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People making cellphone calls on public transport using video mode, which involves holding the device at arm's length and speaking very loudly. That's irritating enough, but some of these 'conversations' would be far better if they were kept private!
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They may make a good you tube Chanel though
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I surmise that is an Amazon Merchant?
I wonder if that should be reported to Amazon.......as perhaps against their "Merchant rules"???
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I think I recall either on a TV program(fictional) or indeed 'reported as a real life happening'.........of someone, irritated by the behaviour, said loudly along the lines of (not quoting....but aimed at making extreme embarrassment) "she needs to finish the call now.......as due in the studio for her nude shots....." :banghead:
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I got an email from Hermes this lunch time, the copy of Disco Elysium I ordered from GAME 2 days ago's finally in their hands, hopefully be to be delivered tomorrow, I checked the tracking and they don't know when it will be out for delivery! Eh?!
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I do hope its trueI think I recall either on a TV program(fictional) or indeed 'reported as a real life happening'.........of someone, irritated by the behaviour, said loudly along the lines of (not quoting....but aimed at making extreme embarrassment) "she needs to finish the call now.......as due in the studio for her nude shots....." :banghead:
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As I said I was not quoting.........thinking about it since I posted......it might have an equally (if not more so) embarrassing "are you coming back to bed yet....."I do hope its true
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Well the item was disappointing so returned for a refund, once I get that I will report it
I always check the reviews before ordering
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A few years back I bought a DVD from an Amazon Marketplace seller, he never sent it, a week later I contacted him and he turned round and said he'd "changed his mind" about selling! Is that even legal?!
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That's why I never give a review on anything I buy from them.
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Not legal if he took your money and didn’t return it but otherwise it’s OK. It’s even legal in a shop. The goods are only on “offer” and they can refuse your offer — only normally happens if they've made a mistake with the price. (Unless this has changed recently
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I have found Amazon reviews very helpful if you’re savvy. I always answer questions if I can too for that reason.
The other reason for reading reviews is that some are hilarious sometimes deliberately (particularly replies to questions like “is this vegan?) and sometimes unintentional (eg “this cast iron pan is rubbish, it rusted after I cleaned it”).
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In general I agree........
That is why I queried, based on the 'bribe' voucher mentioned(from a Merchant or Marketplace seller?) about Amazon being interested in such 'bribery'?
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I did eventually get to contact someone at Amazon today, and my complaint is being directed to the right department to deal with, seems they don't take too kindly to this sort of thing.
Whether anything will happen remains to be seen
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On a side note ~ I have been quite content with the way Amazon handle issues with products, either as "fulfilled by" or direct from merchants.
However, here are two examples with different outcomes:-
a) a "fulfilled by" purchase of a mains adaptor being sold as suitable for use with a Dymo Label Printer. When I received it I checked the stated polarity on the box and it was the reverse of the what the Dymo accepts. No problem the supplier agreed with Amazons decision to refund me though could not guarantee me that any replacement would be 100% AOK. So I specifically reported to Amazon that the supplier needed to correct their description.................as far as I recall a month later it was still being sold as suitable!!! NB I was not required to return it and I put it in the council WEE waste.
b) I found a minor but annoying issue with another fullfilled by item and the supplier was more than happy send me FoC another one........but in the time it took me to initially accept that offer.....Amazon gave me a full refund. I could not with a clear conscience affect the suppliers offer and told them to cancel sending the replacement.
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I've received a copy on disc of Disco Elysium: The Final Cut for Xbox today, ordered from GAME on Saturday, I installed it this afternoon, a small 1.1 Gig patch to allegedly get it to work, did it? You're avin' a larf! 
Looks like a trip back to Game in Town's on tomorrow's to do list weather permitting.
I wouldn't mind but I did what I did last week, uninstalled it the first time it wouldn't load, reinstalled it and it still won't load! I'm going to try it on the base Xbox One at my Parents and if it works on that, logic dictates there's a problem loading disc based games on my Series X at the Flat so I'll have to contact MS again.
Looks like a trip back to Game in Town's on tomorrow's to do list weather permitting.I wouldn't mind but I did what I did last week, uninstalled it the first time it wouldn't load, reinstalled it and it still won't load! I'm going to try it on the base Xbox One at my Parents and if it works on that, logic dictates there's a problem loading disc based games on my Series X at the Flat so I'll have to contact MS again.
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My first plan today was to hit GAME in Town to return the game I got yesterday (second copy and the ****ing thing still won't load! Eh?) but I can't find the receipt that came in the package yesterday.
I'll get Laura to help me look on Friday, allegedly women are good at finding stuff
I'll get Laura to help me look on Friday, allegedly women are good at finding stuff
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Just a little thing.
In a shop today some teenage girls came in, queued at the wrong end and stood in a bunch talking and blocking the way. Even though they could see me coming on my way out I had to ask them to let me through with a polite "Excuse me ladies." People who do this, block the way until asked to move by someone they must clearly see coming annoy me.
In a shop today some teenage girls came in, queued at the wrong end and stood in a bunch talking and blocking the way. Even though they could see me coming on my way out I had to ask them to let me through with a polite "Excuse me ladies." People who do this, block the way until asked to move by someone they must clearly see coming annoy me.
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How did you pay? cash or card? Even if cash they may be fine and accept the return, they may even remember you. I've had that happen before.My first plan today was to hit GAME in Town to return the game I got yesterday (second copy and the ****ing thing still won't load! Eh?) but I can't find the receipt that came in the package yesterday.
I'll get Laura to help me look on Friday, allegedly women are good at finding stuff
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I bought the first one digital from the Xbox Store, didn't work, after uninstalling and reinstalling, twice, so I requested a refund.
I bought the game on disc from GAME's website Saturday afternoon (they didn't have it in the shop, I wouldn't mind but I specifically went all the way to Town for it on a wet Saturday morning), and even the disc version does the same as the digital version did, installs fine but won't load beyond the opening screen.
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My Ubuntu box at my Parents hasn't worked all day, I wouldn't mind but my support worker rang this morning, she was coming 14.00 to 17.00 today but her baby's got to have a PCR test as he's got a runny nose bless him. That put me in a bad mood, plus I had a bad dream last night that someone diddled my Bank card and wiped me out so I woke up in a foul mood anyway plus I've been having various problems all week that I don't wish to discuss on a public forum.
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Indeed, you just get used to where stuff is one week, and then they ruddy move everything! Proper annoying!
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My stupidity.
We have a soil vent pipe close to the side door. The bracket securing it to the wall had corroded and broken and the pipe was starting to flap a bit in the strong wind.
I got a new bracket and started to drill into the wall.
My drill is old so has a chuck key and as the usual rubber loop at the base of the drill handle to hold the key had worn through I had, years ago, attached the chuck key by a loop of string.
While I was drilling one of the holes for the new bracket the wind blew the chuck key around the chuck of the drill snapping the string and catapulting yje chuck key into the kitchen window!
The result is in the photo.
Fortunately it broke only the outside pane of the double gazing but I was really annoyed I'd been so stupid not to think something like that could happen.
I suppose I should be happy it hadn't happened when I was drilling the first hole, as it could have been catapulted into me.
But I am so annoyed with myself.
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pipe by Dave Marley, on Flickr
We have a soil vent pipe close to the side door. The bracket securing it to the wall had corroded and broken and the pipe was starting to flap a bit in the strong wind.
I got a new bracket and started to drill into the wall.
My drill is old so has a chuck key and as the usual rubber loop at the base of the drill handle to hold the key had worn through I had, years ago, attached the chuck key by a loop of string.
While I was drilling one of the holes for the new bracket the wind blew the chuck key around the chuck of the drill snapping the string and catapulting yje chuck key into the kitchen window!
The result is in the photo.
Fortunately it broke only the outside pane of the double gazing but I was really annoyed I'd been so stupid not to think something like that could happen.
I suppose I should be happy it hadn't happened when I was drilling the first hole, as it could have been catapulted into me.
But I am so annoyed with myself.
Dave
pipe by Dave Marley, on Flickr
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aye, remember that particular on-site hack/bodge well...
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WAMT- Some low life ringing my 96 year old mum and saying that two amounts of £300 and £1000 had been withdrawn from her account. Luckily, she has all her chairs still at home and said that she was busy and would ring the bank back later after she had discussed it with her son (me). The line then went dead. The clincher was that they just said that they were "the bank" (not which one) and didn't ask for her by name, just started jabbering on. I've looked it up online and they sometimes find out which bank you are with and once they have that detail, they give you the first four digits of your card number (to "verify" that they are "genuine"!). All card numbers from the same bank start with the same four numbers it seems, so not difficult to work out! I wish that I could get hold of them! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
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I sometimes think that we could learn a lot from our ancestors when it comes to dealing with criminals...
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A bit of a medical thing for me...
I seem to have a problem with wax in my ears. It's happened for many years and seems to cause a problem maybe twice a year. This seems to come to light when I take a shower and I get water in my ear and it bubbles away and annoys me. After talking to the pharmacist I either use ear drops or olive oil and a little dropper and then after a while flush it out with water. That all sounds easy enough but doing this always makes me feel very dizzy and sick for about a day. I did my left ear last night and the effect was immediate, I felt really sick and dizzy and so crawled off to bed. I'm a bit better today and it is easing a bit as the time passes and I'm sure I'll be ok later tonight or if not tomorrow.
Mrs WW suffered this for the first time in her life last year and after failing to clear it with drops she succeeded with a vibrating ear cleaner thingy I bought her off Amazon. I might have to give one of them a go. Other women in my life dismiss this as "a man thing."
Does anyone else suffer this?
I seem to have a problem with wax in my ears. It's happened for many years and seems to cause a problem maybe twice a year. This seems to come to light when I take a shower and I get water in my ear and it bubbles away and annoys me. After talking to the pharmacist I either use ear drops or olive oil and a little dropper and then after a while flush it out with water. That all sounds easy enough but doing this always makes me feel very dizzy and sick for about a day. I did my left ear last night and the effect was immediate, I felt really sick and dizzy and so crawled off to bed. I'm a bit better today and it is easing a bit as the time passes and I'm sure I'll be ok later tonight or if not tomorrow.
Mrs WW suffered this for the first time in her life last year and after failing to clear it with drops she succeeded with a vibrating ear cleaner thingy I bought her off Amazon. I might have to give one of them a go. Other women in my life dismiss this as "a man thing."
Does anyone else suffer this?
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The dizziness is probably because you have a build up of wax that the water eventually gets trapped behind. You adjust to the build up over a period of time so when you suddenly remove it with ear drops or oil it knocks your balance for a bit. Try using drops daily or a spray of oil before showering as a preventative rather than waiting till it becomes a problem. The alternative is shower with ear plugs in.......... I used to swim several times a week and had water trapped in my ears a lot, until I started using a tea tree oil spray before swimming.
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Thanks.
It's surprising the effect this has on me and it comes on really quickly too.
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Olive oil spray — less faff than drops so you’re more likely to use it.
Yes. There are a number of options as others have said, but the best one - for me - has always been syringing. My doctor in SA did it himself, but I've found that it's usually the practice nurse in this country. I just put a few drops of oil into each ear for a couple of days before I go and it takes no time at all. That's under normal circumstances of course ...