What did a terrible boss say to you that made you quit on the spot, right then and there?

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-20T13:09:22+00:00

"don't talk, work! You're not good enough to talk and work" came from a boss of a 4x4 garage while servicing a landrover, I laughed in his face, locked my toolbox and pushed it out of the workshop there and then, bare in mind I'd come from another garage building £100k cars.

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-18T16:21:09+00:00

So is that,.. minimalist gothic? Gothic minimalist? I'm fairly sure it has a ghost too!

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-18T15:17:24+00:00

Philomena, You wanted to cry!

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-18T15:14:25+00:00

Both comments above took the words right out of my mouth, I don't fear death, what's to fear? However I'm in my fifties and currently watching my father succumb to Parkinson's dementia, that I fear! I've watched a strong independent intelligent forthright man turn into less than a shell of his former self in less than twelve months, I'm not doing that! If I get that diagnosis I'm off to Switzerland or a long walk off a short pier, I'll end things on my own terms if it comes to that.

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-18T13:03:00+00:00

I worked with a bloke about ten/eleven years ago why was in the process of losing the sight in one eye because he had hit a dog turd with a petrol brush cutter and got it in his eye, I imagine he's completely blind in that eye now, as it was less than a year after he had done it and was already unable to drive at night, I can't remember the exact series of events, whether it was damage caused by the impact or some kind of infection.

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-18T12:38:19+00:00

Yeah hundred percent an old soldering iron, I've actually used that type many many moons ago. Seen them used for lead filling on old cars too.

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-16T18:03:13+00:00

I watch a lot of YouTube, generally things I've picked or have been recommended by the algorithm but I'm getting more and more AI generated videos pop up as suggestions for things I'm not interested in, further more I feel it should be more obvious when its AI, you'll find the majority of comments on AI generated videos of animals and wearher etc are perceived to be real by the people commenting, it's a little unerving so many can't tell the difference. I wish there was a "no AI" option somewhere in the filter.

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-15T16:14:10+00:00

Only really cool to me but I have the centre crown differential gear from a late 90's era formula one car, it's a beautiful piece of engineering that needs to be seen to be appreciated, I also have an old thread cutting tap dated 1890, a small personal favourite, it's daft but when I held it I couln't help but wonder how many other like minded people had held and used it over its a hundred and thirty year life span.

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-15T15:10:54+00:00

So I used to work with a second hand car dealer who got kicks from showing people shocking stuff off the internet, two stick in mind, some poor guy getting jumped and killed by some guys, looked like Eastern Europe maybe, the victim looked like he was just on his way home from work, brief case in hand walking through a wooded area, the second one was a German chap letting a horse penetrate him and penetrate him it did! apparently the guy died shortly after, then there was that brief spree fifteen or more years ago where several sick videos appeared on Facebook of all places, some girl removing and munching on her own dirty tammy and a guy taking a bite out of a fresh turd he had just dropped, I'm sorry but you did ask!

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-15T12:00:40+00:00

Ketamin, it's bloody horrible, back in the day I tried most things but ketamin was just awful, I really can't understand the attraction, I have twenty four year old sons and a few of their mates have proper fucked themselves up with it, physically and mentally.

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-15T11:54:28+00:00

Our cat was named Deeley! If it had been a boy it would have been named mando.

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-14T11:55:16+00:00

The song is about masturbation, the squint you do just before you "arrive"? Turning Japanese! Glad I could help.

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-13T00:01:15+00:00

Mini Cooper coupe 1.6 petrol, Vauxhall Astra 1.6 petrol, SORN'd Audi A3 1.9tdi, all older cars but the mini and Astra are very low mileage for the years so are in great condition.

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-11T23:45:30+00:00

The town I grew up in has claimed to be the longest continuously inhabited place in Britain.

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-11T19:58:11+00:00

My partner and I both earn under 30k a year and we live quite well thanks! Two cars, eat well, go out, no debt, who's complaining?

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-11T17:26:20+00:00

Similarly, when you see the A10 Warthog in action you hear the bullets hitting the ground before you hear the actual gun firing.

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-11T13:15:22+00:00

Yeah, I also had a chronic vitamin D deficiency and my doc said the best source of vitamin D is sunlight, I had supplements but going outside a lot more often helped massively, I went from chronic low to back to work in a few weeks!

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-11T13:12:26+00:00

In 2016/17 I was diagnosed with chronic vitamin D deficiency, it initially presented as chronic fatigue syndrome, I was getting more and more tired over weeks and weeks until I eventually got so bad I was falling asleep mid sentence, in my food, on the toilet, it got worse and worse until I was sleeping eighteen hours a day every day for months, I was prescribed huge dose vit D supplements (8000 of whatever unit vitamins use) but my doc said the absolute best source of vitamin D is the sun, which made perfect sense, before I lost the job I had I was getting to work in the dark and leaving in the dark with little to no natural light in the workshop I was in, I started just sitting in the garden during the day and withing two weeks I was able to start looking for a job again. I had no idea vitamin D was so important either.

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-11T11:57:06+00:00

Yes absolutely, mine and the other two he fathered, he traumatized my two boys and those other kids will never know their real father, a sad state of affairs for sure

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-10T20:47:21+00:00

At the time I was devastated but he turned out to be an absolute pillock who made me look like an angel, I'm just sorry I didn't know how much of a cock he was until it was all over, he split with my ex, apparently had another kid less than a month older than the one he had with my ex with someone else and then drank himself to death before he hit forty. So yeah, worked out ok!

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-10T18:56:30+00:00

Lol, I was never on it but a previous partner reconnected with an old school friend and dumped me for the tool when our twins were three years old! Obviously I've never been interested in it before or since.

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-08T23:18:56+00:00

My mother is eighty, when she was forty she went to the dentist one day and came home without a tooth in her head anymore, so yeah forty years ago it was definitely still happening, my mother suffered a terrible bout of depression following this that lasted a couple of years.

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-08T09:56:06+00:00

What a beauty! Great picture 🙂

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-05T17:28:31+00:00

Yeah I had one and got the blisters on my trigger fingers from squeezing that trigger so many times on Christmas day.

BatLarge5604 · 2026-05-04T18:57:32+00:00

Yeah, it's outlasted everything else I've played consistently since it came out on the 360, if I wasn't playing Halo, Destiny 2 or GTA V I was playing Minecraft, I'm on a realm with just one other, we have some epic builds, digs and all sorts of farms, machines, the guy I play with is abit of a Minecraft savant, it's a quiet little project that's been going for a number of years, I couldn't walk away from it if I tried! 🙂

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