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This time of year.
It's worse this year cos of the way the dates / days of the week have fallen but you've got Halloween, Bonfire Night, War Christmas* and Black Friday all rolled into one exhausting 3-week period where the shops are trying to stock and advertise Halloween tat, fireworks, Black Friday promotions and early Christmas stuff and in the middle of it all some poor army cadet selling poppies.
The whole place is a awash with a mix of plastic Halloween tat and plastic War Christmas tat accompanied by endless adverts for Black Friday (which now appears to start in late October and run for a month...) and Christmas (which now appears to start on 1st November).
And it's dark at 5pm.
*I have nothing against Remembrance Day at all, what I do object to is the way it's become a willy-waving contest of how many silhouettes of the fallen (or of tanks and Lancaster bombers) you / your village can put up alongside ever more ostentatious poppy displays.
I have nothing against Remembrance Day at all...
Neither do I, but I wish it was only in a three week period. As far as I can tell, there's now a two month period when the people who hate wokey virtue signalling get very wound up if you are not *checks notes* virtue signalling enough.
A lady at work was fundraising by getting her bum length hair cut.
Fair play to her I thought, and duly sponsored her via the just giving page. Can't be easy going from that length to a shaved head.
Saw her a day or two later expecting the full Grant Mitchell.
She's got a chin length bob ffs! 😂 It looks very nice too.
I feel a bit short changed somehow. 🤔
Oh well. Good cause.
A lady at work was fundraising by getting her bum length hair cut
The fact that had to read that sentence a couple of times to make sure I understood what exactly was being cut for charity.
Big kitchen utensils allegedly placed in the cutlery drainer after washing up, spilling out and taking the cutlery with them.Upside down mugs and bowls, AND ESPECIALLY SAUCEPAN HANDLES etc placed on the (why can't I think of the name for this) draining rack thing after washing up with little pools of cold washing up water to drip all over the unsuspecting collector of said items for putting away! Gsrrrrggghh!
"Please may you"
I know you are trying to be polite but it actually riles me more than if you said "do this now"
The outer freezer door of my integrated fridge/freezer has started catching on the edge of the cupboard so needs adjusting. I can detach the outer door from the freezer door no problem, but the adjustments for the hinges are obscured by the freezer door. I can get to the hinge fixing screws with it open. I now have a choice of trying to take out the whole fridge freezer single handed or going through several (to probably too many) iterations of removing the hinge, tweaking the adjustment and refitting the hinge. Bah.
a willy-waving contest of how many silhouettes of the fallen (or of tanks and Lancaster bombers) you / your village can put up alongside ever more ostentatious poppy displays.
Like this
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy400y9ydqzo
The outer freezer door of my integrated fridge/freezer has started catching on the edge of the cupboard so needs adjusting.
Can you adjust the cupboard?
The BBC's ongoing war on the beef industry and showing misleading headlines that are actually about practices on another continent and bear almost nothing in common with UK industry.
People in supermarkets who can open the fridge / freezer doors but not close them again. It makes me wonder what their homes look like.
People in supermarkets who can open the fridge / freezer doors but not close them again. It makes me wonder what their homes look like.
Corollary: people in supermarkets who open glass freezer doors in order to see what's inside.
When you have a conversation with your other half about how chilly it is working in your north facing room even with a blanket over your legs, then come back home after taking elderly parents to a hospital appt and find that they've opened the window wide "to let some fresh air in".
I open the ****ing window at night when I'm not working in there, just stop ****ing interfering.
Being asked your opinion on something that you have no opinion on, and, when you finally give your opinion you end up in a row because the person who asked for your opinion already has their own opinion, which they absolutely have no intention of deviating from.
Example:
“What do you think of this as a present for X?”
“I don’t really know, yeah, they’ll like it I guess.”
“Why? It’s very expensive for what it is. Am I the only one who cares about cost?”
at 5pm.
*I have nothing against Remembrance Day at all, what I do object to is the way it's become a willy-waving contest of how many silhouettes of the fallen (or of tanks and Lancaster bombers) you / your village can put up alongside ever more ostentatious poppy displays.
Saw a VW Transporter with a bloody massive poppy attached to its grill this weekend. I think he's letting us know he's remembering extra hard.
" I think he's letting us know he's remembering extra hard. "
Pub near where I work. Their remembering game is strong. The poppy themed wheel trims on the railings are an extra nice touch.
" I think he's letting us know he's remembering extra hard. "
Pub near where I work. Their remembering game is strong. The poppy themed wheel trims on the railings are an extra nice touch.
At what point does it look gawdy and overdone?
I ****ing hate this time of year. Even as a veteran.
"At what point does it look gawdy and overdone?
I ****ing hate this time of year. Even as a veteran. "
That display is all year round. There's a battalion of silhouettes advancing across the grass verge opposite.
They're very remembery in Brinklow, Warwickshire.
I've just tried to renew my driving license online. Means getting a new GOV.UK One login. After 3 cookie acceptances, one security code to e-mail, one code to text message then a request to download an app, I thought, **** it I'll just go to the post offices, (which costs £7.50 extra!)
Except none of my local post offices offer the service because they need to take a photo.
What a monumental pain in the arse. Maybe I'll just risk getting the fine*
*Well no, I'm an honest citizen so I'll find my way through it, but I'll bet plenty wouldn't.
With my squinty eye sight it looks like they are all walking pygmy goats.
Anyway... Back to the OP.
The thing that makes me disproportionately cross today is the quirky cars driven by TV detectives. Started watching Dept. Q last night and it was excellent, other than him being given a 30 year old Sierra as a pool car.
I've just tried to renew my driving license on. Gave up after 3 cookie acceptances, one email security code, one text message security code and then a request to download a Gov.uk one login app. This was before I'd even got to the driving license site! So I thought, **** it, I'll just go to the post office for an extra £7.50 🤬 but none of our local branches offer this service because they have to take a photo in store.
What a ****ing monumental pain in the hoop. I imagine many people simply don't bother.
People who leave their shopping list in the trolley after they've unloaded it. And people who leave trolleys in parking spaces rather than at least pushing them to the path, let alone the collection point.
That the school in our street has to put traffic cones on the zig zags* and double yellows beside the entrance.
And still,the selfish,needy thickos will try drop offs at the gate.
There is ample(free)parking a three minute walk up the street.
*I can just imagine the fuss if they were fined and had three penalty points dumped on their license.
New one for me, or maybe new variation on an old one. When you switch internet provider (in this case the setup was done very efficiently, bang on time, with no more than an hour downtime between providers) but the boxes they provided don't work properly. So you call up support, and they say:
"I'm sorry, the installation order hasn't actually been closed yet, so you don't have an account number and I can't give you any support".
WTAF!!! My internet is (intermittently) right there! Clearly I'm connected and on your system! And it's your effing hardware that's making it intermittent - just tell me how I can disable this damn box and use my own network hardware!!
"I'm sorry, the installation order hasn't actually been closed yet, so you don't have an account number and I can't give you any support".
Frustrating as it may be, in and of itself this does make sense. Any given organisation may have different internal structures of course, but back when I worked for an MSP moving a customer from Installation into Support was a formal process requiring Acceptance Tests and a knowledge transfer. A botched install should and would be rejected by Support. Having worked in roles on both sides of this particular fence, I'm confident in saying that any attempt by Installations to go "we can't get it working so we'll hoof it into Support anyway and make it their problem" would have been met with my "so you ****ing think so" face.
Support's role is to field "it used to work and now it doesn't" type issues, there's nothing they can do if the problem is that the fibre is still on a roll in the boot of a Transmissions engineer's van. That said, what the Support tech should have done here is say "I can't give you any support directly yet, but I'll raise this as an issue with the Installations team" rather than just fobbing you off. It might not be in Support yet but it absolutely will be somewhere.
In your particular case, the handover could include some form of connectivity testing which requires specific results from a known CE endpoint (ie, your ONT or ISP-supplied router); using your own hardware could skew these results assuming it worked at all. Our day-to-day deployments would include an end-to-end performance test prior to final sign off; if there was a mismatch between the two ends, say the server was running version 2.67 of the performance tool and the client 2.61, then the results would be unreliable. The dead last thing Installations want is for either Support or the customer to be silently sodding about with things whilst the project is still in flight because Known variables suddenly aren't.
it's your effing hardware that's making it intermittent
I'd be interested to hear how you diagnosed that.
I'd expect that most front line 'tech' will have no means of diagnosing anything which isn't on their if-this-then-that scripts. Speaking with your first point of escalation to someone actually technical and providing a self-diagnosis of "I know with cast-iron certainty that it's a faulty router but I don't know how to go about setting up my own" would (quite rightly) be met with some degree of scepticism.
Also,
Granted we shipped Cisco and HPE kit rather than Middle Of Lidl routers, but it is very rarely a faulty router. It's a quick fix for Support, we'll send you out a new router if only to rule out that possibility (though of course the possibility of two faulty routers in succession is highly unlikely but non-zero).
When the warehouse was getting overrun I had my team bench-test a load of returned routers. Out of an entire pallet-load, there were maybe three or four which were actually faulty (excluding those RMAed from a recycling / waste disposal company, but that's a whole other story).
The thing that makes me disproportionately cross today is the quirky cars driven by TV detectives. Started watching Dept. Q last night and it was excellent, other than him being given a 30 year old Sierra as a pool car.
Two different Sierras, amazingly (or not, they are '80s Fords) without those weird Ford keys.
The Pikeys across the road seem to be unloading about ten grands worth of ordnance at the monent, how they can afford it I don't know.
My dogs usualy pretty tollerant of fireworks but he's shaking now and I'm tempted to go over and start smashing some peoples teeth out.
Also, 30 years ago was 1995. Sierras were two years out of production by then.
those weird Ford keys.
They're called Tibbe keys. The Sierra pre-dates them, its run ended in 1993 and Tibbe was 90s tech. Later model Sierras may have had them, I don't know for sure. I want to say the first time I saw that key style was on a Sapphire but I may have made that up. My 1995 Scorpio used Tibbe keys.
The Pikeys across the road seem to be unloading about ten grands worth of ordinance at the monent, how they can afford it I don't know.
My dogs usualy pretty tollerant of fireworks but he's shaking now and I'm tempted to go over and start smashing some peoples teeth out.
My greyhound is fairly distressed by similar behaviour. I truly hope one of them loses some fingers or an eye.
The Pikeys across the road seem to be unloading about ten grands worth of ordinance at the monent, how they can afford it I don't know.
My dogs usualy pretty tollerant of fireworks but he's shaking now and I'm tempted to go over and start smashing some peoples teeth out.
My greyhound is fairly distressed by similar behaviour. I truly hope one of them loses some fingers or an eye.
Thankfully (for them) they seem to have run out now, so I won't be up on attempted murder charges in the morning.
I've just tried to renew my driving license on. Gave up after 3 cookie acceptances, one email security code, one text message security code and then a request to download a Gov.uk one login app. This was before I'd even got to the driving license site! So I thought, **** it, I'll just go to the post office for an extra £7.50 🤬 but none of our local branches offer this service because they have to take a photo in store.
What a ****ing monumental pain in the hoop. I imagine many people simply don't bother.
Haha yes that's what happened to me although I was luckier and the post office within a short bike ride distance away was able to offer the service.
Thankfully (for them) they seem to have run out now, so I won't be up on attempted murder charges in the morning.
... at 9:15pm on November 5th?
Thankfully (for them) they seem to have run out now, so I won't be up on attempted murder charges in the morning.
... at 9:15pm on November 5th?
It's OK, I've calmed down now lol, the dog is sleeping and I'm listening to a bit of radio 2 whilst trash talking on the internets.
Normal service has resumed 😎
this is the 'disproportionately-cross' thread, right?
Also on the subject of cop show cars... when they take out the rear view mirror for head on shots of the occupants, and then put it back in for forward facing shots. Or, in the case of Dept. Q, put it back in digitally. Badly.
this is the 'disproportionately-cross' thread, right?
Good point, well made.
Also on the subject of cop show cars...
Cop shows are particularly bad for this but,
Why is there not a single actor on the planet who when handed a cup of coffee can act as though it's full? "Here's your coffee boss" - thanks - immediately tips it to their face with the cup approaching horizontal.
Not locking their computers. I can't nip to the brew machine without having to enter a million character password to get back in.
Also, laptops that are never pugged in.
On that note, I have a new W11 laptop that requires me to set a PIN (separate to my network password) to lock/unlock it. Fine, I thought, I'll use my usual trick of a phone number from my childhood that I can still remember. But, oh no, it has to be a 12 digit PIN. 12 digits! That's mental.
it's your effing hardware that's making it intermittent
I'd be interested to hear how you diagnosed that.
Eventually, plugging ONT directly into my pre-existing router, and cutting the ISP-supplied modem/router out entirely. Putting their modem into bridge mode made it inaccessible either directly or through the router; and for about 5 minutes every 2 hours, it stopped supplying internet to anything in the house, despite both ONT and modem saying they had internet.
Probably not defective (as in broken) hardware, but clearly something in its firmware was not behaving in a sensible manner; even when compared to something like a Virgin box.