links are so yellow that half a dozen Munchkins would not look out of place. I ended up driving round for about fifteen minutes (essentially because everywhere is diverted so you can’t just go direct to where you want to go in Leith at the moment)
Brilliant. I love trams.
on Mar 10th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I stuck a Babelfish in my ear and heard this …..
I on you souls to [spam], Viagra to sale of bawbags. You never will obtain past me and to be registered in our forum. It is understandable
on Mar 11th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Hey Mark, just doing some catch up on your posts, I didn’t know another one was on the way?
Congrats and all that!
We don’t have trams in Cheltenham since way back when. But somewhere I have a picture from the twenties of a gang of workmen ripping up the tram rails on the main high street, guess they realised back then that they would become a pain!
on Apr 30th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
The sick thing is that once the trams are up and running, there will be fewer busses. So, no change really.