Something similar here... a normal team working on a project is now called "Mission Assurance team" or MAT for short.

its a very common phrase to describe a meeting room that has been taken over for a short intense project in the industry I work in.

That may the case but its glorified, self important bollocks in incomparable situations...unless you're in the military industry

only if you take the name literally? its a commonly used phrase, chill man!

Why would you need to give a meeting room a special name. Can't you just continue to call it meeting room 1 or whatever? People would surely know that it's been taken over by a project team for a week. Does seem a bit "Gareth Keenan" to me!

Hearing people talk about "teams" in an office environment makes me happy as **** that I work for myself!

I could understand it if the project manager was a Geordie

This is a "Things That Annoy You" thread...it annoys me. I don't need to chill..man.

The Horse Punching room?

Exactly...self important bullshit IMHO

Cherish it mate.

Some of the mercenaries we have playing for us at the moment are more likeable than most of the people here....me included I'm sure before some smartarse posts to that effect :p

Reading those last few posts, TopKnot is blatantly responsible for renaming offices 'The War Room' and thinks that it's really whacky.

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Its not a new name for the same room, its a phrase to describe a room in which stuff can be put on the walls, people on the project can sit together in, stuff can be brought in, furniture rearranged, blah blah. A temporary central hub for the project. So 'meeting room 1 is now the X project war room for the next week'.

I'm only doing it to annoy the grumpy old men in the office who miss being able to smoke a pipe in their cubicles.

Can you stop posting up you favorite pics of Carlos the Fondler please.

People on trains who allow their children to watch films/play games on their ipad/computer without head phones and with the sound turned up. Since when has this been OK?

Since their equally selfish and stupid adult parents showed them the way by doing the same thing themselves

Was on a train from marseille to lille in the summer. A group of about ten 12-13 year olds got on half way up, accompanied by 2 adults who were obviously looking after them at disneyland. One of the adults pulls out a tablet and puts a ******* film on for the little ones to watch...and for the rest of the carriage to listen to. They were english, obviously.

I suppose its the same mentality as those who think its fine to play music and/or Youtube clips loudly through their phones despite the fact that most people really don't want to hear it and it usually sounds rubbish.

Had this in the Supermarket yesterday. An Isle of wight version of Lauren, the same size as the Sutton Goal keeper, with her Adidas boyfriend.

Manuals that are 268 pages long when only 8 of them are in English, of which 4 are all health and safety crap, the rest every other language under the sun.

My graphics tablet pen which refuses to obey any laws of calibration. Also the graphics tablet which doesn't recognise any driver.

Idiots who get on a crowded tube and then get off after 2 stops. They probably have expensive gym memberships but can't be bothered to walk for 20 minutes.

Does this contradict your tagline of being open-minded and liberal?

It is curtailed somewhat during the morning rush hour

Radio 5live and Talksport having commentary on the same game. Particularly when it is a game of little or no interest to me. ie does not involve Palace.

Lesbian mafia at work who would prefer my boss to employ a 25 year old blonde Slovakian girl for them to ogle, raher than a hairy arsed 50 year old bloke.......and sulk when they still employ both....and the blonde isnt a lemon licker

Where do I join the lesbian mafia, I think I fit I with what I know of their manifesto

Are you ugly, miserable and similar in build and stature to a hobbit?

Anti-manifesto

Maidstoned's just pissed off because he made them an offer they refused.

All those wacoff stains on your wacom can cause issues, have you tried cleaning it properly? Failing that you could try changing your nib.

Andy Burnham - never did anyone more need a punch in the face

I thought I was out once......but they dragged me back in.

Wayne ******* Shaw and people still going on about a fat bloke eating a pie

The Scum as well, just because

Actually yes, but you forgot sexy as well

Build your own dream home property shows where some "expert" turns up and makes them build something they don't want

"Experts" called Piers who don't have to live in the abominations they have inflicted on the poor unsuspecting self-builders

The fact that I've got nothing better to do than watch "experts" ruin dream homes :(

As someone who lived through the WW2 and deprivation was par for the course with many kids with their arse's hanging out of trousers to flip forward to today's fashion statements where people actually buy clothes with holes for your knees to poke through...annoyed not really.. but jeez!

...and the bint of the couple is always "The Project Manager" which means she phones up the subcontractors now and again to ask where they are.

The Brits. Spent my whole life hating it and it hasn't changed. A self-congratulatory, introspective, backslapping celebration of bland vapid pop shit. Coldplay. Adele. Robbie Williams winning an award for being an 'icon'. 9 out of 10 artists coming from reality TV shows. Token nomination for Leonard Cohen when nobody there would be able to name any of his songs other than Hallelujah. Shite, every single time.

Agreed. Little mix ffs.

I had The Brits on but kept switching between that and the Leicester game. That Little Mix performance at the start was dreadful and shows how much they do to the songs when released to try and make them sound better. I assume on Kiss tomorrow they will go on about it so may have to not have it on in the background.

Just got in. Didn't watch it but I know you're right anyway.:p

I dunno, Killing Joke winning breakthrough artist was a step forward.

I've always hated the brits.

:angel: :vader:

There's an opportunity for a "sleeps with the fishes" joke in there somewhere too but it requires a balance of subtlety and gratuitous offensiveness that's beyond me.

'The next level.....'
F*ck right off, you utter bellends.

The fact that my car must have a little beepy machine /radar-type thing under the bonnet that alerts every ******* traffic light of my approach in order for it to change to red, even if there's no other traffic coming from the other road to get the benefit of my red light.

Either that or there's a god of traffic lights who hates me.

Nope. It's just the Pacific Highway Hornsby to North Sydney.

Robbie Williams: Global icon award.

Read that again and let it seep in...

I'd be less affronted to see Jordan Mutch win Palace player of the year. In fact, if Wilf hadn't had such a great year for us I'd say we should all vote for Mutch as POTY as a protest at how sh*t the rest have been.

Dermot O'Really

People who post a question asking whether someone would do something and end the post with the inane 'No, I thought not'.

Are you being serious here?

No, I thought not.

Ahhh the delights of Chatswood.

The mass hysteria over Rag N Bone Man.

No....I was never a fan of Steptoe either,

I know where you are coming from. Whenever or wherever I go, whatever bus/tram I want always just leaves the stop, in both directions as well.

Reminds me of the Douglas Adams bit about a lorry driver called Rob McKenna who was permanently being rained on. Turned out, although he didn't know it, he was A Rain God and the clouds were worshipping him :D

You're only human.

Afterall

Mass hysteria over anything is rather odd, unless it's aliens landing or something like that.

I quite like his music though.

Was in the same class at school as Blind Minor.

Hard to think of mass hysteria over Rory. :D

Good singist though

All award ceremonies.

The rich and famous congratulate themselves for being rich and famous and give each other awards for being rich and famous and of course it all needs to televised because the darlings clearly need more exposure and recognition.

Makes me want to vomit, who are the morons that watch this shit?

Radio 5live giving the very good journalist and broadcaster Matthew Syed the name of 'The ping pong guy' because of his prior Table Tennis exploits.

It is just too Talksport for my tastes.

Almost as nauseating is the rich and famous pretending to be "ordinary working class folk" at such ceremonies. E.g. multi millionaire Ken Loach at the BAFTAs.

Agree. The most articulate of the three by far, not saying much though.

Send me a pic and I will see how long it takes me to whack off to.it.

Pedestrians who just dawdle across the road with their phones wedged
between jaw and shoulder and both hands in their pockets.
Bet you'd take longer steps if I was booting you in the arse!

people who don't pay their share of the booze bill. *****.

and a ******* rich **** at that, not like he couldn't afford it. ****

saddens me that he was an English guy.
****

the same ones who invite them to the whitehouse or lunch in No.10 or to comment on serious matters on morning tv perhaps?

people wandering around supermarkets drinking coffee

to be honest i detest all "food on the move" ffs sit down and have your lunch nothing is so important for you to scoff walking in the high street or opposite me on the train

Meeting people whether friends from old or family and never know whether to do the handshake and kiss thing etc. Even worse at the end of do's when everyone is shuffling around not knowing who to go to first. JUST SAY BYE AND WALK OUT THE FARKING PLACE! There should be a law that bans handshakes and pleasantry kisses.

Also, one kiss or farking two on the cheek/s?! If you don't see someone putting their hand out you feel like a c--t while they're left hanging and if someone goes to give you a kiss and they're not ready or haven't seen you make a move you either get a smacker on the lips or worse still a mouthful of hair! Bloody aida!

and hugs. There should be a blanket ban on all physical contact when greeting to avoid awkwardness like that, the only acceptable gesture being a sort of limp wave thing as you say hello.

One kiss, unless you are a twatish posh c*nt or French.

Mine for today is the continual bleating from Generation Lazy ****** that they are poor and everything is unfair, yet I see hoards of them wandering around in expensive threads and trainers, wearing expensive headphones and talking into expensive phones. And just take a look in the window of the ludicrously overpriced coffee shops and sushi bars. F*ck 'em.

:D

Why have I got an image of Harry Enfield in my head? :)

Resolved the graphics tablet issues but today being wound up by bits of fluff and dust landing on my newly varnished stair treads.

Driving up and down packed rows of a car park, filled with large and high sided cars...then spying a gap towards the end of the current row, accelerating towards the space only to find it's not a space at all. Just a poxy smart car, city car etc parked well back in the space.

Cursing then seeing someone else parking in a space that's just become free in the next row :wallbash::(

Lesbian mafia, French branch, getting the hump because I told a student to not bother learning French, because no one speaks it, apart from the French and Lesley Butlers wife, and its a dead language.

Red nose day, A group of tax dodging self obsessed luvvies pimp themselves free publicity pretending they give a **** about some poor unfortunates.

How about paying your taxes and donating the money yourselves.

Top work!

Twice this week in the evening rush hour from Victoria I've seen people sitting on the floor of the train by the doors eating their McDonald's out of the bag.

Genuinely, actually, eating their food off the floor like a dog. Ruff.

Radical feminists. That is all.

This new(ish) penchant for TV presenters / politicians standing with their legs too far apart, if you know what I mean.

Athletes / Sportsmen who do adverts and endorse some sort of meat free meat thing, and couldn't act their way out of a paper bag. So wooden !

The above are photographs from the British Musical Statues finals of 2014. Sadly neither won; May had two left feet, and Osborne, in his extreme excitement, had a little accident half way through 'Cotton Eye Joe' which led to his immediate disqualification.

On the theme of awards nights I do find it excruciating when acting types feel they are qualified to give a political speech. They seem to have a misguided view that what they do for a living is somehow important and needs you to be taken seriously.

LinkedIn profiles. Why do people feel the need to over promote themselves. I saw one the other day which said "owner, entrepreneur, guru, dude". Wtf?

That bloody sainsburys advert. Another one where the they deliberately inflict terrible singing on you every 20 minutes. Its not like Sainburys make any of this stuff either

LinkBook w*nker

Drinking coffee through a plastic lid; I'd rather run the risk of scalding myself.

FAG*

(*Team America)

:rolleyes: Dog owners. Dog owners who allow their mutts to jump all over you and lick you taking it for granted that you love them because they do. Get your stinking hound off me!

This, with bells on. No doubt, tomorrow, a load of over-paid actors will tell the world how they are supposed to be thinking from their gilded orgy of self-congratulation - given wall-to-wall coverage by the media, all vying for a nice little business jolly to LA.

Spot on. Fed up being preached to by some talentless no mark.
:wallbash:

This is not me people. Although you probably all guessed by the fecking rich bit.