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Post by kerouac2 on May 31, 2023 12:28:35 GMT
They do that in Paris, too, but not for so many years. For six months there was a huge sign in my street warning that a certain intersection was going to be closed for one night.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 12, 2023 10:46:09 GMT
In the next town to me is a big yellow sign directing you to the Covid 19 vaccination centre.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 12, 2023 17:51:27 GMT
Maybe they figure there is no point in taking it down, as it could be needed again.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 20, 2023 8:20:52 GMT
Contrary to Leicester City Council's boasts, our area does NOT have superfast broadband...fibre has been laid but our area of the city hasn't been connected yet. What is REALLY annoying is the fact that the wealthier areas are connected ! indeed the factories and offices less than 50 metres away are all getting the superfast fibre service. We are struggling along with a ridiculously poor service...it drops out all the time. What's worse is that my darling husband is constantly downloading music software...sound effects etc (he's going through a Mike Oldfield phase) hogging all of the service so that I can't get online...Very grumpy Cheery fed up.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 20, 2023 8:36:46 GMT
In "egalitarian" France they generally made a point of connecting a poor area for every rich area they connected. That's probably why I got the fibre relatively quickly. Now all four companies have brought the fibre to my shitty little building, which is certainly overkill. There are only 7 flats in it!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 21, 2023 21:31:36 GMT
Tomorrow he's going to be downloading some big files again. After son and I had a massive strop yesterday he paused his latest mega downloads for a few hours today. Deep joy.
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Post by bjd on Aug 16, 2023 5:53:52 GMT
I saw a new word the other day: jorts. These are supposedly knee-length denim shorts. What is with these people -- are words of more than one syllable too difficult? Some portmanteau words are okay but this shortening of everything really drives me nuts.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 16, 2023 6:20:58 GMT
Tomorrow he's going to be downloading some big files again. After son and I had a massive strop yesterday he paused his latest mega downloads for a few hours today. Deep joy. Hell is other people. Jorts must be a takeoff on jeggings, a term which actually makes sense. My pet peeve is how newspapers, right in the middle of an article, will insert headlines & mini precis of other articles. You'll be raptly reading along, only to come upon that other stuff and think, "That's it? The story ends here?" No, there is more to the article, but you have to be interrupted to be told that there are other articles, too, because it's a newspaper and all!
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 23, 2023 2:45:51 GMT
Microsoft's continuous clumsy foisting of crap I don't want on me: B ing. Assistant etc. But neck to neck with that annoyance is the constant removal of icons I want on my taskbar. We're allowed to pick. I picked. Now leave them the @^#$&* alone! What fussbudgety programming makes it butt in to remove the power icon, the volume icon, the connection icon?? Who doesn't want those on the taskbar?!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 23, 2023 5:27:44 GMT
I am definitely keeping Windows 7 shell.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 26, 2023 3:48:40 GMT
My pet peeve was on the trip back from France. Took us 12 hours. Some traffic jam but we had to stop because of the dog. We had a bbq the day before and somebody gave the bone to Man (our daughter's dog). That idiot left it to be picked up by our dog who cleaned it. Plus she stole some beef. That she hardly chewed because she never does just gulping it down like she is never fed. Which may beca chronic cause to bzd digestion. So the next day in the car there was a strong odor from the back. Yup. Mrs Birdy could not control herself and just pooed in the car. Stop. Cleaning it. Then she threwed up. Stop. Cleaning the car. Then she farted. And she smelled. How boy she did smell. Lovely trip indeed 🤢🤢🤢 Today i washed her. With the waterhose and a lot of dog shampoo. Now she smells the odor of wet dog...
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 26, 2023 4:32:08 GMT
A close friend of mine had a dog who was always hyper and neurotic. We took a ride up into the mountains in my car. Goldie (the dog) was out of puppyhood but not grown -- was the size of & looked like a dalmatian. Sure enough, she got elaborately carsick in the back seat. We were up in the dry mountains where there was no place to pull over, so we could only roll down all the windows to try to deal with the odor.
Cleaning the car later was a laugh a minute and involved pulling the back seat completely out.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 21, 2023 16:46:56 GMT
I just spent 4 hours driving avoiding most of the traffic jams and am stuck 1700 m from home.
Grrrrrrrrrrrr 😡😡😡😡😡😡
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Post by Kimby on Sept 21, 2023 23:52:55 GMT
I’m still, again and always peeved at electronic touch screens that load a page and then after your finger is on its way to touch the screen the image jumps so that you end up poking an ad, or something else you don’t want to look it. Grrrr!
I just can’t seem to learn to wait till it’s done jumping around to go about my business.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 23, 2023 7:50:06 GMT
Yesterday. Talking to son and OH about his treatment, which is an infusion.
OH: 'Well technically it's a vaccine...saline is a vaccine, a blood transfusion is a vaccine...anything that goes into you..is injected into you...is a vaccine"...
Me: 'Nope'
OH: 'Yes it is..it's all vaccines when you think about it'
Me: (quoting from google because OH doesnt think that I know anything at all) 'A vaccine is designed to confer immunity to specific pathogen..'
OH: "well I don't care. I'm right"
No husbands were stabbed during this discussion....but only because the knives were all in the kitchen...
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Post by whatagain on Sept 23, 2023 13:16:19 GMT
👍 My pet peeve is phone harassment. A woman called me at 9 30. Then 10 30 I finally picked up at 14 30 since they was stuck in a line at recycling park. ´we are so happy to tell you you have been selected to get a gift at’ ´ I don’t care and I don’t like to be woken up on a Saturday morning just leave me aloné Click. Somztimes I feel sorry for those people doing that job. But not today.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 23, 2023 13:27:20 GMT
I almost never pick up but when I do I often ask "are you calling to give me money?" When they hesitate, I just say, "okay, goodbye" and hang up.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 27, 2023 8:08:43 GMT
I usually only pick up if I recognise the number...but sometimes I forget and answer a call. If its obviously a scam I hang up, if it's a local business touting for work I'm a teeny bit more polite, we never sign up for anything.... I hate cold calls.
The TPS (telephone preference service) is supposed to stop cold calling but it doesn't seem to work.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 27, 2023 9:10:40 GMT
It doesn't work in France either.
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Post by onlyMark on Sept 27, 2023 11:44:07 GMT
If it's a number I don't know I will often answer but not say anything. I want them to start the conversation otherwise it generally is a computer that is activated with its spiel when you speak. That's how it is is Germany and Spain.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 27, 2023 15:16:39 GMT
I used to get them at work and if I was in the mood I’d start a conversation on anything but the subject on their script (weather, cricket etc). They soon hung up.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 27, 2023 16:26:35 GMT
There must still be a small percentage of victims (old people and the mentally impaired) or they would not keep calling. This said, a few years ago I actually stayed on the line long enough to accept the product proposed. I was on the verge of hanging up, but it was Orange calling, of which I am a customer for all of my electronic media. Even though I was beginning to be aggressive, the woman told me she was calling about getting an optical fibre connection, something that I was sure to want before long. And she clinched the deal by saying that I would be paying less for signing up, which turned out to be true. I wonder if I have missed out on other good deal by hanging up immediately. I doubt it.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 27, 2023 16:31:02 GMT
I got the same voice mispronuncing my name again. But from La Louvière not Liege. So picked up. Upon realising what she wanted I told her I was in a meeting. Which was true but she kept on saying she would be fast. I hung up.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 27, 2023 16:37:28 GMT
My pet peeve was an official car. Plate 20. Normally plate with low numbers are from royals. 1 is the king. So it was escorted by 4 police bikes. Plus a taxi. We were in a traffic jam so they invented a 4th lane by pushing us left and right. Ok. Then took highway a12 and I followed. Caught up with them and started to overtake them. A cop went on my lane blocking me and making clear I could not overtake. And they drove at 65 kph when we can 90 and later 120. So they blocked the bloody highway for every taxpayer by driving at their leisure pace of a snail ! I was real upset. I hate privilèges and this one is abuse !
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 27, 2023 16:54:05 GMT
At work we had a red phone to be used in case of a major incident. We had it installed after the Kegworth air disaster when the lab couldn't get through to the blood transfusion centre in Sheffield to request supplies of blood because the hospital's lines were all blocked with enquiries from families, press and the public. The red phone wasn't listed as a lab number and bypassed the hospital's switchboard. This meant that in a dire emergency we could phone Sheffield directly. Despite being ex-directory as well we still got the occasional telesales call. Even when we would explain that they were ringing an emergency number into a hospital lab the callers would still carry on with their sales pitch! Morons...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 27, 2023 16:59:21 GMT
The car holding up all the traffic sounds very annoying Whatagain. The only time that's happened here was when the Queen came to the city. The Leicester mayor has a Rolls with the numberplate 'MAYOR 1' I think altho I haven't seen it for a while.
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Post by onlyMark on Sept 27, 2023 17:19:39 GMT
When my father was suffering from dementia but living alone he became a target for cold/scam callers. Must have been on a list somewhere. After he died and I was in the house renovating it for a few weeks the phone would ring several times a day. I ended up having a lot of fun winding them up, asking things like do you know this man because he's just been found dead under suspicious circumstances, I am the police and I want to trace all those who have been in contact with him. Give me you name and address so an officer can visit you...... etc etc.
Also, I'm glad you've rung. I need someone to talk to. I'm feeling suicidal......... Are you aware of the promotion we are offering today? You only have to say no and you will be automatically signed up for a free subscription to Lawn Care weekly. If you don't cancel after a month the fee is fifty pounds a month.......... Happy Ending sexual supplies store. Can I have your order please...... What are you wearing...... This is a British telecom premium line. Calls to this number cost seven pounds a minute. Do you wish to continue......
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Post by patricklondon on Sept 27, 2023 17:30:01 GMT
One line I heard of was to put on a panicky whisper and say "It's done - but there's blood everywhere". Or to play along with the people who say they're from Microsoft and want you to open Windows. After keeping them waiting for a few minutes...."That's all the windows open but can you be quick, it's very draughty..what do you mean, windows in my computer, I can't see any" - etc etc My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 27, 2023 17:32:18 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Sept 27, 2023 17:56:35 GMT
installed after the Kegworth air disaster Got delayed replying and then saw your post. I got called to that as a major incident because of the cooperation between surrounding forces. At the time and because of the confusion, plus the thought of sending as many emergency service personnel as you could as you could always cancel them later, I was a specialist in fatal road accidents (in our Force there were only three of us anyway and we covered the main three shifts) but when nearly there the situation soon became clearer and I wasn't needed, so turned around and went back. I'm glad in a way I didn't attend.
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