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Post by MartinT on Nov 26, 2019 8:05:26 GMT
...after the sale!
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Post by Slinger on Dec 26, 2019 16:26:45 GMT
Just for the craic I was toying with the idea of trying out a Schiit Wyrd; they're advertised at $49.00 on the schiit.com site. I looked up their European site and found the Wyrd. It's £110.00 and it's not even a new one, it's a "graded" product, so it may have some scratches etc. WTF?
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Post by Slinger on Jan 8, 2020 3:41:12 GMT
Power cuts that make you miss the end of the program you were watching, the whole of the program in the series you've been following, and the first episode of a series that looks promising... and then turn all of your lights etc. on at some unholy hour of the morning which means you have to get up and turn everything off again, which means that you're wide bloody awake.
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Post by MartinT on Jan 8, 2020 6:09:02 GMT
I had a weird nightmare last night. Any connection?
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Post by Slinger on Feb 9, 2020 13:51:18 GMT
Weekends like this one.
Around four this morning I woke up feeling a bit chilly. Went downstairs to find that the boiler had packed up, again. Last time the man who came to fix it told me he'd found "something" that "might" have been causing the problem. It ran for a few weeks... until around 4 this morning in fact. The bad news is that the engineer told me that if it was "serious" it would need a new control board. That, apparently, involves him attending again so he can ring the manufacturer "from on-site" to arrange for them to come and change the board. When I queried the logic of that I was informed that said manufacturer offers a 7-year warranty. "That's why we fit them," he cheerily told me. I've had the bloody thing 18 months.
Of course, it didn't stop there. As I was up at I thought I'd get a drink before going back to bed. I opened the fridge and managed, somehow, to dislodge a tub of Sainsbury's finest "Butterlicious" spread. Between fridge and floor, all of three or four feet, the tub managed to shed its lid. It was a brand new tub. Do I need to tell you which way up it landed? No? I thought not. Cleared the spread off of the floor, retired to bed. I never did remember the drink.
The large-ish blister-like lump which I recently discovered on my left ankle, and was monitoring, *burst* on Friday. It seems to be healing OK with the application of liberal dollops of antiseptic cream during the day and wound-cream at night. It's still quite red and very sore. If it doesn't properly heal soon I'll be troubling my GP.
My Bowel Cancer screening kit turned up yesterday, as did a letter from my GP's surgery inviting me to pop in for a blood pressure test. Not a great deal of good as I suffer from "white coat" syndrome, and take my own blood pressure readings at home.
I'm currently warming the living room with a halogen heater that is probably as bright as a WW2 anti-aircraft searchlight. It even swivels like one. Useless for the bedroom as searchlights are not exactly conducive to sleep
Consequently, I've just had to order a portable radiator for the bedroom, but that won't be here until tomorrow so I shall just have to bundle up in bed tonight.
Don't you wish that sometimes you could just flip a switch and make the bloody day go away?
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 9, 2020 14:05:09 GMT
Been babying the gas heating boiler along as every few days I was getting up to no heat. Check pressure. If .9 top up to 1.2 Sorted !
Except yesterday I noticed the bird food bag in the boiler cupboard was wet underneath. Could the boiler be leaking...
Daylight today bird food, dog food and various out of the boiler cupboard. These bags are heavy Yes water all over. Assume the boiler is leaking water. Not wet on its underside so guessed where it might leak from and put a bucket under Call to our man James tomorrow.
Good news is we have heat !
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Post by MartinT on Feb 9, 2020 14:17:48 GMT
Don't you wish that sometimes you could just flip a switch and make the bloody day go away? Yes, I've definitely had days like that. Sympathy with the cancer and blood kits, but you know it's the right thing to do whatever the outcome.
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Post by Slinger on Mar 7, 2020 14:39:41 GMT
Did you know that Sainsbury's don't allow you to reach their customer services department by email any more? The choices are phone, Facebook Messenger, Twitter, or "BSL" which I take to mean British Sign Language. How absolutely bloody ridiculous that I either have to listen to their awful on-hold music for an age, let everyone see my complaint (without enough available characters to detail it properly) on Twitter or invoke Farcebook messenger, which I have deliberately switched off.
If I could find a suitable way to complain, I would.
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Post by Slinger on Mar 17, 2020 15:21:10 GMT
Do you know what I didn't need today? What turned out to be a very apologetic wrong number which my caller-ID had flagged up as being from KENT COUNTY CORONER'S OFFICE.
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 17, 2020 15:59:17 GMT
Whoa. Glad I don't have caller ID
Noticed the Indian accented Dave from Microsoft and Susan from BT calls have stopped recently One wonders why
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Post by Slinger on Mar 17, 2020 16:26:47 GMT
I had an Indian named "Geoff" earlier today. He was from "the warranty" department - no particular company, just the warranty department - and was calling about my washing machine. He got very short shrift.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2020 16:31:58 GMT
I had a call apparently that was from HMRC last week saying that I was being investigated for tax fraud and a warrant for my arrest would be issued immediately unless I pressed 1 and gave them my details - funnily I just hung up.
Following the call I had a look on the HMRC website and there was a note about this con, apparently after pressing 1 they will ask you for a sizeable amount of money to be paid immediately by credit card. So many people have apparently fallen for this con.
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Post by petea on Mar 17, 2020 21:19:17 GMT
I had an Indian named "Geoff" earlier today. He was from "the warranty" department - no particular company, just the warranty department - and was calling about my washing machine. He got very short shrift. Now you see you were way too hasty there. If you'd only listened longer you'd have found out that the reason your shrift is so short is because there's a problem with the temperature controller on your washing machine.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 6, 2020 16:55:12 GMT
Ringing the Pharmacy to double-check that my prescription was being delivered today (there have been a couple of foul-ups lately, we've got a new pharmacist) and being told that they'd had to stop delivering on Mondays because they were so busy, so instead of Monday and Thursday they were now delivering on Saturday and Thursday, but they couldn't deliver on Saturday as they're still waiting for one of my medications. Luckily I've got a few " spares" of some of the drugs I take, but not all of them, and my supply runs out on Tuesday, tomorrow. Needless to say, the drug that they're waiting for is the one for which I have an abundance of spares. Annoyingly I'd just sent them a rather nice box of fudge set to arrive at Easter, to thank them for everything they do for Mum and me. They've obviously eaten all of the bloody biscuits I sent them at Christmas.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 29, 2020 19:15:09 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Apr 29, 2020 19:50:26 GMT
I'm sure they're just bending to the mass of internet illiterates who always thought it was one space between sentences.
I'm sure the setting will remain where you can tell grammar checker how many spaces there should be. By the way, I always type two spaces between sentences on forums where frequently HTML just removes the effect of one of them. As in this paragraph.
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Post by Pinch on Apr 29, 2020 19:57:47 GMT
Sorry guys, I'm with Bill all the way on this one. The double space at the end of a sentence is a clunky anachronism which should have been buried long ago.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 29, 2020 20:19:50 GMT
Sorry guys, I'm with Bill all the way on this one. The double space at the end of a sentence is a clunky anachronism which should have been buried long ago. HUH! They say the same about Martin, but he's still here.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 29, 2020 20:31:09 GMT
I resemble that remark.
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Post by ChrisB on May 4, 2020 7:32:08 GMT
Global pandemic!!!!!! Ggrrrrrrrrrrr.
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