WAMT....what annoyed me today!

[Cockney]

Talking about bass. If people who insist on playing loud(ish) music at home with, in summer, the windows open, if they thought to turn the bass down it wouldn't be so bad for the neighbours. I'm sure you'll know that it's the long wavelength of a deep sound that makes it carry...that and a lower absorption rate into the environment than higher notes You can get away from loud music to a point where all you can hear is the bass. It's why whales are able communicate very long distances across the oceans because of the low frequency sounds they have adapted along with the fact that sound travels much further and faster in water. There's probably more to it than that but turn the bass down and it will save a lot of annoyance.

By the way. Last week, I saw a kid of about 10 years old on TV playing drums. He was brilliant and I wondered about neighbouyrs because he'd need a lot of practice. Maybe did it in a local village hall.

Yep. That's why I said Bass.

 

[JohnC6]

I got this Email from DPD this morning re my my Canon EF 24-105 f4 L which is due to arrive tomorrow. I hope the driver will ring the doorbell. I'd have felt happier if it had been prefixed with...."if no reply." as it is, this is what it read.

"We won't ask you to sign for your parcel, we'll take a photo of it instead in your open doorway as proof it has been delivered."

I've read on here where a note has been pushed through the door .."No reply" when the person who posted it was at home. I recall someone else saying that they heard the note being pushed through the door, went out to see the driver getting back in his van and the item..an expensive one, on the doorstep.

There were options, one being..'If you're not in ,we will deliver to a safe place as specified'. The options for that are.. Front Porch..we don't have one..Garage (it's locked)..shed/outbuilding..(the shed is in the back garden and can't be easily accessed (an 8' wooden side-gate) .Rear porch.... there isn't one. There was a box for,.. "other safe place". There isn't one. The other option and the most likely one , is as outlined in their message above...ie.. 'Take a photo of it on the doorstep'. This is why I never order anything unless I know I'll be at home for the following few days. Deliveries are better organised now and I'm sure the driver will send me notification as he gets closer to my home and I'll be keeping an eye out for that and when he's close, get a cuppa and a garden chair and sit out on the front drive......or if it's raining keep a watch from the livingroom...

 

[Marc]

One of the grab rails in the bathroom broke. It literally shattered!

 

[Sky]

One of the grab rails in the bathroom broke. It literally shattered!

I feel for you - hopefully, you didn't hurt yourself?

The builders that fitted mine (new build) never used the proper fixings and I pulled one clean off the wall.

 

[Marc]

I feel for you - hopefully, you didn't hurt yourself?

The builders that fitted mine (new build) never used the proper fixings and I pulled one clean off the wall.

Fortunately I never got up by more than a couple of inches before it broke. Noticed that there are 4 screw holes at each end but only 2 were used when fitting it. That said, it was the actual rail that snapped. Wouldn't have thought that was even possible!

 

[the black fox]

What is really totally and utterly ppppping me off is adverts for toilet paper being broadcast at tea time . Nothing worse than eating an evening meal and seeing someone on the obvious way to the s***ter bog roll in hand .. does it really need advertising at all in fact ,we all ? Hopefully need it ,it’s readily Available in every supermarket.and most people will have there fave brand based on price or comfort

 

[swanseamale47]

Builders! So far today my kitchen fitters have shorted out the electric and killed my fridge. Wayne is not a Happy bunny.

 

[Pixbarmy]

One of the grab rails in the bathroom broke. It literally shattered!

No doubt plastic? I worry about all the plastics being used in vehicles. Car gearchange linkages, heaters, door locks and handles are a mass of brittle plastics, which get more brittle as they age. Same goes for drainage pipes, gutters, downpipes etc. Don't lean a ladder on them!!!

 

[Pixbarmy]

What is really totally and utterly ppppping me off is adverts for toilet paper being broadcast at tea time . Nothing worse than eating an evening meal and seeing someone on the obvious way to the s***ter bog roll in hand .. does it really need advertising at all in fact ,we all ? Hopefully need it ,it’s readily Available in every supermarket.and most people will have there fave brand based on price or comfort

Not just toilet paper! "Bum" adverts for all sorts of "products" with fat ass*s wiggling all over the place, do not "entertain or inform" me!

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

I worry about all the plastics being used in vehicles.

There are plastics and there are plastics.

A lot of the bodywork and even mechanical fittings of my ten year old Hyundai are plastic and there's no sign of them wearing out. When I think back to how some of my cars in the 1960s and 1970s rusted out, I'm sure that modern plastics are a lot tougher.

 

[Box Brownie]

Re: construction 'plastics'

Don't forget the current and most modern Boeing and Airbus aircraft have one heck of a lot of synthetic materials in the airframes including the wings!

 

[Pixbarmy]

Re: construction 'plastics'

Don't forget the current and most modern Boeing and Airbus aircraft have one heck of a lot of synthetic materials in the airframes including the wings!

Boeing, boing, boing!

 

[swanseamale47]

Come down this morning to find a puddle of water on the kitchen floor, builders have done something to a pipe somewhere. Ahhggggg!

 

[Pixbarmy]

BBC reporting on the FCA's financial lives survey about the amount of people with no savings. Whatever happened to granny's sayings of "if you can't afford it, don't buy it" and "cut your coat according to your cloth". We are pressured into buying syuff that we want, rather than things we need, these days, so take out loans, which make the bankers and moneylenders richer and us poorer in the long run. I remember teaching some kids basic maths some years ago and the "compound interest" lesson had them fascinated and shocked!

 

[Box Brownie]

BBC reporting on the FCA's financial lives survey about the amount of people with no savings. Whatever happened to granny's sayings of "if you can't afford it, don't buy it" and "cut your coat according to your cloth". We are pressured into buying syuff that we want, rather than things we need, these days, so take out loans, which make the bankers and moneylenders richer and us poorer in the long run. I remember teaching some kids basic maths some years ago and the "compound interest" lesson had them fascinated and shocked!

In our increasingly 'consumer' society, it will always be want not need!

The result for many will 'short term gain and long term pain'.

Sadly, in our now connected world and the "algorithms" I cannot see it being easy for lots of folk to control the buying urge

 

[woof woof]

Deep sigh.

Driving home this morning a car turned right onto the road I was on and because of parked cars on his side he came at me on my side of the road causing me to not exactly do an emergency stop but a pretty brisk one. I had seen him waiting to pull out but I didn't think he was going to do it. This is all par for the course but I am trying to work out how it was all my fault and why I deserved the abusive gesture. What a Grade 1 A-Hole. We've all pulled out when we shouldn't have, that's not the issue, the issue is the attitude and abusive gesture. Why not just acknowledge you've got it wrong and give a friendly apologetic wave?

Luckily Mrs WW wasn't in the car as she really takes these incidents to heart. I get over them quickly enough, I've just accepted that there are a lot of idiots about.

 

[Mozthecat]

In our increasingly 'consumer' society, it will always be want not need!

The result for many will 'short term gain and long term pain'.

Sadly, in our now connected world and the "algorithms" I cannot see it being easy for lots of folk to control the buying urge

There is also a much wider social conditioning, want to get a higher education without wealthy parents(or more commonly grandparents in my experience), saddle yourself with debt and get used to living in student overdrafts and credit cards. Especially since many unis actively discourage term time part time jobs as a distraction from your course.

Want a reasonably reliable car, saddle yourself with debt.


These type of actions have made debt much less of a boogieman and many people under 40ish just don’t have the same mindset over it and that makes buy now pay later, loans and credit cards much easier to self justify.

 

[woof woof]

I know people who have no savings or very little and yet they constantly spend and often on things that could be avoided if they had any self control, but they haven't. Little example. Spaff £25 you can't really afford in a cafe whilst fiddling with your top end smartphone or take a snack and drink with you or wait until you get home? Some seem to feel entitled to a lifestyle and things they really can't afford without living hand to mouth and running up debt.

It annoys me when people self inflicted with unnecessary debt complain about interest rates, what about people who rely on their savings to live? Savers seem pretty much back of the queue.

 

[Cockney]

Rotherham taxi drivers with no passengers. Doing 5 mph so they use as little fuel as possible.

 

[tijuana taxi]

Charged £4.30 at Addenbrookes Hospital car park for a stay of 46 minutes.

 

[LCPete]

Deep sigh.

Driving home this morning a car turned right onto the road I was on and because of parked cars on his side he came at me on my side of the road causing me to not exactly do an emergency stop but a pretty brisk one. I had seen him waiting to pull out but I didn't think he was going to do it. This is all par for the course but I am trying to work out how it was all my fault and why I deserved the abusive gesture. What a Grade 1 A-Hole. We've all pulled out when we shouldn't have, that's not the issue, the issue is the attitude and abusive gesture. Why not just acknowledge you've got it wrong and give a friendly apologetic wave?

Luckily Mrs WW wasn't in the car as she really takes these incidents to heart. I get over them quickly enough, I've just accepted that there are a lot of idiots about.

Unfortunately there are a lot of entitled idiots driving, my wife and I were walking back through the car park at Chester zoo the other day when a young woman drove at us and a young couple with a buggy while we was using the zebra crossing
She just drove through didn’t attempt to stop

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

Rotherham taxi drivers with no passengers. Doing 5 mph so they use as little fuel as possible.

I've seen plenty of cabs doing something like that in central London. Are you sure they weren't just looking for fares?

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

Unfortunately there are a lot of entitled idiots driving, my wife and I were walking back through the car park at Chester zoo the other day when a young woman drove at us and a young couple with a buggy while we was using the zebra crossing
She just drove through didn’t attempt to stop

Hope you got the number!

 

[LCPete]

Hope you got the number!

Unfortunately I didn’t think of it until afterwards

 

[Box Brownie]

Hope you got the number!

Unfortunately I didn’t think of it until afterwards

Various places will have their car parks under CCTV surveillance......the system may have caught the t*** on film but will do nothing with it without someone reporting a problem.

 

[woof woof]

Unfortunately there are a lot of entitled idiots driving, my wife and I were walking back through the car park at Chester zoo the other day when a young woman drove at us and a young couple with a buggy while we was using the zebra crossing
She just drove through didn’t attempt to stop

I was crossing a road yesterday when a woman drove past about 6ft in front of me. The lights must have been on red for easily more than 5 seconds so she can't have been an amber gambler, she must have gone through a clear red. I was a bit stunned, it wasn't a close call but I'd been totally unaware and just wasn't expecting her to drive through. If I'd been close enough I'd have given her car a kick or a thump. This reminded me of when I had a closer call and I did give the car an almighty whack and the woman (again) just carried on showing no awareness of me or the whack I gave her car.

 

[Nod]

Unfortunately there are a lot of entitled idiots driving, my wife and I were walking back through the car park at Chester zoo the other day when a young woman drove at us and a young couple with a buggy while we was using the zebra crossing
She just drove through didn’t attempt to stop

A hefty fist to the car's roof as it passes gets their attention.

 

[Bletch]

McDonalds - Sausage muffin & coffee deal seems to have disappeared off the menu. Was a bit of a bargain at £2.89. I won't be buying the regular priced version, that would cost over five quid.

 

[woof woof]

Microsoft... I'm very very angry. I'm sick of updates changing setting and appearances. Sick of it.

Today I opened my email and the tool bar was gone. WTF? So I googled instructions on how to get it back and none of them are workable. They point to icons which don't exist on my screen or drop down menu options that don't exist in my drop down menus. I've found a way to call the tool bar back into existence (press ALT) but it wont stick and just disappears when I do anything or reload so I need to pin it somehow so that I don't have to keep pressing ALT and again all the instructions show icons and menu options that don't exist on my screen. So I've wasted an hour or my time and I'm very very annoyed.

Wouldn't it be great if this stuff just worked without pretty much constant fiddling?

 

[woof woof]

Par for the course isn't it John?

I've fixed it but I can't really say how and something else is bound to happen sooner or later. I wonder how many people waste how much time on this sort of thing.

 

[JohnC6]

Get an iMac, Alan...

Years ago, I had a lot of problems with Windows (my first computer) and my good neighbour came round several times to bail me out.. Eventually he urged me to buy an iMac. He's always had them and told me that he's never experienced the number of problems I did. As I recall, I don't think he experienced any.

I can tell you a funny tale. My wife was obviously aware of the problems I was having, getting very frustrated and vowing to give up and remain in the Stone Age..lol. I had a lot of problems exchanging storm photos with fellow enthusiasts. On the day my neighbour suggested I get an iMac, after two hours trying to sort out my desktop PC (I can't recall what it was...a Dell ..maybe. ?) my wife suggested we take a break, made us a cuppa and said she needed to go to the shops. 45 minutes later she returned with a 24" iMac. I have the 27" one now. My neighbour was shocked..lol. He soon had it up and running. Now, both my wife and myself have iMacs.

 

[woof woof]

Yup.

Part of the problem is me because I worked in the industry for years and just got sick of the sight of them and now I have no interest and no patience with the niggles that so regularly crop up. I do try and remember that all those years working with these hateful things did pay for my early retirement so although I very quickly get annoyed I usually calm down again pretty quickly

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

There was a time when anything that went wrong with a computer was easily fixed, even if you had to nip to the electronics shop in town, to buy a component or two.

Now they consist of layer upon layer of programming, most of which is proprietary. Even if it's open source, it'll often take you a couple of months to get your head around the language used. As for the hardware, the tools and specialised knowledge required to troubleshoot a motherboard makes buying a new one by far the best option.

However, most of us coders who started in the late 'seventies / early 'eighties have done very nicely out of the things, so we really shouldn't complain.

 

[ancient_mariner]

However, most of us coders who started in the late 'seventies / early 'eighties have sone very nicely out of the things, so we really shouldn't complain.

I'm reminded of a line by Joe Walsh "I can't complain, but sometimes I still do".

 

[the black fox]

DHL have totally peed me off today , got an expensive lens that’s been sent via this bunch of monkeys , tracking shows loaded on delivery van at 6.40 am this morning and that’s it .. do I go out and miss it ,or stay in ..in the hope it’s delivered today

and a few minutes after I posted this it turned up .ah well

 

[woof woof]

There was a time when anything that went wrong with a computer was easily fixed, even if you had to nip to the electronics shop in town, to buy a component or two.

Now they consist of layer upon layer of programming, most of which is proprietary. Even if it's open source, it'll often take you a couple of months to get your head around the language used. As for the hardware, the tools and specialised knowledge required to troubleshoot a motherboard makes buying a new one by far the best option.

However, most of us coders who started in the late 'seventies / early 'eighties have done very nicely out of the things, so we really shouldn't complain.

I spent years fixing to component level and then went into field service and still carried on fixing to component level. I'd put stuff in the car and take it home, fix it and take it back the next morning. I've always thought that the ideal was to find the fault, fix it and know what you've done to fix it but these days that's not always the case and I can understand why. These days a lot of stuff is still fixable if you can get hold of the components but it's very often not economically viable.

 

[Yardbent]

STATUS My iPhone battery has failed - flat and wont charge

ACTION just spent a fruitless hour trying to CANCEL my ''mobile phone contact'' number on Tesco, eBay, Amazon etc

they all ALL require a Verification Code sent to .......yep, you guessed it.!!

 

[ancient_mariner]

STATUS My iPhone battery has failed - flat and wont charge

ACTION just spent a fruitless hour trying to CANCEL my ''mobile phone contact'' number on Tesco, eBay, Amazon etc

they all ALL require a Verification Code sent to .......yep, you guessed it.!!

Do you have a partner with a phone that can take 2 SIM cards?

 

[Yardbent]

Do you have a partner with a phone that can take 2 SIM cards?

no, but I'll ask my bro (in Hereford unfortunately)

 

[Eucris]

STATUS My iPhone battery has failed - flat and wont charge

ACTION just spent a fruitless hour trying to CANCEL my ''mobile phone contact'' number on Tesco, eBay, Amazon etc

they all ALL require a Verification Code sent to .......yep, you guessed it.!!

Can't you get the PIN number sent to an email address or your landline number? The sites that I use give me alternative choices if I can't use my mobile.