• Categories
Collapse

The Silver Fern

Grumpy Old Man

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Off Topic
3.3k Posts 65 Posters 252.3k Views
Grumpy Old Man
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • Victor MeldrewV Offline
    Victor MeldrewV Offline
    Victor Meldrew
    wrote on last edited by
    #2000

    Christmas present sorted...

    wfisow1665995478515.jpg

    dogmeatD 1 Reply Last reply
    2
  • dogmeatD Offline
    dogmeatD Offline
    dogmeat
    replied to Victor Meldrew on last edited by
    #2001

    @Victor-Meldrew Not many old people can wear something that tight though.....

    CatograndeC 1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • CatograndeC Offline
    CatograndeC Offline
    Catogrande
    replied to dogmeat on last edited by
    #2002

    @dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Victor-Meldrew Not many old people can wear something that tight though.....

    Another reason to be grumpy. I bought this novelty old man top and it was never a medium…

    1 Reply Last reply
    3
  • NTAN Offline
    NTAN Offline
    NTA
    wrote on last edited by
    #2003

    GOM/Tech rant: our work now requires any BYOD to have encryption on the disk. Yeah sure, that'll keep the Russians at bay; my gaming PC in my WFH office that never even connected to the work network was the key weakness in bringing down the whole company.

    Fuck off.

    CrucialC JCJ 2 Replies Last reply
    0
  • CrucialC Offline
    CrucialC Offline
    Crucial
    replied to NTA on last edited by
    #2004

    @NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:

    GOM/Tech rant: our work now requires any BYOD to have encryption on the disk. Yeah sure, that'll keep the Russians at bay; my gaming PC in my WFH office that never even connected to the work network was the key weakness in bringing down the whole company.

    Fuck off.

    Bit dumb to allow BYOD in the first place if that is the risk appetite.
    Do they use BYOD to save their own costs? If so then they should piss right of in telling you what to do with your personal kit.

    NTAN 1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • NTAN Offline
    NTAN Offline
    NTA
    replied to Crucial on last edited by
    #2005

    @Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:

    GOM/Tech rant: our work now requires any BYOD to have encryption on the disk. Yeah sure, that'll keep the Russians at bay; my gaming PC in my WFH office that never even connected to the work network was the key weakness in bringing down the whole company.

    Fuck off.

    Bit dumb to allow BYOD in the first place if that is the risk appetite.
    Do they use BYOD to save their own costs? If so then they should piss right of in telling you what to do with your personal kit.

    BYOD has been in place for a few years since we moved to Google Business suite.

    But IT Security clearly ran out of things to do recently as they've been running through the entire estate from PCs to cloud to anything connected.

    I just don't see how, when they've got a password policy in certain areas that wouldn't pass muster in 2015, they're jumping up and down about this.

    CrucialC 1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • CrucialC Offline
    CrucialC Offline
    Crucial
    replied to NTA on last edited by
    #2006

    @NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:

    GOM/Tech rant: our work now requires any BYOD to have encryption on the disk. Yeah sure, that'll keep the Russians at bay; my gaming PC in my WFH office that never even connected to the work network was the key weakness in bringing down the whole company.

    Fuck off.

    Bit dumb to allow BYOD in the first place if that is the risk appetite.
    Do they use BYOD to save their own costs? If so then they should piss right of in telling you what to do with your personal kit.

    BYOD has been in place for a few years since we moved to Google Business suite.

    But IT Security clearly ran out of things to do recently as they've been running through the entire estate from PCs to cloud to anything connected.

    I just don't see how, when they've got a password policy in certain areas that wouldn't pass muster in 2015, they're jumping up and down about this.

    Is it virtual desktop environment? If so then isn't that environment separate from your own? ie you cant move files between the two.. That's how the ones I have previously worked with have been.
    The only way the at information gets onto your disk is if you break policy and send it out and back (looking at you Hillary)

    NTAN 1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • NTAN Offline
    NTAN Offline
    NTA
    replied to Crucial on last edited by
    #2007

    @Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:

    GOM/Tech rant: our work now requires any BYOD to have encryption on the disk. Yeah sure, that'll keep the Russians at bay; my gaming PC in my WFH office that never even connected to the work network was the key weakness in bringing down the whole company.

    Fuck off.

    Bit dumb to allow BYOD in the first place if that is the risk appetite.
    Do they use BYOD to save their own costs? If so then they should piss right of in telling you what to do with your personal kit.

    BYOD has been in place for a few years since we moved to Google Business suite.

    But IT Security clearly ran out of things to do recently as they've been running through the entire estate from PCs to cloud to anything connected.

    I just don't see how, when they've got a password policy in certain areas that wouldn't pass muster in 2015, they're jumping up and down about this.

    Is it virtual desktop environment? If so then isn't that environment separate from your own? ie you cant move files between the two.. That's how the ones I have previously worked with have been.

    I know what you mean, but it is fully browser-based in terms of using Google (Mail, Docs, Sheets, Cloud Platform etc) so no effective OS - access everything from a BYOD via Chrome.

    The only way the at information gets onto your disk is if you break policy and send it out and back (looking at you Hillary)

    Exactly. And why the fuck would I when it is useless to me on a PC at home? I have a work laptop that has disk encryption and the necessary VPN for any cloud apps I'm not allowed to reach through my home setup. But I only use that when I go into the office because fuck disrupting my home office setup with my sweet HP Omen 15 that is 5 times as grunty.

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • JCJ Offline
    JCJ Offline
    JC
    replied to NTA on last edited by JC
    #2008

    @NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:

    GOM/Tech rant: our work now requires any BYOD to have encryption on the disk. Yeah sure, that'll keep the Russians at bay; my gaming PC in my WFH office that never even connected to the work network was the key weakness in bringing down the whole company.

    Fuck off.

    Tell them it would slow down your read/write speeds for your personal use device to be unacceptably slow, so you’ll need them to compensate you for the cost of a machine that does it at acceptable speed. Flash them a quote for a new overspecced Mac. Then trouser the cash and buy a PS5.

    1 Reply Last reply
    2
  • MajorRageM Offline
    MajorRageM Offline
    MajorRage
    wrote on last edited by
    #2009

    Movember.

    Fuck. Off. Not shaving your top lip for charity is like me only wanking with my left hand for charity. You aren’t achieving shit, or suffering shit.

    Stupidest idea ever.

    NepiaN 1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • NepiaN Offline
    NepiaN Offline
    Nepia
    replied to MajorRage on last edited by
    #2010

    @MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:

    Movember.

    Fuck. Off. Not shaving your top lip for charity is like me only wanking with my left hand for charity. You aren’t achieving shit, or suffering shit.

    Stupidest idea ever.

    I'm as grumpy as fuck and I don't really get why you're getting so worked up about this one. If it raises money then who cares? I'd rather grow a mo than not eat for 40 hours to raise money for charity. If you can get people to pay and not suffer shit then that's way more sensible to me.

    MN5M 1 Reply Last reply
    4
  • MN5M Offline
    MN5M Offline
    MN5
    replied to Nepia on last edited by MN5
    #2011

    @Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:

    Movember.

    Fuck. Off. Not shaving your top lip for charity is like me only wanking with my left hand for charity. You aren’t achieving shit, or suffering shit.

    Stupidest idea ever.

    I'm as grumpy as fuck and I don't really get why you're getting so worked up about this one. If it raises money then who cares? I'd rather grow a mo than not eat for 40 hours to raise money for charity. If you can get people to pay and not suffer shit then that's way more sensible to me.

    Plus you get to look like a porn star/sex offender/Tom Selleck/Sean Connery/Burt Reynolds/Terry Wright/Hulk Hogan depending on what cards you get dealt in terms of mo growing ability.

    Win/win

    MajorRageM 1 Reply Last reply
    3
  • MajorRageM Offline
    MajorRageM Offline
    MajorRage
    replied to MN5 on last edited by
    #2012

    @MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:

    Movember.

    Fuck. Off. Not shaving your top lip for charity is like me only wanking with my left hand for charity. You aren’t achieving shit, or suffering shit.

    Stupidest idea ever.

    I'm as grumpy as fuck and I don't really get why you're getting so worked up about this one. If it raises money then who cares? I'd rather grow a mo than not eat for 40 hours to raise money for charity. If you can get people to pay and not suffer shit then that's way more sensible to me.

    Plus you get to look like a porn star/sex offender/Tom Selleck/Sean Connery/Burt Reynolds/Terry Wright/Hulk Hogan depending on what cards you get dealt in terms of mo growing ability.

    Win/win

    Exactly. You are asking people to pay you to do something you enjoy that takes minimal effort.

    If you want my charity moo la, you need to earn it.

    CatograndeC MN5M 2 Replies Last reply
    0
  • CatograndeC Offline
    CatograndeC Offline
    Catogrande
    replied to MajorRage on last edited by
    #2013

    @MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:

    Movember.

    Fuck. Off. Not shaving your top lip for charity is like me only wanking with my left hand for charity. You aren’t achieving shit, or suffering shit.

    Stupidest idea ever.

    I'm as grumpy as fuck and I don't really get why you're getting so worked up about this one. If it raises money then who cares? I'd rather grow a mo than not eat for 40 hours to raise money for charity. If you can get people to pay and not suffer shit then that's way more sensible to me.

    Plus you get to look like a porn star/sex offender/Tom Selleck/Sean Connery/Burt Reynolds/Terry Wright/Hulk Hogan depending on what cards you get dealt in terms of mo growing ability.

    Win/win

    Exactly. You are asking people to pay you to do something you enjoy that takes minimal effort.

    If you want my charity moo la, you need to earn it.

    Would your attitude change if we brought in Fanuary for the girls?

    1 Reply Last reply
    2
  • voodooV Offline
    voodooV Offline
    voodoo
    wrote on last edited by
    #2014

    I'm with the Rager here. It's lazy shit.

    Go without booze for a month (fuck that) , go run/walk some crazy stuff, sure, I'll pay that.

    But be lazy and just don't shave for a month? Really?

    Is there another charity where I can not wear deodorant for a month, anyone care to sponsor me for that?

    SmudgeS nostrildamusN 2 Replies Last reply
    1
  • MN5M Offline
    MN5M Offline
    MN5
    replied to MajorRage on last edited by MN5
    #2015

    @MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:

    Movember.

    Fuck. Off. Not shaving your top lip for charity is like me only wanking with my left hand for charity. You aren’t achieving shit, or suffering shit.

    Stupidest idea ever.

    I'm as grumpy as fuck and I don't really get why you're getting so worked up about this one. If it raises money then who cares? I'd rather grow a mo than not eat for 40 hours to raise money for charity. If you can get people to pay and not suffer shit then that's way more sensible to me.

    Plus you get to look like a porn star/sex offender/Tom Selleck/Sean Connery/Burt Reynolds/Terry Wright/Hulk Hogan depending on what cards you get dealt in terms of mo growing ability.

    Win/win

    Exactly. You are asking people to pay you to do something you enjoy that takes minimal effort.

    If you want my charity moo la, you need to earn it.

    Is this grumpiness cos you’re one of those guys who can’t grow a mo ?

    1 Reply Last reply
    2
  • boobooB Offline
    boobooB Offline
    booboo
    wrote on last edited by booboo
    #2016

    I did Movember once, about 12 years ago. Made no money. And it was fucking torture for the first 3 weeks.

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • mariner4lifeM Offline
    mariner4lifeM Offline
    mariner4life
    wrote on last edited by
    #2017

    If I grow a mo I look like a taller version of my dad so my wife has banned it

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • SmudgeS Offline
    SmudgeS Offline
    Smudge
    replied to voodoo on last edited by Smudge
    #2018

    @voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:

    I'm with the Rager here. It's lazy shit.

    Go without booze for a month (fuck that) , go run/walk some crazy stuff, sure, I'll pay that.

    But be lazy and just don't shave for a month? Really?

    Is there another charity where I can not wear deodorant for a month, anyone care to sponsor me for that?

    I haven't shaved for 4 years*. Give me $10,000.

    *upstairs at least...

    1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • KiwiwombleK Offline
    KiwiwombleK Offline
    Kiwiwomble
    wrote on last edited by
    #2019

    people call me grumpy in the real world but this is next level...grumpy about raising money for one of the few things left in the world thats specifically about dudes without being cancelled for being sexist ....on a rugby forum that has to be 99% dudes?

    side note, i have a female friend who is doing movember...each day drawing a slightly bigger mustache on herself...its hilarious

    MN5M MajorRageM F 3 Replies Last reply
    4

Grumpy Old Man
Off Topic
  • Login

  • Don't have an account? Register

  • Login or register to search.
  • First post
    Last post
0
  • Categories
  • Login

  • Don't have an account? Register

  • Login or register to search.